Astra

No single number decides. Layers can disagree — that's the point. New to this? →

The platform's own early signals for this company — hard-to-fake, and where one preceded a real raise, the measured lead.

• TLS certificate transparency 1 signal · latest 2026-09-19
• federal_register 3 signals · latest 2025-12-19

See the full track record →

• bullish fact_claim Tibo Sottiaux

  we used Astra in order to develop the next generation of our inference stack, which allowed us to create ultra fast, which is eight times faster. And this was possible in such a short amount of time because we have amazing engineers, but also because they had access to Astra and they collaborated together in order to make a version of Astra that was faster, like eight times faster.

• neutral fact_claim Unattributed

  if we see an ever so slight regression, we didn't want to proceed with a broad release. And so it was, like, you know, withheld.

• bullish fact_claim Unattributed

  with Astra, we had a high watermark on, like, safety and alignment evaluations. And we're, like, extremely proud of that.

• bullish assessment Tibo Sottiaux

  And Astra was never trained on this, so it had to generalize and, you know, just do like the spatial reasoning. And it was kind of like magical to see it just solve it and then see that it's also, you know, one of our best models like on robotics.

• bullish assessment Tibo Sottiaux

  Astra is, you know, state of the art, you know, like the best model in the world when it comes to, you know, computer use safety.

• bullish fact_claim Tibo Sottiaux

  And so we just merged it and we merged it in 30 days.

• bullish endorsement Unattributed

  Astro is very good at writing your best. It's awesome.

• bullish assessment Unattributed

  And so I think that was a real positive moment. And to me, the computer use is the headline thing that we've talked about. And part of the reason computer use is so significant is that for agentic use cases, it really comes down to tools.

• bullish assessment Unattributed

  And in many ways, it is the sum of a number of research bets that we've been making for years. And to see them come into one model at one time, it's been absolutely incredible.

• bullish assessment Unattributed

  Well, I think that Astra is really a step function on so many axes.

• neutral fact_claim Unattributed

  when we took Astra, pointed out our systems, we found some new problems, but eventually it's saturated. We basically have found, to our knowledge, all of the P0s, all of the critical problems that Astra is smart enough to find.

• bullish endorsement Unattributed

  people using Astra for, one of my friends is using it to produce CAD designs for a guest house that now is being built, right? It's like you can actually do so much more. You get all this leverage.

• mixed assessment Unattributed

  OpenAI and Anthropic each have the two worst models that exist...they've intentionally decided to cripple the low end of the market...they don't want to play in these low margin businesses for now.

• mixed assessment Unattributed

  if you listen to the launch announcement, it's very focused on developers...it's a core software developer thing...unbundling at the developer level where it's more likely to happen.

• bullish assessment Unattributed

  using a harness to pick a model and getting it right is effing exhausting...between Harry, between Rory and Jason, who's the better person to join 20VC as a partner? It can't answer...You have to QA and test every single use case to get those benefits. It's exhausting. And then I got switched over on Replit to Autorouter, where it switches between Astra, Fable, the open source ones, and everything. Now I don't even know which one it's using. And then I saw some performance degradation. So then I

VentureSignalScore 61.1/100 for astra, composed from 1 of 4 components (emerging formula), discounted ×0.76 for 20% signal coverage