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Our lessons learned and stories from startups.

Chauncey Hamilton Chauncey Hamilton

Delighting Customers One Filing at a Time

Here at XYZ, we are excited about the next wave of automation that LLMs will bring to tech-enabled services. Despite new models launching every week on Twitter, most industries haven’t actually implemented AI or LLMs yet. Integrating new technologies into archaic industries require deep sector-specific expertise.

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Lucy Wilmot Lucy Wilmot

Puzzle: Empowering Statups with Real-Time Financial Intelligence

As a founder, in an ever-evolving economic landscape, having a clear understanding of your financial health isn’t just a nice to have; it’s a must-have. The unfortunate reality is that when you ask entrepreneurs, their CFOs, and their bookkeepers about the tools at their disposal today, you learn quickly that the current set of offerings is outdated and broken.

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Lucy Wilmot Lucy Wilmot

Radiant Graph: Leveraging Patient Data for Better Healthcare Services and Outcomes

Can you imagine a world where healthcare services and products are as tailored to your health needs as much as Netflix is with its algorithms for movie suggestions? Founded by Anmol Madan, RadiantGraph is looking to leverage medical patient data to help healthcare companies conduct targeted outreach for products and services to their members…

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Lucy Wilmot Lucy Wilmot

Unblocked: Unlocking Collaboration Tooling through Generative AI

At XYZ, we assert there are massive operational unlocks to be captured for enhancing workflows, saving time, and enabling collaboration that only recently was possible through the emergence of Generative AI. In the case of Unblocked, founded by our longtime friend Dennis Pilarinos, Unblocked is a platform designed to combat hours of searching and information updating just for developers to understand and maintain their codebase.

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Lucy Wilmot Lucy Wilmot

Yurts: AI and Knowledge Management in the Public Sector

Here at XYZ, we believe colossal value can be captured in unlocking highly regulated industries within the public sector. In today's world, deploying an LLM while maintaining security in your own environment is a difficult task. Yurts co-founders Ben Van Roo, Guruprasad Raghavan, along with CTO Jason Schnitzer flagged for us the urgent task of bringing the latest advancements in generative AI to the military’s tech stack.

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Lucy Wilmot Lucy Wilmot

Apex: Revolutionizing the Space Economy with the Fastest Delivery of Transparently Priced and Reliable Spacecraft Platforms

We first met Ian Cinnamon back in 2016 when we invested in his first venture, Synapse, which was acquired by our good friends at Palantir. After years of building for the public sector, Ian and his cofounder Max Benassi came to us in the fall of 2022 with a new idea: Apex, a company that would accelerate space deployment by making satellite buses as easy to purchase as a Macbook.

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Lucy Wilmot Lucy Wilmot

Parrot: Creating a 10x Better Experience of Flawless Depositions for Lawyers

Here at XYZ, we partner with founders who care about tech-forgotten industries, who have audacious goals for improving the lived experiences of their users. In the case of Parrot, founders Eric and Bryan Baum, along with CEO Aaron O’Brien, have identified an overlooked process in the legal and insurance landscape that needed an overhaul: depositions.

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Chauncey Hamilton Chauncey Hamilton

Pollen: Accelerate Your Independent Career

Here at XYZ, we have a belief that certain networks attract exceptional talent and help shape the trajectory of an entrepreneur's journey. Dorm Room Fund is one of those networks — a collection of undergrads, MBAs, and graduate student investors who source and invest in their student peers’ companies. We first me Hillary Bush while she was an investor at Dorm Room Fund (while also maintaining a freelancing business and working at a VC firm). Hillary immediately impressed us with her intellectual curiosity and bias towards action.

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