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Announcing our latest $250M Fund IV
What Makes a Successful Founder?
What traits make a successful founder? Over the past year, Basis Set Ventures (BSV) has asked early stage investors representing north of $40 billion.
Entendre Joins MoonPay to Build the Agentic Financial Infrastructure
Entendre Joins MoonPay to Build the Agentic Financial Infrastructure
Basata's $21M Series A and the Defense of Healthcare Admins
Basis Set led Basata's $21M Series A to bring AI to healthcare's most overlooked workforce — the administrators keeping practices alive.
Investing in the Open Source Agent Stack (part 2 of 2)
Breaking down the AI agent stack, from infrastructure to applications, and the companies shaping its future.
The Future of Agents is Open Source (part 1 of 2)
The Rise of Open-Source AI Agents: Why Control Is Winning
Parasail's $32M Series A and the Democratization of AI Inference
Parasail lands $32M Series A to scale global AI inference infrastructure, optimizing token costs as open models and agent-driven workloads accelerate.
Daydream's $15M Series A, Growth-as-a-Service
Daydream raises $15M Series A to scale AI-native SEO agents that replace traditional agencies.
Neion's $11M Seed, A Better Way to Make Medicine
Neion Bio emerged from stealth with $11M in funding and a commercial partnership to produce biologic medicines at a fraction of the cost.
Context is All Your Company Needs
AI models are already good enough for most knowledge work. The real bottleneck is context. Why companies that organize and capture their knowledge will gai
The New Meaning of 'Developer'
GitHub developers doubled while SWE job postings dropped 71%. The debate over what this means assumes "developer" is a fixed category. It's not.
Reflow’s $15M Seed, Bringing Workflow Intelligence to AI Ops
We led Reflow’s $15M Seed to build the system of record for operational intelligence — bringing visibility and measurable ROI to enterprise AI automation.
Entire’s $60M Seed and the Future of Agentic Development
Entire raises a historic $60M seed to rebuild developer infrastructure for the AI agent era.
Clearly AI’s $8.4M Seed + RSA Sandbox Award for Scalable Security Reviews
Clearly AI helps security teams manage the surge of AI-generated code, cutting review times by 90%+ without sacrificing trust or safety.
OpenArt’s Series A and the Acceleration of Infrastructure-First Consumer
Infrastructure-First Consumer at Scale: OpenArt’s $70M ARR
Our Favorite AI Workflows of 2025
With the year wrapping up, we asked the Basis Set team to share some of the AI workflows that had the biggest impact on how they worked in 2025.
Announcing DataLane's $27M Seed and Series A
How Datalane is unlocking the offline economy with $27M in fresh funding
Announcing Simular's $27M Seed and Series A
Simular leads the way with the highest performing computer use agents and a fresh Series A
The New Moat is the Method
In a world of high-velocity markets, the next great companies win not by speed alone, but by how their systems learn, adapt, and compound.
Announcing Flint and Mem0’s Series As
AI is democratizing knowledge, but the next frontier is democratizing cognition — we’re investing in startups building unified human learning systems.
Building With Agents, Not Code
The shift from coding to building with agents is about creating reasoning systems that compound human judgment
Pricing AI Agents: Learnings from Pricing & Selling Robots
How to price AI agents: insights from robotics on value proxies, ROI alignment, and outcome-based Agent-as-a-Service pricing models.
It’s Time for a Security Foundation Model
Security foundation models will generalize across domains and unify point solutions with a universal understanding of cyber attack and defense.
You Don't Need to be First
The most important AI products haven’t been built yet. Founders who learn to ship through this moment will define what comes next.
How to Build a Financial Model for Your Data Room
Build a clear, investor-ready financial model with our guide and template, covering revenue drivers, P&L structure, key metrics, and forecast assumptions
The Fix That Let Us Run the Biggest Open Models Overnight
We hit GPU limits with every new model until we found a better way. Here's how we cut costs and seamlessly swapped in open-source LLMs.
Beyond B2C: The Rise of Infrastructure-First Consumer Companies
A new category of consumer companies is emerging—those driven by scalable infrastructure. Let’s call it “consumer infra.”
Win on Value, or Don't Win at All
Prices are up. Loyalty is down. Value wins. Startups that deliver it will capture demand that legacy players can’t hold.
Inference Is The Future of AI
Here’s why inference is reshaping the AI landscape...