Sami Ramly

Thrilled to announce that Together Fund is investing in Sentra, alongside a16z speedrun! You track results in Jira. Decisions in Notion. Conversations in Slack. But the reasoning, the debates, trade-offs, and context behind why you chose A over B, disappears into what we call "Dark Matter." A decision made in March looks insane by July because no one remembers the constraints that made it smart. I lived this firsthand at Twitter scaling from 800 to 8,000 employees, and at Google while launching AI Overviews to billions at planet scale. The problem isn't process. Process is compensation for something deeper: organizational amnesia. An organization’s "Systems of Record" doesn’t solve this, they encode it. They store what happened, never why. That's why we are investing in Sentra. Sentra is the always-on collective memory that eliminates organizational amnesia by maintaining accurate context for all members and agents, functioning as an operational nervous system. It connects to every channel where work happens, meetings, Slack, email, code commits, docs, calendars, and treats them not as artifacts to search, but as living signals to synthesize. The fleeting and the permanent, unified into a memory that understands. The founding team is built for this: - Jae Gwan Park (CEO): Product-first founder, memory systems research at UofT and MIT - Ashwin Gopinath (CSO): Former MIT professor, created "Reflexion" (NeurIPS 2023), agents that learn from mistakes, 2x founder - Andrey Starenky (CTO): Early Vapi engineer, ex-IBM, built to process enterprise-scale data firehose Together is an operator-led fund. We invest in problems we've lived. This is one of them. Many congrats Jae, Ashwin and Andrey, we are so excited to partner with you! Read the full thesis: https://lnkd.in/gixj9cE4 Book a demo: https://www.sentra.app/ #OrganizationalMemory #AI #Sentra #TogetherFund #a16z #ContextGraphs

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A peak behind the curtain on the product side from our CTO Dan Pettay. Check out our AI reporting, the development process and what we enjoy when it comes to working with our partners.

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This a seductive idea; that organization's context fragments, decision logic gets lost, and an organization is prone to tackle collective amnesia. BUT this comes with a lot of caveats!! - MONOCULTURE: When one system becomes the authoritative interpreter of "why things are the way they are", it will collapse pluralism. An organization actually benefits from various "contested memories". An engineer and sales guy remember different things from a discussion and that helps. Employees can stop arguing with the system not because its correct but its "coherent". - OBSERVER's EFFECT: When people know that the reasoning within systems is being captured, they will change what gets recorded. The negotiations will become "safer" and will contaminate raw signals. - CENTRALIZATION: Interpretation gets centralized upwards. It may appear leadership or executives are gaining synthesis and becoming closer to the ground. But there is no comparison to living through the frictions, not even eclectic summaries. LEADERSHIP MUSCLE NEEDS TO PRACTICE LIVING THROUGH FRICTION OTHERWISE IT WILL TURN SENILE. - BIAS AMPLIFICATION: Model's inbuilt biases can combine with company's cultural quirks resulting in misinterpretations and distortions, worse they get reinforced over time. System will learn how the company thinks and then will optimize for continuity. AMNESIA IS SOMETIME A FEATURE. - SEMANTIC TRUTHS: Unlike objective truths this system will play on subjectivity and will build "causal" relationships that are based on semantics. This over time can form mythical decision norms with no external validity. The real question isn't "CAN IT BE BUILT?". Of course it can be. But "HOW IT SHOULD BE POSITIONSED". #llms #leadership #ai

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Today at Rumi Labs, Inc. we launched our Desktop App, running our proprietary SOTA edge VLM optimized for understanding complex multi-modal narratives. This makes Rumi the 1st-ever distributed Vision-Language Model network for Media in production. If you want to help build the Narrative Intelligence Layer for AI, download the Rumi extension at http://rumi.io

