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I am excited to announce our investment in Enhanced Radar (YC W25). Enhanced Radar uses AI to reduce workload for air traffic controllers and improve safety margins for aircraft. This new infra will have a big positive impact on commercial aviation as well as GA. They are already deployed at airports across the country - making air travel safer for all of us!

We raised a $10 million seed round led by Khosla Ventures and First Round Capital! Yuhong Sun and I started Onyx nearly one year ago to make information more accessible at work. Today, our open-source project is deployed by thousands of orgs and used to answer hundreds of thousands of questions every week. In addition to our open-source usage, we’re proud to be working with dozens of amazing enterprise customers. From household names like Netflix, to security-conscious defense companies like Thales Group, to fast growing startups like Ramp, organizations of all sizes are choosing Onyx to help their teams work smarter. Almost every team in the world will experience dramatic productivity increases from generative AI in the next 1-2 years. The key to unlocking this value comes from enriching the general capabilities of LLMs with the unique context of individual teams. We built Onyx with the belief that an open-source first approach is the best way to solve this problem. This is for three main reasons: 1. Your data stays secure. Every team should be able to use generative AI without needing to hand over control of their data. Onyx is built to be self-hosted (and even entirely air-gapped). 2. Complete customization. As AI quality gets better and the cost of development gets cheaper, open source allows you to craft the most suitable custom experiences for your needs. 3. Ship Faster. With the help of our developer community of more than 3,000 strong, we can cover all your edge cases as if we were an organization 100x our size. We’re so incredibly lucky to have amazing partners joining us on this journey, including Liz Wessel from First Round Capital, Adina Tecklu from Khosla Ventures, and Jared Friedman from Y Combinator. We're also thankful for the support of incredible funds like Pioneer Fund and Twenty Two Ventures, along with remarkable angels such as Gokul Rajaram (Coinbase, Pinterest), Arash Ferdosi (Dropbox), Amit Agarwal (Datadog),? Kulveer Taggar (Zeus), Immad Akhund (Mercury), JJ Fliegelman (WayUp), Richard Aberman (WePay), and many more who have joined us for the ride. To keep up with the insane demand, we’re hiring multiple Full Stack and ML engineers. If making LLMs smarter and bringing GenAI to all the teams in the world sounds like a mission you’re passionate about, reach out to Yuhong or I — we’d love to talk to you! Or, if you want to learn more about how Onyx can help make your knowledge instantly accessible, shoot us a message.

Massive congratulations to Onyx on the $10M seed round led by Khosla and First Round. THIS is how enterprises will use AI internally. It's open core, which is the dominant strategy for enterprise applications that integrate across secure systems. They are deployed to all 14,000 employees at Netflix and other large customers. They are also hiring. ??. Well done Chris Weaver and Yuhong Sun and team.

FedRAMP can be so much easier. Archon is building an SDK that you can integrate into your codebase for off the shelf compliance with many of the trickier requirements. They're also building a suite of tools and partnerships to make the rest of the process smooth and far less expensive. Very cool to have a front row seat with Pioneer Fund. If you're a startup working toward FedRAMP, you should talk to them: https://archon.inc/

I'm excited to be a part of Pioneer Fund's investment in Red Barn Robotics! It's always good to see more robots in agriculture, where labor problems are getting very serious. It's even better to see those robots focus on being very cost effective and scalable to smaller and larger farms. Congrats team!

The total value of YC startups is now over $800 Billion.