Abstract is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco with $1.8 billion in assets under management.

San Francisco, CA
We’ve been quietly building Abstract for 9 years. Thank you to @patrick_oshag and @domcooke @joincolossus for giving us the opportunity to share our story. We’re just getting started! joincolossus.com/article/ram…
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We’re announcing our alliance with @EYnews, strengthening our conviction that the businesses who win will be those that best understand outcomes before they occur.
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OuterSignal’s platform unlocks a new paradigm for agentic personalization. Their growth has been remarkable and we’re proud to back them as they power  delightful marketing and experiences for all consumer businesses.
Thrilled to announce @getOuterSignal has raised a $22M Series A. A year ago, @zachzelner and I saw an opportunity to revolutionize personalization. We spun out a tool he’d built into a company, and got to work. In the time since, we’ve gone from a few early customers to thousands, from 2 team members to 25, and created an entirely new frontier for how businesses can understand and market to their customers. Our team has built a robust platform, trained internal models, conducted industry-leading research, and onboarded thousands of companies we’re proud to work with. So, this raise is meant for one thing only: to keep shipping, faster than ever, the very best products for the consumer businesses we power. Ecom, hospitality, mobile apps and beyond: OuterSignal is here to supercharge the way companies connect with consumers. As founders, we’re humbled, grateful, and truly just getting started. Try us for free at OuterSignal.com. And if you’re an A-player ready to work on something ambitious and enduring, we want to meet you. DM’s open. Onward 🚀
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Simulation has the potential to be transformative, but only if it's accurate. Today, we're sharing results of a comprehensive evaluation across 2,993 questions, with an industry-leading mean TVD of 7.62% and an MAE of 3.53%. More below, including the full post on our site.
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Welcome to Atum. That’s what we tell every new partner when they first touch the network. And now we’re saying it to you. Because today, @atumhq, the open payments network, a first of its kind, is live. We picked the date intentionally. Today, September 22, marks the autumnal equinox (in the northern hemisphere), a threshold through which the world passes, from one season into another. Atum occupies a similar boundary: between light and darkness, chaos and order, ending and renewal. Atum, as a platform, is positioned at the transition from closed, institution-specific payment systems to an open, programmable network. Atum is also the creator god symbol in ancient Egypt. Atum is the first, the primordial, and the originating god of creation. Atum provides the basic building blocks for payments and commerce - the infrastructure, tooling, products and services that make money move the way it ought to. Our team is comprised of leading payments and onchain experts from companies like @Visa, @coinbase, @chainlink, @CashApp, @tempo, and more. It’s a new world for payments and commerce. And it is my ultimate pleasure, passion, and life’s purpose to introduce Atum, the open payments network. We are so glad you’re here. Welcome to Atum. We do it together. → atum.xyz/
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I’m thrilled to share that @CrusoeAI has raised $3.9b in our Series F valuing the company at $30.9b and providing the growth capital necessary to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. 8 years in and what a journey it’s been with @Electron_Cowboy. The company is firing on all cylinders right now and our growth opportunities have never been bigger. To everyone who’s been a part of it along the way, thank you! We’re just getting started!! 🚀🚀🚀
Crusoe has raised $3.9 billion in Series F, co-led by @Atreidesmgmt, @MubadalaCapital, and @valor Equity Partners. This capital will help us grow across our AI factories, from large-scale campuses to modular Crusoe Spark units, and continue to innovate with Crusoe Cloud. The full chain, from electrons to tokens: crusoe.ai/resources/newsroom…
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Beyond excited to share that @highstock_x has raised a $30M Series A led by @a16z with participation from @GreylockVC, @AbstractVC, @Daybreak_Fund, and angels. We are doubling down on our mission of creating value for brands with unproductive inventory. With this raise, we are expanding our team and building on our success in beauty to unlock a new category: apparel. @omooretweets, @venturetwins and @jeff_jordan are the right partners to take this company to new heights - they've invested in great marketplaces like Instacart (I may be biased :) ), and have studied how AI will scale marketplace models that were previously too labor intensive to be financially viable. Thank you to our angels: @Max, @lennysan, JJ Zhuang (Instacart) and John Adams (Instacart). Most of all, thank you to our customers and team. We would not be here without you. Read my reflections on our journey below.
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Excited to be investing in ATOMS and partnering with @travisk as he takes on one of the biggest opportunities in technology. Travis has a rare ability to build category defining companies by reimagining complex, real world systems. His vision for Industrial AI, bringing software, robotics, and AI together to transform the world’s largest physical industries, has the potential to reshape how goods are produced, moved, and delivered. We’re excited to support the ATOMS team as they build for the Age of Atoms.
