Behind the simple product, Tin Can is building the primitives for a new kind of social network fastcompany.com/91623589/tin… Insane growth over the past year since leading the seed, and such a fun, positive force in our house & community

Beyond excited to share that @highstock_x has raised a $30M Series A led by @a16z with participation from @GreylockVC, @AbstractVC, @Daybreak_Fund, and angels. We are doubling down on our mission of creating value for brands with unproductive inventory. With this raise, we are expanding our team and building on our success in beauty to unlock a new category: apparel. @omooretweets, @venturetwins and @jeff_jordan are the right partners to take this company to new heights - they've invested in great marketplaces like Instacart (I may be biased :) ), and have studied how AI will scale marketplace models that were previously too labor intensive to be financially viable. Thank you to our angels: @Max, @lennysan, JJ Zhuang (Instacart) and John Adams (Instacart). Most of all, thank you to our customers and team. We would not be here without you. Read my reflections on our journey below.

Excited to announce @a16z is leading Highstock's Series A! Highstock is an AI-powered marketplace tackling a trillion-dollar problem for consumer brands - excess inventory. They have $1B+ in product listed from 100+ major brands, who use Highstock to reach vetted buyers 👇

Today, we’re introducing District, an AI commerce platform where entrepreneurs with no technical background have built online businesses already generating millions in sales.

Grocery is a $1.5T domestic market — bigger than restaurants, bigger than hotels. But it's running on technology from the Reagan administration. We just raised a $22M Series B for @VoriHQ to make every supermarket in America autonomous.

Unlike most consumer AI utilities, @SuperMeAI has been network‑first from day one. And that's by design. @onecaseman shares why this approach is important for defensibility and what we can learn from the consumer mobile transformation.

Today, we’re pulling the curtain back to unveil SuperMe 1.0: the AI-native professional network, launch Perspective Search, and announce that we’ve raised a $6.8M seed round. How @SuperMeAI works: - Ask a question. - SuperMe finds the right professionals. - Their AI profiles answer instantly, grounded in their real work. It’s how advice really works in business. We’ve just built it into the network. Search is changing. But it has gaps. AI assistants answer without revealing the humans behind the knowledge. Perspectives are lost as blue links turn into one-size-fits-all answers. Perspective Search is our answer to that. We show multiple answers to your questions, from people who have solved your problem before. You can also go deeper by engaging with individual profiles. We’re also excited to share that we’ve raised a $6.8M seed round led by @mduboe at @GreylockVC , joined by some of the most thoughtful builders and operators in tech (see list below). Read the full story in Alex Konrad’s Upstarts and our full launch post in the comment below. We’ve brought on a large group of amazing angels to help bootstrap the network with fantastic insights: Product Leaders: @aparnacd , CPO for AI Experiences at Microsoft @nikhyl , Founder of the Skip and Former VP Product at Meta @archieabrams , VP Product at Shopify @omarseyal , Head of Product, AI Search at Instagram @ngavini , former CPO at Pinterest @makavy , former CPO at Lyft @ShaunMClowes , CPO at Confluent @eugenewei , former CPO at Oculus, Hulu, Flipboard @jasoncosta , Sr. Director Product at Reddit Founders: @shishirmehrotra , CEO of Superhuman @bbalfour , Founder/CEO of Reforge @VanjaJosifovski , Founder/CEO of KumoAI, former CTO at Pinterest @catleecatlee & @smallchou , former bosses of mine at Pinterest and co-founders of Pace @rob, Co-founder of Ro @PameVls , Founder/CEO of Musa @IAmBrandonTerry Founder/CEO of Village @dmccartney Co-founder of ScoutFM Growth Leaders: @ElenaVerna , Growth at Lovable @brianhale, Chief Growth Officer at Doordash @fishmanaf , Growth and Product Advisor Darius Contractor, Chief Growth Officer at Otter @luclevesque , former Chief Growth Officer at Shopify @dannieb , Head of Growth Engineering at Coinbase @micahmoreau , SVP Growth at Hims & Hers @sri_batchu , former CMO at The Real Real @HilaQu , Former VP Growth at Gitlab @eusden , formerly Growth at Pinterest, Alto, Faire Operators: @danhockenmaier , Chief Strategy Officer at Faire @jluan , Head of AGI SF Lab at Amazon @lieber, former COO Postmates, CBO Shippo Morgan Hughes, former CFO at Cambly, VP Finance at Airbnb and Grubhub @mckenzielock , GM Content Platform at Netflix Ali Behnam and Michael Morell at Riviera Eddie Hsu, Head of TPM, Android at Google Jeffrey Chang, Product at Adobe Benjamin Huh, Assistant General Counsel at Crowdstrike Investors: @lennysan , Author of Lenny’s Newsletter & Lenny’s Podcast @HarryStebbings and @Kieranleehill at20VC @kevinakwok , Partner at Sutter Hill @mercebent , Co-founder at Premise @Chengdavid923 , GP at Coreline Ventures @tkendall, founder at Common Metal and former President at Pinterest @NikkiFarb , Founder at Power of N @ngoel & Amr Al-Shihabi at Karman Ventures Mei Z. @ikirigin , Founder at Tango VC We’re just getting started.

Exclusive: SuperMe, a startup building a new-look AI expert network, has launched with $6.8M in funding led by Greylock. CEO Casey Winters says they're tackling a simple problem: “How do you share the knowledge sitting in the heads of top 1% people?”