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Ben Tossell
Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University
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Feb 1, 2024
How to get your team to use AI
Insights from Stripe, Intercom, Zapier, Clearbit and more I’m exploring how to implement AI in businesses and today I’m…
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Aug 3, 2017
Thank you Product Hunt & AngelList
Originally posted on Medium: https://medium.com/@bentossell/thank-you-product-hunt-angellist-b8c77137c59b It’s been an…
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Aug 23, 2015
How I landed a job at Product Hunt
I wanted to write about how a non-technical wantrepreneur (me) has managed to land a Community Manager position at…
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Attio
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Introducing GTM Atlas, a map for modern AI GTM built with some of the best operators in the industry. A free resource covering the full customer journey, from lead capture to expansion, with the systems thinking that scales with you. Our first installation features entries from Elena Verna, Kyle Norton, Roniesha Copeland, James Pastan, and more. Plus a curated stack of perks from partners like Notion, Clay, Wispr Flow, and Granola. Start exploring: attio.ai/gtm-atlas
Abel Mengistu
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FF Designer beta ships today. and the thing i’m most proud of isn’t a feature, but what we didn’t build. we didn’t lock you into our AI. BYOA: bring Claude, Gemini, Codex, Cursor: whatever you already trust. plug it into your design loop and let it iterate alongside you. want to sweep 10 style directions in 10 seconds? style explorer. want to turn a screen into code? your agent. want to redesign an existing FlutterFlow project? done. and there’s a lot more coming before 1.0. see for yourself: designer.flutterflow.io
Zi Dong
3mo
After months in stealth, Nen is live today. Most computer use demos run on virtual desktops with a pile of custom software underneath. That's not how enterprise software actually lives. The machines that run healthcare, logistics, and financial services are on-prem Windows environments, behind firewalls, with no API and no plans to change. We built Nen for those machines — the real ones, in production, that companies already use. The model performance curve is moving faster than most people realize. Claude made double digit improvements in OSWorld from 3.5 to 4.6 in months. Gemini 3.0 Flash now ships with computer use natively. Reasoning diffusion models could bring latency under 500ms — close to human speed. The vision is catching up to reality quickly. When it does, infrastructure is what will matter. That's what we've been building. https://lnkd.in/ginTcpWr
Nen
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Nen is live. After months in stealth, we're launching the developer platform for computer use agents on Windows. Build, deploy, and scale UI agents on the infrastructure desktop software already runs on. No custom setup. Just ship. → https://lnkd.in/gvhTJshP
Aaron Albert
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My cousin, best friend and now co-founder Andrew Gold pitched me a greeting card company five times over five years. I said no every single time. Then in 2025, while every founder I knew was racing to build AI agents and B2B SaaS, I finally said yes. To a paper company. People thought we were nuts. But here's what we kept telling investors: in a few years, saying your company "uses AI" is going to sound as ridiculous as saying you're "an internet company." Nobody says that anymore. So we skipped that part. Here's what we're actually building. You open the app. It knows your best friend's birthday is in three days. You pick a card designed by an independent artist, write something real, and send it in 60 seconds. A few days later she opens her mailbox and there's something physical, something she can hold. She scans the back and sends you a video reaction. Now you're laughing, you're texting, you're actually reconnected — not because an algorithm served you their content, but because you did something thoughtful. That's what Escargot is becoming. Not a greeting card company. A way to stay close to the people who matter most to you. Your inner circle. The 15-20 people you actually care about. We remind you when the moments are coming, we make it stupidly easy to show up for them, and we close the loop so you actually feel it. The original promise of social media was to help you feel connected to a community of people you love. That's completely lost the plot. Everything now is performance — hooks, ragebait, hashtags. We wanted to build something where slowing down is the point. And it's working. Our first printer fired us because their staff was offended by our raunchy card designs. Users are framing the cards on their walls. Pinterest named physical mail a top trend for 2026. After my last company in mental health, I was pretty burnt out. What I love about Escargot is that I get to wake up every day and ask one question: how do we delight people more and better? Today Business Insider and the wonderful Sydney Bradley published a feature on what we're building. Incredibly grateful to our co-leads Wischoff Ventures and Hannah Grey VC, to South Park Commons for backing us before it was cool, Common Magic, Next Wave NYC, Ben Tossell, Liza Gurtin for being In our corner and to my co-founder and cousin Andrew for not giving up on me after five rejections. And to our tiny, incredible team — Anton Badashov, An Huynh, Michael Long — this thing doesn't exist without you. Cards are just the beginning. 🐌
