We're partnering up with @OpenAI for a speedrun founder night during @Techweek_ and would love to see you there!!! It's also a bit of a housewarming. One of my big projects this year was getting our new @speedrun HQ up and running alongside one of my favorite humans at the firm, Michael Lee. We signed the lease July 6th and were in by August 17th 😅 The office is still a WIP, but it'll be really fun to finally open the doors to all speedrun founders, their teams + friends! Wed, Oct 7 – link to RSVP here: partiful.com/e/QS7Lp5wN0FKbH…

Introducing Mirai, the world’s first virtual neighborhood tour, backed by a16z @Speedrun. World models are going to change how we experience the physical world. We’re building the application layer to enable that. Our first deployment is real estate, for agents, brokerages, property platforms, and developers. Mirai turns any address into an explorable simulation of the surrounding neighborhood. Walk the streets. Visit the nearby café. Explore the park. Follow your commute. See what your day-to-day life there could actually look like before you move.

Today, we're officially launching Colmez, backed by a16z @speedrun, Andreessen Horowitz's early-stage fund. The $248bn hazardous waste industry is broken. After Stanford and quant trading at SIG, I left to fix it. We just launched our private beta two weeks ago and are already working with 5 of the top 7 operators in the industry, including the largest environmental services companies in the world. Thank you to my incredible team, @brianxmeng1 and @numairarazzak , our speedrun partner, @JoshLu, and the @StartX community. If you want to build the backbone of America’s industrial infrastructure, we’re hiring.

RT @abliteration_ai: Abliteration joined a16z @speedrun. You control the guardrails. Unrestricted, not ungoverned.

Kanu turns everyday employee workflows into custom enterprise software, deployed into each customer's own cloud, data, and models. Congrats @itskarangrover and team on their $11.7M Seed Round!

Meet @Sotant_ai , backed by a16z @speedrun . We create AI workforces for supply chain operations in just hours. We’ve been doubling revenue every month and just crossed $530K in live ARR. 🚀 We are live with some of the world’s largest enterprises, already saving them millions of dollars. Some of our customers are DHL (the world’s largest logistics company) and Grupo Bimbo (the world’s largest baking company with $20B+ in revenue). In fact, we recorded this video at a Bimbo factory in San Francisco. Sotant creates teams of autonomous AI employees that deliver end-to-end business outcomes. We create them in hours using proprietary technology that replicates how experts collaborate and make complex decisions. Supply chain and logistics is a multi-trillion-dollar industry still driven by manual work, where coordination errors can cost millions of dollars and even human lives. Our team experienced these challenges firsthand at Tesla and Bosch, where members of our team led the implementation of AI for supply chain operations. @educandela is our co-founder and CEO. He studied Operations Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and did his PhD in AI agents at Imperial College London, where he developed technology for multi-agent collaboration. That’s precisely what we do at Sotant now. @jdhackgrowth is our co-founder and COO. He is one of the leading growth hackers in Silicon Valley, having led growth at Investopedia, Robinhood, Stash, Mesh, and bootstrapped his previous company to over $5M in ARR. The main reason Sotant is seeing huge market pull? Agentic network effects. When we sell one AI employee, customers start requesting more. Each new AI employee can collaborate with the ones already deployed, making the entire workforce more valuable and unlocking more of the operation. We’re incredibly excited about the impact we are making! We’re saving customers millions while helping deliver life-saving medicine and food, and reducing carbon emissions. If you want to learn more about Sotant, book a call at sotant.com. Thank you to everyone at a16z Speedrun for believing in us: @marcussegal , @emilybenn12 , @Tocelot, @andrewchen , @_CallMeMacy , @Chen, @tkexpress11 . And thank you to our first believers: @CreatorFund, Alexandra Ntemourtsidou, @MacfarlaneJamie , @henrylf , LEAP4, Dr. Tobias von Wiesentreu, Matthias Kempf, Theresia M.R. Heinrich, Fares A., Daniel Willenbrink, Konstantin Meyer, Gerhard Cromme, Zafeer Ahmed, Bam Azizi, Sumon Sadhu, James Baston-Pitt, Hugo Rayne, Gabriele Maroso, Holger Rothaug.

