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Nick Davidov highlights a first-time YC founder claiming “We’re raising without a…

2026-08-06 · 01:46 UTC ·@Nick_Davidov ·1 min read

Brief

Nick Davidov contrasts a first-time Y Combinator founder who says “We’re raising without a deck” with Jeff Dean’s 2026-08-06 tweet that shared a formal pitch deck. Dean named Radical VC Fund and Khosla Ventures as lead investors, with Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, Doerr Capital (John Doerr) and Alphabet/Google joining, and said they’ll close the seed in the coming weeks.

Why it matters

Nick Davidov highlights a first-time YC founder claiming “We’re raising without a deck” (post metadata: created 2026-03-11, last updated 2026-04-04).

Key details

  • Jeff Dean tweeted a pitch deck (status 2085036253263921218, 2026-08-06), saying Radical VC Fund and Khosla Ventures will lead their seed round with participation from Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, Doerr Capital (John Doerr) and Alphabet/Google, and that they’ll close the seed over the next few weeks.
Source evidence

A first time YC founder: “We’re raising without a deck”
Meanwhile Jeff Dean:

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean)

We created a pitch deck to tell a handful of VC firms about us and what we were up to (a fun experience!). Here’s a few slides about our background and some of the things we’ve worked on from the pitch deck (it was fun putting together the list of people in our teams who have gone on to found a whole range of exciting companies). We are delighted to have selected @radicalvcfund
and @khoslaventures to lead our initial funding round, along with participation from @lightspeedvp, @kleinerperkins, Doerr Capital (@johndoerr), and Alphabet (@Google). We’ll be working with them to close our seed round over the next few weeks.

— https://nitter.net/JeffDean/status/2085036253263921218#m