We raised a $20M seed led by @Base10 and are ready to take @causaprimaai further. Our money man has never been busier!

Some personal news: I’ve joined @Kfundvc as an Investor, and I’m moving to Barcelona. 🌅 Having spent the last years backing founders across Iberia, it has been striking to watch the Spanish ecosystem densify. More people leaving big operators to build. More people choosing the startup path over the safe one. Second-time founders going again. Alumni networks taking shape, with people from one company spinning out into the next. Communities like @exp8fellowship sending the best young builders abroad. And Spanish founders positioning themselves globally from day one. Kfund has been part of Barcelona’s story almost from the beginning. I’ll now lead our presence in the city: living here, spending time with the portfolio, and meeting the founders building the most crazy companies. Huge thanks to @JCampo7_ and @jaimenovoa for opening this door, and to the whole K 🟦 team for the trust. Bon dia, Barcelona. More info here: kfund.vc/

¡Hemos abierto Tempo! Hace unas semanas lanzamos Tempo Gelato con la ilusión de hacer buen helado para todo el mundo, junto a Borja, el mejor compañero que uno podía tener. Cierro una etapa muy bonita que me ha cambiado la vida. Han sido cinco años en Venture Capital, que casi puedo decir que lo he disfrutado tanto que ha sido como no trabajar, y en los que he tenido la suerte de conocer a gente y emprendedores increíbles que me han inspirado día a día. Muy agradecido a todo el equipo de JME Ventures y de Dozen Investments - no podría haber estado en ningún sitio mejor - y a todos los fundadores que han confiado en nosotros durante estos años. Estamos en Carranza 8, en la Glorieta de Bilbao (lnkd.in/ecBtBKdY). Muchas gracias a Carolina y Carmela, por el trabajo y por formar parte del equipo desde el día 0, a los que ya habéis venido y a los que habéis hecho esto posible. ¡Aquí os esperamos a todos!

Zrive vive, la lucha sigue

Como hay que leer este nivel de tonterías, voy a contar mi experiencia en Zrive. Entré en Mente(e)s en la segunda edición, durante primavera de 2022. Me acaba de mudar a Madrid para hacer prácticas y no conocía a casi nadie, así que fui a todas las charlas y eventos que pude. Desde el principio, tanto Edu y Guille como los miembros de la comunidad, mentores, y Carmen y Paloma fueron super majos, abiertos y dispuestos a ayudar a los demás. Cualquier persona te ayudaba con un referral, información de un proceso de selección o practicando entrevistas. Pero más allá de esto, lo que me llevo y que tiene un valor incalculable son las amistades que hice. Desde aquella primavera hice un grupo de amigos con el que he pasado ya cuatro años en Madrid. Personas de una calidad humana brutal con las que he compartido aventuras, aprendizajes, diversión y momentos difíciles. Y como yo, muchísimas personas que también pasaron por allí e hicieron amigos y conexiones para toda la vida. Personas que ahora están en los mejores hedge funds, startups, big tech, consultoras o despachos en Madrid, SF, Londres o NY. Todos dispuestos a ayudarse los unos a los otros. Muchos ahora están viviendo juntos, trabajando juntos, montando empresas, invirtiendose unos en otros… ¿Qué impacto ha tenido Zrive en la vida de estas personas? Y sobre Edu, poco que comentar. Me ha ayudado más en lo personal que en lo profesional, y siempre estaré agradecido. PD: Zrive vuelve en Q426❤️

Introducing PhoneFlow, the Open Source Voice Agent Platform 🚀 Lately Voice AI has been a very hot space: In Spain alone there have been several major funding rounds recently, including HappyRobot ($44M), Prosper AI ($30M), Orbio ($21M), and Murphy AI ($15M). If we take a broader look globally, there is an even more diverse set of players: Sierra (950M), Elevenlabs (500M), Parloa (350M), Decagon (250M), PolyAI (86M) Bland (50M), Vapi (50M), Synthflow (20M), Retell, etc Although they have very different value propositions and GTM strategies (ranging from self-serve product led growth to FDE-driven enterprise sales motion or building for any use case to focusing on a single vertical) the core product behind most of them is actually quite similar: a platform to create voice agents by connecting nodes on a canvas with version control and deploy them to handle inbound and outbound phone calls. Despite how crowded the space has become, I realized there wasn't an established open source alternative. So I decided to build one. So far I had a lot of fun working on it. I got to solve some nerd sniping problems like: - Transforming a mutable graph formed by different kinds of nodes connected through edges into a runtime state machine that dynamically updates the agent prompts depending on the current node and creates tools on the fly to transition through the outgoing edges when transition conditions are met - A version control system with immutable snapshots of the agents to be able to iterate with confidence with full traceability of the changes - A consumption based credit system that charges per call minute depending on the STT, LLM, TTS providers and models selected for each deployed agent version - A basic templating engine to support dynamic variables in prompts - Running and connecting the agents to handle real inbound and outbound phone calls There are still a lot of features missing that I will continue to implement during my free time but I think this initial version is complete enough to put it out there. Check out the GitHub repository, give it a star if you like it and join the waitlist to get notified when I release the platform generally available (link in comments).

