Investing in ambitious founders who are changing the world with AI. $200k-$500k pre-seed & seed checks. GPs: @benparr @mattprdtheoryforge.vc San Francisco, CAJoined June 2024
The future is SciFi.
@benparr and I invested 6-figures from @TheoryForgeVC into a very impressive pre-seed company doing SMELLS + AI.
Who else is out there making something WEIRD in AI, just started, and wants $200k-$500k?
We can be your first investor.
.@benparr and I were one of the first investors into @DanielEdrisian / @alexcodes_ai. I loved what he was doing and we started chatting before he even joined YC.
Excited to see what he builds at @OpenAI and waiting patiently to be the first check in his next company ❤️
I'm excited to announce that we're joining OpenAI’s Codex team!
When we started out, Xcode had no AI. Building a "Cursor for Xcode" sounded crazy, but we managed to do it anyway. And, over time, we built the best coding agent for iOS & MacOS apps.
I'm extremely proud of what we
.@MattPRD and I proud to be the very first pre-seed investors in @paymanai -- the future financial infrastructure for AI agents -- through our AI fund @TheoryForgeVC!
The future is autonomous AI agents that can pay humans and each other in a trustworthy way.
Congrats @0xTyllen and team on this launch and your $13m raise from Theory Forge, @coinbase, @visa and @BoostVC!
Nine months ago we ushered in AI Payments to the mainstream, with our announcement of @PaymanAI. Today we’re excited to launch the strongest financial infrastructure ever for AI Agents.
paymanai.com
Existing financial API providers have been built for the SaaS
today marks a special moment - I'm beyond excited to announce wordware's $30m seed round led by @sparkcapital (followed by @felicis & @ycombinator)
for decades, coding was the only way to create in our digital world. but AI is changing everything - it thinks in beautiful shades of grey, not just 1s and 0s. with this shift, we saw an opportunity to reimagine who gets to build.
there are 30 million software engineers worldwide, but we've always believed that creativity isn't limited to those who can code. wordware is for the next 500m builders - the dreamers, experts, and innovators who've been waiting for their moment to create AI Agents (check out the video for our definition of what that means 😂)
it's been quite a journey to get here. 3 years full-time with my brilliant cofounder (@bertie_ai), a decade in the AI space, countless failed experiments with transformers, major pivots, sleepless nights, and 100-hour weeks that tested everything we believed in.
but today, I want to pause and celebrate what our incredible team has achieved:
- 350k builders bringing their AI visions to life
- 10 million people running agents built with wordware
- amazing clients like instacart, runway & metadata
- breaking @ProductHunt's servers (sorry, not sorry!)
- raising one of the largest seeds (if not the largest) out of @ycombinator
we still have mountains to climb, but watching our community build things we never imagined possible... that's what keeps us going.
what makes wordware different? we've turned English into a programming language for AI. no coding bootcamp required - if you can express ideas clearly, you can build sophisticated AI solutions.
our take on reimagining the development stack as a full-stack os for building AI:
- unified notion like IDE
- built-in tools for rag, speech-to-text, image gen, data analysis, scraping & more
- proper engineering concepts for power users (loops, conditionals, function calls, code execution, version control)
- open source community: fork, share & customize AI solutions
once you're done iterating, deploy as an API to power your AI backend or utilize your AI agent as a workflow
to our incredible team who made this possible - thank you
to the believers who backed us (@nabeel, @paulg, @AstasiaMyers, @vladm, @dessaigne, @azeem, @benparr, @MattPRD, @bentossell, @blader, @brownthings, @collinmathilde, @kul, @soleio , @DanWestgarth, @barticz, @tomik99 & many more) - thank you
thinking about that AI workflow, product feature, or full-fledged AI company? let's chat: wordware.ai
ps: we're hiring across all roles! join us in rebuilding how humans create with ai: jobs.ashbyhq.com/wordware.ai
Thank you @MaxBrodeurUrbas for letting @benparr and I invest in the seed round before this one.
Excited to watch you build a $1b+ AI company with 10 people. Absolutely inspiring.
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