Kevin Gabura @kgabura
Growth Fund @craft_ventures craftventures.com Toronto, Ontario Joined December 2013-
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Very honored to be included in the current issue of CISO Connect Magazine with such esteemed colleagues as Karl Mattson, Donna Ross and David Hahn. #CISO #infosec securitycurrent.com/ciso-spotlight…
Our Growth practice has grown. We welcomed @Mike_Rob_Craft to lead our growth team earlier this year, and we've made bets on companies such as @Replit, @upwindsecurity and @Horizon3ai. @kgabura was the first of a number of key hires on this team.
We’ve got some big news! 🎉 We’ve secured $50 million in funding to continue driving operational efficiencies for insurers and distributors, bringing our total up to $161 million raised. hubs.li/Q026RdjX0
Why We Invested In Upwind Security medium.com/craft-ventures…
🎉 Today we’re officially launching SaaSGrid 🎉 We raised a $3.3M seed round, led by Craft Ventures, to set the new standard for SaaS metrics. prnewswire.com/news-releases/…
Upwind is exiting stealth mode with $80M in funding! Upwind is brought to you by the same team that built Spot.io to protect everything you run in the cloud with a runtime-powered CNAPP. upwind.io/feed/80m-in-12…
Met up with the @Horizon3ai team last night at #BlackHat2023. Huge congrats to @snehalantani and the entire team on the Series C! Everything you’ve built – the product, customer love & momentum is 11/10! Why @craft_ventures invested: medium.com/craft-ventures…
The Craft team is hiring for an Entrepreneur in Residence, focused on AI. We're looking for an experienced and entrepreneurial AI/ML expert to partner with our investment team, support our portfolio, and build a new venture focused on AI. JD & application link below👇
RingCentral: - $2.1 Billion in ARR - Growing 16% - Non-GAAP margins of 17% and trending up And market cap? $2.76 Billion That's 1.3x ARR folks
📢Calling all builders & hackers! 📢 Use the latest AI tools and build AI-powered products. 2 winning teams will each take home a 💰 $10k grand prize 💰: 1 in the technical category, 1 non-technical. Whether you're a seasoned hacker or a hackathon newbie, there's something for…
🚨HackAIthon date change!🚨 Now from May 16 - 18 📅 Still happening in San Francisco 🌉 Still offering $20K in grand prize money🤑 Still going to be a blast 🥳 Just one week later. Applications are OPEN: hackAIthon.ai
🌉 Who's coming to the Bay to build with us? 🙋🙋♂️🙋♀️ The prizes will be 💰 The demos will be 🤯 The after party will be 🪩 Applications are OPEN now until April 28th. 👉 hackaithon.ai 👈 #hackathon #AI #sanfrancisco
Want to spend 3 days building, learning & hanging with some of the best #AI builders, founders, and leaders? Applications are rolling in now: hackaithon.ai May 9-11 in San Francisco
Interesting post by Crunchbase this morning - are Series C investors pulling back, or are companies conserving cash and avoiding raising that next round?
Calling all hackers, builders, and innovators – we're hosting an #AI #hackathon! Join us for 3 days of hacking using the latest AI tools, prompts, plugins, and more. hackaithon.ai 📩Applications are open! 📅May 9-11 🌉San Francisco
GPT-5: can build a website GPT-6: starts a Fortune 500 company GPT-7: gets into Harvard GPT-8: overthrows (bad) world governments GPT-9: fails to understand how Jira is supposed to work, asks humans for help GPT-10: gives up, uses ClickUp bit.ly/40NoGPu
2. This scarily accurate AI voice cloning tool will be hard to believe for some. x.com/heybarsee/stat…
2. This scarily accurate AI voice cloning tool will be hard to believe for some. x.com/heybarsee/stat…
$SIVB announces $1.75 b common stock and $500 mm preferred stock offerings, as it tries to shore up its balance sheet. It also sold most of its $21 b "available for sale" securities portfolio, resulting in -$1.8 b in after-tax losses for Q1 2023. These were likely necessary…
$SIVB announces $1.75 b common stock and $500 mm preferred stock offerings, as it tries to shore up its balance sheet. It also sold most of its $21 b "available for sale" securities portfolio, resulting in -$1.8 b in after-tax losses for Q1 2023. These were likely necessary…
SaaS lost momentum in ‘22; focus has shifted to fundamentals: revenue durability, growth efficiency & healthy unit economics @DavidSacks & @jefffluhr shared how to operate during a downturn youtu.be/frWgjNMjp98 Here are 8 actions to improve efficiency🧵 link.medium.com/DriHZYmHcxb
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Replit ⠕ @Replit
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15.8M Followers 878 Following VERY QUOTATIOUS, I PERFORM RANDOM ACTS OF SHAQNESS @djdieselWe’re going down the AI Rabbit Hole 🐇 @jefffluhr joined @mattcaspari, @lisayu, @Nick_Davidov and @kirbyman01 are on stage now at the #MadHats AI conference .
