On July 23rd, join Mozilla Ventures and ImpactVC for Trustworthy AI: The Opportunity for VCs. As AI adoption accelerates, building systems that are trustworthy by design has never been more important. We’ll explore what trustworthy AI means in practice, why it matters across the AI ecosystem, and how investing in better AI can create both positive impact and long-term commercial value. We’re excited to be joined by Navrina Singh, Founder & CEO of Credo AI and a global leader in AI governance and policy. Register here: https://luma.com/iesri40i We hope to see you there!
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Mozilla Ventures is a first-of-its-kind impact venture fund that invests in startups pushing the internet — and the tech industry — in a better direction. The fund supports early-stage startups whose products or technologies advance one or more values in the Mozilla Manifesto, like privacy, inclusion, transparency, accessibility, and human dignity. Its long-term strategy: To fuel an ecosystem of products and technology that respect users and that make the internet a healthier place.
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Excited to see what the future holds for Telepath. Looking forward to following the journey!
My startup Telepath just announced our first product: Television. It's the missing GUI for personal agents. Today’s agent harnesses like OpenClaw, Hermes, Claude Code, and Codex are the first glimmers of a new kind of personal computer. But for all their power, their chat-based interfaces leave users stuck in the MS-DOS era. So we created Television. It works with any agent harness and gives you virtual screens on which you and your agent can create and work with visual HTML artifacts. Television is a first step towards our vision of a computing experience freed from the constraints of traditional software. We're accepting alpha users now, open source coming soon. Visit https://television.run to join the wait list.
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As AI reshapes the internet, trust & safety can no longer be treated as a back-office function. Cinder is building critical infrastructure to help platforms defend against abuse, fraud, manipulation, and emerging AI-powered threats at scale. Their mission aligns closely with our belief that the future of AI must be more trustworthy, accountable, and human-centered. Congrats to Glen Wise and the entire Cinder team on this milestone — we’re proud to support the work of making the internet safer for everyone.
🚨 Update 🚨 Cinder raised $41M in Series B funding, led by Radical Ventures, with continued participation from Accel and Y Combinator. AI is already supercharging the efforts of bad actors to attack real people every day. We started Cinder to make sure the people defending the internet have more firepower than the people attacking it. This funding means doubling down on what we can do for our customers, deploying AI agents at scale, and hiring people who want to do the most important work of their careers. The internet has always been abused. AI is making it worse. Cinder builds the infrastructure to fight back.
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Era is building the intelligence layer for a new ecosystem of AI devices — giving designers, developers, and creators the tools to build objects that think, respond, and act with intention and individuality. We believe the future of technology should be more open, expressive, and human — not one-size-fits-all. Era’s approach puts powerful creation tools into more hands, unlocking a new wave of innovation from people who haven’t historically had access to build in this space. This is the kind of future we want to help shape. We’re proud to support the Era team as they build what comes next.
Today we're launching Era and announcing $11M in funding. We're building the intelligence layer for a new ecosystem of AI devices — the platform that lets any device manufacturer, brand, designer, or creator make objects that think, respond, and act in their own style. We're entering a Cambrian explosion of devices. New form factors, new creators, new objects worth desiring. Made by people who've never had the tools to make them… before today. At Humane, OpenAI, Apple, and HP, we worked on some of the most ambitious devices in the world alongside people we deeply admire. We learned more than we can say. The one-size-fits-all device era — where technology is built for everyone and no one — is ending. Same forms, same colors, same default voices, same few players. A generational shift is underway, one where intelligent objects feel deliberately crafted to fit the exact contours of a life: its quirks, contradictions, style, and specificities that are unique to you. Making an intelligent object should be as simple as describing what you want it to do. That's the future we're building — for designers, brands, makers, and anyone with a point of view. You don't build a new Era alone. You build it alongside others, with a community eager to shape what comes next. I bonded with Alexander Ollman over an 8 hour geek out at the computer history museum, which turned into a shared obsession - and a rapidly expanding collection of 100+ expressive consumer electronics. Megan Gole and I bonded over a shared love of making devices that are as expressive and fashionable as life itself. Our team comes from Princeton University, Harvard University, CMU, Parsons, and The Australian National University. We are designers, engineers, and tinkerers who fell in love with technology as 2000s kids. What holds us together is a shared belief that the future can feel so much more expansive than the present. We quietly launched the way we believe technology should be made: by putting the tools in other people's hands. Thirty of our creative friends built their own intelligent objects on our platform. More on that next week 🌱 The first Era-powered product drops in May. Thank you Ivan Mehta at TechCrunch for covering our raise! We're deeply grateful to our investors — Casey Caruso, Hunter Harloff at Topology Ventures, John Borthwick, Jordan Crook at betaworks, Nicole Ripka at AIR (Collab Fund) who backed us as we were just getting started, and Andrei Kozyrev, Ramtin N. at Abstract, David Tisch, Claire Smilow, Adina Davis at BoxGroup, Adam Mullinax, Saayeli Mukherji Bruni, Mohamed Nanabhay at Mozilla Ventures, and Collaborative Fund at the seed — for believing in us. And to our angels — Caterina Fake, Ken Kocienda, Bill Shope, CFA, josé benitez cong, Kerry Whorton Cooper, Tony Wang, Mina Fahmi, Weber W., David Rosenberg, Jonathan Levine, and many more (in comments) — thank you for being our friends and co-world builders. Welcome to the new Era.
