🛠️ Founder/CEO. @VCBackedMoms. @GenAIFounders. 2x @Harvard. Previously @Optimizely @Udacity
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So excited to finally get to share with the world!!! Incredibly proud and happy for team @LearnWithEllo 🔥
When @JenSiebelNewsom comes to your first ever fundraiser dinner and it SELLS OUT ✨
🚀Thank you to @CooleyLLP, @SVB_Financial, @ChiefMamaOfficer for sponsoring, and @yanabana @schmorak for co-founding this thing with me. 🙏
@VCBackedMoms keeps leveling up 💪Here’s to 2026!
Amelia Lin retweeted
What a night.
So many incredible women building incredible businesses, all gathered to support @VCBackedMoms.
It was especially inspiring to hear from @JenSiebelNewsom, First Lady of California, about her work to support female founders.
I also shared a few words and reflected on how @linamelia, @schmorak, and I started VC Backed Moms in the middle of the pandemic lockdown.
A brutal time to be a mother. A brutal time to be a founder. And an especially brutal time to be both at once.
I remember trying to get @Kraftful off the ground while my two-year-old ran around me because schools had shut down, thinking: there’s no playbook for this. But surely I can’t be the only one going through it.
The moment we announced VCBMs, it had instant PMF. Founder moms were asking the same questions:
- How do I fundraise while pregnant?
- When do I tell my investors I’m having a baby?
- How do I navigate all of this without tanking my company?
Having a space to talk about these very specific, very real issues ended up being critical in my founder journey.
So years later, when I had my second child, I felt completely prepared. It wasn’t even a question.
My baby was born one week after I started intense M&A negotiations to sell my company. I was able to stay focused on getting the best possible deal for my team, my product, and the company we’d built because I had real support on the founder-motherhood front.
I’m incredibly excited that hundreds of founders now get that same support as this community keeps growing.
Huge thank you to our incredible leadership team Sam Gardner, Laurel Hess, Dana Levin-Robinson, Kt McBratney, Sehreen Noor Ali, Ketki Duvvuru and our new Executive Director Sierra Alea for an incredible event.
🔥🔥🔥 we're down to the last spots
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“Mom, how did we get so rich?”
“Your mother started a company, worked relentlessly, convinced the <2% of VCs who back female founders to bet on her, and raised you at the same time.”
Some founders are playing on hard mode 💪
Those founders are the 500+ members of the @VCBackedMoms community I started with my good friends @linamelia and @schmorak a few years ago.
Last year, VCBM became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
Next week, we’re hosting our very first fundraising dinner to support more incredible founders on this wild journey. Sponsored by @CooleyLLP, @SiliconVlyBank, and Chief Mama Officer — with a very special guest speaker 👀
We’re down to just a few spots. Grab one if you’re keen. Link in comments.
Don’t talk to users?
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Today’s launch of AI Feedback is personal.
It’s the culmination of my @Kraftful journey.
We built Kraftful to help teams truly listen to users.
Now we’re taking that mission even further at @Amplitude_HQ with AI Feedback.
AI can automate almost everything.
But it can’t replace how people *feel* when using your product.
For builders, listening to those emotions is how you create something exceptional.
Now you can do that right inside Amplitude.
Across surveys, support tickets, sales calls, app reviews, Reddit, Discord, X, G2, and more.
Connect your sources in minutes and start getting daily insights that used to take hundreds of thousands of hours to analyze manually.
Available on every Amplitude plan (even the free one!).
Go try it. Listen to your users. Build better.
Amelia Lin retweeted
Sora2 is great and all, but...what if you want to tell more than the 5 second story? Today we’re shipping a huge update to close the gap for *every* storyteller: full AI motion for your whole story. In ~3min and for <$5, all your characters will move and talk naturally!
This.
Can female founders operate in founder mode?
@BChesky said founders’ intuition comes from being the parent of the company.
As @VCBackedMoms, we know it well. As founders. And parents.
