Benchmarks, security, and services

Spring is firmly here, summer is around the corner, and we've been keeping busy:

• Gabriella Garcia joined as a Deal Partner; she brings operational experience from Apple, Meta, and Google. As an MIT alum, she loves working with founders from her alma mater. She will be investing from NY, helping us cover the East Coast better, plus has a particular affinity for deep tech.
• Ryan Thompson?joined as our new General Counsel.?He brings stellar experience from his days as a partner at Goodwin as well as the GC at Shape Security through their?acquisition by F5 Networks. Most recently, Ryan was one of the earliest team members at Unusual Ventures; he loves working with founders and advising them.
• We released our new tool—Benchmark Your Org—to help founders at all stages understand how their teams might grow before their next milestone.
• We shared advice from Benjamin Humphrey, CEO and co-founder of Dovetail, on how he views feedback as a founder.
• We published our interview with Coalition CEO and co-founder Joshua Motta.
• Crunchbase News wrote in detail about our AI strategy?in this interview with GP Sundeep Peechu.

News about Felicis Companies

• Dedrone entered into an agreement to be acquired by Axon
• We led the Series A of Datology, a platform for automated data curation, and investors Viviana Faga, Astasia Myers, and Tobi Coker wrote about our perspective on the company and the space
• We led the Series A of Metaplane, an end-to-end data observability platform. Read what VentureBeat wrote about the company?
• We co-led the latest round of funding in Tines
• We led the Seed funding of Edia, a startup that employs AI to tutor kids across the country and help them improve their math scores
• Midi announced their $60M Series B, which we participated in
• Wing?VC's?Enterprise Tech 30?featured?MotherDuck?and?Canva
• The?Forbes AI 50?featured?Notion,?Runway,?and?Vannevar
• Supabase announced they are GA and currently manage over 1M databases
• Zipline announced they hit over?1?million?drone deliveries
• Prenuvo customer Latonia shared her story with the company?and why she got a whole-body MRI
• Weights & Biases?was announced as?an integration partner?for Llama 3 by Meta; they also announced an?integration with NVIDIA?and are the first third-party platform to be integrated with OpenAI's fine-tuning API

Felicis Insights

AI Will Impact Security More Than The Cloud

• Notes from conversations and a survey of over 40 leading CISOs

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Software and a Service

• Dan Bartus, Partner and Head of Research, shares why AI presents an incredible opportunity for any services-based market.??

Minecraft, Physics, and ML

• The best ideas—theories, technologies, businesses—tend to sprout at the intersection of disciplines.

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Talent Vortex: Databricks

• Databricks is known for their great engineering culture, which creates exceptional technical founders.??

Meet our Founders

• Vannevar Labs'?CEO and co-founder Brett Granberg?spoke about starting the company?at a seminar with Stanford Engineering
• DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder spoke about his inspiration to found the company (30 parking tickets when he moved to the US!)

Recent Events

• GP Astasia Myers spoke on a panel about AI enterprise investing at The Rabbit Hole AI Conference in?SF
• Deal Partner Tobi Coker was on a panel about TAM at TechCrunch Early Stage in Boston

Jobs at Felicis Companies

Runway - Applied Research Director, Computer Vision? [NYC, Remote]

Canva - Head of Investor Relations [SF, Hybrid]

Semgrep - Senior Accountant, Sales Operations [SF]

?Supabase - Customer Solutions Architect? [Remote]

Sentilink - Demand Generation Manager [Remote]

Tines - Account Executive [Southern CA] ?