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ConvictionVC firm · US12cheques in 12 months15all time1ledCompanies they are listed as backing
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Filings
- SEC Form D · Venture Capital fundCBT1, LLCManaging Member of the Managing Membersince 2026
- SEC Form D · Venture Capital fundConvictionManaging Member of the General Partneron 7 filings · since 2022
- SEC Form D · Company raisingZEROEX HOLDINGS, INC.Directorsince 2022
- SEC Form D · Company raisingMysteries, Inc.Directorsince 2021
- SEC Form D · Company raisingStodge Inc.Directorsince 2021
- SEC Form D · Company raisingCleo Labs, Inc.Directoron 2 filings · since 2020
- SEC Form D · Company raisingCleo Labs, IncDirectoron 3 filings · since 2019
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Sarah Guo - Funding the Frontier - [Invest Like the Best, EP.489]
WithSarah Guo
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My guest today is Sarah Guo, founder and managing partner of Conviction, the venture firm she built to back AI-native companies from their earliest days. Sarah has become one of the most sought-after early-stage investors in AI, often the first check into the companies defining the frontier. In… More on the show's page
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Hill & Valley Gigastream, Apple's Next CEO, OpenAI's Non-Profit | Scott Nolan, Sarah Guo, Casey Handmer, Shaun Maguire, Delian Asparouhov, Zach Dell, Ryan Petersen, and Chase Lochmiller
WithChase LochmillerDelian AsparouhovSarah GuoScott NolanShaun Maguire
MentionsRyan PetersenFounders Fund
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Sign up for TBPN’s daily newsletter at TBPN.com (06:46) - Who Won The Great Peptide Debate (13:57) - Ternus Steps Into Apple Spotlight (34:12) - TBPN Featured in Fast Company (39:11) - OpenAI's Non-Profit to Spend $1B in 2026 (40:59) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (50:52) - Chase… More on the show's page
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Apple PodcastsThe show's pageAmazon x OpenAI, Ford's EV Reality Check, Kushner Drops WB Bid | Sarah Guo, David Senra, Doug O'Laughlin, Doug Bernauer, Jacob Effron, Logan Kilpatrick
MentionsLogan KilpatrickGreylock
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(02:12) - Ford's EV Reality Check (21:03) - Amazon x OpenAI (33:13) - Kushner Drops WB Bid (39:53) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (57:33) - Sarah Guo is the founder and managing partner of Conviction, an early-stage venture firm focused on backing transformative software and AI companies.… More on the show's page
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Uncapped #5 | Sarah Guo from Conviction
WithSarah Guo
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I was pumped to chat this week with Sarah Guo. Sarah is a startup investor and the founder of Conviction, an investment firm purpose-built to serve intelligent software, or "Software 3.0" companies. Some of her investments include Harvey, Mistral AI, Sierra, Cognition, HeyGen, and Cartesia, among… More on the show's page
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Apple PodcastsThe show's pageRyan Petersen, James Cadwallader, Quaid Walker, Sarah Guo, Nicholas Harris, Raunaq Singh, Deel Spy Scheme, Tesla Deliveries Drop
WithSarah Guo
MentionsRyan Petersen
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Apple PodcastsThe show's pageSarah Guo - The Power of Conviction - [Invest Like the Best, EP.383]
WithSarah Guo
MentionsGreylock
About this episode
My guest today is Sarah Guo. Sarah is the founder and CEO of Conviction, an early-stage venture capital firm built to serve AI companies. She started Conviction in 2022 after 9 years at Greylock because she believes AI is the most important technological advancement of our lifetime. In our… More on the show's page
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Episode 92: Diyala D'Aveni - Head of Vento & Italian Tech Week - What's the Future of the Italian Startup Ecosystem?
MentionsVentoBrian CheskySam AltmanDoug LeoneMike VolpiSarah Guo
About this episode
In this episode, we catch up with Diyala D'Aveni, Head of Vento, an Italian chapter of Exor Ventures. With $520M invested in 76 startups globally, Exor Ventures is focusing on discovering exceptional founders with the ambition to build great companies and backing them from pre-seed to pre-IPO.… More on the show's page
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20VC: The Biggest AI Leaders on What Matters More; Model Size or Data Size & Where Does The Value in AI Accrue; to Startups or to Incumbents
MentionsGreylockRichard SocherTheory VenturesEmad MostaqueSarah GuoTomasz Tunguz
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Richard Socher is the founder and CEO of You.com . Richard previously served as the Chief Scientist and EVP at Salesforce. Douwe Kiela is the CEO of Contextual AI , building the contextual language model to power the future of businesses. Previously, he was the Head of Research at Hugging Face,… More on the show's page
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Apple PodcastsThe show's page20VC: Why Data Size Matters More Than Model Size, Why The Google Employee Was Wrong; OpenAI and Google Have the Advantage & Why Open Source is Not Going to Win with Douwe Kiela, Co-Founder @ Contextual AI
MentionsGoogleBain CapitalElad GilSarah GuoYann LeCun
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Douwe Kiela is the CEO of Contextual AI , building the contextual language model to power the future of businesses. Last month Contextual closed a $20M funding round including Bain Capital, Sarah Guo, Elad Gil and 20VC. He is also an Adjunct Professor in Symbolic Systems at Stanford University.… More on the show's page
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Apple PodcastsThe show's page20VC: Who Wins the AI Race; Startups or Incumbents & Does Having Proprietary Data Really Matter For Startups Today?
MentionsAdditionClem DelangueCoatueGreylockEmad MostaqueSarah Guo
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One of the core questions in AI and investing today; who wins, startups or incumbents? Startups have speed and innovation but incumbents have scale, resources, and distribution? Today we hear from 6 leading investors and founders discussing where they place their bets who has the advantage;… More on the show's page
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Okta's Frederic Kerrest | Instructive Experiences
WithFrederic Kerrest
MentionsSarah Guo
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A re-broadcast of our interview with Okta executive vice chairman, COO, and co-founder Frederic Kerrest, who shares stories from his earliest days as an entrepreneur starting a business in the midst of the Great Recession. The challenging experience is why Kerrest wrote Zero to IPO, a collection of… More on the show's page
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