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Early-stage fund led by @deckelly. Investor @Starcloud_ @AikidoSecurity @fyxerai @Sorare @IsembardGroup @withdelphi

Katılım Mart 2021
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Philip Johnston
Philip Johnston@PhilipJohnston·
I am super excited to share that @Starcloud_ has raised a $170M Series A at a $1.1bn valuation to fuel our development of data centers in space 🚀 The round comes after the successful deployment of our first satellite, Starcould-1, a few months ago, which had the first @NVIDIA H100 on board and was the first to train an LLM in space. The funds will be used to develop our third satellite, which aims to be cost-competitive with Earth-based data centers in terms of AI inference cost. The round was led by @Benchmark and @EQT Ventures, and we are excited to welcome Benchmark GP, @Chetanp Puttagunta, to our board. We are also excited to welcome other new investors, including the world's largest infrastructure fund, @Macquarie Capital, @SevenSevenSix 7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣, Manhattan West, Adjacent, Carya, GSBackers, and Harpoon. We are very grateful for the continued support of existing investors, including @NFX, @NebularVC, @YCombinator, @FUSE_VC, @Soma_Capital, 3Capital Partners, Wyld VC, Tiny VC, and Taurus Ventures. Onwards!
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Finn Murphy
Finn Murphy@FinnMurphy12·
Starcloud just raised $170,000,000 at a $1.1 billion valuation led by Benchmark & EQT because investors are finally realising there is only one solution to the AI energy crisis. Fortuitously for the 5th Episode of Forecast 2050 I sat down with my friend, @Starcloud_ CEO @PhilipJohnston to discuss how this future plays out. I wrote the biggest check out of Nebular in my first year of the firm back in December 2023 to lead Starcloud's pre-seed. It’s been quite the ride since then. @ezrafeilden & @AdiOltean also the heros and visionaries creating this category of space data centres. On the Forecast we speak about Philip’s ambitions - and his greatest concerns - for the next 25 years. We discuss: Why the Space GPU Skeptics are Wrong The 2050 Space Economy: Asteroid Mining, Moon Resorts, and Mars as the Next America How Elon’s @Tesla_Optimus Will Colonize the Universe The Hard Problem of Consciousness is Crackable Avoiding a Calamitous Event in the Near Future Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:59 Why the Space GPU Skeptics are Wrong 03:12 Elon Will Bring Launch Costs Down with Starship 06:50 The 2050 Space Economy: Moon Hotels, Asteroid Mining & Manufacturing 16:37 The 2050 Martian Colony: A Stepping Stone for Exploring the Universe 26:32 The Kardashev Scale of Civilization 28:44 We Live in a Simulation: The Fermi Paradox & The Great Filter 34:52 Cracking the Hard Problem of Consciousness 37:46 There is a Calamitous Event Waiting for Us 39:04 Mars is the Next America Thanks to @wavebyvento, @vento_ventures, and @dwarkesh_sp for permission to use some snippets for this interview! + big big ups to some of the gang that invested on the journey early like @pmoe, @deckelly, @arcurn, @Varungupta, @caffeinatedcap, @beller, @ncsh @jamiecuffe - long Starcloud 🙏
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Alexander Fitzgerald
Alexander Fitzgerald@AFitzgerald1992·
Today @IsembardGroup announces our $50m Series A. More factories, more engineers, more countries. If not now, when... 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇩🇪🇫🇷🇺🇦
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Rebecca Kaden
Rebecca Kaden@rebeccakaden·
We are in a moment of massive manufacturing need and @IsembardGroup sits right at the intersection of 3 happening simultaneously and quickly: 1/ A massively and quickly increasing demand for fast, flexible, and local manufacturing around aerospace, defense, and robotics. 2/ Increasing labor displacement fueling a resurgence in an SMB economy and individuals' desires to own their own destinies/run their own businesses. 3/ Agentic operating systems allowing for fast set ups, networked management, better results, and demand distribution. @IsembardGroup's franchise model and capital efficient approach is allowing incredibly fast scaling, with 25 factories by the end of this year across the US and Europe. @AFitzgerald1992 and his team are well on the path to delivering components 10x faster and 50% cheaper than current suppliers. We are thrilled to lead their $50M Series A @usv as they create the dominant decentralized manufacturing network.
Alexander Fitzgerald@AFitzgerald1992

