Kevin Hartz
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Kevin Hartz reposted thisKevin Hartz reposted thisSunlight as a Service: How Reflect Orbital is Turning the Night Sky into a $100B Asset 🛰️☀️ Sunlight on demand. It sounds like a premise from a science fiction novel. But what if the next great unlock for the global energy transition was not a better battery, but simply the ability to move the sun? That is the bold vision being executed by Ben Nowack, Tristan Semmelhack, and Ally Stone (DeGunther) at Reflect Orbital. For decades, solar energy has faced a fundamental, literal flaw: it stops when the sun goes down. While the world has poured billions into long duration storage and grid upgrades, this team realised that the most efficient way to power the planet at 2PM is also the most efficient way to power it at 2AM. You just have to change the angle of the light. By deploying a constellation of high altitude, ultra lightweight mirrors in Sun synchronous orbit, Reflect Orbital is building the infrastructure to reflect sunlight onto specific solar farms during peak night time demand. It is quite literally "Sunlight as a Service," and it is set to fundamentally rewire the economics of renewable energy. This is not just about vanity projects or lighting up cities. It is about a massive infrastructure play. By providing an additional four to five hours of sunlight to existing solar arrays, they can effectively double the yield of a solar farm without adding a single new panel on the ground. The momentum behind this orbital energy grid is accelerating rapidly - The Milestone: They recently made global headlines after successfully testing their precision pointing technology, proving they can hit a target on Earth with centimetre level accuracy from space. Capital Raised: Following a highly anticipated $20M Series A, the company has raised a total of $35.2M to date. This provides the crucial runway to move from atmospheric testing to a full orbital pilot, launching with SpaceX. The Demand: Before a single satellite has reached orbit, the company was flooded with over 160,000 requests from 157 countries for their initial service applications. Their cap table is a roster of visionary deep tech investors, anchored by Starship Ventures. As the first VC to back the company, they remain the largest investor on the cap table today. The recent Series A was led by Lux Capital, with continued participation from Starship Ventures and @Sequoia Capital. This builds on an impressive list of early backers from their Seed round, which was led by Sequoia's Shaun Maguire and included strategic angels like Baiju Bhatt, Kevin Hartz, Keller Rinaudo Cliffton, and Keenan Wyrobek. Reflect Orbital proves that the most elegant solutions to our biggest problems often require us to look up. By turning the night sky into a functional asset, they are ensuring that the green energy revolution does not have to sleep. #DeepTech #SpaceEconomy #CleanTech #VentureCapital #ReflectOrbital #SolarEnergy #RenewableEnergy #Innovation #Startups #ClimateTech #Whyre #SeriesA
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Kevin Hartz reposted thisKevin Hartz reposted thisToday, I'm thrilled to announce Nova Intelligence's $40M funding across a Series A led by Chemistry and a Seed led by Accel, with participation from Conviction and SAP.iO. Our mission is to transform how the largest companies in the world operate. There's no better place to start than SAP — the backbone of the global economy, running the core operations of 92% of the Global 2000. Yet despite its centrality, the work of building and maintaining these systems remains complex, manual, and underserved by general-purpose AI agents. Nova is the frontier AI platform purpose-built for SAP. Our agents span the full SAP lifecycle — design, development, testing, and operations — helping everyone on the SAP team, from developers to functional analysts, work dramatically faster. With the mandatory 2030 S/4HANA migration underway, the stakes have never been higher. Nova is already in production at some of the largest and most complex SAP environments in the world, where teams are seeing 3x+ productivity gains. I'm endlessly grateful to our customers, my co-founders Sam Yang and Prof. Dr. Alexander Zeier, our team, and the investors who believed in us early — Kristina Shen, Ivan Zhou, Sarah Guo, and the SAP.iO team. Come build with us to transform how the world's largest enterprises operate in SAP and beyond.
