IVP

Leaders who show up as their full, unfiltered selves build stronger teams and drive lasting impact. For years,? Silvija Martincevic believed leadership required a certain persona. But through her journey– something we recently explored for IVP's Undaunted Series– she discovered that true leadership isn’t about fitting a mold, but rather about embracing who one truly is. Silvija’s journey is a powerful reminder that success comes from welcoming what makes you stand out. The best leaders don’t just inspire from the top down— they create spaces where others feel empowered to lead as their authentic selves. You can watch our full conversation here: https://lnkd.in/dzgWJv4F Which leaders, who bring their authentic selves to the board room, do you admire?

Today we’re proud to announce we’ve closed a $75 million Series C funding round! Thank you to?IVP?for leading the round,?G2 Venture Partners?and?Wellington Management?for joining the team, and our existing investors—Spark Capital,?DCVC,?Kleiner Perkins,?Lux Capital, Matter Venture Partners, and Build Collective—for your continued belief in what we’re building. We’re also happy to welcome?Bill Cronin?to the Lumafield team as Head of Revenue. He brings deep expertise in scaling transformative technologies, most recently as Chief Revenue Officer of Xometry. You can read about the round and how we plan to grow here: https://lnkd.in/gN4mjhdB Eduardo Torrealba?sat down with?Aaron Weitzman?from?Axios?to talk about Lumafield’s vision for the future of manufacturing. With global supply chains shifting and the U.S. doubling down on manufacturing leadership, bringing products to market faster and at lower cost has never been more critical. https://lnkd.in/gvdqHn-V

IVP is leading Lumafield's $75M Series C to help them usher in the future of manufacturing. Many of us are used to bugs in software - found quickly, fixed even faster. But what happens when the largest manufacturers find issues in their products late in the production cycle or after they have shipped? Billions of dollars of recalls and damages, not to mention the reputational damage. Eduardo, Andreas, Kevin, Scott, and Jonathan have been on a mission to solve this problem, and as we heard from numerous customers (including companies near and dear to us like Whoop and Skydio), they're already doing so. If you're a manufacturer, CT scanning is no longer a nice to have. Lumafield is truly a one-of-a-kind company, and Ajay, Eric, Colin, and I are thrilled to be with them on this journey. More from Axios here - https://lnkd.in/gqaekin3.

One manufacturing defect can cost billions—delays, recalls, and product failures that affect the bottom line. Yet, most industries still rely on slow, outdated quality control methods. Lumafield is changing that. Its AI-driven CT scanning platform helps companies like Unilever, Skydio and WHOOP catch defects before they become disasters—saving time, money and reputations. IVP is leading Lumafield’s $75M Series C because better quality control doesn’t just prevent problems—it gives manufacturers the confidence to move faster. https://lnkd.in/g5BcVRrA

Arianna Huffington was shaping a vision and was looking for a partner who could push boundaries, refine strategies, and scale something truly impactful, when starting Thrive Global. Over the last eight years, we’ve challenged each other, learned together, and redefined what a true founder-investor partnership looks like. That’s what makes this journey so rewarding. Arianna embodies what it means to be undaunted — challenging norms, embracing resilience, and redefining success. Watch our full conversation here: https://lnkd.in/gxZrTEgV

Baseten is the best platform for AI-native products to run inference at scale: it can be deployed in their cloud or yours, supports custom models or off-the-shelf ones like DeepSeek, and can seamlessly scale from internal testing to serving models across your customer base. If you’re building in AI, Baseten is the product for you, and companies like Abridge, Gamma, Writer, Zed, and Cartesia all agree. Baseten's growth has been incredible and we at IVP are thrilled to expand our partnership and co-lead the C after also co-leading the B. Excited to continue the journey with existing friends at Spark, Conviction, and Greylock, and new friends at 01 Advisors.? Cheers to Tuhin, Amir, Philip, and the entire Baseten team on this milestone - special people building a special company. And they are most certainly hiring.

