VC @VillageGlobal backing remarkable founders early. Fmr @Chegg @Zinch @Monster @MilitaryDotCom.

San Francisco, CA
Joined November 2008
Fighting token fraud FTW! Way to go @soupsranjan & team @sardine !!
🚨 Excited to share Sardine's latest product suite on AI Token fraud: sardine.ai/token AI Token is the new gold bar that fraudsters and nation-states steal and launder to distill their own models. Here's how Sardine helps: 1. Bank-grade "Know Your Business" (KYB) and "Know Your Consumer (KYC), so you are not onboarding shell companies set up to distill frontier models Sardine offers KYC and KYB globally. The same bank-grade technology that protects financial institutions globally from illicit activities is what you get. 2. Signup fraud: We want you to offer free trials and Token credits without losing all those credits to fraud. The same fraud prevention technology that helps the top fintechs, top crypto companies, top prediction markets and top social media companies, is what you get to protect your credits. 3. Account takeovers that lead to Token theft: We protect API keys to your models or to your 3rd party frontier labs with the same security posture as we protect crypto assets at top crypto exchanges. We have a two-tiered approach. Detect if a new IP was used to query an API key. Challenge such requests by having the user do a login (where we run our device fingerprinting). We have the fastest growing fraud device consortium (6B+ devices profiled globally). Fraud and money laundering rings have a nexus - the same rings that steal crypto, gift cards, cars, fintech wallets are the ones going after AI Tokens. 4. Card fraud: Fraudsters use stolen cards to buy AI Tokens, that they can then quickly resell. The same technology that protects the top retailers from Card fraud is what you get! Fraudsters method don't change, only what they steal changes: 2005-10: Smart TVs and physical goods 2010-15: Gift cards 2015-25: Crypto 2025: AI Tokens AI Token fraud has proliferated across the AI supply chain and impacting AI inference companies, neoclouds, AI gateways. In the last weeks alone, OpenCode, Railway, LiteLLM and many others have been impacted. We are here to protect you and to help you win back trust from your customers. Reach out. DMs open!
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Faster inference FTW, courtesy of @general_compute & @cerebras ⚡️⚡️⚡️
🚨 BREAKING: Super excited to announce we're deploying the world's fastest inference with @Cerebras. Talk to any developer and they're excited to build with 20x faster AI... the problem is there's almost no compute available. We're here to solve that. Using GPUs for prefill - it's now more affordable than ever too. Thank you to the whole Cerebras team and excited to grow this partnership. First tokens live Q127 🚀
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New @villageglobal Podcast: @tankots, cofounder and CEO of @WisprFlow, joined us at our Villagers Retreat to talk about building a $2B voice-to-text AI company. The episode opens with his younger brother, @jaisal_kothari, sharing stories from Tanay’s early years. At 12, Tanay built a voice assistant before Siri or Alexa. 15 years later, he’s still chasing the same Jarvis-like idea: technology that works so well we can spend less time staring at screens. Getting there required a hard change in direction. Tanay and @SahajGarg6 spent 3 years building a silent-speech wearable with a 40-person team. The hardware worked, but users kept choosing the software, so they followed the signal and built Wispr Flow. We got into: 1/ how Tanay pairs delusion with truth-seeking to decide which part of a huge vision users are ready for 2/ how Wispr turned its Android launch into a MrBeast-style competition with a Porsche 911 prize 3/ why Tanay personally ran the first 500 onboarding calls and still hands Wispr to strangers to watch their reactions 4/ why he thinks an AI advantage may last only 3 months, and how Wispr builds product love, enterprise workflows, and switching costs around it Thank you, Tanay, for a fascinating conversation. Full episode below.
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Here's to winning the new Space Race: a race for resilient infrastructure, industrial capacity, and continuous technology refresh. Go @IanCinnamon & team @Apex_Spacecraft 🛰️🛰️🛰️
Apex is The Spacecraft Platform Company. For most of space history, progress was measured in firsts. First satellite. First human in space. First Moon landing. The next era will be measured in rate: how fast you can deploy, replenish, and refresh the infrastructure everything else depends on. That’s the New Space Race. Winning it takes constellations: many satellites working together as systems. And constellations require two industrial capabilities: launch and spacecraft platforms. Launch is ready enough. Platforms are not. Apex exists to remove that bottleneck.
