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Congratulations to @HelsingAI on its $1.8B Series E. Helsing is one of the most consequential AI companies in Europe, bringing AI-native software to defense systems. These capabilities strengthen Europe’s deterrence and enable its democratic institutions to flourish. We’re proud to deepen our partnership with @Gundbert, @torstenreil, Niklas Köhler, and the entire team.
"In what world is hurling half an F-35 at somebody an effective way to deter them?" For decades, a single hypersonic missile has cost as much as $50 million. @hargsb built SpaceX's Starshield business before founding @Castelion to make them affordable at scale, and keep America safe. Watch @AlexaLiautaud in conversation with Bryon. Chapters 00:00 — From South Georgia to Rocket Scientist 05:20 — Watching SpaceX Before Anyone Believed 08:22 — Quitting a Safe Career to Roll the Dice 13:23 — Breaking Into SpaceX 16:42 — Building Starshield and Why He Left SpaceX 22:56 — Peace Through Strength and the Case for Hypersonics 28:14 — The Hypersonics Problem No One Solved 31:10 — The SpaceX Playbook Everyone Gets Wrong 35:58 — Blackbeard's 10-Year Vision 41:50 — Who Succeeds at Castelion 49:00 — Inside the World's Largest Hypersonics Factory
We're proud to invest in @TeamOratomic's $300M Series A. Oratomic plans to build a fault-tolerant quantum computer by the end of the decade, with a simpler path to quantum error correction built on reconfigurable atomic arrays trapped in focused laser beams. This leap could fundamentally transform our world, unlocking solutions to problems like drug and materials design that are computationally impossible today. Congratulations to @DolevBluvstein and the entire team. cc: @AlexaLiautaud
"In what world is hurling half an F-35 at somebody an effective way to deter them?" For decades, a single hypersonic missile has cost as much as $50 million. @hargsb built SpaceX's Starshield business before founding @Castelion to make them affordable at scale, and keep America safe. Watch @AlexaLiautaud in conversation with Bryon. Chapters 00:00 — From South Georgia to Rocket Scientist 05:20 — Watching SpaceX Before Anyone Believed 08:22 — Quitting a Safe Career to Roll the Dice 13:23 — Breaking Into SpaceX 16:42 — Building Starshield and Why He Left 22:58 — How Castelion Got Its Name 25:34 — Peace Through Strength and the Case for Hypersonics 30:47 — The Hypersonics Problem No One Solved 33:48 — The SpaceX Playbook Everyone Gets Wrong 38:36 — Blackbeard's 10-Year Vision 44:27 — Who Succeeds at Castelion 51:38 — Inside the World's Largest Hypersonics Factory
We backed @1001ai_ at seed and are continuing to back the team in their $30M Series A. 1001 builds sovereign AI for the critical infrastructure that moves the physical world: aviation, ports, and energy. It's built and governed locally, so operators stay in control. Congratulations to @b_abughazaleh, Mohammed Fituri, and the entire team.
"We are as focused on spatial-temporal dynamics as Anthropic was on code." @gen_intuition's @PimDeWitte explains why the next frontier in AI is teaching models how the physical world unfolds in time. These world models unlock robotics, simulation, and scientific discovery. Congratulations to Pim and the team on their Series A. We’re proud to keep backing them. Revisit @max_rimpel's full conversation with Pim below.
Full conversation: youtube.com/watch?v=xk9o-O…
"The fintechs wanted to remove the friction, and hence remove the advisor. But that friction was passed down to the end client." For over a decade, the promise was that tech would replace the financial advisor. Instead, all the complexity and anxiety got handed to the customer. @rronrex founded @arca_wealth to fix that. AI handles the back-office work so advisors can focus on clients and help them reach their full financial potential. We're proud to lead Arca's Series A. Congratulations to Rron and the entire Arca team. Watch @Natlevywesthead's full conversation with Rron. Chapters 00:00 — Where the Trust Began 01:21 — Kosovo to America 02:47 — Lessons from Cadre and Plaid 05:25 — It's Not About the Money 09:16 — The Two Decisions That Change Everything 13:22 — The Millions Nobody Serves 15:48 — Inside Arca 17:25 — Why AI Shouldn't Replace Your Advisor 19:54 — The Cockpit Every Advisor Wants 23:27 — What the AI Does Behind the Scenes 29:54 — AI Services vs. AI Software 34:38 — What a Restaurant Taught a Fintech 38:59 — Hiring People Who'll Outgrow You 51:41 — Becoming Your Financial Everything
Why we invested by Alex Tran & @Natlevywesthead: generalcatalyst.com/stories/our-in…
Through its agreement to be acquired by @Qualcomm, @Modular aims to accelerate its mission and real-world impact by empowering developers everywhere with production-grade AI software. Congratulations to @clattner_llvm, @iamtimdavis, and the extended Modular team on their journey to make AI’s compute layer unified, efficient, and accessible to all.
