Kevin Niechen @kevinniechen
Principal @8VC. Previously @Neeva @Airbnb @Pinterest and systems research kevinniechen.com San Francisco, CA Joined April 2016-
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Congrats to @WisprFlow on their Series A! Has been a privilege to be involved from the Seed I initially invested because I heard that @tankots and @SahajGarg6 were the top students in their Stanford class. It tracked! Incredible product, team, everything. Onwards! @8vc
Congrats to @WisprFlow on their Series A! Has been a privilege to be involved from the Seed I initially invested because I heard that @tankots and @SahajGarg6 were the top students in their Stanford class. It tracked! Incredible product, team, everything. Onwards! @8vc
I’m thrilled to announce @OutsetAI's $17M Series A funding round, led by @8vc! Since day one, @AaronLCannon and I were driven by a simple truth: Companies build better products when they actually talk to their users. YC drills "talk to your customers" into founders for a…
Privileged to lead @OutsetAI’s Series A and support them in making user research more scalable—and meaningful—than ever. @AaronLCannon & @mchlhess have brought rare product chops, deep customer understanding, & impressive velocity to a $140 bn industry that has quickly emerged…
Privileged to lead @OutsetAI’s Series A and support them in making user research more scalable—and meaningful—than ever. @AaronLCannon & @mchlhess have brought rare product chops, deep customer understanding, & impressive velocity to a $140 bn industry that has quickly emerged…
Understanding customers is existential for any business. @OutsetAI is redefining how it’s done, with pioneering AI-led interviews blending survey scale & human depth. We’re proud to lead their $17mm Series A. More below from @jack_moshkovich & @kevinniechen:
After nine months in stealth, we’re excited to announce Augment has raised $25M, led by @8vc, and is launching Augie—the first AI teammate for logistics. We are applying AI—the most transformative tech of our time—to logistics, the largest industry in the world. 🚀 We’re…
20+ years ago, @Meta & @PalantirTech formed in dorm rooms, enlisting bold young builders to create enduring companies. AI revolutionized the toolset, but courageous top talent is still paramount. The @8vc Llama Stack Innovation Challenge is your invitation to be discovered.
20+ years ago, @Meta & @PalantirTech formed in dorm rooms, enlisting bold young builders to create enduring companies. AI revolutionized the toolset, but courageous top talent is still paramount. The @8vc Llama Stack Innovation Challenge is your invitation to be discovered.
We're incredibly excited to be launching the 8VC Llama Stack Challenge today for university students in the US!! The first challenge is about building desktop, field, and edge AI applications using Meta's open source Llama models: 3/7 - 4/19! Join now at llamastackchallenge.com
We're incredibly excited to be launching the 8VC Llama Stack Challenge today for university students in the US!! The first challenge is about building desktop, field, and edge AI applications using Meta's open source Llama models: 3/7 - 4/19! Join now at llamastackchallenge.com
We are proud to announce 8VC Fund VI, with $998 million in new LP capital to back the most fearless and ambitious builders. The world is broken. Let's fix it. To the frontier!
Looking for a couple great founding engineers... A diligent dwarf, Thorin, loves routing incoming comms to the right colleagues, and mining them to create replies, processes and alerts. He has a lot of cool tricks up his sleeve, and will save me hours per week; other friends…
Introducing Bespoke-Stratos-32B, our reasoning model distilled from DeepSeek-R1 using Berkeley NovaSky’s Sky-T1 recipe. The model outperforms Sky-T1 and o1-preview in reasoning (Math and Code) benchmarks and almost reaches the performance of DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B while…
New blog post on the case for developing oral drugs for antibody targets. In an era of antibody me-toos, this strategy stands to truly differentiate. Full post below:
Join us next week at @8vc SF for our first Designing and Engineering for AI event. Will be a fun evening of drinks, design conversations, and demos by @RamP, @wispr, @JuliusAI_
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