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openart must be the most undervalued and least hyped-up ai company. they’ve burned less than $5m to get to the 12th most rev on this chart.

Olivia Moore@omooretweets · Oct 5

🚨 The @a16z Consumer AI Top 100 is back - but this time, it's 150!

We added revenue data from @yipitdata to track how consumers are spending not just time, but money, on AI.

The result? A story of heavy concentration among AI's power users. Our takeaways 👇

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Aug 20

Summer 2026 AI Fellows is officially underway.

The kickoff set the tone: great energy, thoughtful conversations, and a room full of people ready to build.

Thanks to all the fellows, and to the teams across our portfolio companies who helped make the kickoff such a strong start.

Interested in joining a future cohort? Apply here:

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Aug 11

A few weeks ago, we hosted our first Taste & Distribution dinner, bringing together 20 founders, marketers, and GTM leaders for an evening of good food and even better conversation.

A big thank you to everyone who joined us and made the first one so special. We’re excited to keep bringing this community together.

Want to join the next dinner or our GTM Slack community? Comment “taste” or tag someone who should be at the next table.

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Jul 20

Congratulations to @ac_edwards_1, @wellingmax , and the entire team on raising $450M at a $2.6B valuation. Proud to have partnered with @CuspAI from day one. This is only the beginning, and we’re excited to continue supporting the team as they build something truly exceptional.

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Jun 22

@EntendreAI Joins @moonpay to Build the Agentic Financial Infrastructure

We led Entendre's seed on the thesis that every new financial rail requires AI to reconcile, report, audit, and close on top of it. The agentic financial infrastructure needs its own accounting layer.

We met @kvreem while he was at CloudKitchens, now Atoms, and before that Workday and WeWork, building the financial systems enterprises depend on. An engineer turned product expert, he built Entendre's AI agents to turn high-volume transaction streams into clean, audit-ready books automatically, doing continuously what used to take analysts and spreadsheets. Now that layer gets to grow at MoonPay's scale, with Kareem joining as VP of Applied AI.

Congratulations to Kareem and the Entendre team. We're excited to back the best founders spinning out of the most exceptional cultures, building AI that becomes category-defining infrastructure.

More on why we backed Entendre, and the Axios story, below.

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Jun 15

News: Announcing @alien's $5M Seed

Some products exist because a founder got tired of building the same thing five times.

@alongubkin spent years building BYOC infrastructure (the plumbing that lets a vendor run its software inside a customer's own cloud). He hit the problem at his prior startup Aporia), rebuilt it five times, then watched it show up all over again at the acquirer @Coralogix.

Every vendor selling into regulated or security-conscious enterprises eventually meets this wall: "your software is great, but our data stays in our cloud." Today the answers are bad. Walk from the deal, or hand over a self-hosted version and inherit a maintenance nightmare with no way to debug it.

@alien is the third option. Vendors ship into the customer's cloud and manage every deployment from one place, without sensitive data ever leaving the customer's account. And the need only grows as AI agents reach for the data that lives deepest inside enterprises.

We are thrilled to colead Alien's $5M seed round with Jibe, and to back Alon on this journey to bring BYOC to everyone.

Alon Gubkin@alongubkin · Jun 15

We're launching the @alien platform today, backed by a $5M seed from @BasisSet, Jibe, and angels from OpenAI, Google, and Databricks.

We’ve built it so that when your next $300K enterprise deal says they have this tiny little requirement:

"Can you deploy into our cloud?"

... you can just say YES.

You can ship fast, stay in control, and when something breaks, you don't have to debug through screenshots, copy-pasted logs, and Zoom calls.

Here's a short demo video ⬇️

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Jun 11

News: Neion Bio announces their $23M Series A led by @caffeinatedcap!

Neion engineers chickens to lay eggs that produce complex biologic proteins, in days, at a fraction of what a traditional facility costs to build. The why goes beyond cost. Resilient, domestic supply of critical medicines is a national biosecurity question now, and this is one of the few teams actually building toward it.

Proud to deepen our relationship since day one with Dimi Kellari, Sam Levin, and the team. More to come!

Read the story in @endpts in comments.

