General Catalyst @generalcatalyst.@BabaHQ is modernizing the last mile of healthcare for people on Medicare. Each person gets a dedicated advocate: a nurse, social worker, or benefits specialist equipped with AI. They book appointments, chase down benefits, and stay by each person’s side until they get the care they need. We’re proud to be deepening our partnership by doubling down in Baba’s $40M Series A. Watch @vedantsuri in conversation with @_ConnorSweeney. Chapters 00:00 — Meet Baba 02:03 — Cloning Nana’s Voice 05:19 — From Family Crisis to Company 10:58 — “They Saved My Christmas” 13:45 — Everything Is Downstream of the Team 18:05 — Building a Lifeline That Lasts 28:05 — Earning Conviction in a Week
Baba @BabaHQEveryone’s chatbot can book a doctor’s appointment. The real test is whether you can earn the trust of a Spanish-speaking diabetic woman, walk her through a Medicaid application while finding her secure housing, and coach her into choosing a 12oz (instead of 16oz) soda along the way. Today we’re sharing BabaBench, a benchmark measuring how frontier models perform the real work of healthcare coordination. Our synthetic worlds are built from annotations by Baba’s in-house team of hundreds of expert doctors, therapists, nurses, and social workers. Turns out, AI alone isn’t ready to replace human care coordination.
frances zhao @franceszhao_very excited to be joining @BabaHQ as a design intern in NYC this winter !! 🗽🍎 really believe in what they’re building + their mission to make healthcare easier and more accessible for people. so grateful to @_ConnorSweeney & the Baba team for taking a bet on me ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و (p.s. lmk if you're in NYC this winter :-D)
Augustus Doricko @ADorickoRainmaker has raised $100M to become the world’s best lab for weather modification and atmospheric science. Thank you @noavctech @upfrontvc @DCVC @lowercarbon @DreamVenturesVC and other visionary partners. We are aggressively hiring and scaling our research org to create a flywheel of atmospheric data collection, synthesis, understanding, and intervention. We will solve the weather and we will set the stage for the terraformation of Earth. More in my essay below.
TBPN @tbpnBREAKING: Alan Li is joining @babahq as a founding designer
Aidan Guo @aidangchA billion people produce the most valuable dataset in the world every day – and delete it every night. We’re recording it. Introducing @AttentionInc
Jack Oswald @JackOswald10Introducing Singularity, a defense company focused on protecting people. I'm incredible proud of this team and mission.
Markie Wagner @markiewagnerIntroducing @PoeticHQ: a new AI system that executes complex multi-hour tasks with 99%+ accuracy and 10x fewer tokens than agents. We raised $50M at $500M from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, First Harmonic, and Genius Ventures to build AI that does complex work inside Fortune 500 companies without hallucination. While code is too brittle, agents are too unpredictable. The work that runs the global economy - anti-money laundering, fraud investigations, underwriting - needs extreme accuracy. So we built a new kind of software that pairs the flexibility of AI with the predictability of code. When the world stays the same, Poetic runs fixed code: fast, cheap, identical every time. When the world changes, Poetic uses AI to regenerate its approach and find its way back to the objective. In one year, we went from zero to an eight-figure run rate as a team of four. Since then, we’ve scaled the team and executed the highest-stakes processes at AIG, SoFi, and Chime. At SoFi, a large US bank, Poetic reached 99%+ quality on fraud investigations in five weeks.
