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Rosalind Chu and I had a blast co-hosting our latest Let's Talk Ops LA event — a co-working day at the beautiful Day One Partners space! These quarterly gatherings are all about bringing together platform and operations folks in VC, many of whom are often a team of one. We chatted about how everyone’s using AI in their workflows, swapped tips, and, most importantly — connected IRL. (If you're also in VC operations/platform in LA and want to join us next time, 📩 let me know!)

🎺 Excited to announce the close of our seed round and today's launch of the world's first self driving spreadsheet. Forbes covers the story, courtesy of Charlie Fink: https://lnkd.in/gS7Fk_Zd

Introducing Mavvrik: The Financial Control Center for IT  Big news: DigitalEx is now Mavvrik — and we’ve raised $6.2MM to help enterprises take full control of IT spending across cloud, AI, on-prem, and SaaS.  If you're a CFO, FinOps leader, or IT decision-maker, you already know the struggle: ❌ Cloud bills that never stop growing.  ❌ AI costs that spike unpredictably.  ❌ SaaS sprawl making accountability a nightmare.  ❌ On-prem costs re-emerging without alignment. Mavvrik changes all of this — quickly! We unify financial management across cloud, AI, on-prem, and SaaS—giving you complete cost visibility, automated cost allocation, and predictive controls. Hybrid, multi-cloud, private, public, we have you covered! With Mavvrik, you:  ✅ See every IT dollar before it's spent.  ✅ Enforce accountability across teams.  ✅ Forecast IT budgets with confidence. Want to learn more? Comment here or check out our new site! Because financial control shouldn’t be an afterthought. #FinOps #CloudSpending #AICosts

Today, we’re excited to finally announce our partnership with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to streamline defense budget management! Here’s why this matters: 💸 Often seen as the “VC Arm of the Pentagon”, DIU acts as the gateway between commercial technology companies and the #NationalSecurity mission partners like U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. 🧮 As is the case across many federal agencies, planning #budgets and managing programs at DIU is a very time-intensive process under a high-degree of scrutiny, creating undue room for #inefficiency. 🔮 Pryzm’s intuitive workflows and expertise in #acquisition data integration allow for a much more modern approach to financial and program management across the national security ecosystem. 🎯 With Pryzm, DIU leaders and their partners across the innovation ecosystem will be able to focus more on what they do best: “Connecting the dots” of #DefenseTech. Reach out to get involved: hello@pryzm.io 🇺🇲 _______ Full Story here: https://lnkd.in/gsdecby3 United States Department of Defense United States Senate U.S. House of Representatives #DefenseTech #AcquisitionReform #NDAA #DoD #DOGE #ConnectTheDots #Tech #VC #Budgets Nick Matt Justin Joseph David Raj

🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 After a few month's wait, today we're finally announcing the closing of our $3M pre-seed round. Our round was led by #PropTech venture capital Pi Labs, with participations from Amplify.LA, Boost VC, Dorm Room Fund, Suffolk Technologies, Y Startup Index, Moatable founder Joe Chen and Scale AI executives. With this capital, we're fast expanding our clientele geographically and target to roll out full support of concrete and steel frame structures in Q3 this year. We'd like to express our gratitude towards those who believe in our vision and team early on: Hugo Conceição Silva, Faisal Butt, Stefania Ponzo, Barrie Heptonstall, Phil Cowans, Connor Sundberg, Paul Bricault, Adam Draper ⏻, Maddie Callander, Emily Yu, Mark Beylin, Hriday Sheth, Eugenia Trakal, Jon Cullom, Molly Fowler, Parker Mundt, Carly Joos, Diana K., Mack Rush, Jonson Berman, Wan Li Zhu, Murat Melek, PhD SE, Christopher Coscia, Sam Hendel, Sean Glass, Joe Chen, James Liu, Zhichun Li, Linda Gong. It's still Day 1, and we're excited for the journey ahead. -- Zhihao Zhao, Robin Li, Houtao Wang, Shuyang Dai #Genia #GenerativeDesign #AI #ConstructionTech #Structural

Excited to announce Vendorflow is now live in the Samsara App Marketplace! Connecting Unified Driver Communications to ELD is a big opportunity for fleets and I'm making the case for why in my first LinkedIn article "The Opportunity in ELD-Connected Driver Communications." The article explores what exactly integrating Driver Comms with ELD can unlock, and how that provides value to fleets across Safety, Compliance, Driver Satisfaction, and Productivity. Thank you to our fleet customers who helped make this possible, and Samsara for being so easy to work with in getting our integration live.