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July: $300M at $10.3B August: $700M at $21B led by Jane Street Also August: the first rack ships to the firm that led the round. 44 days from TSMC test chips to running real inference workloads. A quant firm buying your hardware and then buying your equity is the best benchmark result you can publish! Congratulations @UbertiGavin @robertwachen & team @Etched 🚀 xitter.cf/Etched/status/20897290…
We've raised $700M at a $21B valuation from Jane Street, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, A16Z, Peter Thiel, BCV, and Blackstone. We're also excited to share that we've shipped our first rack to Jane Street.
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What a great college project looks like when it compounds for 6 years: - #8 of 5000 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 - #1 AI & Data company in America on the list - #1 fastest-growing private company in California - $17M in new ARR last quarter, 40% ahead of forecast - $77M ARR total, up from $25M a year ago - ringing the @Nasdaq bell Congratulations @sharathk83, Shawn Zhang, Samantha Fein & the whole @Sanas_ai team 🚀 xitter.cf/sharathk83/status/2087…
We just closed our biggest quarter at @Sanas_ai , was pinching myself for a full week to be sure it’s real :-) $17M in new ARR, beating our forecast by more than 40%. Sanas has now crossed $77M in ARR! A year ago we went past 25m in ARR, ended the year with 50m & now 77m with ~95% GRR and ~160% NRR. There is a lot I could say about the quarter. Our existing customers continued to expand with us. More of them are buying multiple products across the Sanas Speech AI platform. We are winning larger enterprises. And we are starting to see entirely new markets open up for us, especially in telco. Building Sanas has never been a straight line. We have had quarters where everything clicked, and quarters where Shawn and I wondered what we were missing. We have changed products, teams, markets, and probably ourselves more times than I can count. The one constant has been the people. An incredible group who kept believing we could build something much bigger than where we were at that moment, even when the path there was not obvious. A year ago, $77M ARR would have sounded insane to me. Today, it feels like another milestone along the way. To everyone at Sanas, past and present, thank you. Now we march toward $100M ARR, and beyond.
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A routine eyeglass prescription shouldn't take weeks to get. Today, people can complete a vision test from Eyebot at Walmart in about 90 seconds. Matthias and Jack's vision for Eyebot was already remarkably clear: make eyeglass prescriptions more accessible, affordable, and convenient. What struck me was that they understood both sides of the problem. People shouldn't have to wait weeks or rearrange their schedules for a routine vision test. And retailers shouldn't have to leave their optical centers underused because they can't find enough doctors to provide the service. Eyebot's test is self-guided, and a licensed doctor reviews the measurements before deciding whether to issue a prescription. That gives consumers easier access and helps retailers offer optical services even when doctors are hard to hire. Four years later, Matthias & Jack are still pursuing that same vision. They've raised more than $30 million, and Eyebot kiosks are rolling out at Walmart, Sam's Club, and other vision-care retailers. It's wonderful to see Eyebot bringing that original vision to so many more people. Congratulations to Matthias, Jack, and the entire Eyebot team on the Entrepreneur feature!
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When we backed @2112Power in Jan 2021, no one was paying attention to defense tech. What we saw was a brilliant, driven founder with a big vision for the future few could dream up and even fewer could execute - building the factories to re-industrialize America. Today Chris is another step closer to that vision. Yet he's closer to the starting line than the finish. Congrats on the milestone to Chris and the @HadrianInc team, @villageglobal is proud to support you and can't wait to see what's to come.
Hadrian is announcing our $1.37B Series D - watch below for a comprehensive update on our plans to reinvest billions to meet generational demand for Factories-as-a-service & Opus, our physical AI platform for factory autonomy — as well as full stack munitions production, advanced foundries, international expansion, drone dominance, the Organic Industrial Base, and most importantly, increase Equity stakes for our workforce in LA, Alabama and Arizona. Thank you to our team and investors for enabling us to accelerate our mission to reshore, rescale and upgrade the Defense Industrial Base. The Factory is the Product.