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We are proud to back and support Musubi in their work and the impact it continues to have. As a fast-growing social platform, Bluesky faces an increasingly complex challenge: success attracts sophisticated fraud and abuse at scale. Addressing that challenge requires systems that can adapt just as quickly as the threats themselves. Musubi supports this effort through AI that continuously evolves in response to new patterns, making thousands of daily adjustments while remaining closely aligned with the policies set by Bluesky’s expert moderators. This combination of automation and human oversight enables both speed and precision. T he results speak to that collaboration. Achieving 99.8% precision on a daily basis reflects not only technical performance, but also the strength of alignment between the two teams and a shared commitment to user safety. For a closer look at how the system works in practice, the full case study is available here: https://lnkd.in/gVVw9eSm
It's been an incredible honor to work with Aaron, Andrew, and the rest of the visionary Bluesky Trust & Safety team. As a leading social platform, Bluesky has their work cut out for them: the most devious scammers and fraudsters in the world are drawn to their success. Musubi allows Bluesky to handle rapid growth and stay ahead of even the toughest bad actors trying to overrun the platform. Every day our AI makes thousands of adjustments to keep up with the latest threats. And every day our AI learns from Bluesky's expert moderators, staying precisely aligned with their latest policies. I'm so proud of the 99.8% precision we achieve daily for Bluesky. It means a great user experience and it's a real testament to what both teams can achieve. If you're curious how we do it, check out the case study: https://lnkd.in/gVVw9eSm And if you're exploring fresh ideas for fraud detection on your platform, I'd love to chat. https://lnkd.in/ghHgCxXE
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Excited to support the future of reliable AI. Galtea, a Barcelona-based platform helping teams test and ship trustworthy AI agents, has raised €2.7M in Seed funding — with backing from Mozilla Ventures. As AI adoption accelerates, one of the biggest gaps is evaluation and testing. Galtea is building infrastructure to help developers simulate real-world scenarios, reduce risk, and deploy AI systems with confidence. https://lnkd.in/geFaQwZp
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Big news from Union.ai today — they’ve raised a $38.1M Series A to accelerate a new era of AI development infrastructure, and we’re thrilled that Mozilla Ventures is part of the round. AI teams need infrastructure built for real‑world complexity, not brittle pipelines, and Union.ai is doing exactly that.
🚀 Union.ai Raises $38.1M Series A to Power a New Era of AI Development Infrastructure Today, we’re excited to announce that Union.ai has completed a $38.1M Series A, led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with continued support from Nava Ventures and new participation from Mozilla Ventures. This funding comes at an inflection point for AI: engineering teams are discovering that legacy software infrastructure and devtools struggle to handle AI development. They were designed for basic and deterministic processes of traditional data workflows, not for the non-deterministic processes of AI workflows, which expect agents to adapt and recover from failure at runtime. Union.ai is building the new category of AI development infrastructure. Engineering teams can develop dynamic, durable AI workflows and agents while dramatically reducing time spent maintaining brittle pipelines. This funding allows us to continue defining the standard for AI orchestration and investing deeply in the Flyte open-source ecosystem that powers AI workflows at scale. If you’re building agents or AI and want to orchestrate durable, scalable workflows, we’d love to connect. 👉 Read the full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/eKJ_Wrwg #AI #MachineLearning #Orchestration #MLOps #OpenSource #SeriesA #AIOrchestration
