Market One Capital

Congrats Pathway and first and foremost Zuzanna Stamirowska, Adrian Kosowski, Jan Chorowski on raising additional funding and getting halfway (500m) to unicorn status! We are proud and privileged at Market One Capital to back the company since the pre-seed stage. But what’s more important than the round is that Pathway’s BDH-CQ reasoning model, a 150-million-parameter model, scored 29.5% on the public ARC-AGI-1 evaluation set at a calculated inference cost of just $0.0007 per task. Looking forward to see how Pathway will lead the post-Transformer architecture era. https://lnkd.in/dmbiRUu3 https://lnkd.in/dJpK7_bA

We're excited to share that we've led the EUR 4M pre-seed round in Optiak - the operating layer for enterprise AI, launching out of stealth today. Optiak is a single control plane that sits between a company's applications and the fast-moving world of AI models, where routing, retrieval, memory, security, governance, optimization, and observability all get configured once and applied everywhere. Daniel, Ignacio and Borja bring a rare mix of large-scale ML depth and enterprise product intensity, built over years at Amazon, Google DeepMind and Stripe. They've surrounded themselves with an equally exceptional team out of Reddit, Hugging Face, Luzia, Datadog, Auth0 and more - operators and researchers with the speed and clarity to build through real complexity. 🔥 We're happy to co-invest alongside Next Tier Ventures, Plug and Play Tech Center, Mission (formerly Demium), and an awesome group of business angels and operators from companies like SpaceX, Databricks, Stripe, Crowdstrike, Adyen, Amazon, Snowflake, Epic Games, ServiceNow, Just Eat Takeaway and more! We're thrilled to partner with you on the journey ahead. 🚀 Optiak team is hiring: 👀 - Founding Integrations Architect - Founding Platform & Infrastructure Engineer

Was a pure pleasure and privilege to co-host an Outliers Night event last week in Vilnius together with FIRSTPICK, Practica Capital and Left Lane Capital! Great gathering of Baltic tech community, full or quality networking, sharing ideas and good vibes! Always a pleasure to be back in one of our favorite ecosystems in Europe where everyone work simultaneously smart and hard, no fake it till you make, very pragmatic and driven by values and innovation. There is no coincidence in fact that just in Vilnius Market One Capital has backed already four companies: Ovoko, Rizon, eany.io and more :) Thanks Arvydas Bloze, Maximilian Wilhelm, Andra Bagdonaite, Guoda Taraškevičiūtė, Tadas Gudauskas, Jacek Łubiński, Kamil Węgliński, Marcin Kurek for working together on it. We will be back!:)

Happy to announce that Market One Capital together with Left Lane Capital, Practica Capital and FIRSTPICK invites Baltic outstanding tech ecosystem movers to the Tech Dinner & Drinks in Vilnius on 27th of May! Please join us and looking forward for quality networking!

Applications for the Onstage (prev. Focal) S26 Demo Day close at 9am tomorrow 🚨 It takes 10 minutes to apply, and even those who don’t make it to demo day can get introductions to over 350 VC funds, including Market One Capital. If you're an early stage founder looking to build relationships with top VC funds, Onstage Demo Day might be for you. Even those that don’t make it to pitch can get introductions to their 350 VC partners. Last time, applicants received over 2,000 VC introduction requests. Find out if you're successful within three weeks. For those that make it to Demo Day, you’ll pitch live in front of over 200 VCs in London. Link to apply is here: https://lnkd.in/ebTMG6bM

come drop by moc hq, 3h, let’s see what can be shipped🫡 link in the comments!

San Francisco will be electric on May 5th – with the inventors of the Transformer Architecture and the Post Transformer Architectures in a Boxing Ring! 🥊🐉 This is the battle between innovations that shape trillion dollar markets - presented by their very authors (!). On Tuesday, May 5th in SF, Pathway will host this boxing-style debate between the biggest inventors behind the foundations of frontier models. Fighters confirmed in the corners:  🥊 Lukasz Kaiser — Inventor of the Transformer architecture. Co-creator of ChatGPT, o1/o3, TensorFlow. Leader at OpenAI.  🥊 Mathias Lechner — CTO of Liquid AI, pioneering liquid neural networks.  🥊 Adrian Kosowski — CSO of Pathway and co-creator of the Dragon Hatchling (BDH) post-transformer architecture.  I’ll be moderating with Dexter Horthy. More announcements soon…   Expect punchy rounds, crowd-fueled energy, excellent food and drinks, and a line-up of attendees so cool that your heart will burst. All while going deep on what transformers got spectacularly right and where they’re starting to break at scale.    Registration is by approval (curated room of the right people). Link here 👇 https://lnkd.in/gkN_9ag2   The post-transformer era isn’t coming.   It’s here. Let’s debate it, stress-test it, and build it. 🐉  

For years, we've believed that the moment you arrive in a new destination matters more than most people realize. You've just landed. You're tired, excited, maybe a little disoriented. You step into a new place that you don't fully understand yet. That moment matters. That moment is also where the entire in-destination experience begins. And for the past decade, that's what we've been building toward at Welcome Pickups. Not just a better transfer from the airport, but a better start to everything that follows. To remove the small stresses that travelers experience right after landing you need to find the right partners to make that possible at scale. Today we're taking an important step toward that vision. I'm excited to share that Welcome Pickups is now available directly in the Airbnb app. What started as a small idea to improve the arrival moment now helps 3 million travelers each year across 375+ destinations start their trips with confidence. Starting today, Airbnb guests in 125+ cities across Asia, Europe, and Latin America can pre-book their airport transfer when planning their stay, making the arrival experience smoother from the very beginning. Partnering with Airbnb allows us to bring that experience to millions more travelers around the world. A huge thank you to the teams at Airbnb and Welcome Pickups who made this partnership possible. This is just the beginning. 🚀 #Airbnb #WelcomePickups #yourfriendontheground

We raised $2M in pre-seed funding to make digital dollars accessible and spendable by everyone, no matter where they live. Rizon launched just five months ago. Since then, we’ve grown to 122 countries, more than 100,000 registered users, and transaction volume increasing 245% month-over-month. The global demand for accessible, dollar-based banking is significantly larger than we expected. This round is led by Market One Capital, a Polish VC fund with 10+ years of experience and 80+ portfolio companies, including three unicorns. We’re grateful to partner with investors who share our long-term vision. This funding will help us expand into new markets and grow our user base further.