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Jun 10

News: Announcing @levpgdog's $5.5M Seed

@reductoai, @tryramp, @modal, @HuntressLabs, and @tripstack all run their Postgres through the same open-source project, built by a team of three. Today we are proud to share that we led PgDog's $5.5M seed round.

Postgres is the most popular database in the world, and its one real weakness is scaling. PgDog fixes that. It's a proxy you put in front of any Postgres to make it scale horizontally, with no extensions and no migration. TripStack reports 100% uptime since switching. Modal says they couldn't have scaled this far without it.

@levpgdog scaled Postgres at Instacart through the 2020 surge and turned that hard-won knowledge into something anyone can deploy. Postgres should be the only database you'll ever need. PgDog is the team finally making it scale.

Thanks to @ycombinator and @pioneer_fund for joining us.

Read more about our conviction in PgDog here 👉
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Lev Kokotov@levpgdog · Jun 10

Proudly announcing PgDog's $5.5M seed round from @BasisSet, @ycombinator, @pioneer_fund, and others.

Running Postgres in prod is hard. PgDog is a modern connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder. It can be deployed anywhere and works with all Postgres hosts, incl. RDS Postgres, Aurora, Cloud SQL, Supabase, Neon, etc.

Some cool numbers: 2M+ queries per second in prod, 20TB+ sharded, 50+ open source contributors.

1 year down; here's to 10 more.

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May 8

News: Takeoff41, Inc. launches out of stealth!

Takeoff is reimagining early healthcare for newborns. The team was recognized by @Nature for its work using AI to improve health outcomes for premature babies by optimizing their nutrition.

The company is building an entirely new supply chain for infant health and quite literally saving lives. Keep your eye on this team, lots of more exciting news on the way!

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May 8

News: Announcing Basata's $21M Series A

There is perhaps no space more in need of the benefits of AI agents than healthcare. In such a consequential space, the decisions of "what" and "how" to automate are paramount. Basata is building differently, by showing up, sitting with the healthcare administrators doing the work and building around what they actually need.

That empathy compounds: Serving 500k+ patients nationwide (100k in the past month alone!). Today we're announcing Basata's $21M Series A in @TechCrunch!

Read more about our conviction in Basata here 👉 basisset.com/insights/basat…

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Apr 23

Perspectives: Investing in the Open Source Agent Stack (part 2 of 2)

The agent era structurally favors open source and it's creating opportunities for founders and investors alike, both in the the infrastructure beneath AI, and in the products built on top of it.

Below AI, tools are emerging across security, reliability and agent-native primitives. Above AI, an application layer is emerging, resulting in products that combine models, harnesses, and user experience to own particular workflows or audiences.

These layers reinforce each other. As more companies adopt open-source agents (above AI), the demand for security, reliability, memory, and primitives (below AI) grows. As below-the-AI infrastructure matures, it lowers the barrier for more application-layer products to reach production quality.

This is the flywheel. Open-source models and harnesses commoditize the foundation. Application-layer companies specialize for audiences. Infrastructure companies make the whole stack reliable. Each layer accelerates the others.

The agent era is creating an enormous new market. The companies that win will be the ones that solve the hardest problems at each layer of the stack, for both open and closed ecosystems, with the kind of operational depth that no LLM can generate from scratch.

If you are building at any layer of this stack, we would love to hear what you are working on.

Check out the full piece from @_changxu in the comments.

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Apr 17

Perspectives: The Future of Agents is Open Source (part 1 of 2)

The agent era rewards systems over single models, and those systems reward the control that open models bring. The more agentic software becomes, the more valuable openness becomes, not because open source is ideologically pure, but because modular systems compound.

As agent harnesses mature, work is decomposing into reusable primitives. Planning. Exploration. Context compaction. Code editing. Bash execution. Verification loops. Memory writeback. Error recovery.

It's quickly becoming clear that the best model per primitive is not the best model overall.

And having full control over prompts, context and inference, coupled with the ability to fine-tune on your workflows with open models, boosts performance and radically reduces costs.

Check out the full piece from @_changxu below.

