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Announcing Anorak Ventures Fund III š
Since 2017, weāve been backing ambitious founders leveraging advanced technology to disrupt the status quo. We invest early and often, writing checks between $250k - $1M with the ability to lead or follow. Focus areas include aerospace and defense, critical infrastructure, and advanced manufacturing, but if youāre passionate about an idea with a 1% chance of making a dent in the universe, @Charlieleg8 and I want to hear from you.
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In 2008, California approved a high-speed rail line connecting SF and LA.
18 years later:
šŗšø California: $100b projected cost. Zero passengers.
šØš³ China: 31,000+ miles of operational high-speed rail built out nationwide.
Is privatization the only way we get things done?
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Honor being invited on!
Anduril with Greg Castle (Anorak Ventures)
30 Days of Hard Tech - Day 10 š
Today, Anorak is on its third fund, but Gregās journey into hardtech investing began with his early investment in Oculus. That investment ultimately paved the way for his involvement with Anduril and the launch of a fund dedicated to hard tech
āPalmer is a generational founder and has a mind like few others that I've seen. And then you pair that with somebody who's got the experience and the understanding of the capital markets like Trae and also the government background - the team was incredibleā
āPeople were not interested in defense, people were not interested in hardware. Yet it was so blatantly obvious that the market opportunity there was so, so tremendous. And when you take a capable team, you take a market that's underserved, and you take a market that is literally trillions and trillions of dollars, and an opportunity to get in at the ground floor on something like that, it was a no-brainer.ā
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When I first met @LorenBrill she had lofty ambitions. She wanted to 50x revenue and get on @guyraz to share her journey. I was skeptical (to put it mildly!) but I saw in her a passion that was undeniable. Today my wife ticks off another box in her life story. Give this episode of @HowIBuiltThis a listen if you want to hear a story about grit, determination, positivity, and resilience. Iām incredibly proudā¤ļø
open.spotify.com/episode/20vā¦
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@TechCrunch should be ashamed of themselves. From the pictures to the words, everyone one of these Flock articles is unabashedly bias. Donāt invite him to your conference if youāre not going to give him a fair shake. DO BETTER @zackwhittaker @asilbwrites @RebeccaBellan.
techcrunch.com/2026/10/14/flā¦
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Script flip @jordihays
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Greg Castle retweeted
Woke up to @noxmetals in Times Square!
We're honored to share that we've been named to the #Disruptors60 Class of 2026, curated by @GreenfieldVC at @TechCrunch Disrupt, alongside teams advancing AI... where it matters the most!
Both the infrastructure powering tomorrow's models and the applications reshaping critical industries.
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Greg Castle retweeted
Iām visiting the Peopleās Democratic Republic of El Segundo this week. Think of me as a Primary Integrator.
I guess Iām a buyer (not investor) of:
ā¢ all types of balance of plant
ā¢ all types of heavy power electronics
ā¢ all types of transmission
ā¢ all types of switchgear
ā¢ all types of power to synthetic molecules
ā¢ industrial control software
ā¢ forgings and forging equipment
ā¢ automated welding and inspection
ā¢ primary energy sources, such as nuclear reactors
Iām a worldwide seller of:
ā¢ sovereign scale power infrastructure (GW)
ā¢ national transmission backbone
ā¢ transoceanic telecom
ā¢ 5yr contracts of 50MW - 1.500MW power
ā¢ whitespace
ā¢ jurisdiction arbitrage (eg US jurisdiction servers in Japan/EU on local latency)
ā¢ clean water
Happy to meet anyone who can figure out an intro. Genuinely, if anyone wants to talk about anything to do with heavy industry, or ask any esoteric questions happy to meet up.
Happy to offer specifications, boundaries and interfaces, strategic direction.
What is he talking about? Think of me as a program originator for trade deal allocations:
ā¢ $600 billion US-EU
ā¢ $900 billion US-Japan-South Korea
ā¢ $1,400 billion US-UAE
ā¢ $950 billion US-KSA
ā¢ $250 billion US-Taiwan
ā¢ $200 billion US-Switzerland/Liechtenstein
Thatās $4.5 trillion of commitment looking for projects. Stop sending InMail and just meet me for a coffee.
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Greg Castle retweeted
Been building a manufacturing company for the last year. Here's where we are at now.
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Greg Castle retweeted
Some of the best at the craft cosign.co/lists/eriktorenberā¦
Many founders wish they had true peers & thought partners in comms & people leadership roles.
If youāre gifted with words & people, these roles are opportunities to have meaningful impact at top companies and theyāre less competitive than being a top founder/investor/creator.
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Moar superior tools to defend the West šŗšø
Go Heaviside!
A month ago Heaviside Industries was awarded a $100M IDIQ for their first product. Today they announced their second, a man-packable loitering munition designed & tested in partnership with Nammo.
Introducingā¦ TYR.
It will be on display at AUSA in DC next week.
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Greg Castle retweeted
Anduril is investing $3.7B into Arsenal-2.
The next great American Shipyard.
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Couldn't think of a better way to spend Friday @tbpn šŗšø
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Announcing Anorak Ventures Fund III š
Since 2017, weāve been backing ambitious founders leveraging advanced technology to disrupt the status quo. We invest early and often, writing checks between $250k - $1M with the ability to lead or follow. Focus areas include aerospace and defense, critical infrastructure, and advanced manufacturing, but if youāre passionate about an idea with a 1% chance of making a dent in the universe, @Charlieleg8 and I want to hear from you.
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Special thanks to all our founders for your tireless work and our amazing group of individual and institutional LPs for their support.
@jroosevelt2 @_MichaelAntonov @jacobcohen @brendaniribe @jamierhodes @Lady10x @screendoorvc @jstasik @yannickoswald @nimble_partners @natemitchell @JDFarner @cmonkey @DoubleMcapital @ZacBookman @typesfaster @crtinch
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Time to shineš
Happy Friday. On today's show:
- @jgebbia (U.S. Chief Design Officer)
- @gpcastle12 (Anorak Ventures)
- @PimDeWitte (General Intuition)
- @themollette (Dorm Room Fund)
- @cityofthetown (Vanity Fair)
See you on the stream.
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Congratulations @Onebriefapp for their recent IDIQ award with Army š«”
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