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Former Sequoia partner Matt Miller raises $355M for new fund — with Sequoia’s backing

Former Sequoia partner Matt Miller has already locked in $355 million for his new VC firm, Evantic, which is also backed by Sequoia, TechCrunch learned. Last December, Miller announced his departure from Sequoia after twelve years to “start [his] own fund focused on the great founders of Europe.” Despite the European focus, TechCrunch’s understanding is that Evantic will actually invest on both sides of the Atlantic, with a focus on B2B companies at the Series B and growth stages. However, its

Impact of PCIe 5.0 Bandwidth on GPU Content Creation and LLM Performance

Introduction With the release of the NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and RDNA 4-based Radeon 9000-series GPUs, we finally have consumer video cards that support the PCIe 5.0 standard. Although we have had motherboards with support for it for some time now, we didn’t have any devices other than storage that took advantage of it. This leads now to the question: What impact does PCIe 5.0’s increased bandwidth have on GPU performance in content creation applications? PCI Express (abbreviated PCIe or PCI-e)

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Does Form Shape Function?

What links a Möbius strip, brain folds and termite mounds? The answer is Harvard University’s L. Mahadevan, whose career has been devoted to using mathematics and physics to explore the form and function of common phenomena. Mahadevan, or Maha to his friends and colleagues, has long been fascinated by questions one wouldn’t normally ask — from the equilibrium shape of inert objects like a Möbius strip, to the complex factors that drive biological systems like morphogenesis or social insect colo

Shaped (YC W22) Is Hiring

The fastest path to relevant recommendations and search Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups. New York, NY, US / San Francisco, CA, US As the Head of Engineering at Shaped, you will be a pivotal member of our leadership team, responsible for scaling our engineering organization and driving the technical vision of our products. You'll lead a team of talented engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. Your leadership will be instrumenta