david brillembourg
@davidjrbrill
founder @dunevc
Chess is more popular and a bigger industry now than ever.
When AI was introduced to chess, the thought was that grand masters would use it as a tool to maximize efficiency. But very quickly it became apparent that even the greatest human chess players can contribute nothing but noise. Nothing is immune. Everyone will soon be obsolete.
Outlier startups violate canonical startup advice. So why bother giving/listening to canonical startup advice? examples: @OpenAI – started by a part time founder as a non profit research project. @AnthropicAI – started by 7 founders! To compete with an existing super well…
We asked @thewildstevenp what he's working on (Orbit). "We built a precise modulator of the vestibular system, which is in your inner ear." "It's like making high-level API calls to regulate your heart or breathing rate." "The vestibular system evolved so early on in the…
Welcome 2025 Thiel Fellows! WHO ARE THEY? Ferdinand Dabitz, Berlin, Germany - @FerdiDabitz Ivy is building the world trade bank — a global instant payments platform. Jackson Denka, Los Angeles, CA - @jacksondenka Azura is a trading platform that utilizes on-chain rails to…
hiring interns for the summer to build cutting-edge neurotech with us!! we're agnostic to skillset — you just have to be amazing, and we'll take it from there. specific requirements: orbit.engineering/join
Proud of Steven & Colton — two of the most special life’s work founders in the world. Orbit is just getting started, it will be one of the most important companies in the world. Lucky to have met two brilliant college students, who clearly didn't belong on campus :)
Welcome 2025 Thiel Fellows! WHO ARE THEY? Ferdinand Dabitz, Berlin, Germany - @FerdiDabitz Ivy is building the world trade bank — a global instant payments platform. Jackson Denka, Los Angeles, CA - @jacksondenka Azura is a trading platform that utilizes on-chain rails to…
Welcome 2025 Thiel Fellows! WHO ARE THEY? Ferdinand Dabitz, Berlin, Germany - @FerdiDabitz Ivy is building the world trade bank — a global instant payments platform. Jackson Denka, Los Angeles, CA - @jacksondenka Azura is a trading platform that utilizes on-chain rails to…
Investment Thesis: Investing in people, not credentials.
We asked @jbrowder1 about his new $30M fund and investment heuristics. "We are seeing a rise of super-credentialism. Top VC firms are tracking high school math competitions." "Just because someone's good at math doesn't mean they make a good founder. The best entrepreneurs I've…
Congrats to my close friend & collaborator on an insanely oversubscribed and well-deserved Fund IV. Josh is the best partner and investor one could ask for at the earliest stages. A true first believer in some of the most exceptional entrepreneurs of this generation.
Sequoia Capital, Marc Andreessen and top institutions back New $30m Browder Capital Fund Four: Today, I’m excited to announce that I’ve raised Browder Capital Fund Four, a $30,000,000 fund backed by Sequoia Capital, Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, Arthur Patterson (founder of…
15 funds are leading ~70% of the $5bn+ outcomes at the Series A. Crazy level of firm consistency and competition at that stage.
Updated $5bn+ cos Series A list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… Added Island (2022), Whatnot (2021), and Shield AI (2017). New count of lead VCs in these deals - a16z (9), Sequoia (7), Benchmark (6), Index (5), Accel (5), Matrix (4), LSVP (4), KV (3)
My friend Max is a special entrepreneur. Well deserved.
It’s official – I'm excited to announce Superpower's $30 million series A from Forerunner and Day One, alongside celebrities Steve Aoki, actress Vanessa Hudgens, NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo, and existing investors Cyan Bannister, Shaan Puri, Balaji, Arielle Zuckerberg and many…
Investment Thesis: Investing in markets VCs undervalue.
Excellent distillation.
I think you are misunderstanding what this tech demo actually is, but I will engage with what I think your gripe is — AI tooling trivializing the skillsets of programmers, artists, and designers. My first games involved hand assembling machine code and turning graph paper…