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Apr 15

News: @parasail_io announces their latest $32M Series A

Parasail is building the world’s fastest, most cost-efficient AI inference network. We knew they were onto something based on the sheer number of companies that came to us and told us about why they were switching workloads to Parasail. Today Parasail hosts GPUs in 15+ countries and generates over 500 billion tokens a day.

Read more about Parasail in their TechCrunch feature 👉 techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/par…

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Apr 14

Jobs: @TigrisData is hiring for a Solutions Engineer and a Developer Relations Engineer!

Tigris Data is the storage layer purpose built for AI. Tigris storage scales infinitely, can be shared across any cloud, and provides instant access to all your data, all over the globe. If you're excited about representing Tigris at developer and data community events or helping developers understand and succeed with Tigris, these roles could be a fit!

Apply here: jobs.basisset.com/companies/tigr…

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Apr 10

Jobs: Very unique opportunity to get firsthand exposure to data center operators, while contributing to critical infra!

Apply here 👉 notion.so/bsv/Basis-Set-…

Internet Backyard@netbackyard · Apr 10

Applications are now open for the @BasisSet x Internet Backyard AI Fellowship.

We're looking for ambitious early-careers builders who want to bet on the financial infrastructure layer of AI before everyone else catches on.

As a fellow, you'll:

👉 Work directly inside the compute economy: neoclouds, inference, data center operators

👉 Build real experience with the billing and payments infrastructure that powers AI infrastructure companies

👉 Join a cohort of ambitious peers who will push you and open doors and access to the Basis Set platform

I can't overstate how early this is. The picks-and-shovels layer of AI is still being built. The people who understand it now will be the ones contributing today will be the ones laying the foundation for decades to come.

We’re building Internet Backyard to be the billing and payments backbone for compute. The fellows program is how we're investing in the next generation of people who'll run it.

Don't sit on it. Applications are rolling, but momentum favors the early.

Spots are limited. Apply now!

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Apr 6

Announcement: Applications for the next cohort of Basis Set AI Fellows are OPEN!

We're looking for ambitious early-career builders who want to work directly with the Basis Set team and some of the most exciting frontier AI companies in our portfolio 🚀

If you want to build cool stuff, apply today! 👉 bsv.notion.site/Basis-Set-AI-F…

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Apr 2

News: Congrats to @withdaydreamco on their latest $15M Series A

Daydream is building the dream team of growth, giving every company access to the sharpest insights and workflows from the best operators across SEO, AEO and growth. We've seen this from the inside out, watching them support @openart_ai as they crossed $70M ARR with <20 people and other category-leading companies like @clay and @zapier.

Read more about Daydream, why we backed @thenuka_k at the earliest stage, and the future of growth-as-a-service 👉 basisset.com/insights/daydr…

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Mar 26

News: Huge milestone for Neion Bio, announcing our $11M Seed, a major commercial partnership and a feature in the @nytimes!

Drug manufacturing is insanely expensive and geopolitically vulnerable in America. Dimi, Sam and team have created a way to make life saving medicines domestically at one-hundredth of their current cost. It sounds like science fiction, but it's not.

Read more about Neion and their work leveraging nature's protein factories 👉 basisset.com/insights/neion…

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Mar 19

Jobs: @NowadaysAI is hiring for a Founding AI Engineer, a Founding Product Designer, and a Founding Software Engineer!

Nowadays is the first AI platform for planning corporate events. If you're excited about building AI agents, crafting design systems from scratch, or owning the full stack at an early-stage company, these roles could be a fit!

Apply here: jobs.basisset.com/companies/nowa…

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Mar 18

Perspectives: Introspection without self-awareness

There’s been a lot of discussion around founder introspection lately.

But introspection isn’t the bottleneck. Self-awareness is.

Most people think they’re self-aware. Few actually are.

That’s the problem. Introspection doesn’t create truth, it amplifies whatever model of yourself you already have.

So if that model is wrong, introspection becomes a closed loop. You reinforce your own narrative instead of correcting it.

Learning only compounds when your self-model is grounded in external reality: data, customer behavior, actual outcomes.

Otherwise, you’re just iterating on your own (often biased) interpretation of events — not reality.

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