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Samir Menon @blintzbase and I are thrilled to announce Sail @sailresearchco ! We build infrastructure for long-horizon agents: inference served at unbeatable prices-per-token for open models, plus sandboxes designed to run for days, weeks, or longer. We've raised $80M, w/ our seed led by @Sequoia and series A led by @KleinerPerkins. We're using this capital to build the most efficient infrastructure for long-horizon agents. What makes agents so different? Unlike a human waiting at a keyboard (top priority: speed), agents need scale, reliability, and sustainable cost. Sail finds this efficiency everywhere in the stack: we carefully choose our chips, write custom inference engines, and run a global controller that fully utilizes every computer in our fleet. Tight integration from silicon to API lets Sail open up the cost / latency frontier to our customers - the most patient agents can now access 10x more intelligence per dollar. We're excited to be working with great companies like @parallelweb, @detaildotdev,@Jackandjillai, and @quadrillion_ai to deploy long-horizon agents with trillions of tokens. Our team is thoughtful in our engineering craft and relentlessly ambitious in our pursuit of peak performance. We previously trained at companies like NVIDIA, OpenAI, Google, and so many trading firms. Now we're ready to do the work that will define our careers, in the most compute intensive market of all time. Welcome to the era of abundant intelligence. We can't wait to build with you!
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Nico is a force! Proud to be backing him and the team at Telepatia!
Telepatia has raised $42 million, including a $33 million Series A led by a16z. My father’s nickname was Telepatia. He was a doctor who passed away at 58 from a preventable cause. A few days after his death, ChatGPT launched. My first thought was that an AI Doctor would have saved his life as a patient, and that he would have loved using one as a doctor. So we built it: an AI Doctor for doctors, by doctors. Telepatia's AI Doctor is live in more than 25 public and private health institutions, home to more than 100,000 doctors and nurses throughout Latin America 🇧🇷🇨🇴🇲🇽🇨🇱🇦🇷 We're building an AI Doctor and our goal is to bring Latin America its first Nobel Prize in Medicine since 1984.
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@GoToImpulse is on a mission to accelerate humanity's future beyond Earth. To get there, they are building the spacecraft that will advance the orbital economy, and need to test as fast as they build. Before Revel, standing up a new test stand took 1–3 weeks, first-time deployments could take up to 3 months, software changes required looping in a specialist, and the team was locked into a single DAQ ecosystem. Now, stands are up in days, sometimes even hours. Engineers self-serve on sequence changes, the program runs multiple test fires per day instead of one every other day, and with the ability to mix and match hardware across vendor ecosystems, the team saves over 100x on hardware alone. Today, Revel runs across hundreds of Impulse assets — engine stands, vacuum chambers, avionics test stands, facility monitoring, and more — creating a single codebase that can be maintained and deployed consistently at scale. Thanks to @lrocket, @_Eric_Romo, Dane Sarcone, Julia Vyborny, Trevor Hanken, and the rest of the Impulse Space team for the partnership. Read the full case study at revel.io/impulse
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We’re excited to double down in @NewLimit’s $435M Series C. NewLimit is one of the most ambitious companies we’ve ever backed. Excited to see what they accomplish over the next decade.
Following breakthrough results, we’re bringing longevity medicine to human trials. We’ve raised a $435M Series C led by @foundersfund to make it happen. Reprogramming cell age has the potential to create more healthy years for everyone. We're closer than ever to realizing it.
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Congrats to @SocketSecurity on their Series C at a $1B valuation. Security is a winner-take-all market. The company that sees the most attacks builds the best detection, which attracts more customers, which in turn surfaces more attacks. Socket’s flywheel is operating at scale now. We backed @feross before the market fully appreciated how large this category could become, and the pace at which enterprises have consolidated around Socket over the last year has surpassed every benchmark we track.
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Congrats to @faionur and the @thestatusai team on their launch! Status is building a new kind of AI native entertainment platform. The engagement metrics are already some of the strongest we’ve seen in consumer AI, and it’s still early. Proud to have led their round.