Abel Mengistu
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Today we’re launching FF Designer. The promise of AI tools that generate UI is real, but the experience usually isn’t. You end up in re-prompting loops with minutes in between to get exactly what you want. We built FF Designer so you don’t have to choose between speed and the control of a full visual canvas. Generate high-fidelity screens from a text prompt in seconds, then iterate on a canvas. Refine, prompt, sweat the details. When you’re ready, export to FlutterFlow or to AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex. When it takes seconds to create or edit, it just flows. designer.flutterflow.io
Dmytro (Dima) Shvets
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Today, Mirai Tech Inc is announcing a $10M seed round led by Uncork Capital, with participation from an incredible group of angels including David Singleton, Francois Chaubard, Marcin Zukowski, Mati Staniszewski, Gokul Rajaram, Scott “Scooter” Braun, Vijay Krishnan, Ben Parr, Matt Schlicht, Aditya Jami and others. This funding accelerates our mission to make on-device AI inference accessible to every developer, turning what requires specialized systems teams today into something that integrates in a few lines of code. Every modern phone and laptop has AI silicon, but most developers can't access it. Mirai Tech Inc removes that barrier. With this round, we're focusing on working with model makers to bring their models on-device across text, voice, and vision. As cloud inference costs become unsustainable for real-time workloads, on-device execution offers better economics, eliminating per-inference costs while improving latency. Models running on-device are becoming a new capability layer where developers can build system-level experiences independently. Inference becomes the programmable layer. We're building the infrastructure layer that enables that future. There's so much more to build, and we're just getting started. Excited to have Uncork Capital and this incredible group of investors and angels joining us on the journey. More on this at our blog and TechCrunch, thanks Ivan Mehta for writing a thorough story. Also, thanks Stephanie Palazzolo for featuring us in The Information newsletter today!
Matan Grinberg
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Thrilled to announce the Agent Native 40. In a world where AI moves quickly, it takes bold leadership to drive behavior change. Excited to see some legendary engineering leaders like Ram Ramalingam, Tim Ryan, Vivek Raghunathan, Venkata Reddy Donthireddy, Zoe Evans, Martin Harrysson, Steve Newman, Belinda Neal, Vik Scoggins, and Michael Jodha get highlighted for the tireless work they've been doing. Keep an eye out for these organizations and how their software development changes with AI in 2026 and beyond.
Factory
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Today, we’re announcing the Agent Native 40. This inaugural list recognizes engineering leaders who have moved beyond AI experimentation to drive production grade adoption of agent native development. They are reshaping engineering organizations, enabling teams to delegate meaningful work to agents and setting a new standard for how software is built. The Agent Native 40 was created jointly by Factory and Sequoia Capital. Recipients were selected through an evaluation process combining independent research and peer surveys. Candidates were assessed on organizational adoption, engineering excellence, and business impact, with final selections made through committee deliberation. Explore the full list → agentnative40.com
Chris Parsonson