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Kevin Hartz posted thisExcited to lead the seed and partner with Harry Mellsop, Alex Langshur, and the Antioch team. Antioch is building the simulation platform for physical autonomy, where engineers can build, test, and refine systems the way we do software. If physical AI scales the way we expect, this will redefine how robotic systems are built.
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Kevin Hartz shared thisThrilled to have backed Eugen Alpeza and Yannis Karamanlakis since their seed. Incredible founders out of Palantir who are building agents to understand and automate business processes.Kevin Hartz shared thisAt Palantir, Yannis and I spent years doing the same thing: sitting with company experts, learning how they actually work, and building systems to automate their processes. It worked. But we kept hitting the same wall. The hardest part of automation was never orchestrating the agent. It was capturing the knowledge on how a process runs in the first place. Today we're taking Edra out of stealth, backed by $30M led by Sequoia Capital, 8VC, and A*. AI models are smart enough. They just don't know how your business runs. The real processes, decisions, and exceptions live in people's heads, not in your documentation. Edra fixes that. Edra learns how your business actually operates from data already in your systems, turns that into a white-box library of executable knowledge, and gives your AI agents instructions they can follow. As your business changes, the knowledge stays current. We're already live with customers including ASOS, HubSpot, Cushman & Wakefield, and Ergeon. We get them up and running in as little as a week. If you want to see what Edra can do, give us a cut of your data. We'll show you your processes in one week. We're hiring in New York and London across engineering, product, and go-to-market. Read our full article below to learn more, or visit edra.ai. https://lnkd.in/eszMQCsp
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Kevin Hartz reposted thisKevin Hartz reposted thisIt's Awareness Week for Eating Disorders and our #1 focus at Kahani is access. Here's the truth: nearly 10% of people will experience an eating disorder in their lifetime. 100% of us probably know someone who struggles with food or body image. The need is everywhere. The support isn't. That's exactly what we've spent the last several months building. A new class of care. What we're calling the connective tissue between traditional treatment levels. Because most people don't know whether they need 1 hour of support or 40. What everyone does deserve is the option for 24/7, personalized care that meets them exactly where they are. At Kahani: Every user gets a deep onboarding experience. From there, we build a highly personalized recovery plan that evolves week over week, adapting to therapeutic modality, difficulty level, situational context, and upcoming triggers in your life. The results are motivating beyond what we imagined. Users are hitting milestones they never thought possible. One member described getting back to her pre-ED self and eliminating her food noise. We don't take that lightly. So for the next 30 days, we're opening it up. Full onboarding + dynamic weekly plan generation. Free. No waitlist. No guesswork. Just real, high-touch support for anyone who wants it. If this could help someone you love (a friend, a family member, a partner) please reach out: mehek@getkahani.com. Recovery should never be a privilege. We're here. 💙 https://lnkd.in/erzpZGfA
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Kevin Hartz shared thisExcited to be backing Simile, the first AI simulation of society!Kevin Hartz shared thisWe’re excited to introduce Simile: The Simulation Company. At Simile, we built the first AI simulation of society, populated by agents based on real humans. Our team is a combination of leading Stanford researchers who pioneered the field of generative agents, and engineers who have spent years working on large-scale AI systems. We partner with world-class companies like CVS Health, Gallup, Suntory Beverage & Food, and Wealthfront who are leading the charge to use simulation to accelerate growth, shorten innovation cycles, and derisk decisions. Today, industry-leading companies use Simile to improve product and marketing concepts, rehearse earnings calls, model litigation outcomes, and test policy changes. Soon, we envision simulating entire worlds: trillions of interacting decisions across individuals, organizations, cultures, and states. We are backed by $100M in funding led by Index Ventures, with participation from Hanabi Capital, A*, Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), Andrej Karpathy, Fei-Fei Li, Adam D'Angelo, Guillermo Rauch, Scott Belsky, and others. The future is too important to be left to chance. Learn more about Simile and our research in the comments below.
