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

Science Corp's PRIMA retinal implant just earned a CE mark: the first treatment shown to restore functional central vision in geographic atrophy. In the NEJM trial, 84% of patients could read again. Founded by Duke alum Max Hodak.

$1.2B — Europe's largest defence-tech round ever. Quantum Systems' Series D values the Munich company at ~$8B, co-led by Blackstone, Noteus, Airbus, and Advent. 19,000+ missions flown in Ukraine in 2025.

🚀Sanjeev Chauhan is our very first student associate headed to Y Combinator! We sat down with him to find out what got him there👉 dukecapitalpartners.duke.edu/news/associate… #YCombinator #Semiconductors #DeepTech

Our portfolio company @HingeHealth published the largest study of its kind on digital MSK care: a 3.0x ROI for employers, $2,941 saved per member, with 69% fewer surgeries. We backed Hinge early through its 2025 IPO. Congrats Daniel Perez & team!! 🚀

💙 Duke ranks No. 8 in the U.S. for total founder exit value: $85B in IPOs & acquisitions by Duke grads, per a new a16z ranking (data from Stanford GSB's @IlyaStrebulaev). Right alongside Stanford, Harvard, and MIT. Proud to back Duke founders! 💙

Vestwell founder & CEO Aaron Schumm joins Season 4 of Morgan Stanley at Work's Invested at Work podcast. The trailer is out now. Our portfolio company @Vestwell has been rebuilding workplace savings since 2016. We'll be listening!

Big congrats to Duke Capital Partner's Senior Associate Sanjeev Chauhan and Duke ECE Professor Tania Roy on Synapse Semiconductor’s selection to @ycombinator S26! 🚀 From DCP to YC with groundbreaking retina-on-a-chip technology. Proud moment for the @DukeCapPartners team.🎉

Our portfolio company @HuxleyMed brought SANSA to SLEEP 2026. SANSA is the only FDA-cleared home sleep test reading obstructive and central sleep apnea plus heart rhythm from one chest patch, now flagging arrhythmias too. Congrats to the team!

@SpaceX completed the largest IPO ever (~$1.75T on the Nasdaq), then days later agreed to buy AI coding startup @cursor_ai for $60B in stock. Our portfolio company @xai is now part of SpaceX, so DCP's early xAI backing rides along. A historic week!

Max Hodak, founder & CEO of our portfolio company Science, will speak at Y Combinator's Startup School 2026 (San Francisco, July 25–26). Their PRIMA implant is the first in clinical trials to restore functional vision. Congrats Max!

Databricks co-founder and Berkeley CS professor @istoica05 joined the Advisory Council of our portfolio company @liquidai to guide "the efficient AI infrastructure and platform for a hardware-aware, physical AI future." Welcome!

@debliu_ @eBay @PayPal @Meta @Ancestry @Intuit @Poshmarkapp 📖 Read the full Founder & Investor Spotlight on Deb Liu — including more from her time at Duke: dukecapitalpartners.duke.edu/news/founder-i…

Founder & Investor Spotlight: Deb Liu @debliu_ Duke alum, DCP Investor Member, and now a DCP-backed founder. From @eBay, @PayPal & @Meta to CEO of @Ancestry to co-founding Ember AI, now on the boards of @Intuit, @Poshmarkapp & Duke's Pratt School of Engineering. 💙

The AI agents everyone's deploying are becoming an easy way in for attackers. That's the case Octane Security founder Giovanni Vignone made on the etn. show - and the exact problem his team's AI is built to catch. Congrats Giovanni & team!

🎓💙 Celebrating Ryan Sidawi From diligence on Quantum Systems to conversations with founders and investors, Ryan made the most of every opportunity. Next up: Chevron’s Finance & Commercial Leadership Development Program. Grateful for his impact & excited for what’s ahead! 🚀

Our portfolio company Liquid AI released LFM2.5-8B-A1B, a mixture-of-experts model that runs real AI agents on your phone yet matches models ~3x its size (only 1.5B of 8.3B params active). Fastest in its size class. Open-weight on Hugging Face. Congrats @ramin_m_h & team!

🔗 💙 Learn more about Max's journey and Science Corporation 💙 dukecapitalpartners.duke.edu/news/spotlight…

Our portfolio founder Max Hodak, Duke BME alumnus and Neuralink co-founder, is building the future of vision restoration at Science Corporation with clinical success. They are pushing the frontier of neuroscience, AI, and human health. Congrats @maxhodak_ and @ScienceCorp_ team!

Our portfolio company Tune Therapeutics shared first clinical data for TUNE-401 at EASL 2026 — a first-in-class therapy that epigenetically silences hepatitis B (no DNA cutting), aiming for a functional cure from a finite course. Duke-rooted. Congrats @cgersbach & team!

💙 Excited to announce Duke Capital Partners' participation in @Phiaco_ 's oversubscribed $35.5M Series A. In just one year, Phia has reached 1.5M+ users, 9,600+ brand partners, and 350M+ products scanned. Try it free on iOS & Chrome: phia.com