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Today, we discuss Congress’ stock trading ban, the FTC’s roll-up warning, SKIMS $4B valuation, Sequoia’s five partner exits, and Blackstone nearing $1T AUM. We’re joined by Brian Rothenberg (defy.vc) and Rob Biederman (Asymmetric). spotify.link/eoGAxOqDABb

Today, upcoming data about the state of the American economy, many 2021 IPO unicorns are now valued under $500M, and the DOE’s $1.2B carbon removal pledge. We’re joined by Brian Rothenberg (defy.vc), Gené Teare (Crunchbase News), & Alex Fayette (ACME Capital). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eco…

Welcome to the defy.vc team Medha and Amy Yin! I couldn't be more excited about the future of Defy and am thankful to continue building the firm and helping the next generation of entrepreneurs alongside Medha, Amy, Neil, Bob, Adam, and team!

Congrats Medha Agarwal! Could not recommend defy.vc more highly to all founders

Excited to see Almanax out of stealth! As a strong believer in web3, I also know security has to dramatically improve to achieve its full potential. I love Almanax's vision and am proud to be your day zero partner Francesco Piccoli & Maxwell Watson!

Congrats to Elad Ferber, Jan Jannink & the entire Synthpop team on their $5.6M seed round! We defy.vc are excited to be on the journey alongside our friends at Peterson Ventures and others as Synthpop drives greater efficiency in healthcare Synthpop leverages LLMs to automate back

Great post by my partner Medha Agarwal on the huge opportunity for vertical SaaS + AI to enhance human productivity across workflows, and the implications this will have on my favorite topic, distribution.

"7 questions founders should ask when choosing their first investor board member" Brian Rothenberg shares his views to make you a better founder by pairing with the best board members. bit.ly/4fX8J0X Fast Company KCPR defy.vc

Today we are releasing ALMX-1, Almanax's first AI model, which has achieved state-of-the-art performance on several vulnerability detection benchmarks. ALMX-1 is now the most powerful model in the market for detecting vulnerabilities in blockchain code, out-performing the best

Counting down until TechCrunch Disrupt! Be sure to see Brian Rothenberg and Medha Agarwal on both Monday and Tuesday! They will be doing a roundtable together "Successfully Raising Your Seed or Series A in 2024" #Disrupt #Techcrunch #Venture #Fundraising #SeriesSeed #SeriesA

We're expanding our team at Almanax and hiring for a Blockchain Security Researcher. Apply through the link in the comments if building AI solutions for security use cases is something that sounds fun and you want to come work with us in New York! Ideally you have worked

🚀 Big news: PuppyGraph raised $5M in seed funding, led by defy.vc! Huge thanks to Brian Rothenberg, Amy Yin, and Adam Park for believing in us! 💥 We’ve been on fire, shipping many new features like #AgenticGraphRAG, interactive graph exploration, streaming support, and more! 🌐

🚀 We are looking to add an investor to our team defy.vc! 🚀 We're a small, close knit team where you'll have exposure to all parts of what it means to be an early stage investor. This is a truly special role for someone who wants to learn about venture capital. We invest

After an intense decade of scaling Thumbtack to $1 billion+, I realized I wanted to taste complete freedom. So I shed it all: my operating role, apartment, possessions. Everything I owned would fit in carry-on luggage. Here's how it changed my life🧵

⭐ At defy.vc we've been exploring the evolution of pricing in an an AI-first world. 🚀 AI-first companies are shifting away from traditional SaaS models and embracing more dynamic, transactional pricing strategies to capture larger market opportunities—especially those tied to

I've been chatting with jesse.base.eth, and in preparation for our public launch, decided to offer free security scans through Almanax for the next month to 10 projects building on Base. If your project has smart contracts you'd like checked, comment below or DM me and we'll

1/ Today we announce that Almanax raised an additional $1M to accelerate the development of our AI Security Engineer. Grateful for the support of our investors Blockchain.com defy.vc, Exor, Vento Ventures, IAG, Eden Ventures, and amazing angels. We're headed into a

Today we release ALMX-1.5, our new AI model, and the first version of the Web3 Security Atlas (W3SA), an open-source initiative led by Almanax aimed at improving Web3 security with AI. ALMX1.5 is designed to navigate large scale and complex repositories, to perform high effort

Today, we transition from beta to general availability (GA). What happens when the number of lines of code engineers produce goes up 100x thanks to coding assistants like Cursor? How are security teams supposed to handle that? We believe AI will change security the same way

AI works best when humans stay in control. It’s not a replacement. It’s fuel. Brian Rothenberg of defy.vc explains why AI is an accelerant, not a substitute. “It’s fuel on the fire .” Link below. #VentureCapital #Entrepreneurship #StartUp #GenerativeAI #AI