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Big congrats to @mercury, and also their 2,449 customers, who were invited to invest in their Series B. And thank you @immad for letting your community share in the upside ❤️ cnbc.com/2026/05/20/fin…

Over the last few years, Healthcare has been the #1 sector on Wefunder by dollars raised. These investor notes suggest why. @pirouettepharma

Community Rounds FTW!

As with startups, sports teams that let their fans invest are stronger. @MNAuroraFC invited 5,329 supporters to own a piece of the club. That's more ticket sales, more merch sales, more cash in the bank, and more good vibes. Read the case study here: wefunder.com/case-studies/m…

@Substack My dad when I tell him I’m quitting my job at Deloitte to go full-time on my startup.

My dad when I tell him I’m quitting my job at Deloitte to go full-time on my Substack about defunct mall food courts

@fe2o3dev @goodwin_ml 👀

@goodwin_ml Any opportunities to invest through Wefunder rounds in the future?

I am thrilled to share the news that Fractile's mission to build chips and systems that unlock the next generation of AI scaling has been bolstered, with a $220M funding round led by Accel, Factorial Funds, and Founders Fund, alongside some incredible backers old and new. AI inference is driving the defining infrastructure buildout of the 21st Century. We've written a bit about where we think capabilities must go, and how Fractile is working to bring this about: fractile.ai/news/fractile-… It has been a privilege working on one of the hardest but most rewarding technical challenges of our time for over three years, with the most brilliant, kind and driven people I could have ever hoped to work alongside. We are still just getting started. There is a lot to be done to deliver on our goals, but we are grateful to have the support of so many people in chasing these down every minute of every day. Thanks, all, for being part of the Fractile mission! 🚀 @fractile_ai

@ekagan26 That’s the plan. Working on it every day.

@Wefunder Maybe return some funds to investors first 🤬🤦‍♂️

Reason #712 to come work at Wefunder. Beach spikeball sessions by our Seacliff house. wefunder.com/jobs

@VictorTaelin 👀

Please do not over-hype this post! HOC is doing a $4m post-seed at $100m valuation to build a dataset with the shortest possible solution (in BLC length) for each ARC Prize instance, and use it to tune SupGen. Our immediate goal is to achieve 85% at <$1 per task, validating the efficiency of a Symbolic Transformer, and justifying scaling it futurelly. I'm very optimistic about this direction, but, like any research, it could fail for several reasons. Per multiple requests, we let anyone invest through Wefounder, so anyone can own a slice of HOC now. This gives you ownership of our IP (HVM, Kind, Bend, SupGen), access to our internal research and progress, and to all future revenue (if we ever get there 🙂). DO NOT INVEST IF: - My posts read like ancient Sumarian to you - There's any word above you don't understand - You like Bend/HVM, but not our current AI direction - You do not think our approach makes sense - You think AGI and ARC AGI are the same thing - You feel like LLMs will achieve AGI in 2025-2026 - You can not afford losing that money Invest if your own logical reasoning leads you to believe this research direction will work, and is willing to take the bet. Again: these funds will be used exclusively to turn SupGen into a Symbolic Transformer, and attempt to tackle ARC AGI by EOY 2025. It isn't to build AGI. It isn't to solve the Riemann Hypothesis. It isn't even to create a product (yet!). HOC is a research lab. If none of this makes sense DO NOT INVEST. I'll start meeting VCs now and my goal is to complete this round through February, otherwise we'll go back do old plans. For questions, contact: investors at higherorderco dot com. DO NOT INVEST IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING

@aopuzzle @mercury @Replit @LumaLabsAI @midjourney @GroqInc Replit actually did a community round in 2022: wefunder.com/replit 🫡

@mercury Not sure why other companies who have rich and active communities dont allow participation .. is it just too hard? From the outside it doesnt look hard to work with @Wefunder to pull such offerings off. @Replit @LumaLabsAI @midjourney @GroqInc r on top of my list..

@sundeep Would have really liked to invest in @GroqInc as an angel. Any reason to not do something like what Mercury did: mercury.com/blog/inside-me… ?

@strommen Joe, we're so sorry we didn't see this earlier. Our event was delayed due to a train delay.. Were you able to see the adjusted time and make it to the event? Sorry about that!

@Wefunder Where are you at in Minneapolis? I had planned to come to your event but I see it's still TBD on the website...

Grand Forks is an underrated town with dirt race cars, $5 cocktails, top aviation programs and genuine people. It didn't take too long to cross the state line and now we're in Minnesota after a long delay. We're in Minneapolis today and Milwaukee tomorrow. What should we do?