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🗓️ Coming up 9/3: NEA's @aaronej Jacobson will be featured on the 'Where the Money Is Going in AI Infrastructure' panel at Smart AI Summit. Infrastructure is where leverage lives. Five firms, five perspectives, one critical conversation. Register with code: GUESTAARON50 for 50% off → t.co/YMNPqxm0rN
🎉 Congratulations to @tankots @SahajGarg6 and the @WisprFlow team--$280M Series B raised for AI voice dictation and human-AI interaction platform. We're proud to have supported the Wispr team since their seed round in 2021, and are in awe of the team's progress and dedication to seamless human-AI interaction. Fun fact: 60 billion words have been written with Wispr flow! 🤯 More here: t.co/8AZEomzyo9
Wispr Flow@WisprFlow·We just raised a $280M Series B at a $2B valuation to build the future of voice and change how you interact with technology.
Introducing Merge for Workforce! 📋 IT picks the model routing policies for each team, fast and cheap for routine work, frontier models for the hard stuff, etc. 📞 Every call ties back to a person, team, and model, so IT finally sees where the AI budget actually goes. ⚙️ IT is able to audit and grant access to approved connectors and skills straight to employees' AI tools, so people get the right access without asking, and nothing shows up that wasn't approved. 💻 The controls follow employees across whatever they use, Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc. Congratulations, @shensi @GilFeig & the @merge_api team! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 More details below 👇🏽
Shensi Ding@shensi·We just cut AI spend by 75% across an entire workforce in one click. Introducing: Merge for Workforce. Without Merge, your employees are left choosing one of two options: 1. Spend 100x the cost they should be from using frontier models for everything 2. Deliver subpar work from overly restrictive model access Instead with Merge, IT can connect any identity provider and set model routing policies by team in one click. Merge pushes them to every machine through a desktop client, overriding the model configs across your team’s AI assistants and coding tools. Now every task gets the right model for the job. The result? 75x fewer tokens with faster and better output.
📢 Awesome opportunity from NEA portfolio company, @FactoryAI: The Factory Guild is now open for small, curated group of students, independent builders, and developer-community members who want to build with Droids, share what they learn, and help shape what comes next. Details & applications here 👇🏼
Factory@FactoryAI·The Factory Guild is open for applications. The Factory Guild is our highly selective builder program for a small, curated group of students, independent builders, and developer-community members who want to build with Droids, share what they learn, and help shape what comes next. t.co/O0JLxVaF4B
📢 Recent announcement from @brale_xyz: Introducing ION Protocol: cross-chain liquidity for everyone. ON Protocol eliminates the liquidity ceiling limiting the growth of stablecoins. As stablecoins and chains proliferate, it becomes impossible to duplicate deep liquidity across every ecosystem, capping potential. ION solves for that, delivering cross-chain liquidity for everyone. Learn more here: t.co/BAffPgCvCC
NEA is proud to be part of the memorandum of understanding on investment cooperation with KOREA NATIONAL PENSION SERVICE alongside @a16z @sequoia @khoslaventures @lightspeedvp & @generalcatalyst. 🫱🏽🫲🏼 This partnership with NPS reflects a shared commitment to backing the technologies and companies shaping the next generation of innovation. We're excited to deepen this relationship. 📰 Details here: t.co/lPH8BjJwi8
🎉 Congratulations @P_1_AI--$50M raised to build an AI engineer for the physical world. 📰 More details via @Forbes: forbes.com/sites/michaela…
Congratulations, @UseCentralize_ --$15M series A to bring relationship intelligence to the core of enterprise sales. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 📰 More details via @crunchbase: news.crunchbase.com/sales-marketin…
👉🏽 ICYMI: @ac_edwards_1 of @cusp_ai was featured on @tbpn to discuss the company’s recent $450M round and mission to power materials discovery with AI. 📺 Check it out at the 2:27:55 mark here: youtube.com/watch?v=eJDKBg…
📢 The Current #16 is here: After Assembly Line Finance Henry Ford said you could have any color, "so long as it is black." 🧑🏭Finance has run the same playbook for a century. NEA's Hunter Worland on why that's reversing: 📉 AI collapses the cost of building bespoke financial products 🤝 The real fight is over who owns customer trust, not who owns the model 🔨 Even the most boring product can be rebuilt n-of-1 Check it out 👉 t.co/EFUJYFYYqM
