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@join_ef portco news: Helicon (F25) raised a $16.5M Seed
They're building autonomous factories to build composite structures at scale
Massive congrats to @alexnhaus and @Esanzgadea
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I first met @alexnhaus in November 2024.
The intensity he’s taken on everything with @Esanzgadea consistently has been nuts.
We at @join_ef feel very fortunate to have been so close to the inception of Helicon.
Helicon is building factories to industrialize composites.
We raised a $16.5M seed round led by @alley_corp (@abemurray /@JonesBrannon) with participation from @joshbuckley, @chalfs, @gokulr and other top investors.
We’re ramping production at our factory in Los Angeles to deliver against millions of unmanned systems that need to be built domestically.
We're building a world class team. Join us. helicon.tech
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Helicon is building factories to industrialize composites.
We raised a $16.5M seed round led by @alley_corp (@abemurray /@JonesBrannon) with participation from @joshbuckley, @chalfs, @gokulr and other top investors.
We’re ramping production at our factory in Los Angeles to deliver against millions of unmanned systems that need to be built domestically.
We're building a world class team. Join us. helicon.tech
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Helicon has raised $16.5M to industrialize advanced composites, with backing from AlleyCorp, Josh Buckley, Mike Chalfen, Charlie Songhurst and others.
Helicon is building a new generation of factories that combine specialised manufacturing models and robotic assembly to produce advanced composite structures at scale, making it possible to manufacture faster, iterate more quickly and reduce reliance on highly specialised manual labour.
Last April, we filmed @alexnhaus and Edmundo in San Francisco, just before they pitched at EF Demo Day, to hear about their vision for the future of manufacturing.
Six months later, they're taking that vision to the next level.
Proud to have backed Helicon from day zero at EF.
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Lovart x OpenAI: Founder Vibe-Design Workshop
Thursday, Oct 22 · 6–8pm · San Francisco
Hands-on session for founders building with small teams. Bring a project to demo.
Top 3 projects win a year of Lovart Pro and a feature on our socials.
Spots are limited. RSVP ↓
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From underwater robots to solving one of the biggest bottlenecks in infrastructure: energy.
Grace and Vayu came to SF building underwater robots.
1 week later, they killed the idea.
Then they spoke to hundreds of people in 2.5 weeks and found a much bigger problem: getting enough power, fast enough.
That led to LOIs and a $500K contract.
Last week, they pitched Lattice Energy at Demo Day. Watch their full pitch on the Demo Day portal.
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I am a picture person
mostly the one standing a step behind:
a founder pitching 60 potential cofounders an hour after landing
a hardware lab built overnight in a residency
a cofounding team cooking side by side with a chef
a boiler room in the mission
a last garden lunch with founders who arrived solo and left with companies
most of these stayed in my camera rolls
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They came to SF knowing they wanted to build in energy.
They just didn’t know what yet.
A few weeks of testing problems later, Bianca and Alessio found the intersection of energy and compute, and Ambra Compute started moving fast.
On the way to Demo Day, Mike Phillips jumped in a Waymo with Bianca to talk about finding the right problem, building in San Francisco, and why speed matters.
Full conversation in thread.
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“Instead of paying for my flights, can you cover my fuel?”
@omar_marv drove from Yale to SF for @jointhebridge, stopping at 30+ car dealerships on the way. He grew up on his dad’s dealership floor in Morocco.
Now he’s building @marvlabsai .
Read about his story in the article below.
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Axionic Labs is trying to put frontier AI in your pocket.
In 3 months, Archie and the team built a 1B-parameter model from scratch that is 500x smaller than other frontier models, fits in under 3GB, and has a 1M-token context window.
It already outperforms state-of-the-art open-source models on key long-context benchmarks.
Last week, Archie pitched Axionic Labs at Demo Day. Watch the full pitch on the Demo Day portal.
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i was the youngest one to pitch at @join_ef demo day
pitched hug to 300 investors
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“Your AI has a 3-second memory. You shouldn't have to.”
That's the idea behind Goldfish.
@joeledholm and his cofounder met just 5 months ago.
Since then, they've built an AI memory layer that understands your work context and helps you write in your own voice, from WhatsApp to LinkedIn.
Already 5,000+ users.
Last week, Joel explained the idea live on @etnshow before pitching Goldfish at EF Demo Day.
And they were ready to try it on the spot.
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At 2am, Vaibhav kept noticing the same person was still working: Amish.
They weren’t cofounders yet. They were building completely different things. But after enough late nights watching each other operate, Vaibhav knew Amish was the person he wanted to build with.
A few months later, they’re building Saturn Labs.
On the way to Demo Day, Isabel jumped in a Waymo with Vaibhav to talk about finding his cofounder, moving from India to SF, and why being here became essential to building the company.
Full conversation in thread.
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The West still builds some of the most important parts of robots by hand.
Caldera wants robots to build them instead.
Raghav spent four years at Tesla building electric motors. His cofounder Yeok spent three years in Shenzhen deploying robotics in real warehouses.
Now they’re combining both sides of that experience to rethink how actuators and motors get made.
Robots building robots.
Watch Caldera’s full Demo Day pitch on the Demo Day portal.
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“Working on something that isn’t challenging is not worth my time.”
That’s Faidra, co-founder of Asage.
She met François through EF. Their first call was a disaster. Then they met in person, it clicked, and they’ve been building together ever since.
Since then: first benchmarks, growing client traction, their first hire, and investors including the co-founder of World Labs.
Asage is just getting started.
Watch their full Demo Day pitch on the Demo Day portal.
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Scarlet has raised a $50M Series B led by Headline to accelerate certification for AI and software medical devices.
Founded by James and Jamie, Scarlet is building a certification body designed for the way modern medical software is actually developed, helping companies get safe AI products to patients faster without compromising regulatory rigor.
The new funding will support expansion across the US and Asia-Pacific, grow its expert reviewer and engineering teams, and broaden its certification offering.
Proud to back Scarlet from day zero at EF.
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