Jake Paul
Jake Paul is an American entrepreneur, content creator, and professional boxer, known for building a large YouTube audience, co-founding venture platform Anti Fund, and creating boxing promotion company Most Valuable Promotions.
Anti Fund Raises $100 Million on a Bet That Attention Is Scarce
Jake Paul and Geoffrey Woo used an a16z podcast appearance to announce Anti Fund’s oversubscribed $100 million growth fund and make the case that venture advantage is shifting beyond capital. Woo argued that as money and AI-enabled intelligence become more available, attention, cultural reach and founder resilience become scarcer inputs; Paul framed his own path from YouTube to boxing to investing as evidence that distribution and monetization can compound across domains. Their pitch is that Anti Fund can pair technical judgment with cultural leverage when backing companies such as SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, Anduril, Cognition, Etched and Modal.
Midjourney Medical Extends Image-Generation Ambitions Into Full-Body Ultrasound Scanning
TBPN hosts John Coogan and Jordi Hays read Midjourney Medical as a continuation of David Holz’s long-running work on sensing, interfaces and machine perception, rather than a sudden move from image generation into healthcare. Their account argues that Midjourney’s unusual business — bootstrapped, community-driven and cash-generative — has given Holz room to attempt a capital-intensive ultrasound scanning system with ambitions far beyond a conventional clinic device. The episode pairs that bet with OpenAI’s hiring of Noam Shazeer and Dean Ball as evidence that technical talent, policy capacity and institutional advantage are converging in AI.
Anti Fund Raises $100M to Back AI, Defense, and Robotics
Jake Paul and Anti Fund co-founder Geoffrey Woo argue that their venture firm is moving beyond celebrity access into institutional frontier investing, with an oversubscribed $100mn-plus growth fund and a focus on AI, defense, robotics, energy, hardware and other capital-intensive technologies. In a TBPN conversation, Paul frames his media career and boxing promotion business as evidence that he can help technical companies build distribution, while Woo says the firm’s thesis is shifting toward AI infrastructure and the physical world.