On the heels of @cusp_ai's AI Materials Foundry launch and $450M Series B announcement, we're sharing our excitement and conviction for @ac_edwards_1 @wellingmax and the Cusp team. 🤩 ➡️ From algorithms to atoms: NEA's @lilatretikov @PhilipChopin @AndrewSchoen @thomastjoshi & Elie de Fressenel detail why we're doubling down on CuspAI, as they build the AI “search engine for the material world” to turn desired properties into real materials for climate, energy, semis, and more. 📝 Check out the blog here: t.co/X0vULp8HRl
In addition to @cusp_ai's AI Materials Foundry launch this week, Cusp has raised $450M Series B to power materials discovery for chip making and beyond. Congratulations! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 We're proud to lead this round alongside @kleinerperkins, @bezoxexpedi and others. More details via @business: t.co/nYWrgNYvjy
For nearly 5 decades, NEA has believed in teamwork that bridges generations. It's why we built the NEA Fellowship: real VC experience for the builders of tomorrow. 🧑🏽🎓 We recently wrapped the 2026 spring cohort — 15 students, 10 schools, zero shortage of ambition. The future is already showing up. We're paying attention. 👉🏽 Meet the next generation of builders: t.co/L7xgMytVK0
🎉 Congratulations, @wonder--$650 Million Series D Round at a $9 Billion Pre-Money Valuation. "It's been exciting to watch the evolution of what Wonder is building — a fundamentally new way for people to access great food, at a level of quality and speed traditional players can't match. Our ongoing investment reflects our confidence in that model and in @MarcLore's ability to continue executing at scale." -@TFlorence_NEA 📰 Read the full announcement here: t.co/S2g8kgCPVb
👉🏽 @ValarianHQ just announced a $50M Series A led by NEA. NEA's @neemustafa @ScottDSandell @PhilipChopin & @jamesekaplan are diving in to detail why we believe the Valarian team can bridge the gap around sovereignty concerns with ACRA--the platform to govern data/keys across clouds so sensitive AI/comms workloads stay sovereign. 📝 Our Investment in Valarian: Sovereign Infrastructure For The Free World: t.co/ZmovDNMPHT
📢 @singularitydefc emerges from stealth with an oversubscribed $80M series A financing and a mission to build a safer world. 🚀 "Singularity is proof that hard and impactful missions are a moat. When success is measured in lives saved, the best people in the world show up, and Jack and Shail have converted that into a capital efficiency and build velocity few companies of any size can match, having already achieved milestones that no venture backed company ever has.” - @neemustafa @NEA We're thrilled to support @JackOswald10, @svgiroux & the Singularity team! 📰 Details here: t.co/oLZrK5hc6U
🚀 Launch day! We are thrilled to partner with @singularitydefc and support their mission to deploy air defense at scale. 🙌🏽 x.com/singularitydef…
🎉 Congratulations, @ValarianHQ--$50M raised to deliver the sovereign infra layer for high-consequence ops & AI-driven systems. “The critical question of the AI era isn’t which model wins — it’s who controls the environment intelligence operates inside. Valarian answers that question with genuine defence-grade architecture. This is NEA’s first defence and dual-use investment in Europe, and we made it because Valarian is building the control infrastructure layer the sovereign AI era requires.” -@neemustafa @NEA 📰 More details: t.co/JGhFWeRUrr
“Ten or fifteen years ago, it was really hard to get confidence that these companies would be able to get there,” said Aaron Jacobson, a partner at VC firm NEA. “But because you’ve now had success in Palantir and Anduril and others, plus the government’s progress, it’s starting to really encourage folks to believe it’s actually going to be possible to have more innovation in the space.” - @aaronej @nea 📰 Read more about how the defense tech boom via @FortuneMagazine / @agarfinks: t.co/2JRTvRVE5e
