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Craig, James and the Airship team are using AI to help the trades automate home service sales 🧑🏭 🧾 💰. Watch this awesome interview with Joe Crisara from Service MVP to learn more. https://lnkd.in/ePmN6N76 cc: QED Investors, Twine Ventures, Four Acres Capital, Silence

🧠 Grant from Gamma is one of the most intentional product & business builders 🏗️ we've ever met. Click the link below to watch him walk through: - How to build a product people love talking about - How Gamma designed the product for anyone to "Experience AI" s/o Jon - Why you should raise from builders who understand the pain your solving s/o Amy - Why tiny teams of player coaches win - The value of community (Gambassadors) s/o Amanda - How profitability through growth is not just possible, but optimal 👀 📽️ Full podcast with Grant & Bryce (INDIE ENTERPRISES) here ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/gSmRZmCC

🧠 Grant from Gamma is one of the most intentional product & business builders 🏗️ we've ever met. Click the link below to watch him walk through: - How to build a product people love talking about - How Gamma designed the product for anyone to "Experience AI" s/o Jon - Why you should raise from builders who understand the pain your solving s/o Amy - Why tiny teams of player coaches win - The value of community (Gambassadors) s/o Amanda - How profitability through growth is not just possible, but optimal 👀 📽️ Full podcast with Grant & Bryce (INDIE ENTERPRISES) here ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/gSmRZmCC

Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of robotics companies that never figured out how to scale, and how to build a real business. Humanoids doing backflips or folding laundry make for fantastic eye-candy. What brings me pride is that we've built a unique team of people that knows what counts in robotics -- delivering REAL results to factories. We've now delivered 360,000 hours of robot utilization across hundreds of robots in hundreds of factories, getting close to 2000 hours a day of usage (~1 year of human-equivalent labor). With hundreds more robots scheduled to install this year. Honored to work alongside one of the best teams in the world of robotics -- we're increasing the collective output of humanity -- (many fantastic folks not pictured)

Awesome to see Blanc's logo featured in QED’s AI Compliance Report. One thing to add is that we’ve barely scratched the surface, less than 5% of the potential in the space is unlocked. It's projected to grow at a ~25% CAGR over the next decade (!) Great write-up Shruti Batra and the team. https://lnkd.in/dkQ7JksA

The Lorimer Ventures talent network is a core pillar of our community and we're very proud to have recently placed our 70th hire into our portfolio. If you're looking to have a larger impact in your next role - there are 144 open positions across our portfolio including Marble Health (Jake & Dan), Durable (James), Gamma (Grant), Secureframe (Shrav), Formic (Saman), Polar Signals (Frederic), OatFi (Michael), Northbeam (Austin), PayZen, David Energy (James), Upflow (Alex), Moonware (Javier), Circuit Mind (Tomide), Subskribe (Durga), Datch (Mark), Knapsack (Chris), Brij (Kait), Tyba (Michael), Capchase (Miguel) and many more! Click here to see them all! 👉 https://lnkd.in/e_pqtVyU Shoot your resume to [email protected] or apply directly! #hiring #startupjobs

When we met Joe Averbukh & Stepan Parunashvili in Brooklyn at Win Son Bakery back in September of 2022 - it was clear they were generational builders. Yesterday, they released an API that gives you and your agents full-stack backends. Each backend comes with a database, a sync engine, auth tools, file storage, and presence (let that sink in). If you are building in AI, or just want to be indulge in the sheer size of this team's intellectual horsepower, have a read and check out the demo. https://lnkd.in/ePbu-zQd cc: Daniel Woelfel, Nikita Prokopov, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Greg Brockman, Jeff Dean, Amjad Masad, Karri Saarinen,

We loved this interview between 🧠 Grant Lee (Gamma) & 🍌 Turner Novak discussing the wild ride that Gamma has been on from 💰 0-$50M ARR profitably, 📈 over 300K paid users, 🏦 more money in the bank than they've raised, all with a tiny 🤝 ~30 person team (with ZERO employee attrition to date). This insightful conversation covers a broad range of topics including: - (7:58) The importance of full-stack generalists - (38:25) Why Gamma avoided hyped funding rounds - (47:08) Gamma’s zero employee attrition - (1:00:46) Benefitting from AI models getting better - (1:09:23) Creating a Gamma API - (1:22:16) Parenting hacks: sleep, exercise, nutrition & more! We hope you enjoy it as much as we did 📽️: https://lnkd.in/eb2N87XV cc: Jon, James, Amy (for the original Investor-Product fit conversation), Vas, Anamitra, Eric, Finn & Arian.

Excellent interview with the brilliant Formic CEO Saman Farid at the NYSE Wired: Robotics & AI Infrastructure Leaders 2025 event discussing how robotics is transforming labor, logistics and legacy industries. Here’s the reality: 🏭 90% of U.S. factories are still not automated 👩🏭 75% of manufacturers have fewer than 20 employees 🦾 Most have never deployed even a single robot At Lorimer Ventures we believe that (1) Automation is a necessity, not a luxury and (2) the future of American manufacturing lies in our ability to build and deploy the world's largest robot workforce. Formic doesn’t make robots. It makes it easy for manufacturers to adopt robots. If Formic succeeds, we’ll manufacture more, better things, more cheaply, in the US. This moment is bigger than any one product or provider. It’s about enabling 300,000+ American 🇺🇸 factories 🏭 —many family-run🧑🏭 👨🏭 👩🏭 for generations—to succeed in a new industrial era. Let’s stop treating small factories like small problems. They are the foundation of U.S. industry. Let’s equip them accordingly. #tariffs #manufacturing cc: theCUBE, John, Rajat (Chef Robotics), Samir Menon (Dexterity, Inc.), Caitlin (Simbe) https://lnkd.in/gDG4aNnE

Congrats to the brilliant Kait Stephens and Zack Morrison on their oversubscribed $8M funding round. Since the earliest days this team has maniacally focused on Brij-ing the gap between Offline-to-Online Customer Relationships. It's been a privilege to watch this team execute and we can't wait to see what they do next!