why agents need typed graphs to coordinate /w Andrew and Ragnor from Modern Relay, an agent substrate layer built on open-source infrastructure like Lance, Arrow, and DataFusion Timestamps: (0:00) Why build a graph database for agents? (5:43) Why not Postgres or any other relational database? (17:03) The composable "company brain" substrate for agents (20:51) Need for agent guardrails (e.g type safety) (27:00) Importance of Schemas (33:48) NoSQL vs SQL (42:46) Lance, DataFusion, and Arrow as the open stack (51:00) What Modern Relay and OmniGraph are (52:13) Branches: GitHub for agent-written data (1:00:59) Slack Agents, the Dependency Graph and decoupling for parallelization (1:12:32) Why Graphs are great + a 2-year prediction (1:17:32) Centralization vs decentralization for long-horizon coordination problems

We just raised $85M, Europe's largest ever robotics Series A, led by @CRV, with backing from @Samsung and @LVMH. But this story did not start today. Carla and Jia have been obsessed with robots since they were kids. They met as engineers at UPC, started the university's robotics club, and competed and won at an international level. Years later, that obsession became THEKER: a company built from Barcelona to be the largest in the world, and to crack the technical problems other people call impossible. Today we are well on our way to the goal we set on day one: solve 100% of physical work. Our robots are live in production, improving every day, and the pace is only increasing. This round is not the destination. It is one more step in the right direction. Thank you to everyone who got us here. To our team, who hold a standard most people would call unreasonable. To our customers, who push us to become better. And to our investors, old and new, who saw it before the rest of the world did. If this mission excites you, we are hiring across the board. Come build it with us. We will win.

@THEKER_ai just raised $85M 🇪🇺🚀 Largest robotics Series A in European history, round led by CRV + Samsung and LVMH joining. Thank you Carla and Jiaqiang for letting us be part of the journey since pre-seed 🙏 They met at UPC, started the university's robotics club, and won competitions at international level before they ever incorporated a company, and that obsession became the company. 18 months later, their robots deploy in days instead of months, keep learning while they operate, and are already live in production across Europe. Congrats to the team, and can't wait to see what's next 🚀 @hernanzjm @pepe_vilanova @Jordi10Noguera @samuelgil @lourdesadt @JME_Ventures

omnigraph.dev has graph + git-like semantics

On-prem is the new cloud @chamath called this 2 months ago. Now it's everywhere: On-prem - ideal VPC - okay SaaS / public cloud - 👎 The cost of setting up infra is decreasing fast. Agents can configure anything in a matter of hours: Firmware, LAN, VMs, k8s, Terraform - you name it. Many companies are running open-source LLMs in-house for simple workflows. And pseudonymize data for cloud models. CFOs love it! They hate everything that is per-seat or per-token. Way more focus on what's defensible: data policies ontology know-hows decision chains New motto: Data sovereignty Zero vendor lock-in Headless OSS stack On-prem / hybrid infra Centralized governance Context graph ownership Bearish on rent Bullish on own

Indexed Lenny's content for agents > ask any questions without recall issues (structure + codegen) > converted all the markdown files to a db > connect curated data as context for agents via MCP, API, CLI > was set up in 10 min and can be applied to other knowledge bases!

Arrow-1.0 from @QuiverAI is now the state of the art for SVG generation. Huge thanks to @Designarena for running such a great benchmark! This is just the beginning

MITO Films is officially live. Real client work for brands, built with an AI-native pipeline where story, framing and grade come first and the models sit in the background. The same engine behind these shots is becoming MITO AI, our product for filmmakers and visual teams. Early access and more context here: mito.ai And if you’re more on the creator side, you’ll find our curated ecosystem of artists and styles in MITO Universe @universemito, also inside mito.ai.

Muchos comentarios de Freepik (más que merecidos) pero muy pocos de la gente de Happyscribe, que sin un € de inversión compiten de tú a tú con todos los $ de Silicon Valley. From Barcelona to the world!

Creating agents has become easier and faster than ordering a latte. Go @trylatitude‼️

Theker’s team perfectly embodies the kind of crazy, outlier, and contrarian founders we love to back at Kfund. Thank you for letting us be part of your journey kfund.vc/post/our-investment…

We're back with another edition of Beyond The Prompt, this time in Barcelona on May 19th at @itnig. We'll hear from @heycesr (@trylatitude) & Kai Brandt (@GenesyAI) Tickets are free, grab yours here 👉🏼 lu.ma/g101d8jr