BIO
VC 🥷🏼 in pre-seed and seed (SmarterDX, Lyft, Okta, Hebbia, Nooks, Terradot). Checks $500k-$5M. Yale, Stanford PhD, Mayfield Fellows http://ann.vc
Ian Goodfellow
@goodfellow_ian
Co-founder of stealth startup. Inventor of GANs. Lead author of http://www.deeplearningbook.org Founding chairman of @pubhealthaction
Susan Zhang
@suchenzang
Always hungry for intelligence.
Yisong Yue
@yisongyue
AI Professor @Caltech (@YueLabCaltech)
Reid Hoffman
@reidhoffman
Co-Founder, LinkedIn. Investor. MSFT Board Member. Building an LLM to discover cures for cancer: @manas_co. Most importantly: Proud American.
Kevin Weil 🇺🇸
@kevinweil
BoD @Cisco @Stoke_Space LTC @USArmyReserve Ex CPO+Science @OpenAI, Pres @Planet, Head of Product @Instagram @Twitter ❤️ @elizabeth ultramarathons kids cats math
Smerity
@Smerity
ML x science. Founding Member of Technical Staff at @PrometheusInc. Prev @midjourney, @SFResearch, @CommonCrawl. @Harvard '14, @Sydney_Uni '11. 🇦🇺 in SF.
Joanne Jang
@joannejang
trying to automate my work @coreautoai // prev: model behavior & labs @openai
martin_casado
@martin_casado
@ a16z
benahorowitz.eth
@bhorowitz
augustus odena
@gstsdn
Something new. Previously: AI research at TBD Labs / Meta; cofounder at @AdeptAILabs; Invented Scratchpad / Chain-of-Thought; Google Brain
Quanquan Gu
@QuanquanGu
Founder of Geodesic Intelligence @Geodesiclab | Professor @UCLA | Opinions are my own
Jack Altman
@jaltma
GP @Benchmark
Isa Fulford
@isafulf
research @openai
Patrick OShaughnessy
@patrick_oshag
building @psumvc @colossusmag hosting @investlikebest
Lenny Rachitsky
@lennysan
Deeply researched product, growth, and career advice
Matt Shumer
@mattshumer_
AI whisperer. Investor in @GroqInc @Etched @Rork @DaytonaIO @OpenRouter + more. Prev: CEO @HyperWriteAI | AI @AlphaSchool Press: mattshumermedia@gmail.com
Emily Chang
@emilychangtv
Host and executive producer of “The Circuit” and “Posthuman” on @Bloomberg Originals. Author of Brotopia. Proud mama and wife of @jonstull
Cristóbal Valenzuela
@c_valenzuelab
@runwayml Co-Founder & Co-CEO
delian
@zebulgar
space drugs and arms @vardaspace | village idiot/partner @foundersfund | porthos @hillvalleyforum
scott belsky
@scottbelsky
helping the creative world make ideas happen. partner @a24 / founder A24Labs; founder @Behance, bod @atlassian & MoMA, author, seed investor, product obsessive.
Boz
@boztank
CTO @Meta. Leading Reality Labs and working on AR, VR, AI, and more. Built v1 of FB News Feed, Messenger, Groups, Mobile Ads. TweetDelete 6mo
Justine Moore
@venturetwins
Partner @a16z AI 🤖 and twin to @omooretweets | Investor in @elevenlabs, @bfl_ml, @hedra_labs, @krea_ai, @heyglif, @ShizukuAILabs, @wabi, @TownAI
Stephanie Zhan
@stephzhan
Partner @Sequoia. Investing in AI, from company formation. 1st partner to @linear @mach_industries @middeskhq @reflection_ai @ricursiveai @skildai @tavus
Blake Scholl 🛫
@bscholl
Founder/CEO @boomsupersonic. Life is short so if you want to do a lot, it helps to move fast.