🗣️ Let’s talk about engineer productivity in the age of AI. Only HALF of pre-AI top-performers remain post-AI top-performers. 🤯 We want to know why, so we’re hosting: From Vibes to Evidence: Measuring What AI Actually Does to Your Engineering Team. We’ll welcome expert guests: @yegordb, Engineering Productivity Research Scientist at Stanford University, and @EnoReyes, Co-Founder & CTO at Factory, who will join NEA’s @lilatretikov to discuss: 1️⃣ Why most AI productivity metrics are wrong — What PR counts, survey scores, and lines-of-code dashboards miss, and what the Stanford study of 100,000+ developers actually found when they looked at output quality instead. 2️⃣ What “agent-ready” looks like in practice — How enterprise engineering organizations can restructure their codebases and verification infrastructure to get real, measurable returns from agentic AI tools. 3️⃣ Where the rubber hits the road — How to build a measurement framework that connects research-grade output metrics with the day-to-day realities of deploying AI agents at scale. …and more! We believe this is a vital topic, so in addition to our portfolio companies, we’ve decided to extend a limited number invites to this virtual event to our external network. 👉🏽 Request to attend here: t.co/zYkKCGRukG
We recently led @Corca_math’s $7.8M seed round to support their mission to democratize math for everyone. Now, we’re sharing why we believe Corca’s team, vision, and opportunity are a winning equation. 🤓 ↔️ The gap is bigger than it looks Writing, coding, design, data — all digitized and AI-native. Math is still stuck on paper and whiteboards, even for cutting-edge research. 🛠️ LLMs aren't the fix General-purpose language models can't operate on mathematical symbols directly, so they stumble on problems that don't look like their training data. Math needs its own tool, not a chatbot wrapper. 🧮 Corca = Cursor, but for math Equations become live, executable objects instead of static text — with agents built natively into that symbolic foundation. Read more from NEA’s @luke_pappas & @MasonOMurray 📝: t.co/MN2znKi8ow
The UK tech scene is electric! ⚡⚡⚡ Thanks to all of the founders & friends who joined NEA & @AnthropicAI for dinner in London this week. We loved learning about what you’re building and how Anthropic’s @claudeai and other tools can help supercharge your startups.
🎉 Congratulations, @DatabentoHQ--$97M Series B raised to power the market data platform for modern finance! "It's rare to encounter a company where the product, the traction, and the founding team all point in the same direction with this much clarity. Databento has built the modern foundation this industry has needed for a long time, and the fact that it's earned trust everywhere from students running their first strategies to the world's most sophisticated trading desks isn't by design—it's what best-in-class looks like in a category this fundamental. This is exactly the kind of company we back at NEA, and we're thrilled to be along for the ride." -@rickyang, @NEA 👀 More details from Databento CEO, @christinaqi, here: t.co/nj0yFXMFTc
🎉 Congratulations, @twelve_labs--$100M series B raised to build video super intelligence. "NEA backed TwelveLabs in the early days of video intelligence — and that conviction has only deepened as they have shaped this exciting category. Jae and his team built the foundation models that set the standard for what video understanding can be. They're purpose-built to turn millions of hours of footage into intelligence that compounds over time, and as video understanding moves from novel capability to essential infrastructure, we believe TwelveLabs is the company defining what comes next." -@lucktm 💡 Learn more from TwelveLabs' CEO & Co-Founder @_jae_lee here: t.co/pv1E89YE2o
@NEA & @AnthropicAI are hosting a dinner in London on Wednesday, July 8th for founders and leaders of enterprise tech startups. We’ll be having a roundtable discussion on how Anthropic’s pipeline of tools can help startups build better and faster while exploring company building in current climate. We hope companies walk away with fresh insights and new connections. We have limited spots available for additional attendees, so apply here to join us: t.co/6eVRu8CaPC!
📢 Exciting team announcement! Congratulations to the following members of our technology investing team on their recent promotions: 🎉 Philip Chopin to Managing Director, Head of Europe 🎉 Ayush Goradia to Principal 🎉 James Kaplan to Principal Thank you, @PhilipChopin, @AyushGoradia, and @jamesekaplan for your tremendous work, unwavering dedication and for exemplifying trust, teamwork, and excellence! 👏🏽 📰 t.co/F5LAP76MnR
☀️ Members of NEA's technology, digital health, and business development teams had an awesome visit to sunny San Diego last week to meet with the team from @UCSanDiego's Office of Innovation and Commercialization (OIC) and Entrepreneurship Center. We had a great time connecting with the UCSD community and meeting early-stage founders who are helping to build the future of AI!
