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Jonathan Eng reposted thisJonathan Eng reposted thisCurious how your varieties would perform in a new region? We were too. So we built a way to predict plant performance in new environments without running any additional field trials. Today, we're opening access so teams can evaluate new locations, de-risk decisions, and move faster. Our models learn how each variety responds to weather, soil, and satellite-derived signals, making it possible to forecast performance before seeds go in the ground. To get you started, we’re offering 10,000 credits (≈$4,500) for free! Head over to https://heritable.ag to claim yours! And please, let us know what you think!
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Jonathan Eng reposted thisJonathan Eng reposted thisAfter more than a decade of work, Great Sky is officially launching! Here's the press release: https://lnkd.in/gzSyWJ2Q I’m deeply grateful to the people who challenged these ideas, built with me, backed us early, and helped carry this from an audacious research effort into a scaling and manufacturing-ready company. This wouldn’t be possible without the once-in-a-hundred-lifetimes opportunity provided by Richard Mirin and Sae Woo Nam, our group leaders at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), who helped lay our foundation. You can read more about the news in SEMAFOR. https://lnkd.in/gqzZM2gK This is a milestone, not an endpoint, so we are steadfast toward our goal: build a fundamentally new path for AI computing. We’re lucky to be backed on this effort by world class investors like Mythos Ventures, Bison Ventures, Matchstick Ventures, Range Ventures, Bluebirds SVM Limited, Access Venture Partners, Olive Tree Capital, Wireframe Ventures, Buff Gold Ventures, Service Provider Capital, and Deep Checks as well as angel investors like Mark Leslie, Adam Pritzker, Ivan Vendrov, Michiel Bakker, Harry Gandhi, Jonathan F., Owen Lozman, Kai Hudek, Murray McCaig, and Ken Li. Our team is rapidly growing, and if you are interested in working at the forefront of applied science please reach out. We’re hiring for algorithm development, superconducting measurements, and electrical engineering.
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Jonathan Eng shared thisHonored to be working alongside two best friends on our second fund at Mythos Ventures, supporting incredible founders and prosocial companies for an AGI era.Jonathan Eng shared thisAnnouncing Mythos Ventures Fund II — a $30M pre-seed fund backing unstoppable founders building a brighter future for human civilization. We write the first check into AGI-proof companies that will survive and thrive as the marginal cost of intelligence approaches zero. Deeply grateful to our founders, LPs, team, and community for the support along the way.
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Jonathan Eng shared thisThrilled to see Orchard announce their $22M Series A 🎉 Farming may be one of humanity’s oldest industries, but it remains one of the least digitized. Orchard is changing that by using computer vision and AI to give farmers crop-by-crop visibility across thousands of acres, laying the foundation to become the operating system of modern orchards and fields. Charles Wu and his team are also one of the most customer-obsessed, high velocity teams we've met. Initially focused on precision yield measurement in apples, they've since expanded to pruning recommendations, disease identification, and much more across a number of crops--often times implementing huge feature sets within 24 hours to demonstrate to a potential customer their own field data and insights all within a single site visit. We believe Charlie and the team are uniquely positioned to lead the shift toward precision crop management and ultimately automation in agriculture. Congratulations Charlie and the Orchard team on this next step!
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Jonathan Eng reposted thisJonathan Eng reposted thisWhile raising our second fund at Mythos Ventures, I surveyed dozens of emerging managers and asked them for their top 10 best pieces of advice for Limited Partners (LPs). Here's what they said 👇 1. Don't be slow. :)
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Jonathan Eng reposted thisJonathan Eng reposted thisChristian Johnston and I RAISED $3.5M TO BUILD AN AUTONOMOUS MARKETING TEAM, AND WE’RE HIRING ENGINEERS IN SAN FRANCISCO! I am stoked to share we raised an oversubscribed seed round led by Pete Flint at NFX, with participation from Vishal at Mythos Ventures, Brett at Charge Ventures, Entrepreneurs First , Transpose Platform and more. The future of marketing is small teams of highly creative, technical marketers. These marketers will handle strategy, but their time is far too precious to be bogged down by manual repetitive work. That’s why we’re building AMT. We’re building an Autonomous Marketing Team of AI employees for every non-creative marketing job. Our first product is Lyra, an AI employee for partnering with 100x more influencers. ✨ Influencer marketing is the best performing marketing channel for consumer brands, but its a nightmare to scale because today, all the work is manual. Lyra handles all the work of influencer marketing—from sourcing to vetting to outreach to negotiation to signing contracts to payments to reporting—entirely end to end using AI agents. Lyra is already partnering with over 2500+ influencers per month, and we have leading Shopify brands like Wild Deoderant, Le Petit Lunetier, Neoplants, DUER, and more as customers. We grew revenue 140% last month, while moving across continents to San Francisco, and WE ARE HIRING in SF! 🇺🇸 If you are a smart, hungry, kind engineer looking for the ride of the lifetime, DM me. 🔜 We’ll give you $10k if you refer someone we hire. Comment “refer” and I’ll send you our referral form. 🤑 Thanks to all our angels: Mandeep Singh, Barney Hussey-Yeo, David Sutton, Charlie Songhurst, Gideon Joseph, Andre Woons, Joe Falter, Erik Torenberg for their early support And our amazing early customers: Miriam, Fee, Laura, Lauren, Rodrigo, Jérémie, Lionel, Alexandre, Sacha, Rafael (Eun Suk), Elizabeth, and many more! We're so grateful we get to work with you 😁
