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Today, Channel Robotics announced $4.6M in total funding, including a $2.5M Seed round led by True.
Read Rohit Sharma's thoughts on why we invested in Channel www.trueventures.com/blog/channel...
Many teams are embedding AI into workflows. Where to and how to. Another great question is how to work like an AI-native team from the start.
Joan Nguyen is building that in real time with @Bumo: a team of 12 operating with the output (and ambition) of 100.
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Mayank Mehta of Gather shares a piece of advice that's become even more relevant in the AI era: test the go-to-market before you build the product.
This and more from Mayank and Puneet Agarwal on the Fund/Build/Scale podcast:
open.spotify.com/episode/5WEm...
Today, ChatSee announced a $6.5M seed round led by True Ventures, alongside First Rays Venture Partners and Seven Hills Ventures.
ChatSee.ai is building the failure intelligence layer for autonomous AI systems, helping enterprises detect, classify, and learn from agent behavior in production.
True was fortunate to be the first investor in Rafal Modrzewski, Pekka Laurila, and the ICEYE team more than a decade ago. We've had a front-row seat to what can happen when builders keep asking "what if?" long after others stop.
This year's Top 100 Women in AI list recognized leaders shaping how AI is researched, built, and applied in the world. We're glad to see two members of the True community among them: Hannah Gordon, Chief Scientific Officer at Enveda, and Kakul Srivastava, CEO of Splice.
The playbook changed faster than the company.
For Gather, the product was working. The challenge was getting it in front of the right people.
So instead of following a traditional SaaS go-to-market motion, Mayank Mehta and his team built their own AI-powered growth engine in a weekend.
“There are two emotions a venture capitalist can project onto a founder: fear or safety,” shares Puneet Agarwal, partner at True Ventures.
Startups are built in uncertainty. Founders are constantly making decisions with imperfect information, taking risks, and pushing forward without guarantees.
The most important technology shifts don’t feel incremental. They open up entirely new ways to experience the world.
Darshan Shankar, founder and CEO of Bigscreen, shares what drew him into VR in its earliest days: not improving what already existed, but exploring something fundamentally new.
Most AI conversations right now are about speed. This one is about judgment.
Worth the listen for anyone building right now. 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/13Hl...
