Immigrant Founders Turn Otherness Into Startup Superpower
As many as 50% of venture-backed founders in Silicon Valley are first or second-generation immigrants. The reason comes down to something you can't teach: what it feels like to be the other. When you leave everything familiar behind, you develop a kind of muscle memory for navigating unfamiliar environments, holding a minority point of view, and figuring out how to both fit in and stand apart. By the time you're building a company, you've had 10,000 hours of that training. I talked about this on the How I Invest podcast with @David Weisburd — along with why AI's biggest moats will come from feedback loops, what drew me to Anthropic early, and what I believe about the psychology of category-defining founders. Link in comments.
Durable Vertical AI Needs Compliance, Data, Personalization
Joined Xiao Tan and Brett Gibson at AI Agent Conference last week. A lot of conversation about what actually makes a vertical AI company durable as models get cheaper and competition increases. Three things keep coming up: 1. Deep compliance...
Voice AI Pivot Turns Hardware Startup Into Market Leader
Voice is the most natural interface humans have ever used — and for decades, technology made us abandon it. The companies that get this right will be among the most important built this decade. That's why when Chelcie Taylor and...
User‑Specific Learning Defines Long‑Term AI Moat
Last week, we released our first Prosumer AI 40 list and I’ve been thinking a lot about how some of these 40 companies have become their category leaders. Growth rates, MAUs, churn — they alone don't tell you which prosumer...
AI Funding Surge Mirrors Cloud’s Transformative Boom
Had a great time speaking at the AI&B Conference at Cornell Tech last week alongside Neil DeSilva . Here is a question that I often get asked: Are we in a bubble? The honest answer is that, yes, fundraising amounts...
Prosumer AI 40: Tools That Learn & Amplify You
Introducing the Prosumer AI 40, a list we've spent months building at Notable Capital with our peer firms to recognize the tools and applications reshaping the modern tool stack. We are living through the most significant upgrade to individual potential...
Fal.ai Raises $300M, Hiring Global Account Managers
fal has quickly become one of the most developer-beloved platforms in generative AI and its momentum is nothing short of incredible. In 2025 alone, they raised over $300M across three funding rounds. What makes fal.ai special is that they've made...
Global Founders Drive Innovation; Scaling Worldwide Is Essential
2025 reinforced what I've always believed: the best ideas and founders emerge from everywhere. We at Notable Capital backed founders building companies that transcend borders and categories—I am excited for dub and K Health for democratizing financial investing and personal...
Fal Secures $140M Series D to Power Generative Media
Having invested in RedNote in 2014 and Musical.ly back in 2015 which turned into TikTok, I had a front row seat to watch the rise of social media and its transformation into web 2.0. Now is the time for generative...
Apply Now: 2026 NextGen AI Fellowship for Student Founders
We are in the midst of one of the most exciting moments in history and the next generation of AI founders are just getting started. Today, we're opening applications for Notable Capital ’s 2026 NextGen AI Fellowship, an 8-week summer...