Pioneer Square Labs

Congratulations to Ryan Frazier, Alejandro Chouza Sarquis, Kenny Cason and the entire Arrived team on their $27M raise! 🚀 🎉 It's been incredible to see your vision of bringing real estate investing online come to life and we're excited for all that's to come!

Our MD Vivek Ladsariya sat down with David Weisburd to share his mental model for backing and supporting founders early, sometimes even before there’s an incorporated company. It’s a great listen on how conviction and true partnership make all the difference. We’re so fortunate to have Vivek bring that energy to our team and our founders! Check out the full episode below 👇

📢 Excited to announce our newest launch: Lev, your AI co-founder 🎉 Every founder starts with ideas. The challenge is knowing which ones can become companies. For the past decade, we’ve built and refined the criteria, structure, and process that turn those ideas into startups. And now we’ve built that thinking into Lev AI, turning our playbook and rubrics into an AI co-founder for every founder. Lev is a partner throughout the 0 to 1 journey, accelerating the path from idea to company. Check out the GeekWire article on Lev’s launch: https://lnkd.in/ezKZbjSf Huge thanks to Taylor Soper for the thoughtful coverage. Interested in trying Lev? Sign up for the waitlist here trylev.co/#signup

What a night, indeed! Thrilled to host with you Andrew Kahn and Yamaha Music Innovations at TECH WEEK by a16z. Grateful to all the creator economy panelists for bringing their time, energy, and AI insights to such a thoughtful discussion.

We just had AI generate 10,000 vetted startup ideas. 💡 We wanted to see how far we could push AI to enhance our own ideation process - achieving both high quality and high volume while avoiding generic "AI for X" clones. We started by generating a massive number of ideas (160K), then ruthlessly filtered using our criteria around market pain, economics, and team fit. The result: 10K distinct, high-quality opportunities that actually passed our bar, not AI slop. ✨ We're opening up access to the best ideas through a matching platform. Answer a few questions about your background and get 3 tailored startup ideas: https://lnkd.in/g_qjse7X Want to take an idea further? Reach out about working with us or join the waitlist for Lev AI, our AI co-founder platform: https://trylev.co/#signup Check out our full blog post below 👇 #startups #AI #entrepreneurship #innovation

Excited to co-host this Creator Economy event with Andrew Kahn / friends at Yamaha Music Innovations for LA TECH WEEK by a16z at The Motoring Club. Join us on Oct 16th at The Motoring Club for "Building the Creator Economy: from capital to code" - featuring two dynamic panels bringing together top founders, leading investors, creators, and corporate executives. 🎯 CAPITAL panel: Leading funders investing in creator careers 💻 CODE panel: VC-backed founders building creator-focused technology This is a fantastic opportunity to connect with the ecosystem shaping the future of the creator economy. Spots are limited - RSVP today! https://lnkd.in/gk-uU2yJ Thanks to our incredible partners — Johnny Mathias from Wells Fargo and Richard Bull + Trent Dykes at DLA Piper, who are helping make this happen. Looking forward to it! #CreatorEconomy #LATechWeek2025

🚀 Sign up for Seattle’s first Lovable hackathon We're excited to be sponsoring the Seattle Lovable hackathon this Saturday hosted by Adam Burgh and the Lovable team. Walk in with an idea, walk out with a working app - built in under 2 hours with Lovable’s AI coding assistant. Every participant gets: ✨ A free month of Lovable Pro ✨ Starter templates, guides & exclusive prompts ✨ Food, drinks & a community of builders to hack with ✨ Guidance from incredible mentors, including our very own David Zager We'd love to see you there! Spots are filling up fast 🔥- don’t wait to grab yours: https://luma.com/1SEALOVE 📅 Saturday, September 27 📍 AI House, Seattle If you're looking to level up your vibe coding before the hackathon, check out Adam Burgh's and Raymond’s Design Systems workshop earlier that day: https://luma.com/bb6soj42

Read AI's new agents are reshaping how teams work  💼 📢 When we first partnered with Read AI, we saw their potential to become the ultimate AI workplace assistant. We're incredibly excited about today's launch of their Agentic Workflow Suite as that vision is becoming a reality.  The suite includes AI agents that work seamlessly in the background to transform how teams operate - like a Monday Briefing agent to begin the workweek with an AI-generated summary that gives you clarity on priorities and next steps. What's particularly compelling is what Read AI's own research reveals about the future of work: when teams embrace AI tools, the entire rhythm of work shifts. Meetings naturally move to Tuesdays, and Mondays become more strategic and focused. Getting rid of the Monday feeling is just the beginning of how AI will transform workplace patterns, and Read AI is at the forefront of this change! Check out the article below for the full detail We're also thrilled to welcome Justin Farris (ex-GitLab) as VP Product. Under his leadership, we're excited to see how the Read AI team will continue building toward their vision of the ultimate workplace assistant. Congratulations to the entire Read AI team! https://lnkd.in/gBSJ3NKU #AI #FutureOfWork #ReadAI

Excited to see Dropzone AI announce their $37M Series B! 🎉 When we first invested, we saw a team tackling one of cybersecurity's most painful problems: alert fatigue that's burning out SOC analysts everywhere. What set Dropzone apart was their vision for human-level reasoning that could actually investigate threats, not just flag them. Watching Edward Wu & the Dropzone team deliver 90%+ autonomous tier 1 alert triage for 100+ enterprise customers like UiPath and Zapier validates exactly why we backed this team. Dropzone isn't trying to replace security analysts. They're building AI that augments human expertise, letting analysts focus on what matters most. The SOC burnout crisis is real, making solutions that truly understand context and reason through complex security scenarios all the more critical. That's precisely why we are so excited about what the Dropzone team is building, and we look forward to their growing impact across the industry. Congrats Edward Wu and the entire Dropzone AI team! 🚀 #cybersecurity #DropzoneAI #AIAgents #seriesb #venturecapital