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Josh Cohen

Why I Invested in Gravity

In December 2024, I invested as an angel in Gravity Climate’s Series A. I’m thrilled to support founders Saleh and Ted as they build the leading energy management platform for industrial businesses. The industrial sector accounts for 31% of global emissions, and rising electricity costs are making energy

Merge tools address a shift in the role of the pull request

Today’s software teams have embraced a new workflow for merging and releasing code: trunk-based development. Instead of developing code in feature branches over weeks, they are merging and deploying small chunks of code daily. Trunk-based development helps developers ship code faster, but as teams adopt the workflow, they’re

Dynamic config startups help engineers decouple deployments and releases

A swathe of startups have emerged to offer dynamic configuration tools – tools which allow engineers to define dynamic values in code, and update them remotely. Over fifteen products exist on the market today! In this post, I’ll dig into why we’ve seen a recent uptick in companies in

The rise of advanced build systems

Piece originally published on the Scale Venture Partners blog. It’s 2024 and decades-old memes about building software still hold up. Despite advances in the DevOps stack – Docker for containerization, CircleCI for CI/CD, and Terraform for infrastructure as code – many engineering organizations still struggle to deliver fast, consistent, and

Opportunities in GenAI model deployment

The Problem Organizations across a range of sectors are racing to adopt generative AI. Investors poured $14.1B into generative AI startups in 2023, and Bloomberg projects that generative AI will be a $1.3T industry by 2032. Two obstacles stand in the way of widespread AI model deployment: hardware