Excited to see Comun featured in Business Insider’s list of the most promising fintech startups 💸 As Andres Santos and Abiel Gutierrez continue to expand Latinos' financial foundations in the US, Redpoint investors Meera Clark and Annie Kadavy could not be more thrilled to support them in this audacious mission 💪🏽 And PS -- they're hiring 😉 https://lnkd.in/gWQaPpvK
Redpoint
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
San Francisco, California 49,908 followers
Redpoint Ventures partners with visionary founders to create new markets or redefine existing ones.
About us
Since 1999, Redpoint Ventures has partnered with visionary founders to create new markets and redefine existing ones. The firm invests in startups across the seed, early and growth phases. Redpoint has backed over 465 companies with 140 IPOs and M As, including 2U, HomeAway, Heroku, Netflix, PureStorage, Twilio and Zendesk, and incubated market disruptors like Android. In total, the firm manages $4 billion across multiple funds. Redpoint is based in Menlo Park and has offices in San Francisco, Beijing and Shanghai. For more information visit: http://www.redpoint.com/
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- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
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- Partnership
- Founded
- 1999
- Specialties
- Seed Stage, Early Stage, Growth Stage, Consumer, Marketplaces, Cloud Infrastructure, SaaS, and Venture Capital
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San Francisco, California 94108, US
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In our latest Unsupervised Learning, Patrick Chase and I talked with Percy Liang, Stanford professor and co-founder of Together AI. Percy is driving some of the most critical advances in AI research. We explored o1 and the evolution of AI to autonomous agents capable of long-term problem solving, why interpretability is hard, and the future of AI safety in complex, real-world systems. Here are some of my favorite parts of our chat: 🎮 Building "The Sims" of AI Percy discussed creating a digital twin of our world (with two of his students) where AI agents interact with each other autonomously, mimicking social dynamics. “It’s like building a digital society—agents can announce they’re running for mayor or spread information through conversations, much like real-world social interactions.” This allows for fascinating possibilities, studying everything from social behavior to policy experiments. For example, researchers could implement a Covid-style masking policy in order to learn how the virtual society and its “residents” would adapt. ⚖️ Regulate AI -- Downstream Percy says we need a balanced, proactive approach to AI regulation, emphasizing transparency and disclosure over heavy-handed restrictions. “We need regulation that helps us understand the risks and benefits, but focusing too much on upstream control could be ineffective or overly blunt. Instead, we should empower downstream decision-makers with clearer insights, like providing 'nutrition labels' for AI models.” This kind of regulation would allow for more informed and adaptable oversight. 📊 How to Evolve Evals Percy thinks traditional AI benchmarks are becoming insufficient. “As models claim they can do anything, we need evaluations that reflect their real-world capabilities, including how they handle diverse, open-ended tasks.” He pointed to innovative methods, such as using language models themselves to generate new test scenarios, as key to tracking progress and ensuring AI models are both accurate and reliable in increasingly complex environments. 🔍 Interperability Needs a Solve As AI models grow more complex, interperability becomes increasingly difficult yet critical, especially in regulated industries. “We’re moving further away from understanding why a model makes certain decisions,” Percy says, “especially without access to the model’s weights or training data.” It was a ton of fun hearing from one of AI’s leading thinkers and I hope you'll enjoy listening to our conversation: YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gANgXC8K Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3zyvSa1 Apple: https://apple.co/3zMboKS
Stanford AI Researcher on What’s Next in Research, Reaction to o1 and How AI will Change Simulation
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Thank you Nasdaq for featuring us on your Times Square billboard today! To succeed in building the future, we must not only succeed at moving the technology forward, we must create a company with a powerful enough economic engine to fund the endeavor. We so appreciate all the support received throughout the day from our investors, early customers, and the whole community. Thank you Nasdaq and Redpoint for highlighting this milestone 🎉
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Huge congrats to poolside on their $500M Series B to build the world’s most capable AI for software development. Thrilled to be part of the journey with Jason Warner, Eiso Kant, and the poolside team! https://lnkd.in/e8GDKBw5
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OpenAI announced the Realtime API today. While access rolls out to all devs, try the API using our key: https://lnkd.in/gj7zDKNV
Realtime Playground
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Atli Thorkelsson, Head of Talent at Redpoint Ventures, weighs in on the latest hiring trends with BI https://lnkd.in/gAqMtVFq
How consulting lost its cool
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Big congrats to the 9count team for acquiring Lex! A huge win for both teams - excited to see how this expands communities and empowers LGBTQ social spaces online. https://lnkd.in/gu4eRUtY
Queer social app Lex acquired by the former Musical.ly CEO's conglomerate | TechCrunch
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🚀 Exciting News: 9count Acquires Lex! 🚀I’m thrilled to announce that 9count has acquired Lex a leading social app for the LGBTQ community! This strategic move aligns perfectly with our mission to create authentic spaces where people can connect and belong. 🌈 Lex has a vibrant community of over 1 million users and 300,000 interest groups, making it a perfect fit for our growing portfolio of vertical social networks. Together, we're committed to empowering the LGBTQ community and fostering real, lasting connections. What does this mean for 9count? - Expansion into niche communities - The incredible Lex team joining our family - Serving the underserved LGBTQ market Join us on this journey as we shape the future of social media. Let's build a more inclusive and connected world together! Would you like to help spread the word about this exciting acquisition? If so, we'd be grateful if you could share the TechCrunch article or this LinkedIn post on your preferred social media platform. Thank you. 😊 #9count #Lex #LGBTQ #Community #Acquisition #VerticalSocialNetwork
Queer social app Lex acquired by the former Musical.ly CEO's conglomerate | TechCrunch
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Team Redpoint has been having some fun behind the scenes surveying prosumers on how AI is transforming their day-to-day ... and Leah Clapper and I cannot wait to share more of these learnings in the weeks to come 👀 💸 💸 💸 One sneak preview that made me grin : AI has made >50% of consumers more likely to start a business ... WILD!!! 💸 💸 💸 #venturecapital #ai #investing
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A special AFGM conversation on how the economy and AI are impacting venture capital investing currently in the enterprise apps space. Joining us for this one is: Alex Bard - Managing Director, Redpoint Ventures Scott Beechuk - Partner, Norwest Venture Partners Anand Thaker - VC & PE Advisor Join us Noon et on Wednesday October 2nd for a few.... #vc #ai #enterpriseapps #cx #crm
A Few Good Minutes on AI, The Economy & Venture Capital in Enterprise Apps
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