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Jonathan Eng reposted thisJonathan Eng reposted this𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗔𝗜 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 We’re Scoreboard AI and we’re training AI models to understand construction drawings and using them to automate workflows. We launched our alpha in September and we’ve already landed five design partners, including three general contractors each with over $1B in annual revenue. We’re looking for part-time help with 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁-𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴. If you're looking to get experience with founding a startup or building real AI applications, let's talk! What we offer: • Help build real AI applications from the ground up (not a chatbot) • Exposure to GTM, sales, fundraising and more • Equity-based compensation
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Jonathan Eng reposted thisJonathan Eng reposted thisThrilled to unveil Mythos Ventures, our $14M early-stage venture fund backing transformative AI startups. Jonathan Eng and I have been working tirelessly since early this year, with Paul Gu joining as a Venture Partner, Anna W. as EIR, and Ava Huang as Venture Affiliate. Couldn’t be more excited to share what we’ve been up to! https://lnkd.in/g35QjTf5 Check out the coverage on TechCrunch and Bloomberg: https://lnkd.in/gtq2S4Ny https://lnkd.in/gvurT7g5 🎯Our investment focus ✅ AGI-Proof Companies. We back companies that we believe will remain defensible in an ecosystem of increasingly advanced AI systems. Absent regulatory interventions, we expect a flywheel of scaling, recursion, and resourcing to yield major advances in AI capabilities every year, eventually leading to the development and widespread deployment of AGI. ✅ Non-Incremental Advancements. 10-100x solutions, not 10% improvements. We aim to work with founders going against the grain to build history-defining companies. ✅ Prosocial Technologies. AI risk is not just a business factor but a civilizational one. We're committed to investing in technologies that augment societal resilience, reduce baseline AI risk, and make the world much better. 🌟 Founding Teams Transformative companies are built by founders with relentless ambition, integrity, energy, and resourcefulness. We’re proud to be partnering with four incredible teams: Elicit: Building an AI research assistant to automate and scale open-ended reasoning. ValueBase: Automated real estate valuations with unparalleled accuracy to enable a Georgist land value tax. Monumental Labs: AI-enabled robotic stone carving factories to create cities of splendor. Stealth: [TBA] 🤝 Our Backers We’re deeply grateful for the support of our founding LPs, including: Metaplanet, Delphi Ventures, The Operating Group,, and individuals including Philip Black, Walter Kortschak, Anna Mongayt Counselman, Dave Girouard, Andy Palmer, Anna W., Nic Carter, Jacob Effron, Jeff Keltner, Shea Tate-Di Donna, Andrew Critch, Eric Rogstad, Dan F., Dave Anders-Richards, Grant S., Tom Shaughnessy Jr, Anthony Antonucci, and Kenneth Cron. 📣 Get Involved If you know somebody building a startup that makes the future much better, don't hesitate to reach out: hello [at] mythos.vc Sign up for our event series: https://lnkd.in/gxif7san Subscribe to our newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gSD-nHRk Onwards! 🌌
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Jonathan Eng liked thisJonathan Eng liked thisRecent empty nesters looking to relocate from Portland to Bend contacted the studio Feldman Architecture to design an escape fit for their eventual retirement. Needing space for themselves and their two dogs, as well as private guest rooms for visits from grown children, they imagined a home that supports their active lifestyle – the clients were looking for a lap pool and home gym. Read more: https://lnkd.in/d64NBvSx Photo Credit: Adam Rouse / / / / / / • D5 MAG is on a mission to support the design community and equip you with the latest knowledge, tools, and opportunities. Join us and share your designs with the world using #d5mag or check out d5mag.com for more info. #residentialarchitecture #modernarchitecture #interiordesign #architecturaldesign #designinspiration #buildingdesign #timelessdesign #minimalisticarchitecture #landscapearchitecture #architecturedetails
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Jonathan Eng liked thisJonathan Eng liked thisI just tested my hand in a miniature version version of Midjourney's ultrasonic CT. This is the most exciting thing I have seen in health in a long time. Higher resolution than MRI, cheap to operate, whole body scans in <1 minute. This is going to change medicine. Things get crazier when you think about using the same tech to focus ultrasound to ablate tissue, stimulate nerves, etc. https://lnkd.in/gK6dejf8 I'm so fired up.
