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Chemistry

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Chemistry

@chemistry

Chemistry is a $350M early-stage firm that leads investments in founders who blend technical expertise with commercial instincts.

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Chemistry
@chemistry
Jun 11
How does the most accurate forecaster in human history actually make his predictions? Ray Kurzweil, in conversation with @ethankurz, takes us through his analysis of price-performance of computation from 1939 to 2026, and what it tells us:
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Ethan Kurzweil
@ethankurz
Jun 15
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The Non-Conformist and the $3.6B Outcome
Today’s headlines on @fin_ai (that loveable SaaS-turned-AI company formerly known as Intercom) – founder @eoghan coming back to the helm and making a bet the company pivot to AI and ultimately a...
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Mark Goldberg
@Mark_Goldberg_
Jun 15
Unreal founder/CEO comeback story here. Couldn’t be happier for this team! I also met my wonderful co-founder @ethankurz through the Intercom board so will always hold a special place in my heart ❤️
Eoghan McCabe
@eoghan
Jun 15
We’re excited to share that we just signed an agreement for @salesforce to acquire @fin_ai for ~$3.6B. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Salesforce’s fiscal year 2027. Fin started as Intercom 15 years ago. We changed our name to cap our transformation
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Ethan Kurzweil
@ethankurz
Jun 15
Such an incredible journey and a case study by @eoghan in bringing founder mode back to a company facing an existential crisis to make the leap into AI. What an amazing ride! Congrats @eoghan @destraynor and the @fin_ai team on today’s news. This is very, very well earned. Still
Eoghan McCabe
@eoghan
Jun 15
We’re excited to share that we just signed an agreement for @salesforce to acquire @fin_ai for ~$3.6B. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Salesforce’s fiscal year 2027. Fin started as Intercom 15 years ago. We changed our name to cap our transformation
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Ethan Kurzweil
@ethankurz
Jun 8
How will we augment our intelligence and will there be a distinction between our biological and computational intelligence? What is the longer-term impact of our relationship with AI, and how will it affect how our brains work? There is a lot of (understandable) trepidation and
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Ethan Kurzweil
@ethankurz
Jun 4
Sharing some photos here of our most recent Elements fireside chat - which we kept in the family - literally. For the first time, I moderated a conversation with my dad, Ray Kurzweil, on everything from how he thinks about making predictions, to Pope Leo’s transhumanist mention
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Chemistry
@chemistry
May 22
Join us for an evening with Ray Kurzweil, in conversation with Chemistry founding partner @ethankurz (who also happens to be his son 🙂). Limited spots are available for founders, who want to be in the room to hear more on: • Ray’s reputation as the “godfather of AGI” • His
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Chemistry
@chemistry
May 22
Limited spots are available. Apply to join us now:
AGI is here? A conversation with Ray Kurzweil · Luma
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Chemistry
@chemistry
May 22
And to get a taste of what the event will be like, check out the previous conversations in our Elements series, on YouTube:
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Chemistry Ventures
Chemistry is a $350M early-stage firm that leads investments in founders who blend technical expertise with commercial instincts. We lead investments from the first check through Series B, with...
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Ethan Kurzweil
@ethankurz
May 21
There are very few people who have been thinking seriously about AI since long before it became the center of every single conversation as it today. In this case, 60 years before... My dad, Ray Kurzweil, is one of them. On June 2, as part of @chemistry's Elements series, I’ll
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Kristina Shen
@kshenster
May 6
Fun to part of such a talented a16z ecosystem to form such a legit group of new managers =) Congrats to @sumeet724 for launching @Worldbuild Proud to building alongside great friends @ljin18, @katie_haun, @rexsalisbury, @anneleeskates, @MichelleVolz, @vijaypande,
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Kristina Shen
@kshenster
May 5
We at @chemistry are excited to lead @nova_ai's Series A alongside @ivzhou at @Accel, @saranormous at @conviction, and SAP .io AI is transforming software development — but it hasn’t reached the software that actually runs the world. 92% of the Global 2000 runs on SAP.
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Emma
@EmmaQian_
May 5
I'm thrilled to announce @nova_ai's $40M funding across a Series A led by @chemistry and a Seed led by @Accel, with participation from @conviction and SAP's venture arm SAP.iO.
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Ethan Kurzweil
@ethankurz
Apr 24
If you're building creative assets - video, images, 3D, audio - with AI, there's one platform worth knowing: @ComfyUI ! 4M users. 60K+ community-built nodes. 50K daily downloads. 110K+ GitHub stars — top 10 open source AI repositories on earth. "ComfyUI artist" is now a real job
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Chemistry
@chemistry
Apr 10
At #HumanX this week, @ethankurz joined Ray Kurzweil and @shiringhaffary to talk AGI, intelligence, and how humans and AI may evolve together. In this clip, Ethan shares how Chemistry is putting AI to work across the firm.
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