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It had been a few years since our last dinner with Renen Hallak, all the way back before the pandemic. Under Renen's leadership, VAST Data has grown into a company valued at $9 billion. We are truly thrilled and honored that ASG has been able to accompany Vast Data on its journey to this point. ? Over the past three years, Vast Data has attracted the partnership of many major players who has a keen focused on AI. The company’s latest initiative, the Cosmos community, has garnered support from NVIDIA, xAI, Cisco, Supermicro, Dremio, Deloitte, among others. Their rapid momentum has us eagerly anticipating what lies ahead for Vast Data, a company well poised to secure a critical position within its ecosystem. ? We were privileged to join a dinner with Renen last week. During our conversation, Renen, this humble and down-to-earth founder, warmly shared his reflections. He spoke about the journey of scaling the company from 300 to 900 employees in just two years, all while preserving the culture, his unwavering commitment to high standards in HR, and his patient dedication in waiting for years for the absolutely right key members. ? We asked what are the hard decision he has made in this journey. Renen said: "There is no hard decision. The hard decision is to start the company. Then, every time I face a decision, I ask myself: what’s good for our customer and what’s good for the company ten years from now. Then there is no more hard decision, it becomes very clear what the decision should be. The challenge lies in executing that right decision, as it almost always demands taking the more difficult path." ? After the dinner, just like our last dinner years ago, Renen caught a bus home.

?? Exciting News! ?? ? Alpha Square Group is proud to announce our sponsorship of the Palo Alto AI x Web3 Summit, taking place on October 30-31, 2024, at Stanford, Silicon Valley. ?? This summit brings together innovators, thought leaders, and industry pioneers at the intersection of AI and Web3, and we are thrilled to be part of it! ? Join us and explore the future of technology as we collaborate with visionary partners to shape tomorrow’s digital landscape.? ? ?? Official Website: https://www.aw3.ai/ ? We look forward to connecting with industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and enthusiasts at the event! ? #AI #Web3 #AlphaSquareGroup #PaloAltoAIWeb3 #TechSummit

A very action-packed week! ? This past weekend, Alpha Square Group cohosted an AI reasoning dinner with our friends Rocky Yu at AGI House and Mark Weber at Tectonic Ventures. The team hosted 20+ brightest minds from Cambridge Including leading scientists, entrepreneurs, executives, investors, hackers, community activists, and up-and-coming students. We are very honored to have MIT professors like David Mindell, Paul Liang, Rosalind Picard, Song Han, Yoon Kim join us. ? We're impressed by the innovation happening in Cambridge and look forward to building a stronger community with the AI enthusiast in the future!

Last week, Alpha Square Group cohosted an AI for Enterprise panel to discuss current developments and challenges deploying AI in the enterprise. Special thanks to Sarmad Qadri and the team at LastMile AI for a riveting discussion, and for Lambda for sponsoring compute credits! We were impressed by the crowd’s enthusiasm in deploying AI in the enterprise and are excited to see New York city becoming an important hub for AI innovation. We were very honored to have notable guests working on every component of the AI value chain join us: Riccardo Di Blasio and Ben Daniels! Special thanks to our friends from CrewAI (Rob Bailey), Haize Labs (Leonard Tang), and Moveworks (Jameson L.) for showing a demo! Looking forward to building in NYC! Alpha Square Group

Progressing towards AGI during NY Tech Week! ?? ? Alpha Square Group, together with AGI House and General Catalyst, welcomed a select crowd of founders, builders, and researchers on an exclusive cruise happy hour overseeing beautiful Manhattan skyline. It was great to hear from Cresta, Instabase, and MultiOn to discuss how they’re building towards AGI. We’re a proud supporter of #AI and welcome all builders to reach out to us if you’re building something cool! See you next time! ?? #ASG #AGI #NYTW

Alpha Square Group is thrilled to announced that we have joined Cube on their latest $25M round!??? ?? Cube is building semantic layer for company data. The semantic layer provides critical context for AI agents to analyze data with high accuracy. As every app becomes AI-enabled, Cube has become a foundational layer of the underlying data stack, enabling more performant and secure data perception, transformation, and reasoning, with minimal hallucination. With Cube, developers write a data model once and enforce it everywhere, dramatically increasing copilot and agent accuracy. ? Alpha Square Group joins 645 Ventures, Decibel Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Eniac Ventures, and Databricks, in supporting Cube’s go-to-market and marketing activities and broadening Cube Cloud’s capabilities. Major congratulations to Artyom Keydunov, Pavel Tiunov, Jen Grant, and the entire Cube team!!??? #AI #BI #data #analytics #cube #semanticlayer #alphasquaregroup ? Read the latest here: https://lnkd.in/eYvMdfQu

I’m excited to share that Cube has raised $25M from 645 Ventures, Decibel Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Eniac Ventures, and Databricks. I’m extremely grateful to our customers for trusting us as their partners, to our incredible team members for putting us in the position to accomplish this, and to our investors for believing in our vision. Thank you! I’m thrilled to deepen our partnership with Databricks as we build together toward an AI-enabled data intelligence future. The semantic layer is becoming critical for AI agents to access and analyze data with high accuracy. In this blog post, I share more about what this new funding means for our product roadmap: https://lnkd.in/gWGwb9UQ Looking forward to continuing to grow together!

??? All aboard! Join Alpha Square Group, General Catalyst, and AGI House on Thursday, June 6 from 6-9pm for a sunset cruise around NYC. As a part of #TechWeek, we are co-hosting an exclusive happy hour will gather AI founders, builders, and corporate executives that are looking to enterprise adoption for generative AI technology for their business. If you’d like to join, please register below. Location and further detail will be shared upon guest approval. We look forward to cruising through NY #TechWeek with you! #NYTW #AlphaSquareGroup #GeneralCatalyst #AGIHouse #AI https://lu.ma/ubr4br48

?? Exciting News! ?? Alpha Square Group is thrilled to announce our participation in Scale AI's $1B Series F funding round. Scale AI helps top tech companies improve the data used to build artificial intelligence products. We are honored to support the team in their mission to accelerate the development of AI applications and drive innovation across industries. Congratulations to the entire Scale AI team on this remarkable achievement! Alpha Square Group joins this round alongside Accel, Meta, Amazon, Cisco, Intel Corporation, AMD, ServiceNow, DFJ Growth, WCM, NVIDIA, Coatue, ycombinator, Index Ventures, Founders Fund, Tiger Global Management, Thrive Capital, Spark Capital, Greenoaks, Wellington Management and many more. #AI #Innovation #genAI #ScaleAI #AlphaSquareGroup https://lnkd.in/gJYWiRky

Congratulations to our amazing portfolio companies Stripe, Canva, Anthropic, Scale AI, Arctic Wolf, and Deel for making the CNBC Disrupter 50 Companies List! Alpha Square Group is honored to be a part of your growth journey. ?? ?? https://lnkd.in/diSYSSdQ