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Joined July 2011
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Keith Bender retweeted
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 don’t get the information they need.
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Keith Bender retweeted
We drove 410% conversion lift on @Replit's enterprise funnel, 2x-ing the number of demo requests. All in a matter of months. "Coframe makes you feel like you have a team of 100 people. There's nothing on the market like it." ⧉ x ā •
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Keith Bender retweeted
Today we unveiled Neo Residency, a new program for startups and high-agency student teams. šŸŽ‰ We’re replacing our best-known program, Neo Accelerator, with something even better and more selective. 🧵
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Awesome hearing @dkhos share his journey to becoming Uber’s CEO. Huge thanks to @pearvc and @keithbender for hosting such an insightful conversation šŸ™Œ Now I’ll be on the lookout for a masked Uber driver šŸ‘€
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Keith Bender retweeted
Congrats to all the founders of PearX Summer 2024. This was an amazing demo day! @pearvc You did it! šŸ™Œ
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ā˜€ļø SF is hot with Demo Days (and outdoor temps). Thank you for having us today @pearvc and @joinef! So many impressive founders building important products. Also, we learned the importance of having a good walk on song for pitches. šŸŽ¶
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šŸ Pear Demo Day giving early YC Demo Day vibes - SF at its best
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Keith Bender retweeted
No more naked LLM access! After months of hard work, our team is thrilled to bring you our #1 most requested feature — Guardrails Server. As more engineers put @guardrails_ai around their LLM in production, we’re making Guardrails deployment easier than ever. Why this matters: āœ…Ā Easy cloud deployment: Seamlessly dockerize the Guards you’re running locally āœ…Ā OpenAI SDK compatibility: Protect your OpenAI or LLM Proxy service with a single line change. āœ…Ā Cross language support: Use the OpenAI-compatible endpoint in any language which supports the OpenAI SDK. (1/n)
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Packed house at the šŸ @pearvc + @OpenAI hackathon this morning!
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Real time watching AI revolution at @pearvc @OpenAI hackathon! Packed house!šŸ
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Keith Bender retweeted
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-ranks…
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It’s TestFlight Friday! After 6 months of building House Rush and playtesting in person, we’re ready to start sharing it more widely. TestFlight details and what to expect: House Rush is a real estate fantasy game with real houses. We’re 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. We’re in TestFlight for a reason. House Rush is still super early. There will be bugs, and lots of room for improvement! We’ve 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. I’m immensely proud of the creativity and shipping speed of our small team, and can’t wait to hear what you think of it. Working our way through inviting folks off of our waitlist. If you’ve 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 that’s you, let me know!
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Full house at @pearvc tonight for our fireside with Jeffrey Katzenberg! We’ve covered his huge career shifts from @Dreamworks to @WndrCoLLC, the art of storytelling, and truffle hunting for great founders ✨
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Keith Bender retweeted
šŸ“Ø 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-…
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Keith Bender retweeted
We're so excited to announce our very first FFC (Female Founder Circle) Retreat in Palm Springs on Feb 29 to March 1, 2024. 🌓 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! šŸ’ā€ā™€ļø 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. šŸ’« – 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. We’re 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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Keith Bender retweeted
What I liked about Pear X is that if you’re interested in building a really compelling business – there’s only ~10 companies per cohort, so there’s 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 Pear’s partnership with Transcera in the post below!
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Keith Bender retweeted
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.ā­šŸ“· āž”ļøCheck outĀ theĀ link below to readĀ theĀ interview: evca.org/blog/keith-bender
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