ICYMI: NEA’s @neemustafa was recently featured at the @SuperReturn conference to share an AI investor’s take on China. 🗣️ “I would not be surprised if, in the coming years, there's an AI Belt and Road Initiative where China goes to the developing world and says America and the West has left you behind." 📰 More details via @axios: t.co/Ycoum1V8QH
🔊 Listen up! NEA’s @lucktm is featured on the latest episode of @TechCrunch's Equity podcast to discuss AI IPOs, personal agents, and the ROI reckoning. Check it out to hear: • What the tokenmaxxing-to-ROI shift means for how companies measure AI spend. • Why forward deployed engineers are becoming a “Trojan horse” for AI adoption. • How enterprises are mixing and matching models instead of committing to one provider. • Why Tiffany thinks value is being created at every layer of the AI stack, not just at the model layer. 🎙️ t.co/zkuQgYy0ms
🤩 A huge thanks to all of our founders and friends who joined us for dinner during the Data and AI Summit this week. We had a blast discussion startup building in the AI era. Special thanks to the @databricks Ventures team for collabing with us on this event for 3 years running. Grateful to @jefrankle for sharing the Mosiac story with our founders and bringing the banter with @aaronej. 🙌🏼
🗣️ “If you look at what’s happening in the A.I. data center, there are so many roadblocks and things that need to be reinvented.” -@aaronej NEA’s Aaron Jacobson weighs in with @paulmozur @trippmickle @nytimes: It’s Not Just Nvidia. The A.I. Boom Has Ignited Asia’s Chip Companies. 📰: t.co/DzNaaTIOn8
🎉 Congratulations to the @KnotchInc team on the launch of ACE—the AI Experience Infrastructure for the Conversational Era. 🚀 ACE was built to bridge the gap between traditional static websites and modern customer expectations. It’s an AI-first interactive website experience where customers can chat with a website and engage with content in a more modern and meaningful way. Check it out / learn more via the video below 👇🏽
🤠 It’s the Neolab wild west! The era of betting on frontier generalist AI labs may be over — and the next trillion dollars could belong to specialized Neolabs. 🤖🧪 In order to be the ace cowboy, we believe the best Neo Lab formula needs three layers: a proprietary domain corpus, a closed RL training loop, and a domain-specific verifier — each reinforcing the others as a compounding moat. 💡 NEA's @thomastjoshi @lilatretikov @AndrewSchoen & former NEA team member-turned AI operator @maddiehfaulkner collaborate on: The Neolab Wild West 🐎 t.co/76Zsxzquso
The era of betting on frontier generalist AI labs may be over — and the next trillion dollars could belong to specialized Neo Labs. 🤖🧪 We believe the ace Neo Lab formula has three layers: a proprietary domain corpus, a closed RL training loop, and a domain-specific verifier — each reinforcing the others as a compounding moat. 💡 NEA's @thomastjoshi @lilatretikov @AndrewSchoen & former NEA team member-turned AI operator @maddiehfaulkner collaborate on: The Neo Lab Wild West 🤠 📃: t.co/HxrTIfovH7
The era of betting on frontier generalist AI labs may be over — and the next trillion dollars could belong to specialized Neo Labs. 🤖🧪 We believe the winning Neo Lab formula has three layers: a proprietary domain corpus, a closed RL training loop, and a domain-specific verifier — each reinforcing the others as a compounding moat. 💡 NEA's @thomastjoshi @lilatretikov @AndrewSchoen & former NEA team member-turned AI operator @maddiehfaulkner collaborate on: Three Keys for AI Neo Labs to Win the Frontier Race. 📃: t.co/ECBGG9KaL5
🚀 LAUNCH DAY! Introducing @meetsolHR an agentic core HR system and full replacement for the HRIS, reimagined with AI from the ground up. Most HR systems were built for a workforce that no longer exists. Sol is built for how work is actually changing. Congratulations to @erinhyang @peteschlampp @StrattonJim @jonruggiero and all of the Solmates--we're thrilled to partner with you to build the next generation of HR platform for the agentic era. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Details below 👇🏽
We are thrilled to partner with @ninjaone who announced a $12.3B valuation today. NinjaOne has been leading the market to bring unified IT operations to overworked and under resourced IT teams and MSPs for years by developing a platform built for simplicity at scale. We’re
🤩 Thanks to @Capgemini for honoring @cdnshannaincali and @NEA with the 2026 Amplify Connector Award for connecting startups, capital, academia, and enterprise. And thank you, Shanna, for being such a valuable bridge in this ecosystem! Congratulations! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