First ever post made just by thinking, using the @Neuralnk Telepathy device!
Very honored to be included in the current issue of CISO Connect Magazine with such esteemed colleagues as Karl Mattson, Donna Ross and David Hahn. #CISO #infosec securitycurrent.com/ciso-spotlight…
Pretty crazy – @Reddit IPO is this morning. This all feels surreal, and I couldn’t be more excited and proud of the team. I remember joining Reddit in 2015 – the website looked like a dystopian Craigslist. It was unclear if they wanted to make money and build a real business.
Please fasten your seatbelts :) 🚀🎢
Thrilled to announce we've sent our first text messages from cellphones through SpaceX's Direct to Cell network, validating the link budget. We are excited to change the future of connectivity!
The SpaceX team sent and received our first text messages through our Direct to Cell satellites just six days after launch → starlink.com/updates
We’ve got some big news! 🎉 We’ve secured $50 million in funding to continue driving operational efficiencies for insurers and distributors, bringing our total up to $161 million raised. hubs.li/Q026RdjX0
Cheers to @AmiramShachar and the @upwindsecurity team on emerging out of stealth! SO excited to be working with you to redefine cloud security. Up & Upwind! medium.com/p/a9ee1e793f96
🎉 Today we’re officially launching SaaSGrid 🎉 We raised a $3.3M seed round, led by Craft Ventures, to set the new standard for SaaS metrics. prnewswire.com/news-releases/…
Upwind is exiting stealth mode with $80M in funding! Upwind is brought to you by the same team that built Spot.io to protect everything you run in the cloud with a runtime-powered CNAPP. upwind.io/feed/80m-in-12…
Met up with the @Horizon3ai team last night at #BlackHat2023. Huge congrats to @snehalantani and the entire team on the Series C! Everything you’ve built – the product, customer love & momentum is 11/10! Why @craft_ventures invested: medium.com/craft-ventures…
We’re happy to announce our $280M Series D round led by @foundersfund. We’re extremely excited about this next chapter at Neuralink. If you’d like to help make the first human experience incredible and work on engineering challenges to restore vision and mobility, come join!…
I was incredibly impressed w/ @kracov & his vision for @dock_us when we met in 2020. It's been impressive to watch the team execute on that vision over the years. I'm beyond excited to partner w/ Dock to help them continue to bring that vision to life: medium.com/craft-ventures…
I’m excited to announce that Dock has raised $3.5m from Craft Ventures. I’m incredibly grateful to have the capital we need to bring our full vision to market. Thank you to the customers who have supported Dock on our journey over the last year. Your feedback and support…
I’m excited to announce that Dock has raised $3.5m from Craft Ventures. I’m incredibly grateful to have the capital we need to bring our full vision to market. Thank you to the customers who have supported Dock on our journey over the last year. Your feedback and support…
One month later - There's now almost 20 companies trading >10x NTM rev, with the highest close to 20x
👀 There's now only 3 cloud software companies trading >10x NTM rev. Snowflake at 15.2x, Veeva at 10.8x and Cloudflare at 10.5x Snowflake at 50x NTM FCF, Veeva at 30x NTM FCF, and Cloudflare at 230x FCF (NTM FCF margins of ~5%) Datadog dropped out of the top 10 multiples for…
Just rolled out the new fine-tuned model and in addition to being so much better it’s also soo fast.
4. Craft Ventures On a lighter note, we’re excited to announce that The Rundown is supporting Craft Venture’s upcoming HackAIthon. This free, 3-day AI hackathon in downtown SF from May 16-18 offers $20k in prizes! Apply: hackaithon.ai
📢Calling all builders & hackers! 📢 Use the latest AI tools and build AI-powered products. 2 winning teams will each take home a 💰 $10k grand prize 💰: 1 in the technical category, 1 non-technical. Whether you're a seasoned hacker or a hackathon newbie, there's something for…
My latest on Substack: generative AI represents the evolution of the bottom up motion (@craft_ventures) earlygtm.substack.com/p/generative-a…
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