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🤩 Exciting milestone announced from @goclio today! Congratulations to @jack_newton and the Clio team on $500M ARR! 🎉 Details below 👇🏽

💡 The next era of space is about infrastructure, not just exploration. Cowboy is building vertically integrated systems – launch vehicles, power generation, and orbital compute – as a single architecture designed for AI at scale. We're thrilled to continue backing @BaijuBhatt and the @CowboySpaceCorp team as they pivot from reshaping finance to building rockets and industrializing space infrastructure for the AI era. 🚀🚀🚀

🎮 We originally partnered with @HilmarVeigar and the CCP Games team in 2015. We are thrilled to once again work with Hilmar to support the company’s rebrand to independent studio @FenrisCreations. Congratulations! Flagship game, EVE, now incorporates a blockchain-based economy on $EVE token and UGC ecosystem designed to leverage generative AI advances. We’re also excited to welcome @GoogleDeepMind as a research partner and look forward to seeing the future AI-powered player experiences in immersive online worlds. More from NEA’s @AndrewSchoen and @jamesekaplan : nea.com/blog/nea-x-fen…

Thanks to everyone who joined @NEA and our awesome co-hosts, @foresight_data, @kleinerperkins, & @CooleyLLP in NY this week for ‘VC Data: Shaken & Stirred.’ We had a blast talking data with you! 🤓

"People don't actually know what they need to automate. You need to watch customers use the product and see what they're doing. I think the best founders are going in and observing before knowing where to take action. Compounding observation." @NEA's @lucktm recently took the stage at HumanX to discuss 'Where Early Stage AI Money Is Going Now.' 👀 Check out the replay here: player.vimeo.com/video/11813951…

🚨 ICYMI: NEA's @maddiehfaulkner was featured on the @crunchbase Predicts webinar series to discuss: Agentic AI –What VCs Are Betting On In 2026. At a glance: 💡 Where agentic AI is already creating real value, and which sectors are moving fastest 💡 How VCs are evaluating the AI stack: infrastructure, models, tooling, and applications 💡 What the next 12–18 months could look like for new company formation and capital allocation 📺Full replay here: youtube.com/watch?v=jIIPCN…

👉🏽 We initially partnered with @VAST_Data at the Series E around a shared belief that data infrastructure would need to evolve for the AI era. Fast-forward and AI is clearly driving a fundamental shift in how infrastructure is designed and operated. VAST Data is at the center of that transition, building a unified platform for modern AI systems. 🔨 Congratulations to Renen Hallak & the team on their Series F. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 👀 Details here: vastdata.com/press-releases…

📢 On the heels of spektr's recent $20M Series A announcement, NEA's @luke_pappas @PhilipChopin @alexa_grabelle & Hunter Worland detail our excitement around partnering with @werwerfqw, Ciprian Florescu, Jan-Erik Aabo Wagner, Jeremy Joly and the spektr team to build the compliance infrastructure layer for the AI era! 🔨 Compliance is still manual. Despite decades of tooling, analysts still juggle fragmented systems — costing banks billions in penalties and overhead. 🤖 spektr automates compliance with AI agents. It sits on top of existing stacks, orchestrating workflows that previously took months to build. 🏆 We believe that whoever becomes the compliance system of record wins a massive, underserved market. More here: nea.com/blog/how-spekt…

💡 @Forbes recently published the AI 50 list to spotlight the world’s most promising privately held AI companies. We’re proud to see several NEA portfolio companies honored, including: @databricks, @ElevenLabs, @perplexity_ai, @synthesiaIO, @togethercompute, and @theworldlabs. Congratulations! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 📃 Full list & details here: forbes.com/lists/ai50/ #AI50

📢 The Prosumer AI 40 is out! Love seeing NEA portfolio companies: @ElevenLabs, @perplexity_ai, @WisprFlow honored as the most innovative AI-native prosumer companies of 2026! Thanks to @notablecap @AnthropicAI @Deloitte @googlecloud @jpmorgan @Nasdaq for championing this effort! 👏🏽 📃 Full list & details here: notablecap.com/prosumer-ai-40 👀 Spotted at Nasdaq celebrating the #Prosumer40: NEA's @alexa_grabelle!

🤩 Congratulations, @slashapp--$100M Series C raised to build better business banking for entrepreneurs. We first partnered with Slash in 2023 for their series A and have been impressed by the consistent progress @victorcardenas and @kevinbai0 have achieved to build better, industry-focused banking for businesses. We're excited to continue supporting Slash through their next chapter of growth! 🚀🚀🚀

🎉 Congratulations, Spektr--$20M Series A to to eliminate manual compliance work across financial services. We're thrilled to partner with Mikkel Skarnager and the Spektr team to ensure compliance stays, manual work doesn’t. “Financial institutions are under constant pressure to do more compliance work with fewer resources. Spektr is tackling the most manual part of compliance operations in financial services. Their approach has the potential to redefine how compliance operations are run.” -@luke_pappas 📰 More details here: businesswire.com/news/home/2026…

🎉 Congratulations @Bluefish_AI! $43 Million Series B to Power Agentic Marketing for the Fortune 500. 📰 prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

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🧭 The Journey Vol. 3 is out today! Written for founders, builders, and dreamers, The Journey is our seasonal newsletter aimed to provide a look into company-building insights, candid perspectives from the team, and the latest happenings at the firm. 👀 Check it out & Journey with us: journeywithnea.beehiiv.com/p/the-journey-…

📢 Happening today at HumanX: @nea's @lucktm will the take stage alongside @AmberAtherton @NextBigTeng @JoshConstine for the session: Where Early Stage AI Money Is Going Now humanx.co/agenda

Don’t miss out on our upcoming issue of The Journey newsletter: 🌐 We’ll explore how the agentic internet will redefine the web’s economics. 🔬 Hear from top tech leaders on how AI is supercharging scientific discovery across materials, biology, and physics. 🪙 Explore how stablecoins could make cross-border money transfers faster, cheaper, and more reliable. Journey with us and subscribe today! 👉🏽nea.com/newsletter-sig…

📊 Thirty years of business intelligence has failed the people it was created for and incumbents cannot fix it—the moment to build something new has finally arrived. Golden Analytics: Data Deserves Better In conjunction with @datarockstar's launch today, @maddiehfaulkner & @theashleyjepson discuss the NEA team's (@HilarieKM, Forest Baskett, @ScottDSandell, @rickyang, @lilatretikov) excitement around partnering with @Ajenstat to usher in the Golden era of data. ⚙️ 30 years of BI tools have overpromised and underdelivered — complexity just moves around, never disappears. 🔨 Bolting AI onto legacy architecture doesn't work — you have to build AI-native from the ground up 📈 NEA is backing Golden Analytics to define the next era of BI: one canvas, raw data to finished insight, no fragmentation. Check out the full story: nea.com/blog/golden-an…

🤖 In honor of National Robotics week @nvidia is highlighting the latest in physical AI—including @Aigenio's solar-powered robots, which are helping farmers reduce herbicides and adopt more sustainable practices. 🌱 Details below 👇🏽