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Kevin Hartz shared thisTurns out we’ll be just fine here in the valley and nationwide! Congratulations to my dear friend Kevin Warsh on being appointed chairman of the Fed
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Kevin Hartz reposted thisKevin Hartz reposted thisToday, I’m thrilled to announce that Decagon has raised a Series D, tripling our valuation to $4.5B in less than six months, from Coatue and Index Ventures! Since the beginning, we’ve been focused on flipping the script on how businesses interact with their customers, uniting large-scale efficiency with the kind of concierge experience once thought impossible to scale. And that concierge standard is why the best companies in the world, from the Fortune 100 (financial services, travel, healthcare, retail, and more) to the most savvy tech companies, are partnering with Decagon. Our funding is a testament to how a fundamentally different approach to product can win vs the incumbent strategies. I’m incredibly proud of the relentless work of our team, and grateful for the trust our customers and partners place in us. Thank you to our newest investors: David Schneider and Lucas Swisher from Coatue Management Sofia Dolfe and Martin Mignot from Index Ventures Kristina Shen from ChemistryVC Teddy Citrin and Thabet Mahayni from Definition Matt Bernstein and Barry Sternlicht from Starwood Capital Along with continued support from: Sarah Wang and Kimberly Tan from Andreessen Horowitz Kevin Hartz, Gautam Gupta, and Bennett Siegel from A* Ivan Zhou and Steve Loughlin from Accel Anu Hariharan from Avra Aaref Hilaly from Bain Capital Ventures Elad Gil from Elad Gil Kirsten Green and Eurie Kim from Forerunner Meyer "Micky" Malka and Nick Shalek from Ribbit Capital Karine Peters and Joshua Mueller from T.Capital Many thanks also to the families and loved ones of our entire team, who have supported us in achieving all these tremendous milestones. We're growing rapidly in SF, NYC, and London and hiring across all teams! If you’re interested in joining Decagon, head to our careers page. 🚀 Ashwin Sreenivas and I share more on this milestone and where we’re headed in the blog post linked below.
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Kevin Hartz reposted thisKevin Hartz reposted thisFounded just two years ago, Decagon’s AI-powered customer service agents are used by more than 100 companies including Notion, Bilt, Duolingo, Substack and Rippling to answer questions about how a product works, process refunds, order replacements and cancel subscriptions. Last valued at $1.5 billion in June, Decagon has picked up $255 million in funding from prominent VC firms like Andreessen Horowitz, Accel and Bain Capital Ventures. The company had $10 million in annualized revenue in 2024 and has crossed at least $30 million in annualized revenue this year. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gmHeDgxC #ForbesUnder30 (Photo: Cody Pickens for Forbes)
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Kevin Hartz liked thisKevin Hartz liked thisExcited to share that I've joined Audacious Ventures on the Talent Team. I'll be working alongside Samantha Price and Caitlin Byrnes to help seed-stage founders solve one of the quietest make-or-break challenges in early company building: the first engineering hires. It's work I've been drawn to for a long time, and I couldn't ask for better people to do it with. This also means leaving True, where I spent the last four years. It was my first job out of college, and I learned most of what I know about doing this work well there; the standards, the people, how a good team actually operates. To the PDT team: thank you - it was a great four years. On to the next. If you're exploring early-stage opportunities or curious about what's open across the Audacious portfolio, my inbox is open!
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Kevin Hartz liked thisKevin Hartz liked thisWe're ecstatic to be leading Golden Child's $25M Series A. The $150B pet category is in the middle of a generational shift. Golden Child is building something different: a fresh food system designed from the ground up with a board-certified vet nutritionist, formulated to look and smell like real food. Quentin Lacornerie and Hilary Coles bring the brand and product instincts from the earliest days of Hims & Hers. The team around them includes a head chef from Goldbelly, one of the country's leading board-certified vet nutritionists, and a world-class supply chain leader who knows how to turn an ambitious food vision into something you can actually deliver at scale. Congratulations to the entire Golden Child team! We're grateful to be partnering.
