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Today, Saronic announced its $1.75B Series D, at a $9.25B valuation. Four years ago, Joe Lonsdale, Alex Moore, and the 8VC team were exploring a new defense prime. Across the Hill and Pentagon, our DC partners were sounding alarms about America’s maritime future. We enlisted remarkable leaders, headlined by Dino Mavrookas (frmr Navy Seal) and vib (frmr 8VC Fellow/Anduril), and we started building. The result was Saronic. Hundreds of vessels and 1000+ crew members later, the shipyards are humming, and the age of naval autonomy is underway.

Today, Saronic announced its $1.75B Series D, at a $9.25B valuation. Four years ago, Joe Lonsdale, Alex Moore, and the 8VC team were exploring a new defense prime. Across the Hill and Pentagon, our DC partners were sounding alarms about America’s maritime future. We enlisted remarkable leaders, headlined by Dino Mavrookas (frmr Navy Seal) and vib (frmr 8VC Fellow/Anduril), and we started building. The result was Saronic. Hundreds of vessels and 1000+ crew members later, the shipyards are humming, and the age of naval autonomy is underway.

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We’re co-hosting two events for Config Week: ✦ Design × Research with Cognition — Tues 6/23, 6–9pm ✦ Pixel Eight Café with Indent — Thurs 6/25, 2–5pm Matcha, zines, local artists, vintage pop-ups, and a vinyl DJ for a mini creative market. More on our microsite below:

We’re co-hosting two events for Config Week: ✦ Design × Research with Cognition — Tues 6/23, 6–9pm ✦ Pixel Eight Café with Indent — Thurs 6/25, 2–5pm Matcha, zines, local artists, vintage pop-ups, and a vinyl DJ for a mini creative market. More on our microsite below:

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We are proud to announce 8VC Fund VI, with $998 million in new LP capital to back the most fearless and ambitious builders. The world is broken. Let's fix it. To the frontier!

We are proud to announce 8VC Fund VI, with $998 million in new LP capital to back the most fearless and ambitious builders. The world is broken. Let's fix it. To the frontier!

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There's a reason Cognition keeps winning deals against companies 10x their size. Vivek Gopalan sat down with Theodor Marcu, Bryce Hunt and Moritz Stephan (all former founders!) to discuss hiring philosophy, infinity stories, enterprise coding agents, and what it actually takes to compete. (00:00) Introduction (03:45) Cognition team & hiring philosophy (06:00) Infinity stories (13:15) Product surface area and future goals (17:20) Activation energy, experimentation, and customer-driven innovation (19:00) Adoption, operational changes, and ownership (22:05) Vibe coding hot takes (24:15) AI-first engineering organizations and managing AI agents (28:40) Future of software engineering roles and misconceptions about Devin (30:00) Model development, learnings, and Cognition's journey in vertical integration (38:10) What should you do as a new grad?

There's a reason Cognition keeps winning deals against companies 10x their size. Vivek Gopalan sat down with Theodor Marcu, Bryce Hunt and Moritz Stephan (all former founders!) to discuss hiring philosophy, infinity stories, enterprise coding agents, and what it actually takes to compete. (00:00) Introduction (03:45) Cognition team & hiring philosophy (06:00) Infinity stories (13:15) Product surface area and future goals (17:20) Activation energy, experimentation, and customer-driven innovation (19:00) Adoption, operational changes, and ownership (22:05) Vibe coding hot takes (24:15) AI-first engineering organizations and managing AI agents (28:40) Future of software engineering roles and misconceptions about Devin (30:00) Model development, learnings, and Cognition's journey in vertical integration (38:10) What should you do as a new grad?

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Before founding Vals AI, Rayan Krishnan in DC was a college radio host. We're thrilled to get him back in his element with Vivek Gopalan, this time talking all things benchmarks and evals. As AI capabilities compound, measuring them is becoming both harder and more important. What started as an academic exercise is quickly evolving into critical infrastructure for understanding what AI systems can actually do, and how they perform in the real world. Rayan and Vivek go deep on how benchmarks are evolving, measuring increasingly agentic systems, the weird and wonderful ways we test intelligence, the global AI race, and why evals sit on the critical path to ASI. 0:44 Importance and evolution of benchmarks 8:16 From academic artifact → real-world value 10:57 The next generation of benchmarks 13:34 Benchmarking models vs. agents 16:20 Building benchmarks for organizations 22:09 Weird and wonderful benchmarks 25:58 The AI arms race: US vs. China 31:02 Why evals are on the critical path to ASI 32:50 Vals Series A

