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Congratulations to @kvreem and the @EntendreAI team on joining @moonpay, and @BasisSet is proud to have led the first round!
I met Kareem while he was at Cloudkitchens, now Atoms, led by Travis Kalanick, whose instinct was to build technology as an advantage rather than buy it.
@EntendreAI has joined @moonpay .
Last year everything accelerated. AI was starting to automate real financial knowledge work, and we felt it in everything we built.
Just as MoonPay is making payments, trading, and money movement headless, Entendre is making accounting and
@EntendreAI Joins @moonpay to Build the Agentic Financial Infrastructure
We led Entendre's seed on the thesis that every new financial rail requires AI to reconcile, report, audit, and close on top of it. The agentic financial infrastructure needs its own accounting layer.
We
News: Announcing @alien's $5M Seed
Some products exist because a founder got tired of building the same thing five times.
@alongubkin spent years building BYOC infrastructure (the plumbing that lets a vendor run its software inside a customer's own cloud). He hit the problem at
We're launching the @alien platform today, backed by a $5M seed from @BasisSet, Jibe, and angels from OpenAI, Google, and Databricks.
We’ve built it so that when your next $300K enterprise deal says they have this tiny little requirement:
"Can you deploy into our cloud?"
...
News: Neion Bio announces their $23M Series A led by @caffeinatedcap!
Neion engineers chickens to lay eggs that produce complex biologic proteins, in days, at a fraction of what a traditional facility costs to build. The why goes beyond cost. Resilient, domestic supply of
News: Announcing @levpgdog's $5.5M Seed
@reductoai, @tryramp, @modal, @HuntressLabs, and @tripstack all run their Postgres through the same open-source project, built by a team of three. Today we are proud to share that we led PgDog's $5.5M seed round.
Postgres is the most
Proudly announcing PgDog's $5.5M seed round from @BasisSet, @ycombinator, @pioneer_fund, and others.
Running Postgres in prod is hard. PgDog is a modern connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder. It can be deployed anywhere and works with all Postgres hosts, incl.
i was almost entirely on claude code, then almost completely switched to codex, especially after the hermes + codex integration. the hermes + x/grok integration was also a big contributing factor and i now use grok primarily with a few agents.
ai operating environments
News: Takeoff41, Inc. launches out of stealth!
Takeoff is reimagining early healthcare for newborns. The team was recognized by @Nature for its work using AI to improve health outcomes for premature babies by optimizing their nutrition.
The company is building an entirely new
News: Announcing Basata's $21M Series A
There is perhaps no space more in need of the benefits of AI agents than healthcare. In such a consequential space, the decisions of "what" and "how" to automate are paramount. Basata is building differently, by showing up, sitting with
Mem0 is partnering with @BasisSet on the 2026 AI Fellowship, Agentic Memory Track.
If you’re an early-career builder excited about AI agents, memory, retrieval, and context engineering, this is for you.
As agents move from demos to real products, memory becomes core
Perspectives: Investing in the Open Source Agent Stack (part 2 of 2)
The agent era structurally favors open source and it's creating opportunities for founders and investors alike, both in the the infrastructure beneath AI, and in the products built on top of it.
Below AI,
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@BasisSet opened the 2026 AI Fellowship — Commerce Track.
12 weeks in SF this summer. Mentorship from an AI-native VC. Hand's on building opportunity.
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Introducing the inaugural Prosumer AI 40 List, recognizing the 40 tools reshaping how individuals build, create, and operate, nominated by 25 leading venture firms.
The full list, and the thesis from @hanstung, @chelcietay & @Camiiikatz on why this category is surging: