a16z speedrun 🧊

We’re excited to announce that @meconemarkets will be joining @a16z @speedrun as part of the SR007 cohort. I’m also happy (and sad) to say that I’ll be leaving Stanford Law School to pursue this dream full time. Mecone started from a core thesis: the financial system of the future will be built on blockchain rails with Perpetual Futures (“Perps”) as one of the primary tools for speculation and hedging. This future will lead to markets that are more open and global, markets where participants of every kind, retail and institutional alike, trade more of the world’s assets with less friction than ever before. With this future in mind, we’re building the financial infrastructure to make everything tradeable. Today, Perps only exist on a handful of assets — the biggest commodities, FX, public equities, crypto. But there are a myriad of highly attractive long-tail assets that Perps have failed to reach. Mecone exists to change that. We build continuously updating benchmarks for long-tail underlyings such as fine art, real estate, pre-IPO companies, macroeconomic indicators, and many more. When @hugo_stack, @jaffarkeikei, and I first met, none of us imagined we’d start a company. But the prospect of making some of the global economy’s most valuable and illiquid assets tradeable by anyone, anywhere, anytime was too interesting of a challenge to pass up. We’re working to list our indices on exchanges now! Join the waitlist and we’ll let you know the moment they go live. mecone.trade Big shoutout to Halim Labi, Aristotle Mannan, and Reuben Youngblum for supporting us from the very beginning. Also, thank you to @JoshLu, @Chen, @justmazer, @tmhammer, @kenanhsaleh, @_CallMeMacy, @emilybenn12, @tkexpress11 and the whole a16z speedrun team. Thank you @luca_skarlo and the Skarlo® team for whipping up an incredible website on such short notice. And, most importantly, we couldn't have done any of this without our families. Love you guys!

Stockholm Valley

@belindmo congrats on the launch! WE LOVE SUNNY

Introducing Sundial!! A brand new text editor built from the ground up for working with agents. Here, we're using Sundial to co-write a new Sundial feature.

@meientc @a16z insane

new @a16z @speedrun Alpha cube DROPP🖤💥

hello Stockholm! 🇸🇪 a16z @speedrun is in Stockholm this week the city has quickly become one of the most important hubs for next gen AI companies w/ Lovable, Legora, Endra, Pit, Stilta and many more excited to meet some of the best builders in the world this week @GEVS94 @kenanhsaleh @marcussegal @fabrisera2000

@liangsays @MTSlive @ChrisJBakke @netcapgirl @theojaffee @schisofrenia @gbrl_dick LET'S GOOO

update: i’m joining @MTSlive as co-founder and ceo we are at the foothills of the singularity. mts will be fully based in san francisco, to chronicle the singularity as it happens i’m excited to work alongside @ChrisJBakke @netcapgirl @theojaffee @schisofrenia @gbrl_dick and @knowerofmarkets huge thanks to @a16z for giving me a shot and an amazing year. in this new role, i will stay close with new media and its ecosystem the stakes are high, and we’ll get this right. if you’d like to help out, as a friend, sponsor, or talent, my dms are open

An active offsite week with the best @speedrun team discussing strategy and enjoying some mountain air. Excited for all to come in SR007 and beyond.

We just launched a credit card that gives you up to 100% cash back rewards. Credit card rewards are broken. A stagnating, ossifying industry has spent decades collecting fees while handing back perks that rarely deliver. Points that are hard to use. Lounges that are hard to reach. Fine print that works against you. Innovation stalled because it could. So we built what they didn't. Coverd flips the script. Up to 100% cash back rewards in a transparent matrix — a live, regularly updated grid where you can see exactly how to get to 100% cash back. No fine print, no guessing, full agency. Every swipe is an entry into the rewards pool, and you see it all happen in real time. Grocery run. Gas station. Dinner date. You spend — we've got you Coverd. This is real transparency and empowerment — no $900/year fees, no settling for B-tier lounges. 50,000+ people have joined the waitlist. The doors are now open. The Coverd Card is live today. Like + repost + comment "COVERD" — we're pulling people straight from this thread for priority access to our metal card program. #getcoverd #coverdcard #personalfinance

@kenanhsaleh @gabriel1 See you there!

a16z Speedrun is coming to Stockholm 🇸🇪 We’re excited to meet the next generation of Swedish founders and invest more in the region We're hosting a number of events from June 24 - 26. Sign up and come meet the team - links below! -- 1 - Fireside chat with @Gabriel1 and @GEVS94 at Norrsken House 2 - Office hours with @WaveVentures at Founders House 3 - Fireside chat + mixer with @KTHinnovation and @KTHAISociety at KTH Stockholm 4 - Office hours with @SSEBusinessLab at the Stockholm School of Economics 5 - Founder + builder dinner with node vc

@jennysduan @genomicsdoc @junwjeon @khoslaventures @agihouse_org @reachfund @Cartancapital Congrats Clair team!

We raised $11.6 million to build the world’s first continuous hormone monitor. Grateful to partner with @genomicsdoc @junwjeon at @khoslaventures alongside @speedrun @agihouse_org @reachfund @Cartancapital Treehub by AIHF Insiders VC and Anne Wojcicki in this next phase of our journey! techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/two…

Congrats @PhilippWehn and @Nexxa_AI on a great round by our friends @SVenkatachalam at Axiom and Renegade! A16z Speedrun is proud to have been investors since the preseed Huge opportunity bringing AI to heavy industries + strong founder market fit - all just getting started 🙌

@hanhanhan_kim @fearn_ai FEARN FEARN FEARN FEARN FEARN

Patent systems are first-to-file. It's produced a quiet two-tier system: well-funded companies file in 48 hours. Everyone else waits weeks. Today we're announcing @fearn_ai's $5.5M seed to end that gap. 🧵

@Tocelot @fearn_ai forever fearn fans

congrats to Han, Angela, and team Fearn on closing their $5.5m seed round led by our friends at Kindred, Designer Fund, & Essence VC! @fearn_ai is the AI-native patent platform built for a fast-moving IP world where being first-to-file is the difference between making money off your idea or not. Fearn has developed purpose-built models with custom workflows to take inventions from disclosure to filing-ready draft in minutes, all at a flat $2k per patent. Fearn is already used by leading startups and public companies, including Unity, Dandelion Energy, Serova Bio, Capsule, Syncere, Sans Strings, Taya etc we’re proud to have been investors since the preseed thru a16z @speedrun where we saw the team in action up close. This team has amazing founder-market-fit: Han was a former patent prosecutor at Morrison Foerster and Angela is a Caltech PhD and AI researcher at Google @ndrewlee @samshank and I have been so impressed by their vision and sheer velocity, and we couldn’t be more excited to support Fearn on the next phase of their journey! Let’s build!

@ExiaLabsAI Sick 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Introducing Argus, our unmanned ground vehicle designed to execute a wide range of critical missions – from logistics resupply and casualty evacuation to terrain mapping. Learn more: blog.exialabs.com/p/introducing-…