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Ambition is timeless. Tools are not. Today Nominal is announcing an $80M fundraise at a $1B valuation, led by Trae Stephens and delian at Founders Fund. Since our Series B 10 months ago: 7x revenue growth. 2x team growth. Hardware engineers are stuck between 1980s-era tools and .com software... show more

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Nominalvor 7 Monaten

@zebulgar @foundersfund Learn more:

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gabe kellervor 7 Monaten

@traestephens @zebulgar @foundersfund this is massive! all systems nominal!

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Mike Fiukvor 7 Monaten

@CristinCulver @traestephens @zebulgar @foundersfund Congrats to the entire team. Keep crushing it!

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Killer_BNB (✸,✸)vor 3 Monaten

@traestephens @zebulgar @foundersfund bro what does some AI infra raise have to do with $BNB lmao. meanwhile BNB sitting on key support, whales quietly accumulating while retail panic sells. classic exit liquidity setup. stay focused on the chart not the VC hype noise 📉

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Killer_BNB (✸,✸)vor 3 Monaten

@traestephens @zebulgar @foundersfund nobody raising $80M rounds for $BNB infrastructure lmaooo whole ecosystem self-sustaining while VCs pump paper valuations on "hardware" narratives. BNB just moves, no permission needed. real yield, real volume. VC darlings still waiting for product-market fit

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Andy Markoffvor 7 Monaten

@traestephens @zebulgar @foundersfund Congrats. Well deserved.

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@traestephens @zebulgar @foundersfund Congrats @CameronLMcCord & team!

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@traestephens @zebulgar @foundersfund I love when VCs just pump each others bags like this, great work

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@traestephens @zebulgar @foundersfund

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@traestephens @zebulgar @foundersfund your demo request button/page doesn't work

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Henry Crossvor 7 Monaten

@traestephens @zebulgar @foundersfund What's the margin on 7x growth? Profit first.

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@traestephens @zebulgar @foundersfund Keeping an eye on this 👀.

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@traestephens @zebulgar @foundersfund That's Huge! Looking forward to it

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"We're trying to hire as many new grads as we can. We're finding that a lot of young people are agentmaxxing." - Replit founder Amjad Masad Amjad says that despite the “doom and gloom” around entry-level jobs, this is actually a “golden era” for young people who know how to use AI tools: "The roles are collapsing. We have designers shipping code, engineers shipping design, and salespeople shipping code." "The particular skill is not the bottleneck anymore. It is how ambitious you are, how generative you are, how creative you are, and how good you are at utilizing these tools." "So I think it's really a golden era for a lot of young people coming up right now in the job market. In our time, you would go and interview and become a Java J2EE software engineer doing global migrations. That was your title, right? It's no longer the case. We just want people to come and do things, and I think that's incredibly exciting."

TBPN

47,144 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

Valthos builds next-generation biodefense. Of all AI applications, biotechnology has the highest upside and most catastrophic downside. Heroes at the frontlines of biodefense are working every day to protect the world against the worst case. But the pace of biotech is against them: more powerful methods to design biological systems, with near-universal access, open up an increasing surface area of threats. In this new world, the only way forward is to be faster. So we set out to build the tech stack for biodefense. Our team of computational biologists and software engineers applies frontier AI to identify biological threats and update medical countermeasures in real-time. We are backed by $30M from OpenAI, Lux Capital, Founders Fund and others including Definition. We are actively hiring engineers to join in the mission - if that sounds like you, get in touch.

Valthos builds next-generation biodefense. Of all AI applications, biotechnology has the highest upside and most catastrophic downside. Heroes at the frontlines of biodefense are working every day to protect the world against the worst case. But the pace of biotech is against them: more powerful methods to design biological systems, with near-universal access, open up an increasing surface area of threats. In this new world, the only way forward is to be faster. So we set out to build the tech stack for biodefense. Our team of computational biologists and software engineers applies frontier AI to identify biological threats and update medical countermeasures in real-time. We are backed by $30M from OpenAI, Lux Capital, Founders Fund and others including Definition. We are actively hiring engineers to join in the mission - if that sounds like you, get in touch.

Valthos

1,438,299 Aufrufe • vor 11 Monaten

Today, we're announcing Entrepreneurs First's Series D: $200M of fresh capital, at a unicorn+ valuation. We're in a golden age of entrepreneurship. More individuals than ever before are taking the leap, with the world's most transformative technology at their fingertips. For over a decade, we've backed extraordinary people without asking what idea they're working on. We call this Talent Investing; believing in someone from Day 1 and giving them the peer group, environment, and capital to find their life's work. And it works! Companies built through EF are now worth $16bn, up from $3bn at our last raise in 2021. Thank you to our investors for their continued belief, the EF team for bringing this vision to life, and the founders who rejected the status quo to build globally important companies with us. And, of course, a huge thank you to Matt Clifford, my exceptional cofounder.

Today, we're announcing Entrepreneurs First's Series D: $200M of fresh capital, at a unicorn+ valuation. We're in a golden age of entrepreneurship. More individuals than ever before are taking the leap, with the world's most transformative technology at their fingertips. For over a decade, we've backed extraordinary people without asking what idea they're working on. We call this Talent Investing; believing in someone from Day 1 and giving them the peer group, environment, and capital to find their life's work. And it works! Companies built through EF are now worth $16bn, up from $3bn at our last raise in 2021. Thank you to our investors for their continued belief, the EF team for bringing this vision to life, and the founders who rejected the status quo to build globally important companies with us. And, of course, a huge thank you to Matt Clifford, my exceptional cofounder.

Alice Bentinck

12,681 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten

AI is making marketers lazy. So we made the website do the work instead. Today, we're launching Ploy: the all-in-one marketing platform that turns your website into your hardest working employee. And we're coming out of stealth today with a $27M seed led by Y Combinator and First Round. I spent 12 years at Webflow as the founding CTO where I built the product, but also started our marketing and sales teams that drove our fastest periods of growth. That experience made one thing obvious: the website is the center of your business. And it's only more important in the age of AI. Foundation model apps can generate assets. Point solutions can optimize pieces of the funnel. But nothing runs the whole growth system: your site, brand, CMS, CRM, campaigns, analytics, SEO, AEO, and customer data all working together. Until now. Teams at HexTech and C, and growth agencies like Tonik and TNT Growth, are already powering sites on Ploy. Hex is generating on-brand ABM pages at scale, Clay is using its data to power a programmatic SEO engine, and TNT Growth is spinning up a landing page for each of their clients’ ads. Wake up every morning with a report from Ploy - with what it did, and what it wants to do next. Approve it. Ship it. Or be lazy and just watch it cook.

brryant

1,031,760 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten