Jordan Segall
@jordan_segall
Partner at Redpoint Ventures | Stanford University | Formerly Palantir, RelateIQ, McKinsey, C3, StartX Mentorship Director
(1/7) Excited to introduce Segfault, a newsletter focused on devtools. First up: I collected open source traction data from 80 startups at the time of their Seed/As to create a data-driven guide to OS fundraising and what successful OS traction looks like: jordansegall.substack.com/p/so-how-many-…
Had a blast recording our new Unsupervised Learning episode with @turbopuffer CEO/Co-Founder @Sirupsen and my cohost @jacobeffron, where we cover things like: - Why every AI app eventually outgrows its context window—and what to do instead - How recent breakthroughs in object…
Congrats @joshim5 and the rest of @chaidiscovery! Incredible breakthrough 🙌
We’re excited to introduce Chai-2, a major breakthrough in molecular design. Chai-2 enables zero-shot antibody discovery in a 24-well plate, exceeding previous SOTA by >100x. Thread👇
Congratulations to all of the incredible companies that made this year’s Infrared 100 List! Check out the list and this year’s Infrared Report below!
The Redpoint InfraRed 100 is now live! This list honors 100 infrastructure innovators who are transforming how businesses scale, secure, and succeed. Check out this year's honorees and dive deeper with the dynamic list and our complete InfraRed Report linked below.
Saturday cursed-stack observations: @Railway is extremely good. I appreciate fellow founders that are obsessed with DX. I'm tempted to move all my docker-based projects to Railway. We should have a template that uses their postgres. That stack might not even be cursed!
In industries like finance and healthcare, a single misread field in a contract or statement can trigger failed automations, bad decisions, or regulatory risk - check out how @tensorlake's LLM native workflow engine + document extraction converts messy data into trustworthy data…
Excited to announce @tensorlake Cloud! 🧵 Tensorlake converts real-world documents into clean, structured data for business workflow automation and for building Agents in mission-critical documents. It's powered by a state-of-the-art document layout understanding model trained…
It took Railway 1369 days to make it's first million Now it takes less than 30 days Compounding is fucking wild
Congratulations to my dear friend Liu Jiang on @seedtosunflower 's Fund I+II announcement! Liu is one of the smartest, hardworking individuals in venture and entrepreneurs would be lucky to work with her. wsj.com/articles/sunfl…
Thrilled to be partnering with @PushSecurity to lead their Series B! Push is bring identity security to where work happens today - the browser. Hear from me, CEO @ajaybateman and @jordan_segall on why Push is the future of identity security:
Black Mirror is back to its roots and all is well. Top 3: USS Callister part 2, Eulogy (Paul Giamatti 👏), Common People.
Announcing LiveKit Agents 1.0 and a $45M Series B Back when we launched ChatGPT Voice Mode with OpenAI, voice AI was not a thing. Now it's a whole ecosystem of companies, products, and tools. LiveKit’s infra for building and running voice AI agents is also at scale: over 100K…
i think the twittersphere is very well calibrated on Bolt/Cursor/Windsurf/etc, individual developer tooling what doesn't travel well is how AI is improving every aspect of the SDLC and how THAT is actually perhaps even more impactful than the individual contributor tooling this…
a lot of CEO's ask "ok how do we know our AI investment is paying off?" - is AI only for greenfield projects? - where are the Fortune 500 AI stories? - Our developers are vibing... but are they just taking longer breaks or what? youtube.com/watch?v=UXOLpr… @beyang's story with…
This was a ton of fun - Jacob and I are longtime fans of @latentspacepod and so we joined forces with our friends @swyx and @FanaHOVA for a fun crossover Unsupervised Learning x Latent Space episode, check it out!
Super fun for @jordan_segall and I to do a cross-over episode with our friends @swyx and @FanaHOVA at @latentspacepod unpacking some of the most topical questions in AI. We hit on a bunch of things including: - What has Product-Market Fit in AI Today - Google's rise to the…
Come check out how the former CEO and CTO of Autodesk are revolutionizing the BIM space!
Introducing Motif, the shared workspace for building the world's most impactful structures!🚀 We're reimagining BIM from the ground up, starting with collaboration. Effortlessly share 2D & 3D content so teams stay in sync and do their best work. motif.io
Launch Week Day 4: Auto deploy frontends globally! Railway puts all your data as close as possible, serving it globally sub 100ms We've solved the systemic problem of "Frontend in one cloud, cache in another, database in yet another" And, because of metal, it's 10x cheaper👇
Not just a database provider, or a backend platform, or a static host, but all of it, all together, all in one place On Day 04 we're bringing you Railway for Frontend
Write code inside the Railway canvas. Deploy instantly. Bonus: You can also ask Claude. Vibe code inline. Want a small monitoring application? Ask Claude Simple webserver? Ask Claude A daily cron for new users? Ask Claude Wait less, ship more
No exaggeration you can now write and deploy code on Railway in <5 seconds Surprised? So were we. Railway Functions is the release for Day 03 railway.com/launch-week-02…
Introducing Nixpacks V2; hold the Nix Smaller images => Faster deploys Graph based cache system => Faster builds Plus, granular package management. Any executable is now point and click, and Railway will manage these dependencies for you with a virtual lockfile
Day 02 of Launch Week is all about Nixpacks V2 Introducing Railpack -- faster deploys, granular versioning, less pain railway.com/launch-week-02…
If you have a headache dealing with AWS/GCP/Azure and want something that is 50% cheaper than those and way better in every respect - check out railway.com, now available on Railway Metal
Launch Week begins with Railway Metal GA It's powered millions of workloads so far. It's up to 10x faster and, starting today, it's 50% cheaper Not just 50% cheaper than our sticker price; 50% cheaper than AWS/GCP/Azure Because you can't build a cloud on another cloud 👇
The RunLLM Public Beta is Live! 🚀 After almost two years of work, we’re launching RunLLM — the first AI Support Engineer. Built for advanced technical support, RunLLM: ✅ Saves support engineering time ✅ Accelerates customer adoption ✅ Generates customer and product insights…
We released Restate 1.2 🎉🎉 A 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞, 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬 This team built the incredible: a full stack (no log/DB needed) with amazing resilience, flexibility, simplicity 🔥 (link in reply)👇…