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SR005 APPLICATIONS JUST 𝑫𝑹𝑶𝑷𝑷𝑬𝑫! Want to secure up to $1M for your startup? Apply here: sr.a16z.com (takes 15 mins!) Application Deadline: May 11, 2025 Notified of Selection: End of June at the latest! Program Dates: July 29 - Oct 10 in Los Angeles ☀️
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🚨 Big news: I'm filming my AI creative workflows! I love testing tools and sharing what I learn. Now I'm dropping click-by-click guides (including prompts) on how to use the products. Starting with my video stack: 5 tools I use, with tutorials for each 👇
LFG for ranked grind. Just need our support/main/social lead aka you.
We're hiring a @speedrun Social Media Manager Do you live online — always posting, sharing, replying, and keeping up with the latest trends in tech, entertainment, and AI? We’re looking for someone to help us continue to build and grow our online community. details 👇
Introducing Fairies, the most powerful general AI agent. 1000’s of actions across your fav apps, full file access, code gen, deep research, MCP, task distillation, parallelization, etc. Will be shipping major releases weekly this summer, try it now! fairies.ai
Shortcut – the first superhuman excel agent – is live. While not perfect, Shortcut beats first year analysts from McKinsey/Goldman head-to-head 89.1% (220:27) when blindly judged by their managers. We even gave humans 10x more time. Try Shortcut now (before your boss does).
Some news: I’m joining a16z @speedrun as a Visiting Partner. Two years ago @andrewchen and I took a walk through the hills of San Francisco. He sketched a new idea: speedrun, a 12‑week program for founders at the intersection of technology and entertainment to build, ship,…
We just got backed by a16z @speedrun. We believe the next interface is natural language. We call it the Language User Interface (LUI) An interface that talks to your APIs, understands your product, and lets users get work done with natural language (thread below)
We’ve entered the era of AI agents. Voice may be the interface, but video is the next unlock. Today, we’re launching Hedra Live Avatars, the most advanced streaming avatar model in the world. - Low cost: Just $0.05/min — 15x cheaper than existing solutions - Ultra-low latency:…
Come work with us!
come work with me @a16z! we're hiring a partner on our Speedrun investment team - this is a small, fast-growing team inside a16z focused on first-money-in investing in brand new, innovative start-ups building on the frontier if you love working hands-on with very early-stage…
come work with me @a16z! we're hiring a partner on our Speedrun investment team - this is a small, fast-growing team inside a16z focused on first-money-in investing in brand new, innovative start-ups building on the frontier if you love working hands-on with very early-stage…
🧵 1/5 I thought the only way to stay motivated was to train harder. I was wrong. As a sub-3-hour marathoner, I know how tough motivation can be. While building @PlayMonsterWalk, I discovered something magical: reconnecting with drive in a way that’s light, and sustainable.
Introducing Shortcut — the first superhuman Excel agent. Shortcut one-shots most knowledge work tasks on Excel. It even scores >80% on Excel World Championship Cases in ~10 minutes. That's 10x faster than humans. Our early preview is live. Just comment for an invite code.
🚨 OPEN BETA IS LIVE 🚨 Spekter Agency has entered its next phase—now in Open Beta on @Telegram. It’s time for us to level up: ⬆️ Agent Progression: New Account Levels! ⚡ Spark Core 2.0: Progress through stages and earn more Sparks daily! 🤝 Spark Link 2.0: Earn BONUS Sparks…
🌀 SPEKTER GAMES RAISES $5M PRE-SEED ROUND We’re thrilled to announce our $5M pre-seed round to build the future of gaming on superapps! The round was backed by an elite group of investors who share our grand vision: @a16z @Speedrun, @LondonVP, BRV Capital, @chamaeleonvc,…
s/o to Koby + the whole Sunflower team - it’s so cool to see them unlock this + hit such a major milestone 🙌🏼
[Launch] Users can now find Talk Therapy + Medication Assisted Treatment with Sunflower 🐝 For ALL insurance types (even cash pay). Across the entire US. For ANY kind of addiction. Only 9% of addicts ever get any kind of care. We are going to f'ing change this: 🧵
a16z speedrun is coming to London! If you're around the week before July 4th (funny timing), we'll be hosting a mixer with Dex and taking meetings all around town with top pre-seed / seed founders and investors. Link in the comments below!
a16z speedrun is coming to Israel 🇮🇱 I'm heading to Israel week of June 22nd to meet early founders at the 0->1 stage starting the next generational company We're hosting 2 events: 1. a16z speedrun in Israel - June 25 2. Israel’s Next Elite Founders Dinner - June 24 Event 🔗👇
What you’re about to see is running completely in real-time in Unreal. This is Felt That Boxing, a game that combines comedic storytelling and arcade fighting action. #SummerGameFest
So fun getting featured by the @speedrun Substack for the coloring page generator (18000+ pages and counting) Anand and I are building! @RKRigney open.substack.com/pub/speedrun/p…
We raised $6.5 million to build the world's most powerful creative tool.