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🚨 We’re hiring a Founding Engineer at Kubera Health! 🚨 Kubera helps healthcare business teams manage complex documents, payments, and reporting. Our platform powers the teams behind patient care—helping them operate in a financially sustainable way. We’re building the infrastructure (“the pipes”) for healthcare contracting, finance, and decision-making. As a founding engineer, you’ll build features end-to-end, get to utilize novel applications of AI across the stack, and be part of a small, mighty, and fun team of “Kubera Koalas”—all while building for customers responsible for the care of hundreds of thousands to millions of patients. App link here: https://lnkd.in/evFHq6iQ

Come put your creativity to the test at AlleyCorp's upcoming AI + Robotics Hackathon (in partnership with betaworks and Upfront Ventures), where you'll get the chance to showcase your skills through Hugging Face's LeRobot automation models. Thanks to J.P. Morgan, Brannon Jones, Nicole Ripka, Krish Mehta, Krish Shah, and Alex Marley for hosting! Link in the comments to register.

Today, we’re excited to announce three new well-deserved promotions here at Upfront, reflecting our continued focus on specialized domain expertise 🎉 ➡️ Jacques Sisteron has been promoted to Partner - you’ve likely come across him in El Segundo, bringing his passion and extensive experience in the hard tech industry ➡️ Kesar Varma has been promoted to Partner - he has been an essential part of our team, sourcing deals and collaborating closely with founders in the health tech and gaming sectors ➡️ Peter Zakin has been promoted to Partner - as a former founder, Peter applies his technical expertise to continuously seek much-needed solutions to the challenges within the AI and developer tools space Please join us in congratulating these three and if you are a founder building in these areas, please be sure to reach out and connect!

Sensing at the edge will create novel datasets that change industries from oil and gas to power transmission, HVAC to water infrastructure. We at Upfront are investing heavily in this and excited for what this means for critical infrastructure across the country.

Help us congratulate Lauren Wetzel and the whole team at InfoSum on this exciting milestone! 🚀

It’s been amazing working alongside Brian Lesser Lauren Wetzel these past few years. It’s really nice to see both sides win and great people prosper. Congrats to WPP / GroupM on acquisition of InfoSum 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 https://lnkd.in/g9uhBgr4

VC platform people - do you have a burning question about producing the Upfront Summit? Are you attending the VC Platform Summit next week? Come on Weds and ask me all the questions, so I don't have to monologue my entire session, Cory Booker style. Share your large scale event tips with me too! Or we can just chat. I'm not precious. (I appreciate that this is a niche call to action as well as a laughably AI generated image, LinkedIn algorithm. Please don't penalize me.)

AI is going to expand markets in unexpected ways. Our Founder & Managing Partner Aydin Senkut talked with Jason Warner, CEO and co-founder of poolside and Kevin Zhang at the Upfront Summit by Upfront Ventures about how AI is impacting software development and startups. Full video: https://lnkd.in/gM8-DmpR

#ICYMI Bill Gurley of Benchmark and Brad Gerstner of Altimeter discuss the state of venture at this year’s Upfront Summit 👇 Check out this full session and all of our other videos on our YouTube channel! (Link in the comments)

We’re hiring an additional team member to partner with Kevin Zhang and me on everything healthcare at Upfront Ventures! During the past 4 years at Upfront, I've been lucky to work with some incredible companies in our portfolio including Ayble Health, Arlo, Bionaut Labs, Rula, Keragon, Canvas Medical, Reveleer, Kubera Health and Certify. Now we want to double down on investments that continue to drive innovation across providers, patients, pharma, and payers. We've never been more bullish on the impact that AI can have on healthcare and want to find the next generation of companies that are changing the paradigm for this fragmented, legacy industry. If you’re passionate about tackling challenges in healthcare, improving outcomes at the intersection of tech+bio, and partnering with founders working on some of the hardest problems in the world, join us!!