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Impulse Space, which is building in-space mobility infrastructure for the space economy, just raised $500M. We asked founder Tom Mueller how he's deploying the capital: "Ramping up production." "We're hiring more people, a lot of people in the production area — manufacturing engineers, technicians, all kinds of people. Where... show more

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Inverting one of 2026's trends, Impulse Space just closed a $500M Series D...and it's using it not to build out AI infrastructure, nor automating workflows. It's hiring up to 200 engineers. And we dive into why they're going against the grain in the latest Equity podcast:

Inverting one of 2026's trends, Impulse Space just closed a $500M Series D...and it's using it not to build out AI infrastructure, nor automating workflows. It's hiring up to 200 engineers. And we dive into why they're going against the grain in the latest Equity podcast:

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BREAKING: Impulse Space Raises $500M Series D Reaching $1+ Billion in Total Funding to Build In-Space Mobility Infrastructure aka "Move Things in Space" Full interview w/ President & COO Eric Romo (Eric Romo) (SpaceX Employee #13) Founder & CEO Tom Mueller (Tom Mueller) (SpaceX Employee #1): "We're building more than spacecraft: we're building the economic & technical engine that will power humanity's expansion into space. From Earth orbit to the Moon & beyond, the ability to move quickly, precisely, & affordably on orbit is the fundamental capability that will unlock a true space age." We cover: → The $500M raise → Mira: precision maneuvering → Helios: same-day delivery → Caravan: GEO rideshare → Commercial vs defense → Space Force demand → SpaceX origins → Hiring 200+ roles The Series D was co-led by 137 Ventures & BANNER VC. Additional participating investors include Founder’s Fund, Lux Capital, & Linse Capital. 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Eric Romo, President & COO at Impulse Space (00:58) Fueling the next phase with a $500M Series D (04:30) Crossing the $1B funding mark (06:00) The freedom to execute (07:09) Why startups d*e from indigestion (08:30) Building beyond SpaceX (13:32) How defense became the real opportunity (16:19) Impulse’s product stack: Mira, Helios & Caravan (23:43) The economics of urgency (26:23) "Closer to a fighter jet than a tugboat" (30:40) The new era of space defense (37:33) The SpaceX DNA at Impulse (38:27) The biggest lesson from SpaceX (44:23) Hiring world class engineers (45:38) If not COO, then what? (46:43) The road to first Helios launch

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We build factories that deliver production grade metal structures for defense and mobility. Faster than anyone thought possible. And we’re hiring people who want to work on the hard stuff. • Robotic Process Engineers • Senior Mechanical Engineers • Senior Industrial Automation Engineers • Senior DevOps Engineers • Software Engineers - Testing • And more… Machina is the Factory. Come build with us.

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Machina Labs

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CEO & CTO of Impulse Space Impulse Space Tom Mueller Tom Mueller says the Moon is "more important than Mars" in the near term: "Jared Isaacman said we're going to build a base on the Moon and stay there." "People are predicting we'll run out of copper in the next few years. Data centers require so much copper." "We need to start getting copper from the Moon or from the asteroids. There's an almost infinite supply in our solar system of material—enough to supply us for thousands of years." "We just gotta get ready to go get it."

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ICYMI Cowboy Space Corp. is building a power grid in outer space for artificial intelligence. Join us to help build the future. We're hiring!

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🚨 NOW: President Trump takes huge VICTORY LAP on the success of Space Force — which some Democrats MOCKED Space Force is now vastly improving the accuracy of our weapons on the ground. And we're leading China and Russia, easily 🔥 "I'm very proud of the Space Force because that was a branch that a new one that came up, and we were losing to Russia and to China in space." "Space Force is now leading the other countries, China, Russia, and there is no fourth, really, and leading them by, we saw numbers the other day, leading, we're leading in space by so much it's, we're never going to be caught. So I'm very proud of Space Force!" "I think it's going to be one of our most important as time goes by. A lot of the things that you see, a lot of the accuracy of the weapons is caused because of what we created with Space Force, so we're very proud of that."

Eric Daugherty

15,034 views • 2 months ago

Elon Musk in 2004, just two years after founding SpaceX: “What we're doing is critical to the future of NASA.” “Fundamentally, the way we help NASA is by lowering the cost of access to space, allowing us to do more interesting things for a given budget. I think what we're doing is critical to the future of NASA. At the current prices NASA pays for space transportation, I don't think we'll be able to achieve anything interesting in space. We're starting off with unmanned transportation. As we prove out the reliability, our intention is to move to human transportation as well. We're definitely in a lull with respect to human space exploration, on the government side. However, what I think we're beginning to see is the dawn of a new era of space exploration. One that is driven by commercial companies as much, if not more, than by government.” CNN, July 20, 2004

Elon Musk in 2004, just two years after founding SpaceX: “What we're doing is critical to the future of NASA.” “Fundamentally, the way we help NASA is by lowering the cost of access to space, allowing us to do more interesting things for a given budget. I think what we're doing is critical to the future of NASA. At the current prices NASA pays for space transportation, I don't think we'll be able to achieve anything interesting in space. We're starting off with unmanned transportation. As we prove out the reliability, our intention is to move to human transportation as well. We're definitely in a lull with respect to human space exploration, on the government side. However, what I think we're beginning to see is the dawn of a new era of space exploration. One that is driven by commercial companies as much, if not more, than by government.” CNN, July 20, 2004

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We have 6 different models of CNC machines already designed and validated for production but we would need crores to scale up production and offer it to other manufacturers. Hence, we only build machines for our own production facility. Capital is a bottleneck for us. Currently we just have a tiny space within our own factory which is our R&D lab. We are a team of mere three people. Scaling hardware isn’t easy but it’s something that must be done for us to truly be self-reliant. Really appreciate your efforts Sridhar Vembu to build these hardware tools here. We must build more factories and hardware products in the country. Long way to go before I sleep.

