In just two days, 100+ nominations have rolled in for our inaugural 100 Women in AI list, a collaboration with XFactor Ventures designed to spotlight the incredible women driving innovation in artificial intelligence. But we know there are many more brilliant women whose contributions deserve to be seen and celebrated. 🏆 If you know a woman founder, technologist, investor, researcher, or other leader building at the forefront of AI, nominate her today. Let’s give them their flowers and expand the conversation about who is shaping this industry. 🗓️ Nominations close February 24th ---> https://lnkd.in/g-EcTfvU Thank you to everyone in the community who has shared, nominated, collaborated - we really appreciate you. Let's keep this going!
Flybridge
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Boston, Massachusetts 9,565 followers
Seed-stage VC investing in ambitious founders leveraging the power of AI.
About us
Seed-stage venture capital firm based in Boston and New York City investing in ambitious founders leveraging the power of AI. With over $1 billion under management across six seed funds and seven pre-seed funds, portfolio companies include BetterCloud, BitSight, Bowery, Chief, Codecademy (acq: SKILL), FalconX, Firebase (acq: GOOG), Infracommerce (BVMF: IFCM3), MadeiraMadeira, MongoDB (NASDAQ: MDB), Open English, Plastiq, and Splice.
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🏆 Big congratulations to to Waleed Atallah, Łukasz Dudziak, Mohamed Abdelfattah, and the team at Mako for being featured in Business Insider's roundup of startups making AI more energy and cost-efficient! 🚀🌿 Mako is on a mission to reduce compute costs by up to 70% with its groundbreaking technology that automates GPU tuning—turning an otherwise manual, costly task into an automated process that optimizes performance on any hardware. Their platform is unlocking hardware independence for AI application developers, ensuring that AI models can run efficiently across all cloud platforms and hardware configurations. This innovation is a game-changer in making AI more sustainable and accessible. We’re incredibly proud to support Mako’s journey as they continue to push the boundaries of what's possible in AI infrastructure. 👏👏 Read it here: https://lnkd.in/eyhzEhAn #ProudInvestors #AI #Sustainability #Innovation
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Wondering what top NYC VC's are focused on in 2025? On Feb 19th, Join Flybridge GP Jesse Middleton, Melody Koh of NextView Ventures, Dylan Itzikowitz of South Park Commons, and Vic Singh of RRE Ventures and Originalis AI for a rapid fire, no-holds barred convo about the trends shaping this year moderated by Cherae Robinson. To make this all happen, we're partnering up with SohoWorks, a global network of workspaces brought to you by Soho House & Co. They've got three beautiful spaces in NYC that bring creativity and business under one roof. If you're in NYC and would like to attend, apply here: https://lu.ma/57kgrwzm
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🔥 Inference Wars: Can AMD Challenge NVIDIA’s AI Dominance or Risk Intel’s Fate? 🔥 Our latest edition of the Flybridge AI Index is here, diving deep into one of the most pressing questions in AI today: Is AMD ready to shake up the AI accelerator market, or will it stumble where others have before? A huge shoutout to our colleague Daniel Porras Reyes for his meticulous work on this report. His insights peel back the layers of AMD's strategy, from their MI300 series to software battles like ROCm vs. CUDA, and how they’re navigating the shift from training to inference workloads. 🌍 Why this matters: With NVIDIA commanding over 80% of the market, competition is crucial for innovation and resilience. AMD’s potential rise—or fall—will have ripple effects across the entire AI landscape, from startups to hyperscalers. But that’s not all. In this year's AI Index, we're switching things up. Every other month, we’ll go deeper, offering deep dives on specific trends that are shaping the AI frontier—on top of our regular index updates. 🚀 Explore the full update here: https://lnkd.in/efPfJBPm
Is AMD Ready to Challenge NVIDIA’s AI Dominance or Risk Intel’s Fate? As AI shifts from training to inference workloads, AMD is advancing its MI300 series and enhancing the ROCm software ecosystem. But will it be enough to compete with NVIDIA? The February edition of the AI Index offers a deep dive into AMD’s history, strategy, and the $500 billion+ opportunity that could reshape modern computing. The analysis contains unique insights from Siddhant Pardeshi at Blitzy and Waleed Atallah at Mako. Link to full blog post in the comments In February, the AI index, which tracks public companies focusing on generative AI, returned 5.4%. The application layer led with an impressive 11% gain, while the hardware/base layer saw no return. We thank Aiera (Bryan Healey) , an AI-powered equity research platform, for accelerating our data and insight extraction process.
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Great work from the team at BrightHire!
