Kevin Hartz

@kevinhartz

Co-Founder & General Partner A*. Co-founder of Sauron, Eventbrite (IPO 2018, acquired by Bending Spoons), and Xoom (IPO 2013, acquired by PayPal)

San Francisco

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Kevin Hartz
@kevinhartz
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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Kevin Hartz
@kevinhartz
Sep 25
what? did they add to many zeros???
Cognition
@cognition
Sep 25
Cognition has crossed $1B in annualized revenue run rate. This milestone belongs to our customers. Here's how a few of them are building with Devin.
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Kevin Hartz
@kevinhartz
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
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Kevin Hartz
@kevinhartz
Sep 15
I just had Persona *call* my wife, @juliahartz, ask what she wanted for dinner tonight, then go and make the reservation. 🤯
Zach Yadegari
@zach_yadegari
Sep 15
Everyone’s been asking what’s next after selling Cal AI. Introducing Persona. Others couldn’t figure out the interface, we did. yourpersona.com/band
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Kevin Hartz
@kevinhartz
Sep 8
Congrats @HarryMellsop and @AlexLangshur! Excited to double down in @antiochrobotics Series A
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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