Status has raised $17M in seed and Series A funding led by @AbstractVC, @generalcatalyst and @usv to let anyone step inside their favorite stories, become famous, and live a million different lives. We quietly launched Status last year and grew to over 1 million users in 19 days - making us the fastest growing AI app since ChatGPT. But we hit a (predictable) snag - the app was incredibly expensive to run. How do you serve millions of users without degrading the product with a cheap LLM? So the team locked in: we rebuilt the whole experience, and our technical bets paid off. Our users now spend 35 minutes on average to (90 minutes each day for power users!), and millions of characters and worlds have been created. All by our users. The next frontier of entertainment is mobile-first and deeply personal. Traditional mobile games take years to build and rarely stick. TV shows are fleeting in the age of streaming. Status is different. It is not a game you finish, it is a world you can live in. Status is a new category entirely: Immersive Social Entertainment, and we believe strongly that it is the next great entertainment paradigm. We’ve 10x’d to millions in annual revenue in Q1 2026, we're just getting started. On Status, you can be anyone.
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Today we’re proud to announce that we’re leading Dust’s $40M round. Most enterprise AI is still single-player. Dust is multiplayer, humans and agents collaborating together, with knowledge compounding across the organization. 300,000+ agents have already been deployed on the platform. Dust isn’t just building AI tools. They’re building the infrastructure for AI-native companies. Excited to partner with @gabhubert, @spolu , and the @DustHQ team.
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Congrats to @Vapi_AI on this latest raise. Great product and one of the hardest working teams I know. Proud to be one of their earliest backers!
We've raised a $50M Series B to keep making everyday calls extraordinary. After 1,000,000,000 calls and 10x enterprise ARR growth, Vapi's platform approach to voice agents is becoming the standard for businesses building human interfaces.
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World class team achieving great results. We’re proud to have been early supporters.
We’ve raised 75m in new funding from Sequoia and Spark Capital—partnering with @sonyatweetybird, @MikowaiA, and @YasminRazavi, all of whom are deeply supportive of our long-term mission. We’ve also brought on angels & advisors including @karpathy, @tszzl, and @_milankovac_. ----- Our early results with FDM-1 moved computer use from a data-constrained regime to a compute-constrained one; this latest round of funding unlocks several orders of magnitude of compute scaling for that work. With the FDM model series we have a path to scale agentic capabilities through video pretraining, and we expect to achieve superhuman performance on general computer tasks in the same way that current language models have superhuman performance on coding tasks. We’re also now able to invest in the blue-sky research necessary to our long term mission of building aligned general learners. To realize the civilizationally transformative impacts of AI, models must generalize far out of their training distributions, actively exploring and building skills in new environments. This capability represents a substantial shift from the current paradigm of model training. We believe that current alignment techniques are insufficient to predictably and safely steer a model with human-level learning capabilities, and so we’re doing work to study small versions of this problem in controlled environments to develop a science of alignment for general learners. We’re a team of 6 people in San Francisco. We’re hiring world-class researchers and engineers to help us achieve our mission. If that’s you, please get in touch.
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The @p0 team is ripping. Very excited to be involved. 🚀
We raised a Series B led by @sequoia at a $2 billion valuation and I’m excited to welcome @andrew__reed to our board. All our existing investors doubled down: @kleinerperkins, @IndexVentures, @khoslaventures, @firstround, @sparkcapital, @AbstractVC, and @terraincap.
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Congrats to @yoland_yan and the @ComfyUI team! They’re building something special.
We just raised $30M at a $500M valuation, after never spending a dollar on marketing. 4 million people decided @ComfyUI was the platform they wanted to build on, and they shaped it into something we never could have shipped alone. This funding will accelerate our mission to build an open infrastructure, the kind that lasts, the kind that empowers rather than locks in.  The core stays open, local stays first, and every part of this round goes toward building for the people who create things for a living. The next chapter of creative AI is going to be built by them, not handed to them. Round led by @craft_ventures, with @PaceCap, @chemistry and Tru Arrow joining. Total funding now $47M.
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Excited about this one!
I've left OpenAI and the Codex team to build Blackstar: A new hardware company building the future of human-computer interaction. We believe that software is solved. Building apps is now easy, but the next meaningful improvement in human-AI communication requires changing the OS & hardware. That's why we're building a new device entirely. I'm also excited to announce our $12m seed round led by @AbstractVC, with participation from @naval, @SVAngel, @chapterone, and Timeless, among other amazing angels who've supported us from the old Alex days.
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Congrats to the @extradotemail team on their launch. Email should feel effortless, and Extra makes it actually enjoyable. A beautiful inbox built around your life, not just another place to sort messages. Thoughtful product, clean design, and a fresh take on something billions of people use every day. Excited to watch this one grow. 🚀
Gmail organizes your emails. @extradotemail organizes your life. Live today. extra.email
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