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Had a fascinating conversation with Safaa Khairalla Yegenoglu, an ops leader who's implemented "effective operating systems" at every company she's joined. Her insight: every company asks for the same thing, but the magic is in the adaptation. The foundation is always similar: Strategic planning cycles that align with financial forecasting Product delivery rhythms that sync with business forecasting Cross-functional integration that prevents silos But here's what separates good operators from great ones: they don't copy-paste their last playbook. They assess the environment first, then tweak the system to fit. "It's systems thinking," she told me. "With program management, you need to see the big picture and fit all pieces of the puzzle together." The best operating systems aren't rigid frameworks. They're adaptable templates that solve universal problems while respecting organizational DNA. What's the most effective operating rhythm you've seen implemented? #OperatingSystems #Leadership #SystemsThinking #ProjectManagement

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Announcing BaseVol’s $3M Raising, incubated by BASE * Seed — led by Neoclassic Capital, whose vision of bridging East to West makes them the perfect partner. Joined by Virtuals Protocol, Baboon.vc, Woori Technology Investment Co.,Ltd (WTIC), and other family offices/strategic partners across regions. * Pre-seed — led by Altos Ventures, with VTG. Altos is widely known as Korea’s unicorn factory, backing 6 out of 10 Korean unicorns and helping build 8+ unicorns to date. Along the way, we’ve also been supported by Base Grants Coinbase and notable angels from IMM Investment Hong Kong, Palantir Technologies, Bank of America, Crédit Agricole CIB, and others which continue to empower our journey. Coming from TradFi institutions like Morgan Stanley, UBS, and Bank of America, we had seen firsthand the power of options, derivatives, and structured products in shaping global markets. With BaseVol, we set out to bring that expertise fully into crypto — making options accessible, transparent, and built for the next generation. Our flagship product, BaseVol.com, offers ultra-short options (0DTE) with high leverage and simple UX — designed for mass adoption at scale. We expanded into onchain vaults, our version of structured products, where strategies generate yield in ways familiar to professionals but consumable by everyone. By 2024-25, the pace of TradFi + DeFi convergence accelerated. Coinbase began investing heavily into derivatives and options infrastructure. At this pivotal moment, we joined Base Batches 001 and became the global 2nd prize winner. That program transformed us. Coinbase and Base provided strategic support, ecosystem connections, and access to a world-class network of investors and partners. With the support, we’ve built complementary flows between onchain retail demand (BaseVol) and offchain professional liquidity (Deribit), opening doors to deeper collaboration. We’ve partnered with forward-looking protocols like Virtuals, preparing for the coming AgentFi era. We are deeply grateful for this incubation, and especially thankful to Hyuckjae David Park (Base East Asia Lead) for discovering us early and helping us debut on the global stage. Immediate Next Plan Looking ahead, our focus is on the launch of our Onchain Vault this month. This vault will be managed by Agents — a new paradigm we are co-developing with Virtuals Protocol, one of our newest backers/partners. These Agents will automate vault management, bridging human trading strategies and autonomous onchain execution, which marks the beginning of our AgentFi journey. Every step has been powered by those who believed in our mission. To all our partners, investors, and ecosystem supporters: thank you. This is just the beginning. From simple 0DTE gamified trading to sophisticated structured vaults, from retail to institutional, we are laying the foundation for the next gen financial market. Still day 1 and it's a good day to build on Base. BaseVol.

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Replit just raised $400 million at a $9 billion valuation, and shipped its fourth autonomous coding agent in two years. What started as a tool for professional developers in 2016 is now pioneering how anyone — regardless of technical background — can build software. The story behind how that transition actually happened is less told. That’s a design story — and the domain of Haya Odeh, its co-founder and VP of Design. Valentina Suarez Gutierrez, Yina L. and I recently sat down with Haya to talk about the design decisions behind making software creation feel intuitive for people who’ve never written a line of code. (Some changes are as small as a single word.) She also shares her path into design, an inside look at how Replit's design team operates, and why taste — the kind that notices the difference between 1% gray and white — is something that every designer still needs, especially in the age of AI. https://lnkd.in/gu6QTCSf

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