I’m incredibly proud! 🩷 BrightHire is the * first * interview intelligence platform to complete a comprehensive, independent 3rd-party bias audit. 🙌 It was led by BABL AI, a leading AI auditor with deep expertise in hiring. The audit attests to the consistent performance of our AI features across demographic groups – and the foundations we have in place for responsible AI development. Me & Theodore Chestnut founded BrightHire with a simple mission: “To give everyone the hiring experience they deserve.” We saw hiring as a sacred moment – for organizations and people. The right opportunity can mean everything to someone’s life. This is why we’ve remained very thoughtful about how we apply AI to hiring – we use it to make *people* in the process more effective. We take our responsibility very seriously. It’s also why today our AI doesn’t make decisions, rank, score, etc. Interestingly, this made auditing our platform for bias very challenging. We tried to get 3rd party auditors to work with us – they didn’t know how. This is because bias audits typically focus on platforms that rank or score candidates – where AI plays a significant, clear role in selection or candidate progression. BrightHire is different. We help clients deliver exceptional hiring, in part by capturing and summarizing interview content to equip hiring teams with objective information to make their own decisions. There was no known audit framework for summarized notes. It required a novel approach. In partnership with BABL AI we developed a robust, innovative methodology to evaluate the performance of our AI features across demographic groups. The great video below shares some details – but needless to say the team worked extremely hard to get this right – and broke new ground in the process. I’m proud of the team’s effort for a bunch of reasons: 🟣 It’s core to our mission & our 1st company value: put candidates first. 🟣 It demonstrates our commitment to clients: we’re the most enterprise-ready, compliant solution in interview intelligence, by far – and proud of it. 🟣 It reflects how our team operates: relentless, smart, innovative, passionate, and most importantly, mission-driven. Huge thank you to William Leeds & Will Decker who led these efforts 🙏 in the video below they share more about this important effort. And a major thank you to our clients for allowing us to be their trusted partner bringing responsible use of AI 🙏
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🎉 Excited to announce that we've open-sourced Flybridge's AI-powered investment memo generator! We built this tool to streamline our investment process, and now we're making it freely available to the entire startup ecosystem. In just 3 minutes, founders and investors can generate comprehensive investment memos from pitch decks and pitch transcripts. What makes this different: - Built on OpenAI's o1 model for thorough analysis - Leverages autonomous AI agents through CrewAI - Provides structured insights on opportunity, risks, business model, GTM, and team - Generates targeted follow-up questions for deeper diligence For founders: Use this to pressure-test your pitch and identify potential gaps before meeting investors. For investors: Save time on routine tasks and focus more energy on what matters most—exercising judgment and building relationships. The code is available on GitHub, and you can try the tool directly on our website. This is part of our commitment to making the fundraising process more efficient and transparent for everyone. Remember - this is meant to augment, not replace, human judgment. We're excited to see how the community uses and improves upon this foundation. Try it out and let us know what you think! 🚀 Special shout-outs to our associate Daniel Porras Reyes for developing this tool. Thank you Melia Russell and Business Insider for sharing: https://lnkd.in/eze7K4GT
A VC firm created an AI agent-powered 'investment memo generator.' It's the latest example of how AI is coming for venture firms.
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General Partner and Co-Founder, Flybridge; Co-Founder and Investment Partner, XFactor Ventures; Board Member and early investor at MongoDB
I loved sitting down with Brian Elliott and Siddhant Pardeshi of Blitzy for a wide ranging conversation on everything Ai, from NVIDIA to Agentic Applications and the future of software development! Full video here, shorts on Blitzy's Youtube channel https://lnkd.in/ec7esyG3
From NVIDIA to AGI: Chip Hazard and Blitzy Founders on the Future of AI Development
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Congrats to Julia Dixon founder of ESAI, a Next Wave NYC portfolio company on your Forbes 30 Under 30 honor!
A pinch me moment... something I never would have dreamed of a year ago... and all the other cheesy ways to say I was shocked and honored to make the #ForbesUnder30 list this morning. Thank you to Forbes, my team, my investors, and especially the students who made this all possible for ESAI. Let's keep going. https://lnkd.in/dJw95mE8
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Sending over big congrats to the team at Sesame Sustainability for being featured as a top Massachusetts Institute of Technology startup to watch! The company's software platform helps reduce emissions in heavy industries by combining techno-economic analysis, emissions modeling, and system optimization. Emre Gençer, Paul Sizaire, and Jim Owens have been hard at working building and we're glad to be partners on the journey. https://lnkd.in/eqXEgYph
8 MIT sustainability startups to watch | MIT Sloan
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Attention early stage founders – tomorrow is the last day to apply for PEERLESS, AlleyCorp's $1M investment competition. We are thrilled to partner with AlleyCorp and support this important work. Here are the details: PEERLESS programming will culminate in 5 founders pitching at Google's NYC headquarters in April, where one winner will receive a $1M investment from AlleyCorp. Requirements: • Startups can have raised up to $2M in capital. • Are technologically innovative • Have a strong go-to-market advantage • Have identified a large market opportunity • Are led by Black, Latine, Native American, or female founders Applications close on December 6th 2024. Here's the link to learn more and apply ----> peerlesspitch.com.
One Founder. One Million.
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