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Kevin Hartz liked thisPeople already treat their pets like children. Now, with Golden Child, they can eat just as well too 🐶Kevin Hartz liked thisIntroducing Golden Child. 🐾 Fresh dog food hasn't meaningfully innovated in 15 years. We're here to change that. We've built a new food system for dogs that features chef-crafted and vet nutritionist-developed recipes made with a proprietary supply chain held to human-grade standards. Because your dog deserves a bowl made with the same care and intention you'd want for yourself. Meet our Mains and Drizzles at mygoldenchild.com. 🐶
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Kevin Hartz liked thisKevin Hartz liked thisToday we're launching Era and announcing $11M in funding. We're building the intelligence layer for a new ecosystem of AI devices — the platform that lets any device manufacturer, brand, designer, or creator make objects that think, respond, and act in their own style. We're entering a Cambrian explosion of devices. New form factors, new creators, new objects worth desiring. Made by people who've never had the tools to make them… before today. At Humane, OpenAI, Apple, and HP, we worked on some of the most ambitious devices in the world alongside people we deeply admire. We learned more than we can say. The one-size-fits-all device era — where technology is built for everyone and no one — is ending. Same forms, same colors, same default voices, same few players. A generational shift is underway, one where intelligent objects feel deliberately crafted to fit the exact contours of a life: its quirks, contradictions, style, and specificities that are unique to you. Making an intelligent object should be as simple as describing what you want it to do. That's the future we're building — for designers, brands, makers, and anyone with a point of view. You don't build a new Era alone. You build it alongside others, with a community eager to shape what comes next. I bonded with Alexander Ollman over an 8 hour geek out at the computer history museum, which turned into a shared obsession - and a rapidly expanding collection of 100+ expressive consumer electronics. Megan Gole and I bonded over a shared love of making devices that are as expressive and fashionable as life itself. Our team comes from Princeton University, Harvard University, CMU, Parsons, and The Australian National University. We are designers, engineers, and tinkerers who fell in love with technology as 2000s kids. What holds us together is a shared belief that the future can feel so much more expansive than the present. We quietly launched the way we believe technology should be made: by putting the tools in other people's hands. Thirty of our creative friends built their own intelligent objects on our platform. More on that next week 🌱 The first Era-powered product drops in May. Thank you Ivan Mehta at TechCrunch for covering our raise! We're deeply grateful to our investors — Casey Caruso, Hunter Harloff at Topology Ventures, John Borthwick, Jordan Crook at betaworks, Nicole Ripka at AIR (Collab Fund) who backed us as we were just getting started, and Andrei Kozyrev, Ramtin N. at Abstract, David Tisch, Claire Smilow, Adina Davis at BoxGroup, Adam Mullinax, Saayeli Mukherji Bruni, Mohamed Nanabhay at Mozilla Ventures, and Collaborative Fund at the seed — for believing in us. And to our angels — Caterina Fake, Ken Kocienda, Bill Shope, CFA, josé benitez cong, Kerry Whorton Cooper, Tony Wang, Mina Fahmi, Weber W., David Rosenberg, Jonathan Levine, and many more (in comments) — thank you for being our friends and co-world builders. Welcome to the new Era.
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Kevin Hartz liked thisKevin Hartz liked thisA few weeks ago Eventbrite was acquired by Bending Spoons. As a Director of the Board, this is a bitter-sweet moment for me. Thank you Julia Hartz. Over the last 2 decades you and Kevin Hartz built a remarkable business. The culture of teamship you nurtured will forever stay with the Britelings, no matter where they go. Leadership, vision, drive and kindness are the qualities that come to mind, together with an immense sense of gratitude for the opportunity to serve on your Board of Directors. I had the privilege to serve with amazing Directors: Helen Riley, Sean Moriarty, Jane Lauder, April Underwood and Katherine August-deWilde. Your experience, vision, expertise and generosity have set the tone for any board I serve on in the future. I’m walking away truly inspired and ready for my next public board challenge. My very best wishes for the whole Eventbrite team!!