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Today, I’m excited to share that Solve Intelligence has raised a $40M Series B, bringing our total funding to $55M and taking the next step toward building the AI platform for patents. Since we started Solve, the goal has been simple: help IP teams do their best work by combining real-world patent expertise with deep AI research, intuitive UX, and state-of-the-art security. In just a short time: ✅ 400+ IP teams across 6 continents now use Solve. ✅ ARR has grown more than 10x since last year to reach 8 figures. ✅ We’re already profitable and have generated more cash than we’ve raised. Our customers use Solve to collaborate across the patent lifecycle, from invention harvesting and application drafting to office action responses and filing across jurisdictions. 60% are law firms, 40% are corporate IP teams, and they’re all using Solve because of our focus on security, quality, and speed. Alongside the round, we’re launching Charts, our new product for high-volume IP analysis, litigation, and post-grant work. Charts helps with infringement and invalidity claim chart generation, standard-essential patent (SEP) mappings, freedom-to-operate and clearance reviews, portfolio-level analyses across thousands of documents, and more. Firms and companies encode their know-how into reusable and fully customizable AI styles, templates, and workflows, with full citation support and exposed reasoning. This Series B will help us: 📈 Go broader and deeper on product, expanding from drafting and prosecution to FTO, claim charting, portfolio analysis, licensing, and litigation workflows. 📈 Scale globally, further expanding our presence in the US and Europe, including new offices in New York City and Munich. 📈 Grow our team of AI researchers, patent attorneys, and software engineers to build the go-to platform for every part of the patent process. I’m incredibly grateful to our customers for betting on us, to our team for moving so fast on such technically challenging problems, and to our investors for their continued belief. Huge thanks to Visionaries Club and 20VC for co-leading this round, with ongoing support from Thomson Reuters, Y Combinator, and others, and to Operator Collective 🔆 (led by founder Mallun Yen, former Vice President of Worldwide Intellectual Property and Deputy General Counsel at Cisco) for joining us on this journey. We’re also honoured to be welcoming an amazing group of angels, including the founders of Deel (Alex Bouaziz Shuo Wang), Ironclad (Jason Boehmig), Canva (Cliff Obrecht), Hugging Face (Thomas Wolf), Base44 (Maor Shlomo), Cleo (Barney Hussey-Yeo), Tinder (Justin Mateen), Pigment (Eléonore Crespo), Trouva (Mandeep Singh), Colin M Evans from OpenAI, Mehdi Ghissassi from DeepMind, and many others. We’re still at the beginning. There’s a long and exciting journey ahead of us. If you'd like to try our product or join our team, I'd love to hear from you. More details below. 👇
Ben Tossell
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from 'i cant code' to 'featured by openai' 🔥
OpenAI for Startups
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Fresh codebase, meet freshly fallen snow. ❄️ GPT-5.1-Codex-Max (the model that powers Codex) is now available in the API. Ben Tossell from Factory gave the new model a spin on their Droidmas advent calendar project, using its multi-file reasoning and efficient refactoring to add falling snowflakes in seconds. New component, animations, cleanup, and verification — all from one prompt. Video below. Curious what you'd try next?
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Attio
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Introducing GTM Atlas, a map for modern AI GTM built with some of the best operators in the industry. A free resource covering the full customer journey, from lead capture to expansion, with the systems thinking that scales with you. Our first installation features entries from Elena Verna, Kyle Norton, Roniesha Copeland, James Pastan, and more. Plus a curated stack of perks from partners like Notion, Clay, Wispr Flow, and Granola. Start exploring: attio.ai/gtm-atlas
Cathedral School, Llandaff
2mo
A huge thank you to everyone who supported our Aspire To... events this year! 👏 Our third and final event welcomed a range of inspiring professionals across business and finance. Pupils from CSL and local schools received first-hand accounts, insights and advice about entering the industries. Thank you to our incredible speakers: > Paresh V. from Attivo > Kara Conlon and Annelie Grey from Principality Building Society > Stuart Earle, partner at Eversheds Sutherland > Ben Tossell, founder of Ben's Bites > Dave Ashton, owner of Cardiff Maths Tutor > Williams Maddocks, managing director of Maddocks > Tim Goodson, managing director of DVS Ltd > John Solosy from Solosy Wealth Management Ltd > Dean Higgins from ShadowVu > Dan Davies from KPMG > Josh Powell, director at InspireGreen > Graeme Tipple from Handelsbanken > Matthew Lewis, former Senior Partner (Law) > Marc Rees-Price MBA from Nando's UK & IRE > Simon B. from Hodge We look forward to more careers and networking events in the next academic year!
Abel Mengistu
2mo
FF Designer beta ships today. and the thing i’m most proud of isn’t a feature, but what we didn’t build. we didn’t lock you into our AI. BYOA: bring Claude, Gemini, Codex, Cursor: whatever you already trust. plug it into your design loop and let it iterate alongside you. want to sweep 10 style directions in 10 seconds? style explorer. want to turn a screen into code? your agent. want to redesign an existing FlutterFlow project? done. and there’s a lot more coming before 1.0. see for yourself: designer.flutterflow.io
Sriram K.