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Jonathan Eng liked thisJonathan Eng liked thisKopra Bio is on a mission to reprogram cancer cells to make cancer cures. We are announcing our $9.1M seed round backed by Y Combinator, Paul Graham, Metaplanet, Multimodal Ventures, Singularity Capital, Pioneer Fund, Mythos Ventures, Venn10 Capital, LP, PNOC (Pediatric Neuro-oncology Consortium) Foundation, and amazing angel investors. Solid tumors represent approximately 90% of cancers worldwide and the majority of cases can hide from the immune system making them resistant to immunotherapies, the most successful cancer drugs of all time. Kopra's approach is different: a genetically engineered virus that turns the tumor into a biofactory for therapeutic proteins, exposing the tumor to the immune system and recruiting T cells and NK cells to finish the job. We just published our work in Nature Communications, demonstrating long-term survival and durable tumor-specific immunity in aggressive brain cancer models. With this funding, we are advancing our lead program into a clinical trial for glioblastoma in China, a faster path to first-in-human data for cell and gene therapies. This is the first step on our ambitious, meaningful journey to bring transformational treatments to patients. https://lnkd.in/g3cWMjEm
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Jonathan Eng liked thisJonathan Eng liked thisThis morning, I packed up my laptop, badge, and the last of my Upstart gear after filing my first unemployment claim ever. If you had asked me a week ago whether I'd be writing this post, I would have laughed. Last week, I was preparing for our largest onsite yet, leading one of Lending Operations' most critical programs for bank readiness, and building plans for the second half of the year for our enablement teams. I hosted an engaging Borrower Forum series as we better integrate qualitative customer feedback into our research and product strategy. Just a few weeks ago, I facilitated a critical leads onsite that received a 4.8/5 rating from my peers. My team was delivering measured, quantifiable results. The work was meaningful. And I genuinely believed I was exactly where I was supposed to be. Then came a sudden reduction in force. No warning. No indication. One moment you're planning for the future, and the next you're losing access to the systems you use every day in the middle of critical work. It's a difficult, emotional experience, and my heart goes out to everyone impacted by layoffs.... both those leaving and those staying behind. But after the initial shock and disappointment, I've found myself reflecting on something else: gratitude. During my 22 months at Upstart, I grew more than I thought possible. I worked alongside incredible leaders, mentors, and teammates (too many to name!) who challenged me to think bigger, scale effectively, move faster, communicate more clearly, and lead more effectively. I became a stronger operator, a deeper strategic thinker, and a more confident leader. The culture, principles, and talent at Upstart are truly special, and I'm grateful for every person who invested in my growth along the way. As hard as this chapter is ending, I believe deeply that sometimes the opportunities we would never choose for ourselves create the path to opportunities we couldn't have imagined. To my Upstart colleagues: thank you. I'll be cheering for your success from the sidelines. So for now, I'm taking a deep breath, focusing on being present for the summer with my kids, embracing the uncertainty, and focusing on what's next for me & my family. And to my network: I'm ready to dive head first into my professional services practice. I'm actively seeking Fractional COO opportunities with small-to-medium-sized businesses, as well as operations consulting, project management, program leadership, and business transformation engagements. If there's a conversation we should have, I'd love to connect.
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Jonathan Eng reacted on thisJonathan Eng reacted on thisHonored to share that Allison Duettmann, CEO of Foresight Institute, is joining Mythos Ventures as our first Venture Partner. Hiring is extremely hard in venture. Partnerships usually get worse as they grow: the decisions of the group need to be *better* than the decisions of any one individual. This requires shared values/taste, differentiated network, commercial/technical acumen, good judgment, resourcefulness, team play, and drive. Allison has all of these in spades. She has spent her career stewarding arguably the most generative community of futurists on the planet. She is brilliant, original and brings an unbelievable amount of energy to everything that she does. Now, alongside her ongoing responsibilities at Foresight, we will work together to build some epic companies. Welcome, Allison!
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Jonathan Eng liked thisJonathan Eng liked thisAssembling a Liebherr LR11000 crawler crane with a LTM1750 mobile crane.
