Dalton Caldwell

Applications for the latest Standard Capital Series A funding cycle are now open! Apply by July 21, hear back by July 31.

if you raised on a SAFE, didn’t give up a board seat at seed, launched on hacker news, or took advice from a pg essay, you benefited from yc people forget what venture looked like before them. convertible debt, heavy dilution, founders swapped out for professional ceos. yc dragged the whole ecosystem toward founders, and standard capital is now doing the same to the series a. that lineage runs straight back to yc yc rejected us multiple times. i still raised on a SAFE and learned from their videos the whole time people dunk on yc for clout but every single seed founder is raising on rails they built, yc founder or not

In 2001, Nvidia CTO Curtis Priem owned 8.3% of the company, more than Jensen Huang. When he retired, he gifted most of his shares to his alma mater, Rensselaer Polytechnic, who sold it. Today, those shares would be worth $450 bn, or as much as the top 25 endowments combined.

For example the workflow to handle parking or pulling over at the destination feels it was polished for Robotaxi then pulled back into main

How much of the rapid FSD improvement we are seeing is due to Robotaxi rollout vs an expected rate via AI+data tailwinds? I realize it’s both and that they compound, but my guess is the former is a big factor in the phase change improvements.

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Roughly 90% of purchased post-training data doesn't work. Reward hacks, contrived tasks, models climbing the wrong hill. We sat down with @daltonc from @Standard_Cap to talk about why that happens — and how the RL environment supply chain gets fixed.

I went to the National Air and Space Museum recently and keep thinking about how only 66 years separated the Wright Flyer and putting a man on the moon.

if raising an A, why would you not do this this? dalton is great, process is fast 🤷‍♂️ as a seed investor I tell all my companies to do it.

@dew_yashtwt @Standard_Cap We have our Series A program as mentioned above and also a separate seed program: standardcap.com/100billion

@daltonc @Standard_Cap does SC lead a Seed round !?

Applications for the latest Standard Capital Series A funding cycle are now open! Apply by July 21, hear back by July 31.

The best thing by the way, by far is the peer group. Board meetings become a discussion with other founders with similar problem sets and scale. I’m lucky to have lots of Series A friends. I cannot see why you wouldn’t apply honestly:

@MLFiuk @Standard_Cap Yes

@daltonc @Standard_Cap Open to hardware startups?

@jasonkimvc thank you!

Dalton is one of the best people you can work with

@borna_perak 😀

These guys also have pretty sweet vendor deals and perks (non dilutive) :)

Series A as simple as your YC application. There’s only upside.

Application + more info here: standardcap.com

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2026 is half over, plan accordingly.

The best AI agents don't just generate text. They query, process, and act. @ClickHouseDB and @triggerdotdev are running a joint virtual hackathon to build exactly that. 7 days, EUR 10,000 in prizes, July 17 to 23. ↓