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Congratulations to Instant on their seed round! ?? As early backers, we're super excited to see what developers build with this innovative platform. Looking forward to the next chapter! ??

Excited to share that alphaXiv is hiring Founding Engineers! At alphaXiv, we’re building a platform that allows students, researchers, and industry experts to ask questions and exchange ideas directly on top of arXiv papers, the largest pre-print repository in the world. Over the last year, the journey has been nothing short of exhilarating. What started as a final project for CS193X has evolved into a platform with tens of thousands of researchers around the world sharing, discussing, and critiquing research papers. We’re also thrilled to share that we’ll soon begin a collaboration with arXiv as an arXiv Labs project! Along the way, we’ve been inspired by the rapid growth of our community through LinkedIn, Twitter, and Hacker News, with industry leaders such as Yann LeCun, Jack Dorsey, and many others expressing excitement for the project. Huge shoutout to my amazing team Rehaan Ahmad and Daniel Kim, as well as the invaluable advice from our advisors Sebastian Thrun, Eric Schmidt, Adriel Saporta, Archit S., Sanmi Koyejo, Michael Bernstein, Kawal Gandhi, and John Ousterhout. Our mission is to build a community platform that makes research more open, accessible, and interactive. To achieve our goal of helping researchers, academics, and enthusiasts, we've raised funding from investors and are now hiring founding engineers. If you’d like to join the team, please fill out this form! https://lnkd.in/guC7EzR9 X: @askalphaxiv

?? ?????????????????? ???????????????? ??????????!??? Hey everyone! I’ve got some exciting news to share with you today. ?? Imagine you’re building a super-awesome AI app for modern customer service, and you want it to talk to other apps that your ?????????????????? already use, like their CRM, service desk, knowledge bases, sales engagement. But here’s the thing—it can be excruciatingly painful for developers to make those apps speak with each other natively across all their customers and deal with all the customer-specific config and integration infra overhead that comes with it. That’s where Ampersand comes in! ?? Today, we’re launching Ampersand, a new tool for developers like you to create ????????, ???????????? ?????????????? ???????????????????????? between different SaaS apps your customers use for their GTM stack (like Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo, Dynamics — the list is long!). This isn’t just about making apps share data; it’s about making them work together in a way that feels seamless for your customers. ?? Why is this a big deal? Well, if you’ve ever tried to build native product integration with a CRM, or a MAP, or an ERP, you know it can take forever—sometimes months! And you may still get it wrong (I definitely did as Siftery CTO and G2 VPE while rapidly scaling our customer base). But with Ampersand, you can do it in just a few days. And very scalably. Recently, we’ve had customers go from start to finish in less than 3 days and land an enterprise customer right away. Imagine how much faster you could move if you didn’t have to worry about all that backend stuff. ??? And here’s something even better—Ampersand lets your customers set up, configure, and manage their integrations directly within your product. Yep, fully customer-configurable and compliance/privacy aware (see image below). ?? Also, we’re not just talking about a few integrations. Ampersand supports 100+ tools in the GTM stack (that’s CRM, marketing, sales tools, ticketing, and all that good stuff). So no matter what you’re building, chances are, Ampersand has got you covered. ?? We’ve got a crazy awesome founding team, and we’ve been working hard to bring this to life over the past year. I couldn’t be prouder of the journey so far and the hard work of our team. Thanks to all our customers for shaping the product — it's been a privilege serving you. ?? Here’s the best part: we’re making a lot of this open-source (see links in comments). That means you can dive in, see how it works, and even make it better if you want to. Our founding team is all about community at work and outside, and we think the best way to build something extraordinary and remarkable is to do it together. ?Oh, and did I mention our pricing? It’s super simple. You only pay for what you use, no hidden fees. A power-packed free tier. We’re here to help you grow fast without you breaking the bank. Check us out here: withampersand.com ?? We can’t wait to see what you build with it!

Big moves in the biotech space! ???? We're thrilled to announce our investment in Pauling.AI, a cutting-edge startup revolutionizing drug discovery. Pauling.AI's groundbreaking approach aligns perfectly with our commitment to backing transformative technologies in healthcare. We look forward to supporting their mission to improve drug discovery ????

Very excited to be part of CodeRabbit's Series A! ??

?? Why did Meta lose the web scraping battle? Bright Data CEO Or Lenchner breaks it down in the latest World of DaaS episode:

?? New World of DaaS this week! Daffy CEO Adam Nash on fintech trends, optimized charitable giving, and common product management mistakes... https://lnkd.in/gpAG-58n

Excited to see Dub.co rolling out their revamped links dashboard!? ??

New podcast alert! ?? Substack CEO Chris Best breaks down the attention economy, creator empowerment, and building a better platform for culture. https://lnkd.in/gTWk6FCf

?? Flex portfolio company Atlan just announced their Series C! ?? Looking forward to more groundbreaking data + AI governance innovation ??