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Excited to announce Agent Mode.
1/ Right now, agents are struggling to use websites on the internet. As a result, personal agents take too long to reply, and donāt get the information they need.
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Awesome hearing @dkhos share his journey to becoming Uberās CEO.
Huge thanks to @pearvc and @keithbender for hosting such an insightful conversation š
Now Iāll be on the lookout for a masked Uber driver š
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Congrats to all the founders of PearX Summer 2024. This was an amazing demo day! @pearvc
You did it! š
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PearX W25 applications are now open! Read more about what we offer here: pear.vc/pearx-w25-applicatioā¦
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No more naked LLM access!
After months of hard work, our team is thrilled to bring you our #1 most requested feature ā Guardrails Server. As more engineers put @guardrails_ai around their LLM in production, weāre making Guardrails deployment easier than ever.
Why this matters:
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Ā Easy cloud deployment: Seamlessly dockerize the Guards youāre running locally
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Ā OpenAI SDK compatibility: Protect your OpenAI or LLM Proxy service with a single line change.
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Ā Cross language support: Use the OpenAI-compatible endpoint in any language which supports the OpenAI SDK.
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#1: A framework for early stage founders to understand how to structure equity for their first 10 hires.
pear.vc/how-to-structure-staā¦
3/5
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At @pearvc we have been developing PearX for the most elite founders who have the grit and vision to make their companies succeed.
pear.vc/pearx-join-the-ranksā¦
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Itās TestFlight Friday!
After 6 months of building House Rush and playtesting in person, weāre ready to start sharing it more widely.
TestFlight details and what to expect:
House Rush is a real estate fantasy game with real houses. Weāre building for all of you who love to browse Zillow just for fun.
- Earn cash guessing the price of active listings in your city.
- Use your cash to make offers on houses in the market.
- Build your real estate portfolio, accept or reject offers on your houses from other players, visit vacation houses, and work up to a mega mansion.
- Unlock more slots in your portfolio, rank up, and earn the top spot on the leaderboards.
Weāre in TestFlight for a reason. House Rush is still super early. There will be bugs, and lots of room for improvement!
Weāve taken a quick first pass at onboarding for this alpha, and have many more things on our roadmap like proper balancing, sharing, social features, sound, offline mode, loading optimization, and a finalized art style.
Iām immensely proud of the creativity and shipping speed of our small team, and canāt wait to hear what you think of it.
Working our way through inviting folks off of our waitlist. If youāve signed up you should get an email within the next ~ week.
I've got 20 invites for twitter folks who are dying to try this out right now. If thatās you, let me know!
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Full house at @pearvc tonight for our fireside with Jeffrey Katzenberg!
Weāve covered his huge career shifts from @Dreamworks to @WndrCoLLC, the art of storytelling, and truffle hunting for great founders āØ
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šØ latest newsletter:
- @BatteryVentures Open Cloud 2023 highlights
- a @Kellblog + @rayrike podcast
- indicators from @repvue October 2023 + Gartner's Q3
- a new SaaS Employment Index
- content from @BreakingSaaS @AkashBajwa96 @keithbender
saasletter.com/p/saasletter-ā¦
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We're so excited to announce our very first FFC (Female Founder Circle) Retreat in Palm Springs on Feb 29 to March 1, 2024. š“
We're looking for nominations of founders from seed to series B and beyond to attend theretreat24.pear.vc. If any amazing female founders come to mind, please nominate them! šāāļø Nothing is more powerful than a gathering of women entrepreneurs sharing their experiences and learnings and empowering one another!
We're so honored to co-lead this initiative with the three prominent female founders @mada299, @marialegre and @MarHershenson. š« ā at San Francisco, CA
We started our Female Founder Circles in 2021. Why? Because while being a founder is always hard, being a female founder brings its own set of challenges. Weāre excited to launch The Retreat by FFC: a 2-day retreat in Palm Springs Feb 29-Mar 1, 2024: theretreat24.pear.vc/
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What I liked about Pear X is that if youāre interested in building a really compelling business ā thereās only ~10 companies per cohort, so thereās a lot of focus and detail put on you and your company. Definitely encourage folks to apply (reach out if I can answer any Qs)!
PearX W24 apps are open for a bit longer. We kick off every cohort with Camp Pear: our in-person founder retreat. That's followed by 14 weeks of company building. And finally Demo Day to pitch your startup to thousands of investors. Apply today at pear.vc/pearX.
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Last month, PearX S21 alumĀ TransceraĀ announced its seed round led byĀ Xora Innovation, joined byĀ @tauventuresĀ and existing pre-seed investorsĀ @pearvc,Ā @digitalisvc, andĀ @KdT_Ventures. We reflected on Pearās partnership with Transcera in the post below!
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This month we caught up with @keithbender, Partner at @pearvc, who shared with us his philosophy on life and lessons from his career investing in early-stage startups.āš·
ā”ļøCheck outĀ theĀ link below to readĀ theĀ interview: evca.org/blog/keith-bender

































