The Memory Reading Room
Bring a reading, a paper, a half-formed thought, a diagram on a napkin. We're interpreting "memory" broadly and hoping the collision of frames produces something interesting.
Some directions you might go:
HBM and the physics of remembering at scale
Context windows, RAG, and what it means for a machine to "know" something
Neuroscience - engrams, consolidation, forgetting
The weirder stuff like Jung, Bergson, eternal return, memory palaces, whatever
Everyone shares what they brought. We discuss. No presentations, no slides, no pressure to have figured anything out.
Please send your topic and source material the morning of the meeting.
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Asylum Ventures is a Brooklyn-based venture firm dedicated to the creative act of building companies, led by Nick Chirls, Mackenzie Regent, and Lola Wajskop. The team raised a $55 million Fund I to write $1-2 million first checks, backing just 4-5 companies annually. Asylum believes the best early-stage founders are artists at heart — obsessive about new and unusual ideas, driven to bring their creations into the world, and often misunderstood for long periods of time. They're looking to support founders who, like artists, are focused on crafting something truly great rather than just checking boxes on a conventional startup journey, offering them both the capital and space they need to develop their vision.
Banter Capital is a venture capital investment firm focused on early-stage investments. We support world-class founders building in “the weird and the wonderful.” Our team has previously worked at Box Group, SignalFire, NFX, Index Ventures, and PJT Partners. We have partnered with companies like Saronic, Grow Therapy, Charlie Health, Crusoe Energy, Blank Street, K2 Space, Northwood Space, and others in the earliest innings.
Stellation Capital is a Brooklyn-based venture fund led by Peter Boyce, investing in philomath founders: the deeply curious builders who approach hard problems differently. We lead or co-lead pre-seed and seed rounds, writing $500K–$2.5M first checks with a concentrated approach. We're generalists who are drawn to a particular kind of founder: not yet defined by their biggest win, and building with the intensity that comes from knowing their best work is still ahead. We look for people who care more about getting it right than getting it fast, and who want partners they can call before the decision is made, not after.
Dani Loftus is a founder, writer and investor focused on the intersection of social factors and emerging technologies. After starting the blog This Outfit Does Not Exist in 2020, Dani became known for building, and investing in, companies that explore the future of identity and status. She co-founded RED DAO – a digital fashion investment vehicle with 4098 ETH deployed, alongside her own generative fashion marketplace DRAUP (acquired). Dani's work has been featured in publications such as The Times, The New York Times, Vox, Morning Brew and CNBC and she freqeuntly shares her insights on how to meld culture and technology at institutions like Christie's Art and Tech Summit, Duke, the WWD Tech Symposium and Somerset House.