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Congratulations @2112Power & team @HadrianInc on superpowering America's workforce and reindustrializing the USA 🇺🇸💪
Today we're announcing our Series D: $1.37B in new capital at a $7.87B valuation to Reindustrialize America. Thank you to all our investors. WCM Investment Management, @WashingHarbour, Valor Equity Partners, @137ventures, and @BaillieGifford led the round. @jpmorgan Chase's Strategic Investment Group acted as anchor co-lead, investing through the firm's Security and Resiliency Initiative. The round also included major participation by @1789capital, as well as participation from @MorganStanley Wealth Management, @apolloglobal, @TRowePrice, @a16z, @CapitalG, @foundersfund, @lux_capital, @AltimeterCap, @constructcap, and existing investors. This round confirms our belief in a few simple things: America needs to Reindustrialize, Physical AI is real, transforming the world of atoms matters 100x more than the world of bits, and, most importantly, that the New American Workforce is the center of everything we do. Here's what we've built, and what comes next.
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Congrats to @marvinvonhagen, @felixms, and the entire @interaction team on their acquisition by @cognition!! Grateful to have been your earliest backer and super excited for your next chapter 🌴
Cognition is acquiring @Interaction, the makers of Poke. If you've ever used Poke, you know why we're so excited.
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New Village Global Podcast, and this one is a rare pairing. P-1 just announced a $50M Series A led by @NEA. 🚀 @PaulEremenko, cofounder & CEO of @P_1_AI, joins me alongside his new board member @JeffImmelt, who ran GE as Chairman & CEO for 16 years. They're building Archie, an AI mechanical and electrical engineer who shows up in Slack, uses the same engineering tools your team uses, and gets paid a salary instead of per token. We got into: 1/ why coding agents got trillions of lines of code to train on while only hundreds to thousands of airplanes have ever been designed, and how P-1 manufactured its own training data 2/ why P-1 sells labor instead of software, since the labor budget at a big industrial runs 10 to 100x the software budget 3/ Jeff's 4 rules for industrial CEOs adopting AI, and how to tell who inside a big company is about to trap you in the pilot phase 4/ why Paul now expects to be around for the singularity Congratulations Paul & team 🎉 Full episode below.
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Until today, the most valuable dataset in the world was created every day and deleted every night. Congratulations @aidangch & @julianwindeck & team @AttentionInc on launch 🎉 xitter.cf/aidangch/status/208213…
A billion people produce the most valuable dataset in the world every day – and delete it every night. We’re recording it. Introducing @AttentionInc
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New episode of the Village Global Podcast. I sat down with @feross, founder and CEO of @SocketSecurity, to talk about an attack surface almost nobody is watching: The open source code inside everything you ship. Feross is a rare one. His packages get downloaded a billion times a month. He turned that front-row seat into Socket, now protecting nearly 30,000 orgs including OpenAI, Anthropic and Vercel. We got into: 1/ how attackers spent months social-engineering one maintainer to hijack a library with 100M weekly downloads 2/ why coding agents pull in 50% more open source than human developers 3/ why traditional scanners miss the threats that actually matter 4/ the guardrails any team can turn on today, from lockfiles to minimum release age Full episode below.
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🚨 We're hiring an Investor at @villageglobal. It's a great way to break into VC! We back companies at inception. A few you might know: @fal, @HadrianInc, @ApexSpacecraft, @AppliedInt, @enveda, @GrowTherapy_, @SocketSecurity. What you would actually do: → dig through talent pools and markets to find high-potential founders before anyone else has heard of them → learn directly from exceptional founders and iconic CEOs, co-host events, and build a network that compounds for the rest of your career Why the timing's good: → hundreds of millions under management, with plenty of dry powder left to deploy → dozens of breakout portfolio companies → one of the most talent-dense founder networks in Silicon Valley → a small team of former operators who also happen to have a lot of fun Reply below or dm me. If I think you're a fit, I'll personally reach out. And if someone brilliant comes to mind, please tag them.
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What a launch looks like when a founder actually goes all in: - a free blood test for every American - real needle, real lab, $0 - a mission to add a billion years to human life - 1M+ people in 100+ countries - @nikitabier calling it perfect (we agree) Proud to back @brentfranson & @deathclockai. 🚀 xitter.cf/nikitabier/status/2079…
This is a perfect launch video
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