The future of AI in healthcare is bright! Since our initial partnership in 2023, Shivdev Rao’s Abridge has been moving at warp speed towards its mission of redefining the role of AI in healthcare and ushering in dramatic leaps to physician efficiency. ??????????, ?????????????? ?????????????????? ?????? ???????????? ??, ????-?????? ???? IVP ?????? Elad Gil Also announced today: the Contextual Reasoning Engine, designed to generate compliant, billable notes at the point of care. Abridge started out by tackling one of the top causes of physician burnout: the huge amount of time spent on documentation (up to 50% of their day dedicated to taking notes, summarizing those notes, and putting them into electronic medical records). Now, they’re helping save billions of dollars and dramatically reduce the hours upon hours that patients, clinicians and health systems spend navigating the claims process. ???????? ?????????? ???????? ?????????????????? ?????? ??????????????: With deployment in more than 100 enterprise health systems to-date, Abridge has no plans to slow down in 2025. Just last month, Kaiser Permanente made Abridge available to providers across its 40 hospitals and over 600 medical offices — healthcare’s largest generative AI project to-date.? With the launch of the Contextual Reasoning Engine, healthcare providers will be able to: ?? Generate compliant, billable documentation at the point of care? ?? Get automatic suggestions for appropriate billing codes based on diagnoses ?? Surface actionable, care-oriented outputs like medical orders? ?? Reduce billing documentation queries and cut down on the time between care and claim approval Congratulations to Shiv and the entire Abridge team. Excited to continue this incredible journey alongside you!

I love Brian Dyson’s “juggling five balls” analogy: work is a rubber ball that bounces back, but health, family, and well-being are fragile crystal balls that can’t be dropped. When scaling global companies, Somesh Dash and I learned that the key is recognizing which moments are the crystal balls and giving ourselves grace for the rest. IVP’s Undaunted Series explores embracing the unpredictable and redefining success on our own terms. Watch the full episode here:?https://lnkd.in/gTuWQSee #Health #Family #Work #Success

Arianna Huffington’s story is a powerful reminder that resilience fuels success. Her second book was rejected 37 times before it was finally published — now, she’s leading Thrive Global and redefining well-being at work. As founders, leaders, and investors, we talk a lot about wins. But what about the setbacks that shape us? The lessons that aren’t taught? I've learned that the strongest founders embrace risk and learn from failure — knowing that every challenge is a chance to adapt, refine, and build something better. Grateful to have Arianna kick off IVP’s new Undaunted Series. Watch our full conversation here: https://lnkd.in/gUDcbYXU

One of the world’s leading GTM experts is joining IVP to supercharge enterprise sales for our portfolio. Please welcome Kevin Egan to IVP as a venture partner. We’ve worked with Kevin for over a decade — and gotten to see his enterprise GTM leadership firsthand at our portfolio companies Dropbox and Slack. Kevin spent his entire career one step ahead of the tech curve.? He joined Salesforce in 2002 — two years before its IPO — and stayed on board for over a decade through the company’s exponential growth. He founded and led the first enterprise sales teams at Dropbox and Slack. Most recently, he scaled Atlassian’s sales team, building on their devoted following of developers to expand their PLG motion farther into the enterprise. ?????? ?????????????????? ?????????????????? ???????? ??????????’?? ?????????????????? ?????? ???????? ???????? ????????: Many of our portfolio companies are at a critical inflection point: they’ve reached product-market fit and are inundated with organic traction. Now it’s time for them to 50x that growth, scaling from tens of millions on the path to $1B ARR. As someone who’s led enterprise sales across multiple products for paradigm-changing tech companies that hit the $1B ARR mark, Kevin is uniquely positioned to help current and future portfolio companies uplevel their GTM strategy and teams. Welcome, Kevin! We can’t wait to continue our decade-plus partnership… this time as colleagues. More from Melia Russell here: https://lnkd.in/gWhZYaxt