2mo
When 80%+ of your customers come via organic word of mouth, then you know you’re onto something special! 🔥 Cara is onto something special! 🔥 Today, we’re excited to share that Kearny Jackson led the $8M seed round for Cara, the AI platform for insurance brokerages. Our friends Claire Hughes Johnson (Former COO, Stripe), Kevin Patrick Mahaffey (Founder, SNR), Sam Hodges (CEO, Vouch Insurance), Dakota McKenzie (Dynamic) and Colin M Evans Evans (Startups and Partnerships, OpenAI) participated in the round. Cara gives insurance brokerages, agencies and wholesalers the AI infrastructure to grow, automating sales and servicing workflows so teams write more business, reduce errors and keep clients better served. Cara is already working with some of the largest brokerage brands in the world! Cara was founded by Vic Yeh, Nikhil Kansal, and Jon P., (ex Stripe, Blend Labs, and Strategy&,) who built and sold a digital insurance brokerage, created the tools to run it and are now turning it into a battle-tested product for every insurance professional in the country. Their lived experience as insurance agents themselves is why thousands of brokers and agents use Cara AI. Sunil Chhaya and I are thrilled to partner with the team on its quest to become the default AI operating platform for the insurance industry!
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James Stancer-Gray Walmer Group • 2K followers Today's budget won’t change everything overnight for Bristol, Bath and Swindon's tech businesses. But it does include a few welcome silver linings for founders. Some main takeaways for the techSPARK UK community: 1️⃣ EMI gets a big upgrade Bigger limits, longer holding periods and wider eligibility = equity becomes a much stronger tool for hiring 🙋♀️ 2️⃣ Bigger EIS/VCT rounds + more growth capital Thresholds are doubling and the British Business Bank is increasing growth funds, venture debt and IP lending. For companies stuck between Seed and Series B raises, there may be more headroom? 📈 3️⃣ Founder incentives are back Labour is starting to think about how to better reward founders who take risks and reinvest regionally 🧑💻 4️⃣ Better support for R&D New UKRI/Innovate UK programmes like the £130m Growth Catalyst mean clearer pathways from lab to market. Good news for deep tech, creative media and research startups 🔬 5️⃣ One to watch in the South West is business rates retention If WEMCA gets enhanced retention it means more of the region’s growth could be reinvested into workspace, infrastructure and ecosystem support 🚀 Curious to know what founders in my network think about the positive outcomes? #BristolTech #BathTech #Startups #Scaleups #UKBudget2025 #CreativeTech #DeepTech #Innovation 33 1 Comment
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Edward Upton Littledata • 11K followers I chatted with a VC last night who's had 18,000 investment pitches uploaded to his website since 2022. How many has he invested in? One. Not because they don't invest. This is one of London's most active seed funds, with 70+ companies backed since 2022. But their online Submit a Pitch form isn’t there to boost deal flow .. .. it’s to LOOK inclusive, so they can’t be accused of only backing the old boys’ network. Founders, a word to the wise: Don’t bother cold-pitching venture capital funds! This investor went on to share that one of the key founder traits they look for is tenacity. And if you can’t find a way to a warm intro to the fund, or even connect with the investor on LinkedIn, then it’s unlikely you’re going to hustle your first sales. You’re not tenacious enough. The ideal signal the VC is watching for is that people who know you and your market well have already invested. Ideally you've already got small angel investments from: ✅️ Your early customers' founders ✅️ Your suppliers ✅️ Your former boss ✅️ Your friends I’ve been guilty in the past of filling in the 'Apply for Funding' form on a VC website, but it’s never come to anything. Don’t be tempted. 48 24 Comments
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Graeme Blake Blutui® • 15K followers Appreciate the kind words Cas Majid. The National Digital Awards represent everything that’s right about this industry when it’s working at its best. High standards, real collaboration and a shared ambition to keep pushing forward. At Blutui® | Agency Web Ecosystem , we’ve built the platform from the ground up around the realities agencies face every day. Delivery pressure, shifting scopes and now the rapid acceleration of AI. Supporting the Best Development Agency category is a natural fit because that’s where so much of that pressure, and opportunity, sits. #UnitedInDigital is not just a line. It’s the model the industry needs if it’s going to stay competitive and sustainable. Looking forward to seeing the finalists announced and celebrating the teams, individuals and clients who are raising the bar. 6 1 Comment