Pat Grady
@gradypb
Sequoia partner, BC alum, Wyoming native
Parag Agrawal
@paraga
founder/ceo @p0 http://parallel.ai, device following @vintweeta
Justin Kan
@justinkan
From the bottom to the top & back again. Co-founded @twitch, now working on making videos, http://goat.vc https://stash.gg
Sarah Tavel
@sarahtavel
Partner at @Benchmark. Student of escaping competition. Formerly product @pinterest. Ball and chain for @cklemke and 🧒🏽👧🏻👶🏻.
Matt Turck
@mattturck
VC at @FirstMarkCap. Host: MAD Podcast; Organizer: Data Driven NYC, Author: MAD Landscape.
Eugene Wei
@eugenewei
Former product guy at Amazon, Hulu, Flipboard, Oculus. Blog at http://www.eugenewei.com
Ian Hogarth
@soundboy
co-founder & partner at @pluralplatform, co-founder & chair @AISecurityInst, co-founder @songkick
Yash Patil
@ypatil125
Co-Founder, CEO @appliedcompute 🚂 prev: @OpenAI, @Stanford
Alex Rampell
@arampell
Silicon Valley entrepreneur (cofounder@ TrialPay, Yub, Affirm, Point, TXN), investor (General Partner @a16z), husband, father and sarcast (one who is sarcastic)
Trae Stephens
@traestephens
Partner, Founders Fund; Co-Founder, Anduril; Co-Founder, Sol
Gokul Rajaram
@gokulr
investor (http://www.marathonmp.com) and builder (http://productspec.io, http://www.usetranscribe.io)
Matt Huang
@matthuang
founder @paradigm, founder @tempo, board member @stripe, building & investing at the frontier
Peter Fenton
@peterfenton
GP @benchmark. Director: @ExaAILabs @mercor_ai @SierraPlatform @ollama @ClickHouseDB @Sorare @sema4ai @airtable @digits @TigerDatabase @LabsCockroach @Docker
Jay Hack
@mathemagic1an
Head of AI @clickup. Tweets about AI, computing and their impacts on society. Previously founder @codegen / ML @palantir / startups. Not a pseudonym.
Michelle Lee
@michellearning
Founder & CEO of @medra_ai. Let's eradicate disease. Prev. phd @StanfordAILab, robotics @nvidia, propulsion @SpaceX. Loosely hinged.
Semil
@semil
Investor via @HaystackVC focused on seed-stage investments // Venture Partner w/ @LightspeedVP
Hilary Mason
@hmason
Co-Founder of @PlayHiddenDoor. Formerly Founder of @FastForwardLabs (acquired by @Cloudera). I ♥ data and cheeseburgers. She/her.
Nasrin Mostafazadeh
@nasrinmmm
Co-founder at @verneekai (hiring for all roles) | #AI Scientist | We are building the most helpful AI to augment human knowledge in everyday life
Eric Vishria
@ericvishria
GP @Benchmark Director @confluentinc @Cerebras @Contentful @Benchling @CommerceLayer @acuitymd @FireworksAI_HQ @quilterai @pomerium_io @greptile @sundayrobotics
Sahil Lavingia
@shl
@IRSnews. Founder @Gumroad.
Mamoon Hamid
@mamoonha
Partner @KleinerPerkins 🇩🇪🇵🇰🇺🇸
Chetan Puttagunta
@chetanp
@benchmark investing at seed/ series a
Alex Cohen
@anothercohen
Member of Founding Staff @hellopatient | Previously: Led consumer and growth product @carbonhealth | Hobbies include getting fired constantly | Mostly satire
Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover
Founder of @ProductHunt. Investor at @WeekendFund. Married to @SandyBKwon. Hi! 👋🏼
Mark Suster
@msuster
2x entrepreneur. Sold both companies (last to @salesforce). Now @UpfrontVC looking to invest in passionate entrepreneurs.
Blake Robbins
@blakeir
hanging out on the edges of the internet @hiddencap co-host @gamecraftpod prev. @benchmark @ludlowventures