Today, we’re officially launching Galileo Space where we’re building superintelligent satellites for the future. Galileo Space gives government and commercial customers live satellite intelligence on changes anywhere on Earth. We’re doing this by creating a real-time intelligence layer with computation done in space. We've gotten a lot of traction with Space Force and if you'd like to learn more let's chat or feel free to check out our website: galileo-space.com.

jev isn't production ready. today @modaicdev is launching Mo, the first multimodal decision model that learns from its mistakes. most production tasks involve subjective decision-making, where the last mile of calibration and alignment has always fallen on the developer. Mo closes that gap on its own. it refines its instructions and weights from the signals already in your workflow to learn what a good decision means for you. use Mo for the decisions where alpha matters the most like LLM judging, lead scoring and qualification, content moderation, resume screening, and more. if you're already using another decision model like jev, plug it into Modaic and it becomes self-improving too :) 🐙 modaic.dev docs.modaic.dev

Voice AI is getting the words right, but it still doesn't understand tone. We paused our PhDs at Stanford to build @OrukLabs, backed by a16z @speedrun. We train speech models to understand what you say AND how you say it. DM me for preview access to our most powerful model yet

Today, we’re launching an ambitious new school called The Horowitz Andreessen Academy. Based in San Francisco, The Academy serves the most promising young high school graduates. We think this can be an elite institution that attracts top tier talent. One that prepares students for the future rather than remaining stuck in the past. The #1 goal is to help students learn to build, which is the most important skill in the AI era. They'll learn primarily by pursuing their own projects, either individually or in groups. There are classes and guest lectures, too, from some truly amazing people who have built modern-day Silicon Valley. The Academy is designed as a network, since that’s the reason students go to school in the first place. Core to that network are our 10 Founding Partners: Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit, and Stripe. The network includes over 50 hiring partners and over 200 speakers and mentors. To join as a hiring partner or faculty member, you can apply on our website. We raised $42M in funding led by @a16z. I'll be CEO and @pmarca and @eriktorenberg will join me on the board. Applications are open for our Founding Class Fellowship, which will be one year and tuition-free. Eventually, pending regulatory approval, we plan to offer a two-year program that charges tuition, similar in cost to an elite private university. We're looking for the most unusually ambitious young builders on the planet. Come join us in San Francisco: theacademysf.com/

Introducing The Horowitz Andreessen Academy.

The home doesn’t belong to one person. Neither should its assistant. Meet Orbits.

Introducing Codos: The first virtual Chief AI Officer. AI is crushing all benchmarks but real companies still struggle to see P&L impact. Codos interviews employees, deploys automations across all functions and gets smarter over time while running on your own servers. Our NASDAQ-listed and PE-backed customers are adding millions to their bottom line months ahead of schedule and we are proud of the first results we deliver. It’s time to turn the 500BN AI-transformation market into software and unlock the impact for the real economy.

In our 19 minute talk with @nicckopp, CEO & Founder of @RilletHQ, he discusses why PMF is everything, how to build the right team, and what investors look for in founders. Enjoy! Timestamps: 00:00 - Why build an ERP when others failed? 03:28 - How did Nicolas know he had product market fit? 05:15 - Building an ERP: Wedge vs. Platform 08:23 - Hiring and building the right team 12:13 - The "Secret Weapon" Hires 13:41 - What investors look for in founders

Today we’re launching Keythorn. AI isn’t just thinking anymore. It’s moving money, talking to customers, and taking action. Every new agent brings new risk. The future runs on AI. We’re building the insurance for it. Meet @TryKeythorn ↓

Introducing @getclusterai: GTM infrastructure for your agents. We're helping the top 1% of AI-native teams turn Claude & Codex into demo-booking machines. Multi-channel outreach, signals, and enrichments in one platform for you and your agents. We've spent the last month onboarding startups and founders from @speedrun , @ycombinator, and more, to get them dozens of conversations with high intent leads. Hmu if you want access.

Claude & Codex can now book you demos with your next 10 customers. Introducing Cluster: GTM infrastructure for your agents. Our agent is sending a free cupcake to 50 people from the comments. Comment below to enter!

We jumped out of a plane to launch Zorbe. Because the future needs you to own yourselves. Zorbe builds specialized AI models that companies own, and keeps them state of the art over time. We're the first company with multimodal operations, making models smaller, cheaper, faster and smarter across language, speech, vision, image and video. We've worked with companies from Seed to Series D, and we're the only company to have delivered a distilled video model running in production for a customer. Own Your Models. Own Your Moat.