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We're pleased to work with @bobmcgrewai - founder of @Arda_Industries, former head of research at OpenAI, led by our @Accel partner @StevoLoughlin on the reinvention of manufacturing in the US economy (and beyond) ...
accel.com/news/our-investmen…
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Arda's Series A was co-led by @AltimeterCap, @Accel, and @khoslaventures, with participation from @xyz_vc, @8vc, @svangel, and @felicis and brings our total funding to $232M.
We’re growing our team and looking for manufacturing partners. Follow us at @Arda_Industries and come build with us!
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Product design moves faster than factories can adapt. @Arda_Industries launched today to close that gap. We wrote about why Accel co-led the seed and Series A: accel.com/news/our-investmen….
We started Arda in 2025 to speed up American manufacturing. We have spent the last year building with Anduril as our design partner. Today we are launching the company publicly on CNBC and announcing our Series A: $160M at a $1.5B valuation.
Our platform helps manufacturers design and operate manual assembly lines, putting designs into production faster now. Next we'll build automated lines that can be reconfigured as quickly as human workers, letting America make products that now require armies of workers in Asia.
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Can't wait to see this live!
#SLC
We’re excited to share the next phase of what’s coming to downtown Salt Lake City. The new district will have something for everyone.
It’ll have a new convention center, updated Abravanel Hall, new art museum, transformed Delta Center, Live Nation venue, strong local vibe combined with new iconic brands, hotel, housing, restaurants, and a central pedestrian walkway connecting the whole downtown from City Creek all the way to the new front door of the Delta Center.
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We're honored to invest further with this remarkable team and remarkable company @modal - @bernhardsson & @akshat_b --- where its still just the very beginning ... @Accel @MocorreaGonzalo
(thx & h/t to @patrickachase @max_rimpel @sarahcat21 @htaneja @breeves08 )
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IMO @modal is the model for a company with a really, really hard earned moat. Spend time understanding how their devex is so incredible and you’ll find that so, so much of it is downstream of just hard, thoughtful engineering effort that is not easy to replicate.
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From frogs to the frontier, @ScottWu46 covered a lot at Runtime:
→ Agents are moving from tab completion to “virtual employees” that own outcomes
→ Frontier models may only need ~2% of workloads; routing handles the rest
→ 91% of Cognition’s internal Devin sessions start without a human
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6th place is pretty cool I guess, but next year we'll be top 5!
Every startup says they have the best team. We looked at the data.
@paraformtalent’s Talent Density Index ranks which companies attract, develop and retain the people the market values most.
The latest edition is live.
New Top 50: paraform.com/talent-density-…
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We threw our first conference last week in SF. Tons of cool people and talks. A very high correlation between being cool and being there.
Anyway, this is the keynote, in which I announced a bunch of Modal features. We also launched 1M sandboxes in a minute for fun!
The Runtime keynote is live.
Updates to Inference, Training, and Sandboxes including:
11:20 — Endpoint Candidates
16:30 — Modal Clusters
21:48 — VM Sandboxes
22:40 — Sandbox Sidecars
And more
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Millions of tasks are being performed by agents as more people are asking AI to book a table, buy a gift, or fill out a form. @usekernel is building browsers that make it all possible.
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The the best defense is a great offense, powered by AI.
Armadin raises $255.5M in Series B funding co-led by @a16z and @accel to bring proof, not assumptions, to the organizations that need it most.
Read more: armadin.com/blog-posts/inves…
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Runtime kicked off this morning with keynotes from @bernhardsson and @ScottWu46.
Stay tuned for product announcements and recordings from the talks.
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.@Mweigand13 sat down with @timsteno on Bloomberg Tech on Friday. They got into the opportunity opening up in the market right now, why this AI shift is as significant as it is, and the principles that guide us when we back founders.
As OpenAI and Anthropic grapple with how to safely push the AI frontier, Accel’s Matt Weigand says “alignment needs to keep pace” with rapidly improving capabilities and expects cybersecurity companies to play a role in making that happen bit.ly/4rwzjnO
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Will be a sick event. This is your chance to meet some really cool people and ask them hard questions about infra and AI.
Register here: modal.com/runtime
Runtime is this week at The Midway in San Francisco.
Thanks to our partners for helping us put it together: @nvidia, @pydantic, @radixark, @sgl_project, @temporalio, and @inferact, @vllm_project 💚
Join us to learn from the engineers behind these tools.
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And on a serious note
In the golden rush times, we can underappreciate the effort of building the platform. @nebiusai stands on the shoulders of the hundreds of people who come every morning to work and improve, improve, improve. It’s less visible than winning a large customer, launching a large data center, or raising another few billion. But this is the work that compounds and makes a difference.
I truly believe that our strength (which is the flip side of weakness, as usual:)) is our underdog mentality. This “boy from the province in the large city” feeling. Nothing is given, and we need to prove ourselves every day. I hope we keep it.
We are hiring.
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The @modal Runtime agenda for next week in SF - 10/1
The full Runtime agenda is live, including talks from:
@ScottWu46, Co-founder & CEO @cognition
@CompleteSkeptic, Co-founder & CEO @typesafeai
@dylan522p, Founder & CEO @SemiAnalysis_
@sarahookr, Co-founder & CEO @adaptionlabs
@ajratner, Co-founder & CEO @SnorkelAI
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The @cursor_ai team and @mntruell have defined what a great AI company looks like — delivering amazing results at a relentless pace, while staying kind and focused every step of the way.
accel.com/news/spacex-cursor…
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