We have 6 different models of CNC machines already designed and validated for production but we would need crores to scale up production and offer it to other manufacturers. Hence, we only build machines for our own production facility. Capital is a bottleneck for us. Currently we just have a tiny space within our own factory which is our R&D lab. We are a team of mere three people. Scaling hardware isn’t easy but it’s something that must be done for us to truly be self-reliant. Really appreciate your efforts Sridhar Vembu to build these hardware tools here. We must build more factories and hardware products in the country. Long way to go before I sleep.

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KanekoaTheGreat

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manufacturing is hard. at Atomic Industries we're building the AWS of mass production. vertically integrated AI-powered factories. how? by building and training AI to make molds better, cheaper, and faster than anyone on earth. an evolution for the american industrial base. thread...

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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."

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OpenCode operates in an AI-native space but, as co-founder Dax Raad(dax) tells us, no one is using AI so well that they’re crushing the competition: “In the past six months, we operated very differently than we ever have. A lot of stuff went wrong because of that. So now we're pulling back and figuring out, okay, what from the old world still makes sense? We're figuring out what we should be doing and I definitely don't feel like, oh yeah, we're killing all our competitors, we're using AI so much better than everyone else. And by the way, none of our competitors are crushing us either. No one out there is using AI so well that we can't even compete. And we're in the coding agent space. All our competitors are super into AI. So you would think in our space there would be a huge gap, but there just isn't.”

The Pragmatic Engineer

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INSIDE LOOK: Brielle Terry (VP & General Manager Anduril Industries) discusses their new facility for rocket production: "We just finished a full-rate production facility for what the 2020s can do with automated robotic full-rate production of solid rocket motors." "Our 450-acre facility in coastal Mississippi features nine buildings. We nearly quadrupled the footprint with world-class engineers from the automotive industry, focusing on robotics and automation to enhance safety and quality."

TBPN

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Yesterday we announced we are joining forces with Stereolabs to accelerate the development of a unified sensing and perception platform for Physical AI We're combining high-resolution digital lidar with stereo cameras and AI compute to offer the first end-to-end sensing and perception stack, enabling machines to sense, think, act, and learn faster and with more precision To the autonomy engineers building the next-generation on Physical AI: we're here to accelerate your development from prototype to production. Welcome to the next chapter of Ouster 🤖

Yesterday we announced we are joining forces with Stereolabs to accelerate the development of a unified sensing and perception platform for Physical AI We're combining high-resolution digital lidar with stereo cameras and AI compute to offer the first end-to-end sensing and perception stack, enabling machines to sense, think, act, and learn faster and with more precision To the autonomy engineers building the next-generation on Physical AI: we're here to accelerate your development from prototype to production. Welcome to the next chapter of Ouster 🤖

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14,291 views • 5 months ago

Check out the first intelligent house-building factory in east China’s Shandong! With an increased automation rate of 80% and a production efficiency more than four times that of manual production lines, the factory can build a wall in just 12 minutes and assemble a modular house in only two hours.

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China Science

38,981 views • 7 months ago

Jensen Huang: "If we discourage people from being software engineers, we're gonna run out of software engineers." "Ten years ago the doomers were telling people 'whatever you do, don't be a radiologist, radiology is gonna be the first career to go, the world's not gonna need any more radiologists.' Guess what we're short of? Radiologists."

Jensen Huang: "If we discourage people from being software engineers, we're gonna run out of software engineers." "Ten years ago the doomers were telling people 'whatever you do, don't be a radiologist, radiology is gonna be the first career to go, the world's not gonna need any more radiologists.' Guess what we're short of? Radiologists."

TFTC

13,218 views • 2 months ago

Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff says his company is adding millions in new AI expenses, and many CEOs still aren't sure when the payoff will fully show up. "So our approach is that we have to pay for these tools. For us, it's $5-10M a year that we're spending on AI tools from basically nothing. So we're slowing down hiring somewhat. That's how we're choosing to fund it." "In terms of when do we start to see the actual benefit? CEOs, CFOs, and I are starting to ask that question more and more. I think we're benefiting from it, but it's hard to feel it." From his appearance on the show earlier this month.

Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff says his company is adding millions in new AI expenses, and many CEOs still aren't sure when the payoff will fully show up. "So our approach is that we have to pay for these tools. For us, it's $5-10M a year that we're spending on AI tools from basically nothing. So we're slowing down hiring somewhat. That's how we're choosing to fund it." "In terms of when do we start to see the actual benefit? CEOs, CFOs, and I are starting to ask that question more and more. I think we're benefiting from it, but it's hard to feel it." From his appearance on the show earlier this month.

TBPN

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Armando Iannucci, "Child poverty has gone up yet again. And it's almost like we're in a Dickens novel rather than the 6th biggest economy in the world" Armando Iannucci "So at the moment, we're in a situation where we're actually coming up with policies that are putting more people into poverty and therefore having a greater impact and detriment to the economy because of it"

Farrukh

77,406 views • 2 years ago