📢 More momentum from @merge_api! Introducing Agent Handler for Employees. Co-founders @shensi and @GilFeig share more details about the safe way for employees to connect AI to all the software they use 👇🏽 x.com/shensi/status/…
😮 Wow! Exciting news from @IAmAliAlbazaz & @Inkitt: Introducing Inkitt Ironblood, the world's first AI-native streaming platform built exclusively for Action, Superhero, and Sci-Fi. This is not an experiment, this is the next chapter. 🍿 👀 Learn more & check out the first x.com/IAmAliAlbazaz/…
💡Software engineering is shifting — away from basic tools to fully autonomous agents that handle projects from beginning to end. In our latest NEA AI Stack Series installment, tech leaders from @Shopify, @FactoryAI, and formerly @GoogleDeepMind / @Meta explore this and other
🤩 We had a great time teaming up with @databricks recently to host a startup dinner in NYC. Thanks to all of the awesome AI Founders who joined us--we had a blast spending time with you and can't wait to see what you do next! Looking forward to more collaboration with
💡 "The best vertical AI products understand how financial information should be interpreted in context, not just how to access niche data. With financial services, you need precision and auditability" - @lucktm NEA's Tiffany Luck and other investors weigh in with @ryanlawler
📢 The 2026 @CNBC Disruptor 50 list is out, honoring the most promising venture-backed companies innovating across industries, experimenting with AI and, increasingly, making it work at scale. Congratulations to NEA portfolio companies: @databricks (#3) & @perplexity_ai (#31).
🤩 We're thrilled to see NEA's @ScottDSandell honored on the @Forbes Midas All-Stars list of investors who have appeared on the annual list of the world's top startup investors 15 times or more in the list's 25-year history. Congratulations, Scott! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 #7 Scott Sandell Firm:
🚨 Plot twist! Exciting team announcement from @matanSF & @FactoryAI that emphasizes our conviction and deepens our partnership with the company. 👀 @maddiehfaulkner, @lilatretikov Details below 👇🏽 x.com/FactoryAI/stat…
🤩 Exciting milestone announced from @goclio today! Congratulations to @jack_newton and the Clio team on $500M ARR! 🎉 Details below 👇🏽 x.com/goclio/status/…
💡 The next era of space is about infrastructure, not just exploration. Cowboy is building vertically integrated systems – launch vehicles, power generation, and orbital compute – as a single architecture designed for AI at scale. We're thrilled to continue backing @BaijuBhatt x.com/CowboySpaceCor…
🎮 We originally partnered with @HilmarVeigar and the CCP Games team in 2015. We are thrilled to once again work with Hilmar to support the company’s rebrand to independent studio @FenrisCreations. Congratulations! Flagship game, EVE, now incorporates a blockchain-based economy
Thanks to everyone who joined @NEA and our awesome co-hosts, @foresight_data, @kleinerperkins, & @CooleyLLP in NY this week for ‘VC Data: Shaken & Stirred.’ We had a blast talking data with you! 🤓
"People don't actually know what they need to automate. You need to watch customers use the product and see what they're doing. I think the best founders are going in and observing before knowing where to take action. Compounding observation." @NEA's @lucktm recently took the
🚨 ICYMI: NEA's @maddiehfaulkner was featured on the @crunchbase Predicts webinar series to discuss: Agentic AI –What VCs Are Betting On In 2026. At a glance: 💡 Where agentic AI is already creating real value, and which sectors are moving fastest 💡 How VCs are evaluating the
👉🏽 We initially partnered with @VAST_Data at the Series E around a shared belief that data infrastructure would need to evolve for the AI era. Fast-forward and AI is clearly driving a fundamental shift in how infrastructure is designed and operated. VAST Data is at the center of
📢 On the heels of spektr's recent $20M Series A announcement, NEA's @luke_pappas @PhilipChopin @alexa_grabelle & Hunter Worland detail our excitement around partnering with @werwerfqw, Ciprian Florescu, Jan-Erik Aabo Wagner, Jeremy Joly and the spektr team to build the
💡 @Forbes recently published the AI 50 list to spotlight the world’s most promising privately held AI companies. We’re proud to see several NEA portfolio companies honored, including: @databricks, @ElevenLabs, @perplexity_ai, @synthesiaIO, @togethercompute, and @theworldlabs.
