Bela Becerra is a member of the 8VC investment team, where she focuses on the firm's early-stage practice and build initiatives. She also partners with portfolio companies on talent and media strategy.
She leads the Emerging Builders community to foster the next generation of the most ambitious entrepreneurs and engineers across SF, NY, and beyond.
Bela holds a BA in Economics from Stanford University and is originally from Los Angeles.
What’s a Rich Text element?
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Static and dynamic content editing
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Comparative Cognition
Most AI thus far has primarily been deployed with an oddly isolationist architecture: one employee, one terminal, and more often than not, one model. Intelligence is consumed individually, augmenting one person at a time. But organizations have never utilized human intelligence this way. They combine people with different abilities, give them shared context, divide work among them, and coordinate the result. The company, not the individual employee, is the unit that produces.
Comparative Cognition
Most AI thus far has primarily been deployed with an oddly isolationist architecture: one employee, one terminal, and more often than not, one model. Intelligence is consumed individually, augmenting one person at a time. But organizations have never utilized human intelligence this way. They combine people with different abilities, give them shared context, divide work among them, and coordinate the result. The company, not the individual employee, is the unit that produces.
Announcing Our Investment in Edra
Ontology was the silent word of the 2010s. Palantir built a $400B company on a simple insight: raw data alone isn’t enough to understand how a business operates. You need to map the nouns and verbs of a business—the objects, their states, their relations—on top of the data to navigate the intricacies of any operationally complex organization. The ontology was the grammar of the enterprise. Building an ontology is an immersive, painstaking process of extracting knowledge from the minds of experts across a company.
Announcing Our Investment in Edra
Ontology was the silent word of the 2010s. Palantir built a $400B company on a simple insight: raw data alone isn’t enough to understand how a business operates. You need to map the nouns and verbs of a business—the objects, their states, their relations—on top of the data to navigate the intricacies of any operationally complex organization. The ontology was the grammar of the enterprise. Building an ontology is an immersive, painstaking process of extracting knowledge from the minds of experts across a company.
Charles Srisuwananukorn (Together AI) Fireside Chat
We were thrilled to feature Charles Srisuwananukorn from Together AI at January’s Chat8VC. Charles is the Founding Vice President of Engineering at Together AI, where he leads the company’s work on AI infrastructure and clusters. Previously, he was Head of Applied Machine Learning at Snorkel AI and held engineering roles at Apple. He studied Computer Science at Stanford and has helped steer Together from an early contributor to open-source AI to a full-stack infra platform.
Charles Srisuwananukorn (Together AI) Fireside Chat
We were thrilled to feature Charles Srisuwananukorn from Together AI at January’s Chat8VC. Charles is the Founding Vice President of Engineering at Together AI, where he leads the company’s work on AI infrastructure and clusters. Previously, he was Head of Applied Machine Learning at Snorkel AI and held engineering roles at Apple. He studied Computer Science at Stanford and has helped steer Together from an early contributor to open-source AI to a full-stack infra platform.
Joe Chen and Jonathan Shen (Upwork) Fireside Chat
We were thrilled to feature Joe and Jonathan from Upwork at March's Chat8VC in San Francisco. We covered their journey from teams like Google Brain and Cruise, and their own startup, to leading AI efforts at Upwork—building Uma, a suite of specialized LLMs powering workflows for freelancers and clients across the platform.
Joe Chen and Jonathan Shen (Upwork) Fireside Chat
We were thrilled to feature Joe and Jonathan from Upwork at March's Chat8VC in San Francisco. We covered their journey from teams like Google Brain and Cruise, and their own startup, to leading AI efforts at Upwork—building Uma, a suite of specialized LLMs powering workflows for freelancers and clients across the platform.
8VC Emerging Builders Spotlight: Jeffrey Yu (Outset)
At 8VC, we believe in backing companies who reimagine industries from scratch. When we led Outset's Series A, we saw the potential to completely transform user and market research with AI. Since then, their execution has been incredible. Outset scaled from seven to eight-digit revenue, closed a Series B less than six months later after the Series A, and has dominated the market on AI-moderated research.
8VC Emerging Builders Spotlight: Jeffrey Yu (Outset)
At 8VC, we believe in backing companies who reimagine industries from scratch. When we led Outset's Series A, we saw the potential to completely transform user and market research with AI. Since then, their execution has been incredible. Outset scaled from seven to eight-digit revenue, closed a Series B less than six months later after the Series A, and has dominated the market on AI-moderated research.
Ramp & Vercel Fireside Chat
We were thrilled to host June's Chat8VC event alongside our portfolio companies Ramp & Vercel in NY. We were honored to feature Nik Koblov (Head of Engineering) and Nico Bevacqua (Head of UI / UX Engineering) from Ramp as well as Guillermo Rauch (CEO) and Lee Robinson (VP Product) from Vercel for a discussion anchored around the future of frontend engineering.
Ramp & Vercel Fireside Chat
We were thrilled to host June's Chat8VC event alongside our portfolio companies Ramp & Vercel in NY. We were honored to feature Nik Koblov (Head of Engineering) and Nico Bevacqua (Head of UI / UX Engineering) from Ramp as well as Guillermo Rauch (CEO) and Lee Robinson (VP Product) from Vercel for a discussion anchored around the future of frontend engineering.
