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Connected Stack brings together the people shaping what's next: from founders building at the frontier to the buyers, builders, and investors helping to define the future of enterprise AI. Join us at Connected Stack on September 10 in SF: connectedstack.ai

One month ago, we lost our friend Om. Om was the first founder we ever funded and an incredible friend over the decades that followed. We miss you every day, Om.

@businessinsider.com's latest look at the startups shaping this shift features perspectives from True Ventures' Ann Crady Weiss and @helenmin.com, and recognizes Atticus among the top legal startups to watch. Read the full article - www.businessinsider.com/legal-tech-a...

Meet Colleen Cutcliffe, PhD — Co-Founder & CEO of Pendulum Therapeutics. Listen to Colleen's founder story, and her perspective on turning decades of science into a company, on The Skinny Confidential podcast - podcasts.apple.com/kz/podcast/d...

The Wall Street Journal recently highlighted how venture firms are using AI, including True's AI Office Hours, where founders have now logged more than 1,000 conversations to pressure-test ideas, practice their pitches, and get real-time feedback from our team's AI personas whenever they need it.

Connected Stack is back. At last year's event, True's Puneet Agarwal sat down with Aaron Levie of Box to unpack why systems of record win in the agent era. 100x more agents means 100x more value when they act right and 100x more risk when they don't. More on this year's event at connectedstack.ai

@thewallstreet.bsky.social recently explored how VCs are embracing AI. As @mikemontano.bsky.social shared in the story, the nuanced art of knowing when to support a founder, when to challenge them, and how to show up in the hardest moments isn't something AI can replicate.

In this week's episode of the Goop Podcast, Bumo Founder Joan Nguyen and luxury fashion leader at Boston Consulting Group Sarah Willersdorf share their journeys from non-technical backgrounds to AI builders reshaping brand marketing motions. Listen to the episode: goop.com/the-goop-pod...

This week, the @wsj.com Pro took note in its piece on VCs embracing AI. Big thanks to Matthew Strozier for talking with our team and featuring @mikemontano.bsky.social, who led the creation of True's AI Office Hours using Polsia. Read the full article: www.wsj.com/pro/venture-....

Venture Capitalists Embrace AI—and Have Some Fun

Some VCs feel like magicians creating digital personas that can field questions for them.

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We're glad to see @Adam D'Augelli leading the next Venture Forward VC Power Hour on July 23. The conversation is designed for mid-career investors navigating that transition, with plenty of room for candid discussion and practical questions. Apply here: luma.com/vcph7

This summer, 11 fellows are joining AI-native companies in the True Portfolio. Read more about the program and sign up to be notified about the 2027 fellowship: www.trueventures.com/blog/true-ve...

Basecamp Research's biological foundation model is now available through Claude Science, giving scientists access to one of the deepest maps of natural biology directly within their research workflows. Read more from Rohit Sharma: lnkd.in/ejvERAp6

It is with profound sadness that we share that Om Malik has passed. Our first Founder at True, he became our partner, friend, and conscience - brilliant, kind, brave, endlessly curious. He'd want us to slow down, think deeper, love each other more. We love you, Om. om.co/2026/06/24/1...

Om Malik, 1966-2026

Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart. He was surrounded by family and friends. We invite you to share your remembrances of Om in th…

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Knowledge got cheap. Judgment didn't. What's needed now is everything the models can't copy — the decisions, the constraints, the failure logs. That's the thread running through. Read the latest True North for that and more from our team → us20.campaign-archive.com?u=31056a33a9...

The most influential enterprise AI founders and firms rarely share a room. On September 10 in San Francisco, they will. Connected Stack 2026 — the room for the builders, buyers, and backers defining the future of enterprise AI. RSVP and join us this fall: connectedstack.ai

Today, Channel Robotics announced $4.6M in total funding, including a $2.5M Seed round led by True. Read Rohit Sharma's thoughts on why we invested in Channel www.trueventures.com/blog/channel...

Many teams are embedding AI into workflows. Where to and how to. Another great question is how to work like an AI-native team from the start. Joan Nguyen is building that in real time with @Bumo: a team of 12 operating with the output (and ambition) of 100. #TrueFounderSeries

Mayank Mehta of Gather shares a piece of advice that's become even more relevant in the AI era: test the go-to-market before you build the product. This and more from Mayank and Puneet Agarwal on the Fund/Build/Scale podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/5WEm...

Today, ChatSee announced a $6.5M seed round led by True Ventures, alongside First Rays Venture Partners and Seven Hills Ventures. ChatSee.ai is building the failure intelligence layer for autonomous AI systems, helping enterprises detect, classify, and learn from agent behavior in production.

True was fortunate to be the first investor in Rafal Modrzewski, Pekka Laurila, and the ICEYE team more than a decade ago. We've had a front-row seat to what can happen when builders keep asking "what if?" long after others stop.

This year's Top 100 Women in AI list recognized leaders shaping how AI is researched, built, and applied in the world. We're glad to see two members of the True community among them: Hannah Gordon, Chief Scientific Officer at Enveda, and Kakul Srivastava, CEO of Splice.

The playbook changed faster than the company. For Gather, the product was working. The challenge was getting it in front of the right people. So instead of following a traditional SaaS go-to-market motion, Mayank Mehta and his team built their own AI-powered growth engine in a weekend.

Most AI conversations right now are about speed. This one is about judgment. Worth the listen for anyone building right now. 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/13Hl...

“There are two emotions a venture capitalist can project onto a founder: fear or safety,” shares Puneet Agarwal, partner at True Ventures. Startups are built in uncertainty. Founders are constantly making decisions with imperfect information, taking risks, and pushing forward without guarantees.

The most important technology shifts don’t feel incremental. They open up entirely new ways to experience the world. Darshan Shankar, founder and CEO of Bigscreen, shares what drew him into VR in its earliest days: not improving what already existed, but exploring something fundamentally new.

first bay area @atproto.com @ @trueventures.com last night. clearest signal wasnt hype, it was working software. bluesky may be the visible surface but AT proto is becoming the substrate. discovery, identity, structured data & agents. 1/7 linkedin.com/posts/schwen...

AT Protocol as Infrastructure: Field Notes from True Ventures | Robert Schwentker

Went to the first bay area AT protocol meetup @ true ventures this week & walked out convinced of one thing. Bluesky is the visible surface, but AT proto is quietly becoming the substrate. Three buil...

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True’s hands-on AI Accelerator returns June 17 in San Francisco as the AI Workflow Summit: one day, demo-driven, practical, and open beyond the True community for the first time. Request an invite → trueaccelerator.ai

Twenty years in, we're still investing the same way: first to believe, before consensus, when the category doesn't yet have a name. New field report out now: Read it, and request an invite to our June 17 AI Workflow Summit in SF → www.trueventures.ai/archive/2026...

AI is making filmmaking more accessible, but the tools that matter will be the ones that preserve creative control, not flatten it. That’s what stood out when we first met the team at @Flick: a rare combination of deep product engineering and real creative instinct.