Why We Invested · 8VC
Why the firm invested
8VC's investment conviction is driven by Sable's instinct for frontier technical capabilities paired with rapid execution speed.
That instinct for what’s newly possible at the frontier, paired with speed of execution, is the core of our conviction.
Product
Sable is building an AI employee that can see, click, and explain software products in real time using computer use, voice, vision, and video.
The orchestration of real-time computer use, voice, vision, and video allows Sable to pursue a bold vision: building the first AI employee that can see, click, and explain a product in real time.
Sable's AI operates live product instances inside a virtual machine called LiveBox designed for shared real-time interaction.
It operates a live, fully functioning instance of the real product inside a LiveBox, a virtual machine built for shared, real-time interaction.
Traction
Sable is already in production with companies like Notion and Decagon and has an inbound waitlist of over 150 customers prior to launching publicly.
Sable is less than a year old but already in production—with the world’s fastest-growing AI companies like Notion and Decagon, as well as large public companies. The demand to hire Aidan is astonishing: Sable has an inbound waitlist of over 150 customers
Team
Sable was founded by Nim Ravid, Linda He, Leon Chen, and Itamar Rocha Filho, who left Harvard research labs to start the company.
It takes unique technical firepower to push the frontier of multimodality – the kind Nim Ravid, Linda He, Leon Chen, and Itamar Rocha Filho and their team brought when they left Harvard research labs to start Sable.
Sable's team includes Math 55 alumni, former quantitative traders, and International Math Olympiad winners.
They’ve assembled a world-class team, which includes Math 55 alums, former quantitative traders, and International Math Olympiad winners.
Investment context
Sable announced a $45 million fundraise co-led by 8VC and Sequoia, with Joe Lonsdale joining Sable's board.
Today, Sable announced a $45M fundraise led by 8VC and Sequoia, and that Joe Lonsdale is joining its board.
What founders can learn
- What actually moved the decision: 8VC wrote that 8VC's investment conviction is driven by Sable's instinct for frontier technical capabilities paired with rapid execution speed.
- The traction evidence that carried weight: 8VC wrote that Sable is already in production with companies like Notion and Decagon and has an inbound waitlist of over 150 customers prior to launching publicly.
- How the team was judged: 8VC wrote that Sable was founded by Nim Ravid, Linda He, Leon Chen, and Itamar Rocha Filho, who left Harvard research labs to start the company.
Source and provenance
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