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Jonathan Eng reacted on thisJonathan Eng reacted on thisIt was an incredible honor to be sworn in today as a member of the CMS Healthcare Advisory Committee. With thanks to Administrator Oz and HHS Secretary Kennedy, I look forward to working hard for all Americans, especially marginalized groups. I will be chairing a working group on data and technology. You can follow our work here: https://lnkd.in/gSjSEar5
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Jonathan Eng liked thisWant to know what the CTO of Meta, who built tens of millions of square feet of data centers, thinks about the future of chips and compute? We're rounding out invites for the Deep Checks summit and have an exciting speaker to announce. Mike Schroepfer spent 9 years as Meta's CTO, where he scaled products from tens of millions to billions of users, shipped first-of-a-kind consumer hardware, led the Engineering team from 150 to 35,000, founded the AI Research Lab in 2013, and ran the acquisitions of both Oculus and Instagram. These days, he runs Gigascale Capital to back the next trillion-dollar companies delivering climate impact at scale. We're honored to have him join our chips and compute chat alongside Ali Tamaseb, General Partner at DCVC, and Amber Yang, Partner at Lightspeed. We're finalizing invites within a week, sign up to join at deepchecks . vc / summit
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Jonathan Eng liked thisJonathan Eng liked thisSuper excited to join Compute Desk as a Founding Engineer – we're building capital markets infrastructure for compute. Huge thanks to the amazing people I've worked with at Bloomberg over the last 5 years!
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JT Benton
Here's a problem we see all the time in early studios: they copy-paste a VC fund's operating cadence and wonder why nothing feels right. Weekly deal flow reviews. Portfolio monitoring calls. Valuation-focused LP reports. All borrowed wholesale from a fund playbook. But a VC fund's primary activity is deal selection -- source, evaluate, check, board, wait. A studio's primary activity is venture creation -- generate, validate, recruit, build, launch. Those are fundamentally different jobs. When you run a studio like a fund, things break in specific ways: Your meetings are wrong. You're reviewing deal flow instead of venture build progress -- milestones, blockers, resource allocation. The work is building, not sourcing. Your team is wrong. Studios need builders at every level -- operators, designers, engineers. Not just investment professionals. You can't build companies with a team designed to pick them. 📉 Your metrics are wrong. Entry valuations and markups don't tell you anything useful. Cost-to-build-a-venture, time-to-market, and venture survival at 18 months -- those are the numbers that actually measure whether the studio is working. Your LP reporting is wrong. Report operational progress -- what's building, what's launching, what's been killed and why. Not just portfolio movements. Here's the lesson -- the studios that struggle most are the ones that adopted VC templates without modifying them for fundamentally different work. The portfolio companies don't exist until the studio creates them. Not a fund that happens to build things. A builder that happens to have a fund. The operating rhythm should reflect which one is primary. 🎯
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Peter OBrien
Every hire, product feature, and GTM experiment is a capital allocation decision, most teams just don’t call it that. I’m kicking off a 3-part series on capital allocation for founders, operators, and finance leaders with a simple question: ➡️ Will the next $1 you deploy become worth more than $1? Series overview Part 1: defines the core concept + the math Part 2: where capital goes + how to measure whether it’s working Part 3: AIMS framework for communicating allocation decisions to management teams and your board Part 1 (attached here) lays the practical foundation: 🔹 The $1 invested test and ROIIC vs. hurdle rates (scoreboard vs. decision lens) 🔹 A lightweight “investment brief” to evaluate bets (GROW / BUILD / BUY) 🔹 The small metric toolkit that translates finance into operating decisions (NPV / payback / ROIIC / incremental margin) 🔹 Early-stage proxies when DCF inputs are unknowable (burn multiple + revenue quality) 🔹 Operator “vital signs” to spot drift early (profit engine, leverage, cash conversion, optics) Series Roadmap ✔️ This series (Parts 1–3): breadth-first. shared, lightweight framework to define value creation, choose decision-grade metrics, and communicate tradeoffs clearly ✔️ Next series: depth-first. momentum drivers + operational decisions that need near real-time measurement to spot drift early and course-correct fast Read Part 1 here and Part 2 and 3 on substack. Next Series will be out next week. 💰 What’s one bet you’re funding right now, and how will you prove it’s working?
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Maddi Holman
💡Emerging GP Fundraising Insight #8: Rolling Closes Keep You Moving Small funds can't always afford to sit still until the target is hit. Rolling closes let you start deploying earlier, build a track record, and show momentum to prospective LPs. One GP told me that for Fund I ($5M target), he took capital as it came, signed, wired, and got to work. It wasn't perfect, but it kept the lights on and the deals moving. Sometimes the "sign and wire as it comes" approach is the only way to get moving. Takeaway: Momentum is a fundraising asset and rolling closes can help you keep it. Has anyone here used rolling closes as a strategic advantage?
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