Wow, just landed in NYC from a delayed flight and even at 1:52 pm ET, there is bumper to bumper traffic on Van Wyck… the city really does not sleep BUT man I would love to 😴😩 #sleeplessinnyc

Good morning NYC! 🗽With a surprise guest Aditi Maliwal Upfront Ventures #upfrontxfintech #nyfintechweek

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What an end to NY Fintech Week! 🎉Had a blast cohosting an intimate breakfast with Clair 💫for 30 of our close fintech friends this morning! highly (!!) recommend Banter Cafe on Hudson in WV - their golden folded eggs & Nutella French toast👌🏽👌🏽 Upfront Ventures #upfrontxfintech

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Today, we released a new long range radar sensor that counts people with remarkable precision from as high as 20 ft. One unit can measure 1,000 sqft. It's reducing the cost of deployment for customers as much as 51% and it's available today. More info density.io/blog/extending…

So much energy, optimism, and excitement right now in tech and the Bay Area! Hope to see you at an AI event soon.

Happy Friday/ this brings me joy - A former Fed colleague sent me this and it gave me a chuckle 🤭 so had to share Who would’ve though DnD charts would reach the Federal Reserve banks (and so well might I add 😂) What do you think?

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Join Nicole Chung, Kat Zhang and I at #SFTechWeek - we're hosting an intimate B2B founders breakfast with Expa at our *NEW* Upfront Ventures SF office! Check it out: lu.ma/UpfrontandExpa

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Ansa is hiring 🪐 we’re growing across gtm, ops, and customer success roles — come join the Ansa team in SF! Open roles below, we’d love to hear from you getansa.notion.site/Ansa-is-hiring…

If you weren’t at 👑 sophia goldberg ‘s #fintechdevcon payments talk, you missed out! Perfect balance of breadth & depth which is no small feat when talking about payments!

There should be an *extra* special place in hell for people who take off their shoes on flights, let alone a 12 hr international one 🤢🤢🤢

Great TIME article from an even better friend Jeremy Ney. We started at the New York Fed together and so impressed with all that he’s gone on to do! If you aren’t subscribed to his American Inequality substack, you absolutely should! ⭐️americaninequality.substack.com ⭐️

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Had a great time last week at Fintech Meetup ! Lively panel

1/ Some thoughts I have been noodling on.. Ben got me thinking about how sticky is AI really and who is paying for it? From conversations with founders - many are still selling to AI Innovation teams / Chief AI Evangelist at Fortune 500s.. ben-evans.com/benedictevans/…

A new financial system is taking shape, and stablecoins are at the core. We call this shift Money 3.0: a re-architecture of global finance where platform builders fuse traditional financial services with blockchain infrastructure. In our latest blog, Kat Zhang, Aaron Frank, and