Bennett Siegel

@BennettSiegel

Co-founder @A_StarVC. Previously Partner @coatuemgmt

San Francisco, CA

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Bennett Siegel
@BennettSiegel
May 12
Today, we're announcing A* III, a $450 million early-stage fund. We started @A_StarVC with the simple idea to be a founder's first believer. We are generalists by sector, but specialists in the stage and craft of seed investing. We partner with founders before there is
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Bennett Siegel
@BennettSiegel
Sep 17
Excited to double down on our partnership with @watneyrobotics ! Since co-leading their seed round last January, we’ve watched the company grow from two founders testing robots in a Berkeley strawberry field into a team deploying autonomous systems in some of the world’s most
Watney
@watneyrobotics
Sep 17
We’ve raised $80 million in Series A funding, co-led by the Valor Atreides AI Fund and Hummingbird Ventures, with continued participation from Conviction, Abstract, A*, and Grant Gordon. This brings our total raised to over $100 million. We started Watney by asking a simple
Bennett Siegel
@BennettSiegel
Sep 8
Software ate the world when building became a fast, continuous cycle. We believe the same thing is about to happen to the physical world—and Antioch is building the platform that makes it possible. @HarryMellsop @AlexLangshur
Antioch
@antiochrobotics
Sep 8
Today, we’re announcing Antioch’s $32 million Series A, led by @GreylockVC with participation from @A_StarVC, @Category_VC, @BoxGroup, @IcehouseVenture, and angels. While AI has drastically accelerated software development, physical autonomy has been constrained by slow,
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Bennett Siegel
@BennettSiegel
Aug 5
Congratulations to Gautam Gupta on his new role as CFO at Atoms, reuniting the band that built Uber into the global company it is today. @kevinhartz, @GGuptaSF, and I started @A_StarVC just over five years ago. In that time, I couldn’t have asked for a better co-founder and
Gautam Gupta
@GGuptaSF
Aug 5
Excited to share that I have joined Atoms as CFO!
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Round 2!
My first journey with @travisk began in 2012 even before I joined Uber. I was at Goldman when I had the fortune of investing in Uber’s Series B. I still remember that investment memo, the taxi TAM I...
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Bennett Siegel
@BennettSiegel
Jul 30
While the rest of the market was thinking incrementally of how to use ai to run surveys (“faster horses”), @joon_s_pk, @msbernst, @percyliang, @ElainaYallen and the Simile team pioneered a whole new field of agent-based simulations. This is a category where the best team and
Simile
@simile_ai
Jul 30
Today we’re announcing our Series B. We’ve raised $200M at a $2B valuation from Greenoaks with participation from Index Ventures, Hanabi, A*, Bain Capital Ventures, CVS Health Ventures, and Definition. Our mission is to simulate all eight billion people on earth, accurately.
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