Adam Gartenberg
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Adam Gartenberg
@AdamGartenberg
Co-Founder & GP @640Oxford, Beacon Manufacturing






SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT We're honored to feature: Santiago Pliego (@SantiagoPliego) Co-Founder, Vashon (@VashonCompany) Previously announced: >Antonio Gracias - Founder, CEO, and CIO of Valor Equity Partners >Blake Scholl - Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic >Daleep Singh - Vice Chair and Chief Global Economist at PGIM >Doug Petno - Co-CEO and CIB at JP Morgan Chase >John Henry Harris - CEO of Harbinger >Jim Belosic - Founder of SendCutSend >Kelly Loeffler - SBA Administrator >Alexis Ohanian - Founder of 776 >Ed Mehr - CEO and Co-Founder of Machina Labs >Bryon Hargis - CEO and Co-Founder at Castelion >Emil Michael - Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering at DoW >Del Costy - President and Managing Director at Siemens Digital >Brendan Carr - FCC Chairman >Mike Pyle - Deputy Head, BlackRock Portfolio Management Group >Justin Lopas - Co-Founder and COO, Base Power Co. >Augustus Doricko - CEO, Rainmaker >Mike Solana - Chief Marketing Officer, Founders Fund >Alan Schwartz - Executive Chairman, Guggenheim Partners, LLC >Ambassador Waltz - U.S. Representative to the United Nations >Dan Wright - Co-Founder and CEO of Armada >Andrew Lonsberry - CEO of Path Robotics >Tara Murphy Dougherty - CEO of Govini >Chris Power - CEO of Hadrian >Mark Widmar - CEO of First Solar >Lukas Czinger - Co-Founder and CEO of Divergent >Jacob Helberg - Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs >Filip Aronshtein - Co-Founder and CEO of Dirac >Scott Kupor - Director of U.S. Office of Personnel Management >Chris Raymond - President and CEO, Boeing Global Services >Cody James - Founder and CEO, Open X >Paul Kwan - Managing Director, Global Resilience at General Catalyst >Justin Bibb - Mayor of Cleveland >Greg Bernstein - CEO, The New Industrial Corporation >Colin Greenspon - Co-Founder and Partner, Narya >Keri Findley - CEO and Founder, Tacora Capital >Darin DiTommaso - VP of Engineering for Defense and Systems, GE Aerospace >Zane Mountcastle - Co-Founder & CEO, Picogrid >Ti Morse - Founder, Relentless >Colin Miller - VP and General Manager, Phantom Works, Boeing Defense, Space, and Security >Max Lobovsky - Co-Founder and CEO, Formlabs >David Lorch - Director of the Office of Strategic Capital, Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary of War >Adam Johnson - CEO, Principal Mineral >Packy McCormick - CEO, Not Boring >Shilpan Amin - Global Chief Procurement and Supply Chain Officer, General Motors >Drew Oetting - Co-Founder & Partner, 8VC >Matthew Steckman - Chief Revenue Officer, Anduril >Cameron Schiller - Co-Founder and CEO, Rangeview >Aaron Slodov - Co-Founder and CEO, Atomic Industries >Bill Goodwin - Chief Legal and Strategy Officer, Oklo >Billy Thalheimer - Co-Founder and CEO, Regent >Frank St John - Chief Operating Officer, Lockheed Martin >Miles Arnone - Co-Founder and CEO, Re:Build Manufacturing >Wes Spurlock - Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Principal Mineral and Metis Endeavor



ONE WEEK OUT

Maneva has raised $27M in Series A led by @USVenturePartners, with continued backing from existing investors @BlingCapital, @FreestyleCapital, and several others. Our total capital raised now sits at $38.4M. Global manufacturing runs at 60% efficiency against a $46T industry. That's $18T lost every year from lack of visibility and the right tools. Our Video-to-Action AI turns existing factory cameras into real-time operational decisions, powered by deep learning vision and agentic systems that act, coordinate, and optimize the entire operation. A special thank you to @mdgarratt and the @USVenturePartners team for leading this round. To our customers, partners, and investors: thank you for believing in what's possible on the factory floor. maneva.ai/resources/reso…

A token is not a unit of value. It is no better a measure of value than word count is an effective measure of the value of a book. A token is a container for value, in which data is acted on to produce intelligence. Intelligence is the unit of value; computation is the price. briefing.forwardfuture.ai/p/model-routin…


I miss Kate so badly that I physically hurt. It's been a week since we were together. She's still in Australia sorting her visa. I feel more stressed. My emotions are stunted. My thoughts are cloudy and my mood has dipped. It just hurts everywhere.

All this VC discourse on X right now but did your tier 1 VC drive to the Detroit airport at 2pm on a Monday to pick you up



I was once pitching in a board room at a top 3 VC firm for a $15M Series A. 12 people in the meeting. One of the GPs fully fell asleep. Out cold for 30+ minutes. Nobody acknowledged it. Everyone just kept going. I kept presenting my Series A slides to an unconscious man in a Herman Miller chair and somehow that was considered normal. That's venture capital. You might fly across the country to perform for people who may or may not be conscious. It's a dance. And sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow and sometimes your partner is unconscious. If you're raising right now, just know: every founder has a story like this. The process is weird. The power dynamic is weird. You're not crazy for thinking it's weird. No one talks about it because they want to continue raising. But I'm happy to stick my neck out there. It is weird.

When “disciplined” investors abandon their zone of genius, it’s usually a sign the cycle is peaking. Benchmark launching a growth fund. Fintech funds leading defense co rounds. Greed is a hell of a market indicator.


Not all tasks need a frontier model People have been talking about dynamic model routing for years But it's finally here

🇺🇸 We're hiring our first full-time team member in the Gundo at @DiscipulusVent Founding Investor: work directly with me on sourcing, picking companies, running Cohorts, and pitching LPs. Front row seat to building the best hardtech program in the world. If you care about American reindustrialization, apply today (link + JD in thread). El Segundo, CA. In person.