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Kevin Hartz liked thisKevin Hartz liked thisA few months ago we launched Extra in beta and have been testing the product with thousands of users. Today, we’re live on iOS and web. My first job out of college, 15+ years ago, was working on email, and since then the experience has mostly stayed the same: you open your inbox, scroll past 40 things that don’t matter, miss the one that does, and close it feeling worse than before. The average person has over 1,000 unread emails and a 23-second attention span for the whole thing. But we didn’t want to just add AI to email - we wanted to completely reimagine what it could be. Extra is so much more than just email. It organizes your inbox around your life - trips, packages, bills, family, newsletters - so you never miss what matters. No labels. No rules. No configuration. Extra does the work for you behind the scenes, summarizing your day, surfacing what needs action, and quietly handling the noise. One of my favorite pieces of feedback from beta was simple: "I don’t feel anxious opening my inbox anymore." That’s exactly why we built Extra, and why our beta testers switched over completely because Extra handles their inbox for them - saving hours a day. My favorite part of Extra is talking to Extra Assistant. It knows what’s going on in my life - who matters, what I’m planning, what I’m waiting on. It’ll explain an email, draft a reply in my voice, or proactively catch the things I’d otherwise miss: a credit expiring this month, a package return due next Monday, or a vet appointment for Theo I need to confirm. I’ve stopped thinking of Extra as an app and started thinking of it as someone who actually helps me get through my inbox and day to day. We raised $9.5M from Felicis, A*, Abstract, Elad Gil, SV Angel, Fidji Simo, Paul Buchheit (creator of Gmail), Peter Deng, Common Metal, DST Global, Liquid 2 Ventures, Night Capital, Symphony Ventures, XYZ Venture Capital Ben Silbermann, Evan Sharp, Casey Winters, Shishir Mehrotra, Gokul Rajaram, Guillermo Rauch, Scott Belsky, Jack Chou, Shreya M., Li Fan, Michael Ovitz and many others who believe email deserves a complete rethink. I’m incredibly grateful I get to work with these amazing individuals every day and proud of the team we've built this past year: Naveen Gavini, Albert Pereta, Samuel Hsiung, Miri Buckland, Ian Mobbs, and Zhao Luke Download the app and use code STEVEN100 to skip the waitlist. Link in the comments.
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Kevin Hartz liked thisKevin Hartz liked thisPERSONAL UPDATE: After 5+ years, I am leaving @a16z to start a fund! This was the toughest career decision of my life. I learned from the best partners and was privileged to work with incredible founders. So why leave? It is simply time to build. More to come on this. We are still so early in the AI revolution. Abundant intelligence will fundamentally reshape what creators, consumers, and coders can do and compress the gap between individuals and institutions in ways we've never seen. It's a unique moment in history and I want to be fully in it. To my consumer AI gang - Anish Acharya, Olivia Moore, Justine Moore and the AI Apps team Alastair (Alex) Rampell, David Haber, Angela Strange, Seema Amble - thank you. To Andrew Chen who took a bet on me, Martin Casado, David Ulevitch, David George, Chris Dixon, Jennifer Li, Sarah Wang, Alex Immerman, Daisy Wolf - I'll miss learning from all of you. And to Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz for building the most important firm in venture. To the founders I had the distinct privilege of backing - I am forever yours. Mati Staniszewski, Piotr Dabkowski, Gaurav Misra, Dwight Churchill, Jonathan Swerdlin, Daniel Reid Cahn, Neil Parikh, Shreya M., Joy Tao, Chungin Lee, Nir Zicherman, Nazli Tan, Ceyda Erten, Edward Koai, Patrick M., Kevin Tan, Jamie Marshall, Gilles Poupardin, Clémentine Guyon, Olivier Desmoulin, Brian Daley and many more in stealth. Infinite gratitude. Now it's time to paddle hard. I'll be spending the next few days calling many of you who made my life at a16z so special. And I'm beyond excited to earn the right to work with the next generation of the most ambitious founders building for the people.
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