Backing founders obsessed with hard problems. Early investors in @Coinbase @Instacart @Rippling @Flexport @FlockSafety @trmlabs @valaratomics + more.
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Everyone wants to show robot demos. —- some of us ship robots to customers on a daily basis. —- physical AI isn’t coming - ITS HERE. Still lots of unsolved problems in robotics, but the fundamentals are in place. We felt like this was the right time to raise a bit more capital to fund the next phase of task expansion and deployment.
Formic raised $50M in Series B funding.
100+ facilities. 30+ states. 99.6% uptime. Now scaling physical AI onto real factory floors.
read it in @axios -
axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026…
Last week we teamed up with @Picogrid to host 100+ partners and friends at Death & Co during AUSA 2026.
"The Connected Battlefield" brought together the people helping Picogrid get better technology into the hands of service members. Great to connect with so many of them in person.
Thanks to Picogrid, @SVDG_official, @CooleyLLP, and everyone else who joined us! @kimmaicutler
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Better product data. Smarter search. More intelligent AI agents. 🧠✨
With Velou now part of Algolia, we're bringing richer product intelligence to search, recommendations, and AI shopping experiences.
Same APIs. Same integrations. Smarter discovery ⤵️
algolia.com/about/news/algol…
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More enterprises are running a portfolio of models. Easy tasks go to smaller, cheaper models, while frontier models take the hard tail.
Hosting that portfolio is a GPU utilization problem. The models don't fit on a single node together, and 9-34 min cold starts make switching between them impractical.
Excited to show our work with NVIDIA's Dynamo team. We show how to serve a portfolio of frontier coding models on a single 8x B200 node, switching models in ~1 minute with in-flight sessions intact.
cedana.com/blog/coding-model…
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Greptile has raised a $50M Series B led by Menlo Ventures. The round values the company at $750M.
Greptile reviews and tests more than 1% of all PRs opened on GitHub every day. Thousands of engineering teams including Nvidia, Coinbase, Decagon, and Vanta use Greptile as their independent and central validation layer.
Fewer than 50 people, we are a small, talent-dense team of engineers and researchers in a quiet corner of San Francisco. If you’re interested in joining us, we’d love to hear from you.
Initialized Capital retweeted
BCI is a wrong target.
Computers are no longer keyboard, mouse and screen, but AI agents working for you.
The right target is a Brain AI interface.
More below 👇
The founders we back are tackling hard problems, and they know their industries better than anyone. Here's what they've been sharing lately about AI, estate settlement, automation, defense tech, space, and more 👇
Alix cofounder and CEO @AlexandraMysoor in @USATODAY discussing the "daughter tax" and the often-overlooked caregiving and estate responsibilities that fall on women, particularly eldest daughters. usatoday.com/story/life/heal…
.@Rippling named to @FastCompany's 2026 Next Big Things in Tech list, recognized for its approach to AI that's grounded in how businesses actually operate. fastcompany.com/91612007/est…
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@TIME named the Flexport Customs Technology Suite one of the Best Inventions of 2026.
#TIMEbestinventions
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Maximillian Bhatti, CEO, has been named one of the 2026 Payload Pioneers, recognizing 30 under 30 who are helping shape the future of the space industry! Thank you to @payloadspace for the recognition, and Douglas Gorman for his incredible reporting and coverage of Basalt.
Congratulations to the other under-30's within the 2026 cohort, and let's continue to shape the next generation of the space industry!
Read more through link in bio.
payloadspace.com/maximillian…
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In the ever-wise words of @packyM, electromagnetism secretly runs the world.
And this startup is trying to wield it to build more elite hardware - from fighter jets to satellites to microchips.
Episode 2 of Moonshots on @arenaphysica with @Smartsheet 👇
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New hobby just dropped: Watching typhoons mess with container shipping on Flexport Atlas.
@Albedo's goal: Bringing space closer to Earth for all mission needs and all mission scenarios.
Full episode → youtube.com/watch?v=e7mPF1-j…
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While the industry chased demo hype, @samanfarid and the team at @goformic understood that the robots that matter aren’t doing backflips, they’re delivering 24/7 capacity and 99%+ uptime, turning chronic labor shortages into industrial growth across 150+ US factories 🇺🇸 🏭.
Loved gathering the @LorimerVentures community at @goformic’s new factory for #SFTechWeek to celebrate this huge milestone for American reindustrialization.
Special shoutout to our co-hosts: @lavanyaai from @improbabilityvc & @BlackhornVC.
