By Jéssica Leão I — like many others — have been spellbound by OpenAI’s latest release, ChatGPT, and have spent the past days since its launch ferociously contributing towards the occasional “system is far too busy” message. It is simply addictive. There are numerous examples shared by the community around…

By David Singer and Prateesh Maheshwari Thursday, March 17 We are proud to announce our continued investment in Volta Labs, leading its $20M Series A funding round, with participation from Illumina co-founder John Stuelpnagel, Khosla Ventures, Casdin Capital, Anne Wojcicki (CEO of 23andme), Paul McEwan (co-founder of KAPA Biosystems &…

By Ambar Bhattacharyya We are proud to announce our continued investment in Centivo, and we are pleased to be one of the lead investors in their most recent $51M funding round, co-leading with B Capital Group. Centivo has experienced rapid growth and expansion since implementing its first client in 2019…

By Prateesh Maheshwari and Ambar Bhattacharyya We are thrilled to announce our investment in Chapter. We co-led the seed in February 2020 and continued to invest as part of the $17m Series A announced today. Chapter is personalizing the retirement journey. Chapter’s first product is providing personalized, end-to-end Medicare guidance…

By Maverick Ventures We are so excited to welcome Jéssica Leão to the Maverick Ventures team. Jéssica first joined us as an intern last summer, where she was an instrumental player in sourcing projects and working on multiple deals simultaneously, and we are thrilled to have her join us full…

By Ambar Bhattacharyya Congratulations to Rachel Haurwitz, Jennifer Doudna, and the entire Caribou (NASDAQ: CRBU) team on today’s public debut! This incredible milestone marks the pinnacle of a decade of scientific innovation and next-generation technology. Founded by pioneers in CRISPR genome editing, Caribou has fueled the development of next-generation immune…

By Ambar Bhattacharyya and Prateesh Maheshwari We are proud to share our continued investment in HumanFirst (formerly Elektra Labs), leading its $12M Series A along with Lux Capital, Threshold Ventures, Arkitekt Ventures, Boost VC, SV Angel, Village Global, and other angel investors. Since first leading the seed round in 2019…

By David Singer, Ambar Bhattacharyya, Matt Kinsella, and Prateesh Maheshwari We are excited to announce that we recently closed the third fund cycle of Maverick Ventures, with over $600M in committed capital. This enables us to keep doing what we love to do — support our existing portfolio companies and…

By Prateesh Maheshwari We’re thrilled to announce our newest investment in KUDO, a cloud-based video conferencing platform with real-time multilingual interpretation. As the pandemic has made video conferencing ubiquitous, KUDO’s platform has emerged as a key tool for multilingual online meetings and a vital resource for international organizations, governments, and…