"Even if your sole mission was to make ChatGPT the best model possible for you, your efforts would be pretty much futile. The next generation comes and washes out all the context engineering and sticky notes you prepared." Every AI model starts each conversation from scratch, re-reading the same files and seeing only sticky notes about you and your work. @dan_biderman left academia to build @EngramLab so AI can truly remember your world. We've backed Engram since its first round and are proud to support its $98M launch out of stealth. Congratulations to Dan, @EyubogluSabri, @jxmnop, @realJessyLin, @scott_linderman, Chris Ré, and the Engram team. Watch @marcbhargava's full conversation with Dan. 00:00 — Meet Dan and the Engram Story 00:25 — From Studying Brains to Building Them 02:10 — Building the Founding Team 05:20 — Why Every AI Model Starts From Scratch 07:44 — Building a Product in a Few Months 11:39 — Cutting Inference Tokens 10–100x 13:51 — The Quality Payoff Beyond Cost Savings 15:43 — Why This Couldn't Have Worked a Year Ago 18:22 — Distilling All of Microsoft and Slack Into a Brain 21:40 — Partnering With Giants as a Months-Old Startup 23:39 — The Self-Serve Bet in a Forward-Deployed World 33:44 — Models That Learn Like a Tamagotchi 34:44 — What Keeps Him Up at Night
Why we invested by @marcbhargava & @max_rimpel: generalcatalyst.com/stories/our-in…
"Bad ideas that turn good is where the alpha is." Nearly every investor told @l3amm usage-based billing was a terrible idea, and he built @getmetronome anyway. They saw what others couldn’t at exactly the right time. Metronome became the billing system behind some of the biggest names in AI, and @stripe acquired it earlier this year. Watch GC's @quentinclark in conversation with Scott. Chapters 00:00 — Meeting Scott at Dropbox 01:36 — Why Speed and Correctness Go Together 04:18 — Billing Was the Intern Project 06:09 — Betting Half of Software Goes Usage-Based 10:51 — Rejection Road Trip 12:24 — The Only Term Sheet They Got 16:44 — Refusing to Ship a Wrong Invoice 22:24 — Becoming CEO Overnight 27:06 — When Usage Went Exponential 31:45 — Choosing Customers Who Set the Bar 36:50 — Answering the Stripe Call
“If the technology that helps us be competitive in manufacturing comes from an adversarial country, we have a serious problem.” @standardbots is building the robots that bring American manufacturing back, designed so any worker can train them. We’re proud to double down on
The momentum of @AnthropicAI is generational. Grateful to be part of this journey. Onward.
Announcing @AnthropicAI's $65B Series H raise.
"There is no truth out there. If the truth is out there, you wouldn't reinvent things or think about things differently." That mindset led @maltekosub and @o_stefan to build @parloa_ai on voice when everyone said chat would change everything, and to turn down $7.7M to keep
.@htaneja and @jcfurstenberg have been named to the @Forbes Midas List this year, Hemant for the 10th consecutive year. We exist to back founders working on the big, right problems and to build a company worthy of their ambition. From @AnthropicAI, @AppliedInt, and @deel to
Full list: forbes.com/lists/midas/
“The digital world lacks physical information. The physical world lacks dense digital information. Games perfectly merge these two together, and we believe that’s just the next phase of pretraining.” Every few weeks @gen_intuition ships new emergent capabilities that are
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"Our collective, sector wide ambition is being constrained by our own behavior.” @htaneja's inaugural quarterly review is a reflection on building the AI era with our souls intact. It explores @percepta's LLM-as-computer breakthrough, the Customer Value Fund reaching investment
Q1 review in full: hemant-taneja.com
“If we’re going to bend the cost curve in healthcare and change the way people access care, we need to reimagine things from first principles. That’s what got us to where we are today: we’re an operating system for health plans.” We are leading @YuzuHealthInc's $35M Series A to
Navy submarine officer turned founder @CameronLMcCord: "When you're 484 days underwater, you need to feel motivated and understand how what you're doing plays into a bigger picture. That's something I always try to do at @Nominal_io." The bigger picture is global resilience.
.@maitreya_wagh and @xan_ps watched voice AI demos work perfectly in labs, then break in Mumbai call centers: customers code-switching mid-sentence, connections dropping, reality exposing every edge case. They'd seen this pattern before—Maitreya shipping products at Datamuni and
When we led @StillaAI’s seed round, we backed founders who’ve been building together for over a decade and know what it means to ship products at hyperscale. @siavashg and @kajdro scaled Shop and Shop Pay at Shopify to hundreds of millions of users. They learned that velocity is
Healthcare's AI transformation is accelerating, and JPM 2026 made that clear. We kicked off the week with our second annual Healthcare CEO Dinner, co-hosted by our CEO @htaneja alongside Matt Garman, CEO of @awscloud, bringing together the founders, investors, and executives
.@maltekosub started building conversational interfaces in 2016 when the market was full of chatbots that looked great in demos but broke in production. He saw something others didn't: voice—not chat—would be where enterprises needed AI most. He teamed up with @o_stefan to make
.@SaketRKumar is a builder at heart and @rishabhjain1198 engineered Grok at xAI. They met in March 2025 and launched @PrimeMeridianAI four months later—100% on TaxCalcBench, live for tax season. We've known Saket since 2017, when he was at La Famiglia, which became part of
