Nicole Ripka
@nicole_ripka
backing AI founders @betaworks (HF, granola, sandbar, sublime, browser co, etc.) throwing bangers http://gayjoy.co gallery: http://nicoleripkagallery.com
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We were so busy investing we forgot to share the news: last year, we closed $66M for Fund 3...ok, back to work! beta.works/fund3 🫡 @Borthwick @jordanrcrook @jonchin @nicole_ripka
A very special time made possible by my incredibly supportive team @betaworks + our wonderful partners @collabfund & @NotionHQ + my partner in crime Chris Dowd, and ofc all who came, played, shared & co-created. More soon on our AI + Culture Retreat.
THANK YOU to the legends @nicole_ripka and Chris at @collabfund for putting together such a special event outside of space and time to chat all things culture and AI 🌻
I'm obsessed with aligning incentives. SWSH and @ali_debow doing it right per usual + most importantly, speaking from experience, you will look VERY GOOD if you introduce this team to anyone you know.
[1/2) 💸 today we're launching the @joinswsh referral program: make a deal, make money we’re building the go-to shared photo album platform for live experiences and we want your help getting it into the hands of more great customers
COME HAVE BREAKFAST WITH US ON JULY 16th (& I love Morgan Barrett & apply for camp!)
My interview with @nicole_ripka for Tech Breakfast Club is crushing it Nicole (investor at betaworks) is already an nyc icon. I’m ready for her to go global though We’re cohosting NYC Tech Breakfast Club on July 16th Some thoughts from our conversation together: -Art Dealer…
Thank you for letting me grill you on this over dinner @vincentjliu EgoZero is an incredibly cool project. With just the Aria glasses, EgoZero demonstrates zero-shot transfer from in-the-wild egocentric data in just 20 minutes of data collection (100 demonstrations).
The future of robotics isn't in the lab – it's in your hands. Can we teach robots to act in the real world without a single robot demonstration? Introducing EgoZero. Train real-world robot policies from human-first egocentric data. No robots. No teleop. Just Aria glasses and…
Just won the world's largest robotics hackathon with @snbafana @AlexBoniske @carrawu @TalhaKhan_TK_ . Thanks to @betaworks @nicole_ripka @KrishRShah @djkesu1 for hosting🙏
Another week, another robotics hackathon! 🚀 Snagged the @phospho_ai bounty in the NYC Robotics Hackathon: In 36 hours we proved that a single arm can pick, sort & pack live orders accurately—with zero heavy VAM pre‑training needed. 📦🤖 How? We tele‑recorded “atomic”…