Failup Ventures Activity Every public signal F4 has attached to this firm, with sources and cross-entity links.
Investment
Made a follow-on investment in Bracket's $7M seed round for AI-native treasury infrastructure. Bracket
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Jesse Heikkilä (GP) published a detailed essay on AI's accelerating impact on the workforce and economy, reflecting on recent model releases and implications for the next phase of AI adoption. Time to Wake Up — Letters from San Francisco, Part 1
Investment
Led Optivian's $2M pre-seed round for its AI Sales Execution platform. Optivian
Essay
Published a thesis essay on measuring agentic AI product quality with taste, customer signals, and benchmarks. How should founders measure their AI products quality?
Milestone
Portfolio company Exa Laboratories renamed to Zettascale Computing Corporation and reported progress toward sustainable post-exascale AI compute. Zscc
Essay
Published an essay on human play, creativity, and the limits of AI-generated novelty. The Instinct of Play and AI Creativity
Essay
Shared AfterQuery's UI-Bench study evaluating design quality across AI text-to-app tools. UI-Bench
Investment
Co-led Studio555's EUR4M seed round for an app merging interior design with gaming. Studio555
Investment
Led €1.2M seed round for Nvelop, an AI-native procurement automation platform transforming enterprise sourcing workflows. Nvelop
Essay
Shared AfterQuery's VADER benchmark for evaluating LLMs on real-world vulnerability handling. VADER benchmark