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Alexandra Depledge, MBE HM Treasury • 12K followers In 2018 there were just 200 female-founded scale-ups in the UK. Today there are 1,887 businesses turning over more than £10.2m (or with £5.1m+ in assets) — including 144 now scaling beyond £50m in revenue. ⬆️ That’s a 43% increase year-on-year. Thursday night I had the privilege of closing the market at the London Stock Exchange alongside many of the women building those companies. The numbers come from the new Female Founders Index, launched by the ScaleUp Institute and The SuperScalers. At the moment the public conversation about the UK economy is pretty gloomy. We talk ourselves down a lot. But spending time with founders who are actually building and scaling businesses tells a very different story. And for those who inevitably ask “where are the women building big businesses?” — they’re right here. Founders like Henrietta Morrison (Lily’s Kitchen), Louise Hill (GoHenry), Kate Prince (Ancient + Brave), Vivien Wong (Little Moons), Pippa Begg (Board Intelligence), Darina Garland (Ooni) and Sally Alington (Ethos Farm) — to name just a few of the 144. If the UK wants growth, we need more companies reaching £50m, £100m and beyond. Scale-ups drive a disproportionate share of jobs, productivity and innovation. And if we want more of those companies, we need the widest possible pool of people building them. This isn’t just about women. It’s about making sure the next generation of great British scale-ups reflects the full breadth of talent in this country. Because the bigger and more diverse the group of people building companies, the bigger the economy we all benefit from. Props to the indomitable Sam Smith & Rosaleen Blair, CBE, ably supported by Irene Graham OBE, Julia Hoggett & Oli Barrett. Bravo! 246 22 Comments
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Semyon Germanovich METRIX Events • 1K followers The UK’s brightest founders and professionals are quietly packing their bags. And it’s not just because of the weather. Or politics. A growing number of UK entrepreneurs are rethinking not if they’ll leave, but when. In our 2025 Relocation Report, we surveyed 500+ UK business owners and professionals. The findings were eye-opening: ➡️ 38% are already planning to relocate within 12 months ➡️ 62% within two years ➡️ Over half are looking to Iberia - Portugal and Spain - for a new start This isn’t escapism. It’s a response to deeper shifts in how people define success: flexibility, wellbeing and belonging now rank alongside profit and growth. I break down what’s driving this exodus, and why Southern Europe has become the new frontier for British talent. Read the full report on the Touchdown blog (see link in the comments) 24 1 Comment
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Lawrence Otu-Nyarko TitanEdge Systems • 437 followers Building a startup in the UK tech space is one of the most challenging journeys I’ve ever taken. As the founder of Titan Edge Systems, I’m learning daily that having the skills, vision, and passion is just the beginning. The real challenge is earning trust in a very competitive industry where many businesses prefer established companies with long track records. For startups, the biggest hurdle is often getting that first group of clients who are willing to believe in your capability before your portfolio fully speaks for itself. There are days you question the process, days where emails go unanswered, proposals are ignored, and opportunities seem just out of reach. But those are also the days that build resilience, discipline, and stronger strategy. Every connection, every conversation, and every small win matters. At Titan Edge Systems, our goal remains clear,to provide reliable IT solutions, cybersecurity support, and technology services that help businesses operate securely and efficiently. The journey may be tough, but it’s shaping something meaningful. To fellow founders and entrepreneurs navigating the same road in the UK tech ecosystem,keep pushing. The breakthrough often comes after the hardest seasons. #StartupJourney #Entrepreneurship #TitanEdgeSystems #TechStartup #CyberSecurity #BusinessGrowth #FounderLife 24 5 Comments
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Mark Lissaman 30gram6 • 930 followers My AI and Automation driven 30gram6 news and data platform is releasing a UK focused M&A tool. As always we are following a "release early, release often" philosophy so there will be a few rough edges but hopefully some useful content for anyone interested in the UK M&A landscape. You can filter by Trade vs Financial Backer (PE/VC) content as well as by Sector, etc. Also a directory of Investors and a directory of Advisors. NB Humans not involved in the content creation. Next on the roadmap is to sort out the user login to drive personalisation and to allow people and firms to curate their own public profiles... 15 1 Comment
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