Duke Capital Partners

Proud to see 3 @DukeCapPartners portfolio companies on the 2025 @Inc 5000: 326 – @AiFiInc : 270+ autonomous stores, 9M+ customers served 586 – @Vestwell : Serving 350K+ employers, $35B+ assets 1,407 – @levitateai : AI-powered relationship marketing #Inc5000 #Growth #Startups

🎓💙 Impact & Gratitude: Celebrating Mario Espinosa de los Reyes (Fuqua MBA, DCP Associate) Mario brought an operator’s mindset to DCP & drove real deal work Next up: launching Andara Capital Partners, a self-funded search fund. Grateful for his impact & excited for what’s next

@DukeU ranks #8 on the new Cure Innovation Index — and #7 for Market Translation, the measure of moving lab discoveries into real-world medicine. 243 US biomedical research institutions ranked across 25 indicators. Top 7: Harvard, Stanford, UPenn, MIT, UCSF, Johns Hopkins, UCSD

🎓💙 Impact & Gratitude: Celebrating Ryan Bird (Fuqua MBA, DCP Associate) From finance to the startup ecosystem, Ryan brought curiosity and a strong analytical foundation to DCP — gaining deep exposure to fundraising, entrepreneurship & what investors look for. Congrats Ryan!

@Teamworks CEO Zach Maurides — former Duke Football O-line — named EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2026 Southeast finalist. Built from a Duke class project into the OS for 7,000+ sports orgs, now $1.5B+ valuation. Congrats Zach Maurides!

Otter.ai's Sam Liang on NYSE Live + BBC's The Interview, debuting the Conversational Knowledge Engine — a $100B+ category turning enterprise conversations into searchable institutional memory. "Individual meeting notes were never the destination."

@liquidai 's LFM2-VL-3B is now running on a satellite in orbit, the first public demo of LLM inference happening in space. Built with DPhi Space on the Clustergate-2 platform. Congrats Ramin Hasani and the entire Liquid AI team. 🛰️ dphispace.com/news/clusterga…

Octane just received an Ethereum Foundation grant for continuous security analysis of Ethereum's core network software, the layer underneath the apps. Previously caught a bug that could have halted ~38% of network operators. Congrats @giovignone and the Octane team.

🎓💙 Impact & Gratitude: Celebrating Tiago (Fuqua MBA, DCP Associate) Tiago brought startup, consulting & GS IB experience to DCP—leading deals, elevating analysis & team discussions. Next up: Goldman Sachs NYC. Grateful for his impact & excited for what’s ahead! 🚀

$4.2M Seed for our portfolio company Corvera(YC W26) — building the agentic OS for CPG brands. 12+ brands signed in 5 weeks. @6DegreesCapital led; @DukeCapPartners , @20vcFund , @RebelFund_VC , @ycombinator all in. 🚀 corvera.ai/news/corvera-s…

1 in 6 Americans suffers from migraines. @HingeHealth just launched the Migraine Care Program — built around Enso, their FDA-cleared, drug-free wearable. 48.8% of users saw meaningful pain reduction. Proud to back the launch. 🧠 hingehealth.com/product/migrai…

@Teamworks valuation reaches $1.5B+. Hg doubled its commitment to $200 million total with @AB_insights joining — fueling more AI, data, and acquisitions to build the OS of elite sports. Proud to back Duke alum Zach Maurides and team. 🚀 teamworks.com/blog/hg-growth…

🌟💙 GRADUATING ASSOCIATES - a record year 🤍 Proud of this group for stepping up, taking ownership, and delivering real impact. Record year with $30M invested, welcoming 17 new portfolio companies...now totalling >$105M invested since inception. No goodbyes… #ForeverDCP 🚀

Our portfolio company @otter_ai just evolved into a Conversational Knowledge Engine, pioneering an entirely new $100 billion enterprise software category. They now serve 86% of the Fortune 500 and recently surpassed $100 million in ARR. 👇

PHIA is hiring! Join this amazing team! jobs.ashbyhq.com/phia/

BIG NEWS! DCP portfolio company @liquidai secured a multi-year partnership with @MercedesBenz to bring embedded, on-device intelligence to millions of vehicles. 🚗

From a freshman prototype to a brand trusted by millions. DukeMag recently highlighted the journey of @mycarpe Co-founder Kasper Kubica (Duke '17).

Proud to back @AdvancesDeep as they close an oversubscribed $5.6M Series A. With 18 peer-reviewed publications and 20,000+ implanted lockstitches, their platform has proven clinical success. Welcome Lou Fuqua as the new COO to drive commercial scale.

Duke University ranks #7 globally for producing U.S. unicorn founders 📈 New research from Stanford’s Ilya Strebulaev, analyzing 3,000+ founders, shows 43 Blue Devils built billion-dollar companies. Congrats to the 43 Blue Devil founders shaping the future of business! 💙

Octane Security just claimed the #1 spot on the Code4rena yearly leaderboard. 🏆

💙 “Duke Capital Partners is a training hospital for VC - it’s where you get the reps.” 🚀 @blair_willette, @Duke_PCB PhD ('23), returned to share her path from Duke PhD + DCP ➡️ to KdT Ventures. 👀Key takeaways: network, know key data, balance science + strategy, get reps early.