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Flappy Completes $1 Billion Series A; BCV Posts Congratulations
2 reports · 2 sources
Bain Capital Ventures posted on X congratulating the Flappy team on completing a $1 billion Series A round, and named @amspector100, @spectorb, @aidanmantine and all members. BCV said that demand for AI will exceed the supply of data and compute, that the winners will be those who can extract the most value from every byte and GPU cycle, and that Flappy is addressing this problem from both the kernel and pre-training sides. Index Ventures subsequently posted that, after Flappy completed this round, @marklxu1 spoke with CEO and co-founder @spectorb about his journey from running Prod to building an AI efficiency lab. Neither post disclosed the lead investor, valuation or use of funds.
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- Index Ventures in conversation with FlappyAirplanes CEO · 1 reports
- Flappy Raises $1 Billion Series A · 1 reports
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- Index Ventures in conversation with FlappyAirplanes CEO
After @flappyairplanes completed a $1 billion Series A round, @marklxu1 spoke with CEO and co-founder @spectorb about his journey from running Prod to building a lab that boosts AI efficiency by several orders of magnitude, and about what sets founders apart from others.
Index Ventures · X ·
- Flappy Raises $1 Billion Series A
Demand for AI will outpace the supply of data and compute. The winners will be those who extract the most value from every byte and GPU cycle. @flappyairplanes is tackling this from both the kernel and pretraining sides. Congratulations to @amspector100, @spectorb, @aidanmantine, and the Flappy team on closing a $1 billion Series A. ✈️
Bain Capital Ventures · X ·