Jai Das

Cortex, co-founded by Anish Dhar and Ganesh Datta, is transforming the way developers work by streamlining workflows with their Internal Developer Portal (IDP). Backed by Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator, and Stripe's co-founders, John Collison and Patrick Collison, Cross Creek, IVP, WiL (World Innovation Lab), Cortex is helping engineers at companies like Adobe, Grammarly, and Opendoor work faster and smarter. With the latest funding round led by Scale Venture Partners and Eric Anderson, Cortex is quickly becoming a must-have platform for tech teams. As Bogomil Balkansky of Sequoia says, “Few companies get to define a category, and Cortex is one of them.” Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gbve_8TC

3

Today, GTMfund’s is excited to announce to launch of Operator, its first incubated company. Max Altschuler (founder of GTMfund) teamed up with co-founder Adam M. (design engineer and 0-1 builder) and co-founder Mark Kosoglow (Outreach employee #1 and former SVP of Global Sales) to create Operator.ai alongside an insanely talented team Pleasant Middelhof, Jeremy Jonas, Carl Gunderson. We've entered a period called “The Great Ignore”. Spam and irrelevant, poorly-automated outbound campaigns are running rampant.   Operator gives you an easy-to-use Growth Engineer that allows you to build and enrich lists with accurate data, and run experiments and queries using AI to generate highly targeted outreach.    Check out their website to get updates, early access, and see how they are taking the world back to 2 touches meant to attract buyers into conversations that convert, instead of 20 touches meant to make sure you hit your activity number: https://www.operator.ai/

31

1 Comment

What OpenAI's GPT-4o release means for the future of SaaS -- I'll break down the threat in my new article for @Inc https://lnkd.in/eKdYvMHS #innovation #technology #AI #software #saas

1

Rolling into another day of the Primary Summit. Hit me up if we should connect onsite. Kudos to the Primary Ventures team so far, as yesterday’s Pre-Seed Summit was on point. Mar Hershenson, Benjamin Sun, Chris Douvos, Zach Weinberg, and Graham Pingree all dropping helpful nuggets for fund managers. Some paraphrased highlights: - Chris Douvos (AHOY Capital) - Most fund decks are terrible. Start with your people (not your strategy) and know you have about 6 slides of his attention. - Zach Weinberg (Curie.Bio ) - beleives SF’s AI talent is a significant advantage over NY, wouldn’t build AI in NY. Also questions if VC exits can keep up with VC expansion (generally hilarious and smart Twitter follow) - Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) - VC is so much more competitive now. It’s not enough to be an ex-founder with a great network and domain expertise. Have a better “why you are different” or do something else! - Benjamin Sun (Primary Venture Partners)- still sees arbitrage in going long NY venture (vs. SF). Do the work to keep various influential networking nodes aware of what you’re doing and how you think.

36

5 Comments