Dave Munichiello 🇺🇸
@davemuni
Managing Partner @GVteam where we empower high-agency, high-growth founders. http://gv.com. Previously GtM/Ops @KivaSystems+@Amazon. Paratrooper+Combat Veteran.
Thrilled to join @TBPN at @YC Demo Day to discuss seed-to-scale investing with @johncoogan & @jordihays. We dove into AI startups and why I think the adoption of AI might turn the “Mag 7” into the “Mag 70” over the coming years. Also loved the chance to talk about @GVteam’s long…
The ecosystem around Llama is continuing to push the limits. SambaNova Cloud is setting a new bar for inference on 405B and it’s available for developers to start building today.
📣 Announcing the world’s fastest AI platform SambaNova Cloud runs Llama 3.1 405B @ 132t/s at full precision ✅ Llama 3.1 405B @ 132 tokens/sec ✅ Llama 3.1 70B @ 570 tokens/sec ✅ 10X Faster Inference than GPUs Start developing #FastAI ➡️ cloud.sambanova.ai @AIatMeta
Modular makes GPUs hum! They’ve built the world’s first unified AI dev platform where customers run models seamlessly across NVIDIA and AMD chips with SotA performance. Honored to have backed @clattner_llvm and the @Modular team from day one. Check it out!
From a single (small!) binary, modular provides industry leading performance on AMD MI300/325 (up to 50% faster than VLLM 0.9!) runs with top speed on NVIDIA H100 and is previewing SotA Blackwell support. It’s also the best way to accel trad Python! 😘
The future isn't additive, it's exponential. We're rapidly moving from humans + AI to the mind-bending power of AI x AI. Excited to see this collaboration @rox__ai @ishanmkh @cognition_labs @ScottWu46 @russelljkaplan.... a new era of intelligence & action! x.com/ishanmkh/statu…
Agents autonomously working together is now real, not just words ..... Checkout @DevinAI and @rox__ai cranking 👇
When you back @MarcLore, you're backing a force of nature. 🚀 Audacious vision + relentless execution unlocks magic. Thrilled to see @Wonder hitting hypergrowth - now valued at $7B+ with a massive raise from @NEA, @Accel, @GVteam & an all-star syndicate! Having teamed with Marc…
Well-deserved recognition for @elena_sakach, featured in @theinformation's 2025 List of Next GPs! Her powerful combination of authentic intensity, deep conviction, and genuine humility makes her precisely the kind of Series A investor founders are eager to partner with. Congrats!
Who is the next Sarah Guo? Or Ali Partovi? Or Napoleon Ta? We spoke to dozens of founders, GPs & LPs, and came back with a @theinformation list of who the next big GPs in venture could be: theinformation.com/articles/annou…
If you're curious about how @Lip_Bu Tan will lead @Intel, look no further than how he has served @SambaNovaAI as full-time Executive Chairman over the past 12 months and as Chairman of the Board since its inception. His service-oriented, deeply-technical, risk-on leadership style…
Thrilled to welcome the @rox__ai team to the @GVteam portfolio! Rox is an AI-copilot for sales execs. Teams like @tryramp say it’s the most impactful sales AI they’ve seen. I've had the pleasure of partnering with founders @ishanmkh, @diogoribeirodev and Chris Re across…
Welcome to GV, @rox__ai! 🎉 “Rox is ushering in a new era of sales software where AI takes center stage, transforming legacy CRM from a passive repository of data into an active, intelligent swarm of agents,” writes GV’s @davemuni — bit.ly/3OfgGSz
We built a B2B SaaS sales company and here’s what it taught us about B2B SaaS sales 🧵👇 (but actually) Today we’re launching Rox, the first publicly available AI agent swarm for the top sales teams, and in the private beta it already helped reps grow their books 30%. 2025 is…
To be back building with @guypod and a world class team is a privilege for all of us @GVteam 🚀 - welcome @IndexVentures & @Accel
Excited to share @tessl_io has raised $125M, to build out AI Native Software Development! This includes a $25M Seed from April, led by @Boldstartvc & @GVteam, and a $100M Series A, led by @IndexVentures with @Accel, @GVteam and @Boldstartvc participating. More info in our blog…
I've been playing with @SambaNovaAI's API serving fast Llama 3.1 405B tokens. Really cool to see leading model running at speed. Congrats to Samba Nova for hitting a 114 tokens/sec speed record (and also thanks @KunleOlukotun for getting me an API key!) sambanova.ai/blog/speed-rec…
Big News! ➡️ Cribl closes $319 million Series E at a $3.5 billion valuation! Our Series E round was led by @GVteam , marking one of the firm’s largest ever investments, with participation from GIC, @CapitalG , @IVP , and @CRV . We’re also excited to welcome GV partner and former…
I’m so excited to share that Cribl has closed an oversubscribed $319M Series E round at a new $3.5B valuation, up 40% from our Series D just two years ago. The round was led by @GVteam in one of their largest ever investments, with participation from GIC, @CapitalG , @IVP , and…
Congrats to the @mech_orchard team on today’s Series B! 🙌 The @GVTeam is thrilled to partner with this exceptional team as they move the world’s largest organizations away from inflexible legacy IT systems to modern, cloud-based applications. gv.com/news/mechanica…
In one week, @SambaNovaAI set a world performance record of 114 tokens per second on @Meta’s Llama 3.1 405B, benchmarked by @ArtificialAnlys 🌎⚡Learn more about how this achievement unlocks #GPT Copilots, Explainable #AI and other new #enterprise use cases below.
🚀 World record performance: SambaNova is running Llama 3.1 405B at 114 t/s with full precision accuracy, in only one rack. Verified by @ArtificialAnlys! 🦙 This speed unlocks so many use cases for enterprises and developers that we cannot wait to see them built on our platform.…
SambaNova is serving Llama 3.1 405B at 114 output tokens/s with their custom chips! This is the fastest we have benchmarked and 4X faster than the median of providers on Artificial Analysis. Larger models with higher quality come at the cost of speed. New AI-focused custom…
Beyond exciting to share what we've been working on for the last year @redpandadata: Introducing "Sovereign AI" State of the art models without your data leaving your network. ai.redpanda.com HUGELY proud the Engineering and Product and everyone involved. 1/n
Purpose-built to run AI *faster* than anyone else in the world, @SambaNovaAI has been consistently (and quietly) delivering, for years. 🚀 Congratulations to Lip-Bu Tan, @RodrigoLiang, and cofounding Stanford Professors Kunle Olukotun and Chris Re. Excited for this team to…
Artificial Analysis has independently benchmarked @SambaNovaAI's custom AI chips at 1,084 tokens/s on Llama 3 Instruct (8B)! 🏁 This is the fastest output speed we have benchmarked to date and >8 times faster than the median output speed across API providers of @Meta's Llama 3…