“We want to be aligned with delivering the best capabilities in the most ethical way possible. The alternative is that someone’s going to do that anyway, and we believe that we can do that best.”
Check out “The Big Interview” in
@WIRED
with our Co-Founder & Chairman,
1/7 Thrilled to announce
@foundersfund
's $7.5mm investment in
@heliuslabs
, the backbone of the
@solana
developer ecosystem! 🚀 Here's why we're bullish:
our astronauts are stuck in space. a closer look at anduril's arsenal-1. US manufacturing and tariffs. google, trump, media, our vanishing internet, and palmer's most heretical thoughts. my conversation with
@PalmerLuckey
is now live.
Anduril has secured $1.5B in Series F funding to hyperscale defense manufacturing. Introducing Arsenal-1, a 5M+ sq ft state-of-the-art facility to produce autonomous weapons systems. Learn more:
Happy to be leading the Series A of
@Calderaxyz
@foundersfund
! We believe they're going to be the dominant player in the rollup-as-a-service space and also solve the interoperability problem across all these different rollups.
I wanted to add some additional info on why we believe
@pudgypenguins
@IglooInc
@AbstractChain
is really cool and why we invested.
1) They have a unique distribution advantage. Most platforms in crypto pay massive amounts to acquire users, but Pudgy actually has a negative CAC
We recently invested in
#Sentient
. It’s mostly an investment in the team for us, but there are also some interesting threads related to open vs closed source AI that I want to cover as to why we invested. More below:
Fun podcast w/
@KianSadeghi5
&
@micsolana
Highly recommend checking out Nucleus, which offers full genome sequencing and analysis on polygenic traits like IQ for just $399
You may learn something significant about your health in the future that you can start planning for now!
NUCLEAR FUSION DEEP DIVE VIDEO!
- The story of
@AvalancheFusion
- Lessons from SpaceX vs Blue Origin
- Interviews with
@ChiefFusioneer
& team
- Inside their fundraising, hiring, and R&D strategies
Full video here:
Proud to double down on
@AvailProject
in their Series A
Our belief since the beginning has been that DA should be straightforward for devs to use, fast finality, cheap, and secure. In each of these regards, we think Avail’s architecture makes the most sense:
- Slashing
- DA
At
@foundersfund
we’re investing in Avail
@AvailProject
because we believe it’s the best data availability solution, and will be an important part of the broader modular stack going forward. They have a very strong technical team and have solved a lot of tough 0->1 tech problems
Proud to be on this year's Midas Brink list
One of my core career goals is to get on the main Midas list
Sourcing/negotiating the seed of Ramp ($27.5m post, now $6b+) and leading the Series A of Sword ($25m post, now $2b+)
Are a decent first step!
despite recent progress and endless cheerleading, open-source AI is a worsening investment for model builders, an inferior option for developers and consumers, and a national security risk. I wrote about the closed-source future of foundation models here
🚨🚨 Episode 15 of Liquidity Podcast is out and this week
@Jason
and I have
@zebulgar
of
@foundersfund
and Mel Williams, Co-Founder of
@TrueBridgeCP
.
In this episode, we discuss the Midas List, return of crypto and democratizing VC.
Link to the episode below 👇