🚀 For #LAtechweek, we teamed up with Amplify.LA for an amazing LA Tech Showcase that brought together over 20+ VC partners and 20+ innovative LA-based companies. It was a fantastic opportunity to connect, share insights, and see the thriving tech talent in Los Angeles. A huge thank you to all our partners, founders, and attendees who made this event a success. Your passion and vision continue to inspire us, and we’re excited to continue to help foster an amazing LA Tech Community. 🙌 🙏Thank you to Alejandro Guerrero from Stifel Bank and Thomas Kang / Faisal Rashid from Fenwick & West for your incredible support! Looking forward to many more events like this that bring our ecosystem together! 🚀🌟 Katie Dean, Paul Bricault, Connor Sundberg, Valentina R., Dustin Rosen

💡 Wondering how much #GenAI is costing your enterprise? Don't guess. Read the latest VentureBeat article by Carl Franzen - 'How much are your enterprise's gen #AI products costing you? DigitalEx launches new expense tracking solution.' "As businesses rush to experiment with and ultimately embrace gen AI across various internal or customer-facing applications, DigitalEx's new offering empowers organizations to control, optimize, and justify their AI-related expenses." Read the full article to learn how DigitalEx is revolutionizing AI financial management: https://lnkd.in/gGxKii6a #AIInnovation #AICostManagement #EnterpriseAI #FinOps

🎉 Exciting Announcement: DigitalEx Launches Revolutionary LLM Cost Management Solution! 🎉 In today's #AI-driven world, managing #LLM costs isn't just about finances—it's a strategic imperative. That's why we're thrilled to introduce our latest innovation: ✅ Unified view of expenses across AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, and Groq ✅ Detailed cost allocation per team and AI application ✅ Advanced budgeting, forecasting, and anomaly detection ✅ Cost-performance trade-off analysis "Our latest release empowers businesses to harness the full potential of AI technologies while maintaining financial control and maximizing return on investment. We're not just offering a tool; we're providing a strategic advantage in the AI race." - Sundeep Goel, CEO of DigitalEx Ready to optimize your AI investments and stay ahead of the curve? Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dqcR5ZWJ #AIInnovation #CloudCostManagement #FinOps #EnterpriseAI #AICostManagement

🎉 Big news! The official calendar of events for #SFTechWeek and #LATechWeek is now LIVE! And thrilled to announce that this is officially our BIGGEST Tech Week, ever! - 850+ events 🤯 - San Francisco: Oct 7-13 🌉 - Los Angeles: Oct 14-20 🌴 Link to register below to see all events👇 Sneak peek of a few events you can't miss... - The Future of Entertainment with Andrew Chen (a16z), Carter Reum (M13), Jeffrey Evans (Mantis), David Sabow (HSBC) - Founder Fireside Chat with Chris Best, Substack Founder & CEO - Game Changers: Breakfast with Fenwick and a16z with Jonathan Lai (a16z GP) and Kat Duncan (Partner, Fenwick) - How Design, Story, and AI are Changing Software with Siqi Chen, CEO of Runway - AI Breakthrough: Finding Product-Market Fit with executives from Mistral AI, Pinecone, Anyscale, HSBC and a16z - SPEEDRUN Demo Day by A16Z GAMES 40%+ of the events self-report having an AI theme. We're also seeing a ton of diversity in topics, including: B2B, fundraising/investing, fintech, engineering, deeptech, infra, consumer, games, media/entertainment, SaaS... In just 2 years, the Tech Week community has grown to 100k+ folks and has evolved from primarily VC deal flow to deal flow AND a diverse range of use cases: - B2B Lead Generation - Product Launches - Sourcing Talent - Meeting Investors / Fundraising - Brand Building It's been amazing to see Tech Week serve as a bridge between different cities, connecting the SF, LA, and NY ecosystems. Our back-to-back scheduling for SF and LA is designed to encourage cross-pollination. 🐝Tech Week wouldn’t be possible without incredible partners. Thank you to Andreessen Horowitz Fenwick & West, HSBC Innovation Banking, Dialpad, Stripe, Atlassian, PwC, and Nasdaq for your support and belief in the mission 🙏 And Tech Week would not be possible without the incredible (and growing!) team behind it - huge shoutout to Andrew Chen Rose Johnson Shrikala Kashyap Joung Lee for your dedication to the community 😊 Make sure you're following us at TECH WEEK by a16z for more updates, and register at tech-week.com!