Today @IsembardGroup announces our $50m Series A. More factories, more engineers, more countries. If not now, when... 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇩🇪🇫🇷🇺🇦

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Madeline Lawrence
Madeline Lawrence@madelinelawren·
How do you reconcile two incompatible velocities: continuous development and human validation? It's easy. You don't. Every software release widens the gap between what ships and what gets tested. We need a new model.
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Madeline Lawrence
Madeline Lawrence@madelinelawren·
software now secures itself
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BottleCapAI
BottleCapAI@BottleCapAI·
🚨Excited to share we’ve raised a $7.5M seed to build efficient, architecture-first LLMs, and ship real products on top of them. Our first app is live on iOS today.
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Soleio
Soleio@soleio·
Grateful for this conversation with @daraladje and the @withdelphi team. We went deep on design culture, SPEED, intuition, and what it means to build enduring products and companies. The convo doesn’t end when the podcast does, so talk to me via the link below.
Dara@daraladje

THE LIBRARY OF MINDS: EPISODE 3 - Soleio Cuervo (@soleio) Early designer at Facebook & Dropbox, co-inventor of the Like button, and design-driven investor behind Figma, Perplexity, and Delphi. We discuss: • The untold story of the Facebook Like button • Defining the role of “Product Designer” at Facebook • Building world-class design cultures at scale • Balancing speed vs. excellence in product teams • When intuition fails - and data saves you Plus: Lessons in hybrid designer-engineers, hackathon culture, trust & safety, and how AI is redefining great UX. Bonus: Soleio on utility vs. beauty, system-centric design, and why digital minds might be the next design frontier. (00:00) - Intro (01:00) - Who is Soleio Cuervo (02:00) - Early web days: The origins of product design (04:37) - Inventing the ‘product designer’ role at Facebook (07:43) - Culture of speed, ownership, and building at Facebook (11:45) - Shipping fast: The story of Facebook’s Like button (13:54) - When to persist and when to quit: Loonshots, ‘false fails’, and user onboarding at Facebook (17:49) - Transitioning cultures: From Facebook’s speed to Dropbox’s trust (20:54) - Balancing speed with excellence: Lessons for AI-era startups (22:28) - Is speed or quality a stronger differentiator in today’s tech world? (24:35) - Can design be a moat in the age of AI? (27:35) - Rethinking UX in an AI-native world (29:08) - Why Soleio invested in Delphi: The “Oprahbot” idea and digital minds

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Apoorva Govind
Apoorva Govind@Appyg99·
Imagine an apparel brand with 80,000 products trying to generate video ads for each of them! It's humanly impossible for large e-commerce businesses generate video ads at scale today. Excited to announce @BesteverAI Commerce today that solves this.
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Infinite Machine
Infinite Machine@infinitemachine·
We’re proud to share that Olto was named one of @TIME's Best Inventions of 2025. With Olto, we set out to make something fun, useful, and beautiful—and we’re delighted to see it recognized so early in its journey. Deliveries are starting very soon!
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Dara
Dara@daraladje·
All the minds in the world. Now one question away. We’ve raised $16M from @sequoia to build @withdelphi - create your digital mind & turn your expertise into living, interactive conversations that scale globally. See how our customers use it below 👇🏼
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Dara
Dara@daraladje·
We are building a library of minds to make human knowledge accessible & discoverable 2k+ digital minds created, backed by some of the best investors, in-person in SF If you are looking to do the best work of your life on something net positive for the world, we are hiring
Dara@daraladje

All the minds in the world. Now one question away. We’ve raised $16M from @sequoia to build @withdelphi - create your digital mind & turn your expertise into living, interactive conversations that scale globally. See how our customers use it below 👇🏼

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Ritwik Pavan
Ritwik Pavan@ritwikpavan·
JUST IN: @infinitemachine reveals Olto, a new electric vehicle built for the bike lane. No license or insurance required. Starts at $3,495. Ships Fall 2025.
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Infinite Machine
Infinite Machine@infinitemachine·
Meet Olto
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Alexander Fitzgerald
Alexander Fitzgerald@AFitzgerald1992·
"The world has changed. And we are unprepared. But there is a better way." Forge Industrial Acceleration at @IsembardGroup
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