Crosscut Ventures

Today I'm proud to announce Compa's $10 million Series A funding led by Storm Ventures with participation from Penny Jar Capital, Base10 Partners, Acadian Ventures, and more. Our mission is to make compensation fair and competitive for everyone, and since founding Compa in 2020 with Joseph Delmonico Malandruccolo and Taylor Cone we've come a long way. Since introducing Compa Index to the market last year we've grown the network nearly a thousand percent and work with the best compensation teams in the world at companies like Airbnb, Marvell Technology, and NVIDIA. The best comp teams need precise, current market data to compete, and traditional surveys often fall short. Offer data provides a valuable alternative, and when Compa introduced offers-based market data to the world in 2023, we made it possible for every comp team to access these insights for the first time. We're proudly committed to helping our customers get the best compensation intelligence possible, and this new funding helps fuel that innovation. Thank you to our customers, partners, investors and families. Glad I didn't just move to London and go to b-school in 2020 - I choose adventure. 😀 Cheers to the road ahead! #compensation #totalrewards #offers

When AI takes over (in a very good friend’s 1000 word flash fiction story)!!

Thank you to Brendan Bell, Aligned Climate Capital, Rick Smith, Crosscut Ventures, and Charlie Hanna, Marcy Venture Partners for joining us at The Global 51 - Family Office Club retreat and sharing your insights on Emerging Manager Venture Capital Series: Where Do We Go From Here? The Global 51 - Family Office Club team:  Bridget Kilroy & Stella S.

Hey everyone! WARNING: this is both a mild-to-medium spicy opinion piece about the state of observability AND an announcement for something I've built. I'm a couple of weeks shy of 40 and I can now say that I've been writing software for most of my life. I started writing code professionally when I was 17, doing Perl at a warehouse that sold refurbished Sun Microsystems gear on eBay. At this point, I've written in Java, Go, Rust, C, Python, Ruby, JS, Lua, PHP, Elixir, Cold Fusion, and probably several other languages. I've used a ton of frameworks, have integrated a bunch of paid and OSS APM solutions, have done metrics, have done tracing, and everything in between. I even worked at an APM company! And here's the thing - this entire time, observing what data my software is reading or writing has always been a colossal pain in the ass. To be clear, I'm talking about "show me what I'm reading from this API" and "show me what I'm writing to this DB" and NOT "show me how long this part of a request is taking" or "help me find a memleak". This might seem trivial, so you might say: "You just need better APM, tracing or metrics!" I disagree. APM, metrics, and tracing will show me HOW my software is doing but it won't be able to show me the exact data it is processing at this moment. You might say: "OK, that's what logs are for!" Even when a log vendor says their logging platform is real-time, when was the last time you used a logging platform that did not have a > 30-second delay before your log output became available? That’s not real-time observability. Some of you might say "But my ELK stack can do real-time!" I am not talking about your ELK stack that has 10,000 entries a day. I'm talking about a logging platform running in a high-throughput, production environment with 50+ services that generate millions of log entries per day. It'll either be really slow or be in a perpetually falling state. Even if your logging is fast, adding extra log statements to your code comes with other hurdles. I think a more accurate description for real-time observability would be fairly recent observability because even if your logging infra is fast, the time it will take you to observe what your application is doing is going to be far from real-time. So what I really need is a tail -f for data with a UI. And that’s exactly what we built. Specifically, we built an open-source, real-real-time observability solution that enables engineers to peek into the data that their applications are consuming or producing - a `tail -f` for your data with a UI (and CLI, for those who prefer terminals). You can see it for yourself by checking out the live demo: https://demo.streamdal.com Check out the project here: https://lnkd.in/du-j-XMr We’re on Product Hunt: https://lnkd.in/dFek9sz7 You can read more about the thought process, principles, and vision behind this project here: https://lnkd.in/dVxjpxS6 So, what do you think?

Top #LATechWeek After-Hours Party (goes to 🥁)... ⚡️Crosscut Ventures⚡️ If you're in the LA / SF Startup Scene, you know Crosscut Ventures. Brian Garrett, Rick Smith, Brett Brewer, and the whole Crosscut Team absolutely threw down and it was such a blast! What a legendary view of the Pacific Ocean 🌊 #DemoDays, #FiresideChats, and #Panels are great…but sometimes, you just gotta let loose with great friends! I ran into Jim Andelman from Bonfire Ventures 🔥, Laurent Grill from JLL Spark, Eric Pakravan from TenOneTen Ventures, Matt Kozlov from Techstars, Peter Pham from Science. Special thanks to Allie Dolido, Kiyan Yazdi, Masha Olson, and Felipe Alvarez Llano 🚀 you guys are the best. ❤️ And of course the most appreciation to Brett Brewer for hosting us at your beautiful home! Thanks everyone for tuning in! I'm Sean Goldfaden. And this... is #LATECHWEEK! ✌