Domestika is a global learning platform for creatives - illustrators, designers, photographers, animators, writers - built around professionally produced video courses and an enormous community of working professionals. Founded in Spain in 2002 as a forum, it became a unicorn in 2022 and now hosts millions of students taking courses in more than 10 languages.
Luma AI is a Palo Alto-based generative AI lab building multimodal foundation models that turn text, images, and ideas into video, 3D, and interactive scenes. Its flagship product, Dream Machine, has crossed 30 million users; its Ray3 model was the first reasoning-driven video model to generate native 16-bit HDR. Backed by HUMAIN, NVIDIA, Andreessen Horowitz, AMD, and Amplify, the company is racing toward what its founders call 'unified general intelligence' for the physical world.
Troy Kirwin is an Investment Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Cohort Lead for a16z speedrun, the firm's pre-seed accelerator program. A native New Yorker now based in San Francisco, he focuses on B2B AI and creative tech - including next-gen storytelling and design tools, marketing technology, 3D simulations, and vertical AI agents. Before a16z, he spent roughly 4.5 years as a Senior Manager at Unity Technologies, where he orchestrated over 20 acquisitions including Parsec and IronSource. He started his career as an investment banking analyst at Jefferies covering media and tech clients. His portfolio includes K-ID, Hedra, Backflip, Nunu.ai, and a dozen more.
Bilawal Sidhu is a creative technologist, former senior product manager at Google (AR/VR & 3D Maps), host of The TED AI Show podcast, venture scout for Andreessen Horowitz, and angel investor. After shipping landmark products like Google Maps Immersive View and the ARCore Geospatial API to billions of users, he left Google to become a full-time creator, curator, and investor at the intersection of spatial intelligence, generative AI, and immersive media. His newsletter and YouTube reach over 1.6 million followers, and he made headlines in April 2026 when he built WorldView - a real-time OSINT geospatial platform - in three days.