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We’re proud to see so many Mozilla Ventures portfolio companies on the ground at the India AI Impact Summit 2026: Here’s how (and where!) our founders are showing up: 🔎 adaption — advancing critical conversations around AI safety, evaluation, and cross-cultural robustness to ensure systems work responsibly across languages and contexts. Feb 16 | 4:30pm - 5:25pm Advancing AI Safety Across Languages, Cultures & Contexts West Wing, Room 4B, Bharat Mandapam Feb 18 | 11:30am - 12:30pm Best Practices from the International Network for Advanced AI Measurement, Evaluation & Science L1 Meeting Room No. 18, Bharat Mandapam Feb 18 | 2:00pm - 3:15pm Research Symposium, The Next Frontiers: Grand Challenges in AI Research L2 Audi II, Bharat Mandapam Feb 20 | 10:30am - 11:25am Beyond Technical Safety: Multidisciplinary AI Governance for Real-World Impact Bharat Mandapam, Room 9 Feb 20 | 5:30pm - 5:42pm Keynote: AI Beyond Heights Bharat Mandapam, Plenary 🛡️ Credo AI — championing trusted AI and governance frameworks that move responsible AI from principle to practice inside enterprises and institutions. Feb 16 | 10.30am-11.30am From AI User to Creator: The Next Leap of India's AI Innovation LT Meeting Room No.6, Bharat Mandapam Feb 17 | 12.30pm-1.25pm Scaling Trusted AI: Global Practices, Local Impact Bharat Mandapam, L1 Meeting Room No.18 Feb 20 | 10.30am - 11.30am Rightsizing Governance in an AI-Driven World Bharat Mandapam, West Wing Room 4B Feb 20 | 4.45pm - 5.25pm Panel: Next Generation of Techies Bharat Mandapam, L2 Audi 2 📊 Fiddler AI — driving transparency and AI observability, helping organizations monitor, explain, and operationalize trustworthy AI at scale. Feb 19 | 6.30pm - 9.30pm. Intimate Dinner. Please DM Fiddler AI team to RSVP. 🌍 Lelapa AI — building AI rooted in and designed for African languages and communities, ensuring global AI development reflects global voices. Feb 17 | 5.30pm - 6.30pm Multistakeholder Collaboration to Foster AI Adoption in the Global South Bharat Mandapam, L1 Meeting Room 7 Feb 18 | 10.55am - 12.20pm International Panel: Challenges of the Global South Bharat Mandapam, L1 Meeting Room 7 Feb 20 | 5:30pm - 6:30pm Bharat Mandapam, L1 Meeting Room 6 ⚖️ Holistic AI — enabling organizations to assess, mitigate, and manage AI risk with rigorous governance and assurance tools. Feb 17 | 11.30am - 12.30pm Global AI Assurance and Standards: From Principles to Proof Bharat Mandapam, L1 Meeting Room 15 🎧Lastly, learn how to invest in Trustworthy AI with our own, Mohamed Nanabhay , Managing Partner at Mozilla Ventures here: Feb 17 | 1.30pm - 2.30pm Trustworthy AI Investments: Capital Allocations as AI Governance Bharat Mandapam, L2 Audi 1 If you’re in Delhi, connect with the teams — and follow along as we continue investing in founders building a more trustworthy, equitable AI ecosystem. #AIImpactSummit #ResponsibleAI #TrustedAI #AIGovernance #AIForAll #MozillaVentures
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At MozFest 2025, we explored a critical challenge: the growing race to capture and centralize personal context. In a new paper developed with the team koodos labs (the creators of Shelf), John Dickerson, 🕺 Jad Esber, Apurva Chitnis, and collaborators argue that personal context is becoming the next identity layer. They outline why this shift matters, and how AI can be designed to preserve user agency rather than extract it. The future of AI depends on getting this right. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/e3izf-Zi
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We’re excited to see Flower Labs and Starcloud reach a major milestone: successfully running and validating a decentralized AI workload directly on an operational satellite in orbit. It’s a meaningful step toward a more distributed AI stack, where learning happens across heterogeneous systems — on Earth and beyond.
Flower Labs and Starcloud Reach a Major AI Milestone in Orbit AI infrastructure is expanding beyond Earth, with space emerging as a key part of where AI is headed next. Today, Flower Labs and Starcloud are sharing an important step forward: the successful execution of an AI workload using Flower on an operational Starcloud satellite, with telemetry retrieved from orbit confirming end-to-end execution. The mission included locally fine-tuning a ViT transformer to classify high-resolution satellite imagery, urban areas, forests, lakes, and more -- directly on the satellite where the data is generated. The result points to a new paradigm for AI infrastructure. Model training and updates no longer need to rely exclusively on centralized cloud data centers; they can take place in space. This is only the beginning. We look forward to building larger, decentralized AI networks in orbit in continued collaboration with Starcloud. Full Blog Post Announcement: https://lnkd.in/ejVBfjYQ