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We’re growing our Consumer team at FirstMark! As proud investors in Pinterest, Airbnb, DraftKings Inc., Discord, Riot Games, Shopify, and recently Pickle Posh Metaloop among many others, we are looking for an exceptional early-career Investor to help us find and partner with the next iconic consumer company. Ideal candidates have 1-3 years of experience in consumer investing/operating and banking/consulting, are early adopters of cutting-edge consumer technology, and have their finger on the pulse of emerging trends. If this is you or someone you know, please feel free to reach out directly!

We’re pleased to announce that Pigment has been recognized as a Visionary in our first inclusion in the Gartner? Magic Quadrant? for Financial Planning Software. We believe that this recognition can be attributed to three key principles that guide how we build Pigment: ? Efficient architecture for integrated business planning at scale ? Exceptional product and customer experiences ? A commitment to continuous improvement through an innovative product roadmap and rapid feature deployment Thank you to our customers, partners, advisors, and employees - past and present - for getting us to this point. Download your copy of the report here to read more:?https://lnkd.in/eUgjGA_e

We’re growing our Enterprise team at FirstMark! As proud investors in Shopify, Pinterest, Airbnb, Dataiku, Carta, Discord, Cockroach Labs, DraftKings Inc., Pendo.io, Synthesia, and many others, we are looking for an exceptional early-career Investor to help us find and partner with the next iconic technology companies. Ideal candidates have 1-4 years of experience in investing/operating or banking/consulting, have their finger on the pulse of emerging technology trends, have a high degree of emotional intelligence, and are capable of making a lasting impression with the FirstMark team and our portfolio companies. If this is you or someone you know, please feel free to reach out directly!

Three years ago at Slush we signed our Series A with FirstMark ?? Since then, FirstMark has been more than just an investor. They’ve been a true partner—providing unwavering support and invaluable insights and connecting us with an inspiring community of founders and operators. This milestone reminds us of the power of collaboration and shared vision. ?? ?? To all startups starting their funding journey: choose partners who believe in your mission as much as you do. It makes all the difference. Special shoutout to Adam at FirstMark—you’ve been incredible on this journey. Thank you for everything! ?? Cheers to the road ahead! ?? P.S. The first photo captures Sven signing the term sheet at Burger King. It was freezing outside, but we thought it was the coolest thing ever back then. ???? The second one is from today’s breakfast before Slush ??

Introducing Runner H — the most advanced web agent to date, redefining how we interact with computer interfaces. With pixel-level interpretation and semantic understanding, it turns your instructions into precise actions. Runner H is powered by a state-of-the-art LLM highly optimized for function calling and coding (2B parameters). It also integrates a trained and specialized VLM (3B parameters) to perceive, understand, and interact with graphical and text elements. We set a new standard, surpassing the performance of other agents on the public benchmark WebVoyager. With the beta release of Runner H 0.1, we’re not just launching a product — we are taking a step toward artificial super intelligence. Developers, experience #RunnerH firsthand and see what it can do for you. Join the private beta waitlist: https://lnkd.in/e2JDk-62

Check out our latest investment at FirstMark - appropriately, announced with a video! Nicholas Carlson is the perfect person to lead Dynamo, a trusted media platform in the AI era. We are joined by some of the biggest names in media, including The Information Founder Jessica E. Lessin, Cheddar Founder Jon Steinberg, and Fortune Editor in Chief Alyson Shontell.

Thrilled to announce our recent investment in Dynamo, the first AI-native media company for cinematic journalism, founded by former Business Insider Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Carlson. The round was led by FirstMark's Rick Heitzmann and Kathryn Weinmann, and includes participation from The Information Founder Jessica E. Lessin, Cheddar Founder Jon Steinberg, and EIC of Fortune Alyson Shontell. Looking forward to an incredible journey ahead ??

The AI infra scene in NYC is red hot ?????? Erik Bernhardsson, CEO, Modal based in SoHo Viraj Mehta, CTO TensorZero based in Brooklyn Leonard Tang, CEO Haize Labs based in FiDi All presenting tonight at #DataDrivenNYC We also loved having May Habib, CEO of Writer who’s based in SF but has an office in NYC! Event by FirstMark + generously hosted at Ramp

Had so much fun talking to Matt Turck of FirstMark about synthetic data last night in NYC! That #datadrivenNYC audience is AMAZING! SO much of the misunderstanding around synthetic data techniques originate with the name; I agree with Shawn swyx W? that synthetic data needs a rebrand. He suggests “verified data augmentation”; I suggest “LLM-ready training data.”

Where is AI headed? What are the guardrails? How can GenAI help with governance and compliance? How do the rising stars like Writer differentiate themselves? How do customer assign value and ROI to their GenAI efforts? At FirstMark #DataDrivenNYC we heard first hand from leaders on the cutting edge of the GenAI powered industry. May Habib described how Writer's Graph Based RAG is using advanced methods of information retrieval to allow LLMs to access large volumes of structured data about entities and their relationships. The result is not only better accuracy but a more customer friendly experience and accelerated workflows. The vision is for software that can build software that uses software and Writer is productizing every step of the way. From a use case perspective, Writer is giving investment banks the tools to do deep dives on companies and sectors. They're working with large insurance companies to build knowledge assistants for customer service representatives. They're helping massive CPGs support high-end knowledge tasks like figuring out what product attributes and campaigns will result in the fastest and most effective new product launches. GenAI is a crowded space and a significant investment, and it's critical to reinforce time to value and ROI. What we saw firsthand on Wednesday night is how some of the category leaders and emerging technology platforms are delivering practical solutions that are driving massive value in what would have been impossible just a few years ago. And the exciting thing is that we are very early in the adoption cycle for enterprise companies. Yet at the same time the C-Suite recognizes how transformative it is and are often involved first hand because they see companies like Writer helping them develop new products faster and delivering customer service better and faster and making quantum leaps in compliance and governance. Huge shoutout to Ben Winn and Matt Turck from FirstMark for pulling this cutting edge NYC community together. Thanks also to Ramp for hosting in your amazing NYC office and to all the speakers from Writer, Haize Labs, TensorZero, and Modal!