David Sloane

'St. Paddy's Day' is usually preferred over 'St. Patty's Day.' 'Paddy' is the shortened form of the original Irish spelling of 'Patrick,' which is 'Pádraig.' 'Patty' is the shortened form of 'Patricia.'

@arcurn @evervault @sequoia @IndexVentures @kleinerperkins @nextplayVC congrats Shane! delighted for you and the team

Today, we’re excited to announce @Evervault's $25M Series B, led by Ribbit Capital with continued support from @sequoia, @IndexVentures, @kleinerperkins, and @nextplayVC. This round comes at a time when sensitive data exchange on the web is going parabolic. Since 2019, we’ve been focused on building durable infrastructure for engineering teams to collect, process, share, and enrich sensitive data -- while keeping it encrypted at all times. We thought we were making good progress in encrypting the web, helping customers like @tryramp, @Rippling, @finix, @TheOverwolf, @Uniswap, @CarTrawler, and hundreds of others secure more than $5bn/year in payment flows and 100m+ unique tokens per month. But the past year has shown that our enemy -- plaintext data -- is getting stronger and more pervasive. Our vision is to build the clearinghouse for sensitive data, helping companies exchange sensitive data in a secure and encrypted way. This round helps us encrypt more of the web by further refining our developer experience, building deeper integrations with trusted third-parties, and increasing the value we can offer our customers for more data types. First and foremost, thank you to our customers. You trusted Evervault to sit directly in the flow of your most sensitive data (payments, identity, financial information, and more) and that trust is not something we take lightly. Your feedback, your requirements, and the problems you bring to us every day are what shape the product and push us forward. Thank you to the Evervault team. What you’ve built is genuinely special: infrastructure that lets developers process sensitive data without ever having to see it in plaintext. The pace, craft, care, and ambition you bring to work every day are what makes this company what it is. And thank you to our new investors for believing in the vision of making security architectural rather than procedural. We’re grateful to have partners who understand both the scale of the problem and the opportunity ahead. The internet still assumes that sensitive data must exist in plaintext somewhere. We’re building the infrastructure to change that. Onwards! More here 👉 evervault.com/blog/series-b?…

I’m sure some trinity engineering students could do a better job with $300,000… embarrassing

@m_franceschetti @garrytan @eightsleep @tether Congrats! New customer and I love it

Today we're announcing a new round of funding that values @eightsleep at $1.5 billion, led by @tether Investments. Ten years ago I started Eight Sleep with one conviction: the night is the most underutilized lever in human health. Almost nobody was engineering their sleep. Last year, we hit free cash flow positivity, launched 3 new products, expanded to 34 countries, and published peer-reviewed studies showing the Pod reduces menopausal hot flashes by 56% and restores the body's natural circadian temperature rhythm during sleep, lowering core body temperature and improving cardiovascular recovery. A product you sleep on is producing clinical outcomes that rival pharmaceutical interventions. We're now building a predictive AI agent trained on 1B+ hours of sleep data. It anticipates your night before it happens. And we're advancing FDA filings for sleep apnea detection. Passive. Every night. No wires, no clinic visits. The night is just the beginning.

@SeanBolton @endclosehq 🥳

We’re incredibly excited to launch @endclosehq and solve reconciliation for good!

@Alicebentinck the competition isn’t the co’s in your space though - it’s every company ~10 co’s generate +90% of all returns in venture for the year

I often hear European founders and VCs say the reason not to go to the US is that it's too competitive. What I now realise is that is the reason to go to the US. The competition makes everyone 100x better.

@Nick_Delehanty OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, intercom are also in Dublin…

HubSpot & Salesforce employ ~4000 people in Dublin. They pay ~€400mil in corporation tax. Share prices down 70% & 43% Employee salaries are paid 5% to 40% in shares. Hold on tight.

@EmmanuelMacron 😂

In France, we believe in science. That is why, on May 5, I issued a clear and open call to the world: for science, choose France. I am very proud to see that this call has resonated so strongly. Around forty leading researchers have chosen France. Through “France 2030”, we have invested more than €30 million to advance health, climate action, artificial intelligence, and fundamental sciences. Science has found its home.

@nbaschez they fumbled this a long time ago

This is awesome Also, Apple is massively fumbling this I wrote ~6 years ago that they seemed to be doing this every.to/divinations/he…

@jackalexe or Mr. Bean

I'm the lead author on Nucleus Origin. All substantive technical claims about the Nucleus Origin preprint made by @sichuan_mala are false. I outline why, point-by-point, in the link below.

Will — you and many others are piling on without knowing 1% of the backstory. We’ve dealt with this pattern every time: the same anonymous accounts, the same suspects, the same coordinated noise. The meme was a joke about that, not our scientific stance. You can find the receipts here - scordogan.substack.com/p/setting-the-… (with lot’s of substance). We’re aware of the fact that we’re selling a scientific product, you don’t have to remind us.  Our model weights have been public to anyone, including competitors, for over a month. No other company in the space comes close to this level of transparency. You can download them and investigate yourself.

BREAKING Have your best baby. Today, @nucleusgenomics announces the largest genetic optimization campaign ever. > Full station-blitz of Broadway Lafayette > 1,000+ street ads across NYC > 1,000+ subway car ads > Dozens of Urban panels throughout Soho

Anyone can have a taller, smarter, and healthier baby with IVF+. But the broader public is not yet aware what is now possible with advanced genetics. So we've launched the "Have Your Best Baby" campaign to bridge that gap. The future of modern family planning is here.

Big news: Nucleus is going global. We’re expanding our mission to make genetic optimization accessible to everyone, starting with a groundbreaking partnership with CdelaF that will transform reproductive medicine in Mexico. Through Nucleus IVF+, families in Mexico can now access advanced reproductive genetics — from carrier screening to embryo analysis — without ever leaving the country. Together, we’re bringing the future of reproductive health to more people, helping families make informed choices and give every child the best possible start in life.

I’m thrilled to have led efforts to develop Nucleus Origin, the most predictive family of PRS to-date, explaining over 20% of liability-scale variance in Alzheimer's, coronary artery disease, prostate cancer, type 1 and type 2 diabetes!

Very cool to be included here among some amazing Irish people ☘️

AI can now predict your future — before you’re born. @nucleusgenomics just launched Origin, disease models trained on 1.5M genomes combining 7M genetic markers. Origin predicts human longevity from embryo DNA more accurately than any model ever built. And it’s open-weighted.