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(1/7) A look at what @DCVC founders delivered this week 💪🧵👇 ⚡ A landmark grid-power deal: @MainspringEnrgy signed a supply agreement with @AEPnews for up to 1.6 GW of linear generators in a deal that could top $4 billion.
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(6/7) ⚛️ Modular quantum momentum: @universalquant continued its global push following its $100M+ Series A co-led by DCVC, advancing its trapped-ion architecture to bypass photonic bottlenecks for fault-tolerant quantum computing.
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(7/7) Onward, with deep concentration (like Mainspring, above)!
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@DCVC is excited to support @Kairos Power. This company has done incredible work developing and proving their technology, which has been rewarded with valuable commercial partnerships. #FirmElectricity #NuclearEnergy #Innovation
This combined private investment and @ENERGY financing is helping to advance Hermes 2 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Thank you to @googleventures, @DCVC, Samsung C&T, Nuclear Capital Partners, Mavrik, and @GovNuclear for supporting our path to deployment.
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LLMs optimize for what humans like to read, not what machines need to do. The next leap in AI won't come from larger models, but from architectures that make intelligence cheaper and more machine-native (cue @DCVC-backed @typesafeai). Explore Opportunity 1.3: dcvc.com/reports/deep-tech-o… #DCVCDeepTech
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Have had several requests to post slides from the recent quantum investor talk I gave @UCLA I've been investing in quantum for >10 years and while the data wasn't surprising it was still interesting to actually see the numbers ... ⚛️🧵👇
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The microbiome is essential to human health but until recently, we couldn't do much with it. @DCVC's @jason_pontin examines the breakthroughs finally making the microbiome druggable (DCVC-backed @kanvasbio leads here). More in the Deep Tech Opportunities report: dcvc.com/reports/deep-tech-o… #DCVCDeepTech
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RT @mattocko: Real robots, delivering real ROI to real customers, *repeatably and reliably*, respectfully of and safely with their human co…
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.@FortemTech is integral to defense. With every advance, this company makes people safer. 👇
Fortem and MBDA just expanded our partnership: DroneHunter and FireThorn now integrate into the air-defense architectures European and allied forces already operate. - businesswire.com/news/home/2…
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Enjoyed my conversation with @suffiyanmalikk. Full episode here. ⚛️ Quantum is coming, and will be huge, but not for the use cases and reasons you think. 💰The best founders raised at 2X higher valuation. 🏦 Companies that raised from Tier 1 funds were 5x more likely to become a success. 💹 New forms of tradable assets will become huge, especially compute and energy derivatives We discussed these and many more. Give it a listen.
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YUP! 👇
If you’re working on something contrarian* come talk to us @DCVC In a time of consensus capital we continue to think independently and don’t need you to already have a term sheet to be interested *Note: still needs to be in Applied AI or Deep Tech! @alitamaseb @jason_pontin @mattocko @zackbogue @milo_werner @RachelSlaybaugh @2kstead @Hamerinsf
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RT @mattocko: Good reporting from Marina Temkin (@MTemkin) at @TechCrunch. Proud to have led @typesafeai's Series Seed less than a month a…
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RT @mattocko: Trillions of tokens a day. Almost $1b in new firepower for @typesafeai’s mission. The execution quality and pace of Diogo Al…
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A look at what @DCVC founders delivered /this week/: 💪 🚚 🧠 Major funding for machine-native AI: @typesafeai closed an $870M Series A led by @a16z at a $7.5B valuation—with DCVC participating alongside @sequoia —less than a month after emerging from stealth with a $40M Series Seed led by DCVC at a ~$200M valuation. 1/3 of the @FortuneMagazine 500 have already adopted their first model, Jev. ⚛️ Record-setting UK quantum milestone: @universalquant raised over $100M in Series A funding co-led by DCVC—the largest-ever Series A for a UK quantum firm—to scale its modular trapped-ion architecture into error-corrected quantum computers. 🏛️ @DARPA validated quantum scale: @Atom_Computing and @IonQ_Inc advanced to the final stage (Stage C) of DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative—with both companies unlocking agreements worth up to $300M each in potential funding to build utility-scale quantum systems. 🌾 Award-winning AI agriculture: @verdantrobotics was named to @FastCompany's list of the Next Big Things in Food and Agriculture for its SharpShooter AI tech, which cuts pesticide application by up to 99%. 🛸 In-space operations & defense: @GoToImpulse (Impulse Space) reached the finals for the @SpaceNews_Inc Icon Awards after demonstrating autonomous proximity operations between two Mira spacecraft in LEO, while @FortemTech showcased its autonomous counter-drone radar integrated directly onto new unmanned ground platforms. ⚡ Grid flexibility & geothermal momentum: @EmeraldAi_'s flexible load coalition with @Google and @nvidia made @Reuters as a blueprinted fix for data center power bottlenecks, while @fervoenergy's record-breaking Cape Station launch continued making headlines across national energy press. Onward!
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RT @mattocko: Much respect for Fei-Fei and her decades of contributions, but given what @odysseyml just unleashed with #odyssey-3, @AMD sho…
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