Today we’re proud to announce our non-profit status, supporting nearly 500 badass founders🧵
Had a total blast doing this with you @frederickvan , thanks for inviting me on @ThisWeekinPhoto to chat all things @honeycombapp_, trade favorite tools, and marvel at how AI newborn photography has become an actual search term.
Ready for AI-powered infant photography?
Amelia Lin (@linamelia), co-founder of AI start-up Honeycomb (@HoneycombApp_) joins @ThisWeekinPhoto to share her vision of using AI to improve and democratize professional infant photography.
#AI #photography
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ALT This image shows a side-by-side comparison of two photographs of the same baby in different settings. On the left, a real photo of a baby dressed in a simple white onesie, lying on a brown wooden floor, and slightly touching their face with one hand. On the right, an AI-generated image showing the baby is adorned with a large floral headband, lying cozily in a basket lined with soft pink material. The transition between the two images is indicated with a curved arrow pointing from the left to the right photo.
Big congrats to @8teAPi and team! Have loved seeing how far it's come since early beta
Amelia Lin retweeted
The future of product research is here:
💥Kraftful Surveys💥
🔊 Sound on to learn how AI-generated surveys with instant analysis will tell you what users need in just minutes 🤯
Check it out on kraftful.com
Awesome seeing everyone last night at our @genaifounders AI panel with @benparr @chengdavid923 and @chrisyeh - and thank you @justworks @trainwithTempo for sponsoring and hosting us. Members flew in from everywhere from LA to Japan!
Which investor should we invite next time? 🙂
So great bringing together the @VCBackedMoms community last night once again with @BernsteinPWM and @PrecursorVC - we are now 300+ strong and $2B+ raised! 👭
Thanks @claytonwbryan @500GlobalVC for inviting me to speak today on our learnings building in generative AI at @honeycombapp_ ! Great meeting @jkrinitt @DivGarg9
P.S. Founder in GenAI? Join our Slack group with me and 200+ other founders, link to apply is at @genaifounders
Amelia Lin retweeted
So where’s all the women in AI at?
Having dinner with @radicalvcfund @redpoint @ericabrescia @molwelch and @achowdhery of course 🙌
I’m here with @linamelia representing @genaifounders 🫶
Thanks @benparr for featuring @honeycombapp_ as a GenAI startup to follow! If you’re a founder or investor looking for a primer on GenAI check out Ben’s cheat sheet, a much needed resource👌
A special thanks to the AI experts who gave me detailed notes and feedback on the Cheat Cheat Sheet for Generative AI!
You should 💯 follow them for AI news, insights and events:
@rachel_l_woods
@mattprd
@jowyang
@deborahyarchun
@katyacares
@linamelia
@mreflow
So great seeing everyone IRL last night at the @genaifounders happy hour during #SFTechWeek - the community is growing so fast!🤯 Shoutouts to my amazing cohosts @itsjessiezeng @amysundae, and @justworks @Techweek_
Where should we host our next event? 🤔
Thank you @jdbiersdorfer @nytimes for featuring @honeycombapp_ today as a top app for new parents! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
So proud to be building with this incredible team. Big things coming soon. Stay tuned... 🔥
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Very excited to be included in the SF #TechWeek GenAI scene with @genaifounders @itsjessiezeng @amysundae @honeycombapp_ - see everyone Thursday!
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Excited to host GenAI Founders & Funders HH on June 1 during SF #TechWeek
Join us! 🚀
@a16z @techweek_ tech-week.com
This. More options is worse (learned it the hard way).
When deciding on the authentication system for a social app, you might be inclined to allow users to pick any method—like Google, Facebook, Phone, Email.
But if you truly want to grow & get friend density, you should only allow one method—and have that method be on the same “protocol” as your distribution & friending system.
For example:
• Phone Number Auth should be paired with SMS Invitations and Contact-based Friendfinding
• Twitter Auth should be paired with Share to Twitter and Import Followers
When you allow multiple methods, it leads to a corrupted social graph where users can’t find each other and the app won’t be able to properly rank people that users should invite.