Before founding Vals AI, Rayan Krishnan in DC was a college radio host. We're thrilled to get him back in his element with Vivek Gopalan, this time talking all things benchmarks and evals. As AI capabilities compound, measuring them is becoming both harder and more important. What started as an academic exercise is quickly evolving into critical infrastructure for understanding what AI systems can actually do, and how they perform in the real world. Rayan and Vivek go deep on how benchmarks are evolving, measuring increasingly agentic systems, the weird and wonderful ways we test intelligence, the global AI race, and why evals sit on the critical path to ASI. 0:44 Importance and evolution of benchmarks 8:16 From academic artifact → real-world value 10:57 The next generation of benchmarks 13:34 Benchmarking models vs. agents 16:20 Building benchmarks for organizations 22:09 Weird and wonderful benchmarks 25:58 The AI arms race: US vs. China 31:02 Why evals are on the critical path to ASI 32:50 Vals Series A

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Here is a look behind the curtain of some of work currently brewing in our Design Lab. As of this week our design team has grown to 8, our favorite number. If you’re a designer in Austin we’re hosting a design meetup this evening, come out and talk shop with us.

Here is a look behind the curtain of some of work currently brewing in our Design Lab. As of this week our design team has grown to 8, our favorite number. If you’re a designer in Austin we’re hosting a design meetup this evening, come out and talk shop with us.

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The era of American renewal begins with construction. We have to build—with greater speed, scale, and craftsmanship. That's what Bobyard unlocks. Joe Lonsdale and Bobyard Founder & CEO Michael Ding explain.

The era of American renewal begins with construction. We have to build—with greater speed, scale, and craftsmanship. That's what Bobyard unlocks. Joe Lonsdale and Bobyard Founder & CEO Michael Ding explain.

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Much of the AI narrative revolves around architecture research, compute scaling & buying human data. Very few understand the deep technical discipline of "data research," which has driven many of the gains in model capabilities. Vivek Gopalan sits down with Mahesh Sathiamoorthy @ COLM2026 & Alex Dimakis, founders of Bespoke Labs, a company defining the category of data research. (00:00) Introducing Mahesh and Alex (03:40) Teaching a 1000 person ML class at Berkeley / changes in CS education in the age of AI (06:10) Open source data for frontier model training, OpenThoughts & training models for data curation (12:00) Why multiple-answer yields more performant models, benefits of keeping unverifiable examples in datasets (17:20) RL scaling laws / introduction to Bespoke (19:45) "Environment-driven Development" (28:35) New capabilities in frontier models & coding agents (34:30) Market outlook for RL environments (42:30) Exciting recent research and how we arrived at today's state of RL (50:00) Bespoke's Series A

Much of the AI narrative revolves around architecture research, compute scaling & buying human data. Very few understand the deep technical discipline of "data research," which has driven many of the gains in model capabilities. Vivek Gopalan sits down with Mahesh Sathiamoorthy @ COLM2026 & Alex Dimakis, founders of Bespoke Labs, a company defining the category of data research. (00:00) Introducing Mahesh and Alex (03:40) Teaching a 1000 person ML class at Berkeley / changes in CS education in the age of AI (06:10) Open source data for frontier model training, OpenThoughts & training models for data curation (12:00) Why multiple-answer yields more performant models, benefits of keeping unverifiable examples in datasets (17:20) RL scaling laws / introduction to Bespoke (19:45) "Environment-driven Development" (28:35) New capabilities in frontier models & coding agents (34:30) Market outlook for RL environments (42:30) Exciting recent research and how we arrived at today's state of RL (50:00) Bespoke's Series A

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Proud to lead Flux | Design PCBs with AI's $27M Series B, ~7 years since writing the 1st check. Matthias had a visionary (read: crazy) idea: let anyone with a browser design & build electronics. 1M users and 6.5M projects later, the creative hardware revolution is here.

Proud to lead Flux | Design PCBs with AI's $27M Series B, ~7 years since writing the 1st check. Matthias had a visionary (read: crazy) idea: let anyone with a browser design & build electronics. 1M users and 6.5M projects later, the creative hardware revolution is here.

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Our friends Meta are taking part in the 8VC Llama Stack Innovation Challenge! First challenge: 3/7-4/19. Use Llama Stack to build desktop, field, and edge AI applications that run locally for privacy and performance. Join now:

Our friends Meta are taking part in the 8VC Llama Stack Innovation Challenge! First challenge: 3/7-4/19. Use Llama Stack to build desktop, field, and edge AI applications that run locally for privacy and performance. Join now:

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Don’t worry, Scott, we have receipts… BTS of Ricochet Robots 🤖with Joe Lonsdale, Scott Wu & Russell Kaplan

Don’t worry, Scott, we have receipts… BTS of Ricochet Robots 🤖with Joe Lonsdale, Scott Wu & Russell Kaplan

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Enjoy a snapshot of this year’s work from 8VC’s internal Design Lab, spanning logistics, consumer health, electronic warfare, and more. Our team supports brand, product, web, 3D, and design hiring across the portfolio.

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We just wrapped our annual LP meeting. Here's a glimpse of what we've been up to.

We just wrapped our annual LP meeting. Here's a glimpse of what we've been up to.

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