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18 Minutes or Less: Harper CEO Dakotah Rice on Failure, AI Insurance, and a Record Series A
Harper Insurance CEO Dakotah Rice joined 18 Minutes or Less to discuss the $47M Series A led by Emergence Capital — the largest publicly disclosed Series A ever by a Black founder — and the failed first startup that preceded it.
MatX CEO Reiner Pope on the Dwarkesh Podcast
Our portfolio company MatX's CEO Reiner Pope joined the Dwarkesh Podcast to discuss the math behind how LLMs are trained and served.
18 Minutes or Less: Socket CEO Feross Aboukhadijeh on Open Source Security
Socket CEO Feross Aboukhadijeh joined 18 Minutes or Less to discuss the Axios backdoor attack, supply chain security, and the future of open source.
18 Minutes or Less: Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on AI Agents and Leadership
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch's appearance on 18 Minutes or Less was featured in Business Insider, covering how AI agents are reshaping work.
MatX CEO Featured on Cheeky Pint with John Collison
MatX CEO Reiner Pope joined Stripe co-founder John Collison on Cheeky Pint to discuss building dedicated LLM chips.
MatX Featured on Bloomberg
Bloomberg covered our portfolio company MatX's $500 million raise and their mission to compete with NVIDIA in purpose-built LLM chips.
MatX Raises $500M Series B
Our portfolio company MatX raised a $500 million Series B led by Jane Street and Situational Awareness LP to scale manufacturing of their dedicated LLM inference chip.
Kindred announces $125M in Series B and Series C Funding
Our portfolio company Kindred raised $125 million across Series B and Series C to scale its peer-to-peer home-swap platform, with NEA and Dylan Field co-leading the Series B and Index Ventures leading the Series C.
Puck News Covers Poetiq's Six-Person Team Beating Google at AI
Puck's Ian Krietzberg profiled our portfolio company Poetiq and how their six-person team beat Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI on ARC-AGI-2 with just $40,000 in hardware costs.
Poetiq Raises $45.8M Seed
Our portfolio company Poetiq raised a $45.8 million seed round co-led by FYRFLY Venture Partners and Surface Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, 468 Capital, and Operator Collective.
Poetiq on YC Lightcone: The Powerful Alternative to Fine-Tuning
Our portfolio company Poetiq's co-founder Ian Fischer joined YC's Lightcone to discuss reasoning harnesses, automated prompt engineering, and how small teams can outperform frontier labs.
Poetiq Featured on YC Root Access: Beating Gemini 3 on ARC-AGI
Our portfolio company Poetiq's co-founder Ian Fischer joined YC Root Access at NeurIPS to explain how their recursive self-improvement system beat Gemini 3 Deep Think on ARC-AGI at half the cost.
Medra Raises $52M Series A
Medra raised a $52 million Series A led by Human Capital, already working with Genentech, Cultivarium, and Addition Therapeutics on autonomous lab workflows.
Physical Intelligence Raises $600M at $5.6B Valuation
Our portfolio company Physical Intelligence raised $600 million at a $5.6 billion valuation, featured in Bloomberg.
Hiring Fair Demo: StarSling
Our portfolio company StarSling demos their AI agents for DevOps at the Outset Capital Hiring Fair.
Hiring Fair Demo: Datology AI
Our portfolio company Datology AI demos their data curation platform at the Outset Capital Hiring Fair.
Hiring Fair Demo: Browserbase
Our portfolio company Browserbase demos their headless browser infrastructure for AI agents at the Outset Capital Hiring Fair.
Hiring Fair Demo: Medra
Our portfolio company Medra demos their Physical AI infrastructure at the Outset Capital Hiring Fair.
Medra Launch Covered by Endpoints News
Our portfolio company Medra publicly launched their Continuous Science Platform, with coverage in Endpoints News and BusinessWire.
Datology AI Featured on Latent Space Podcast
Our portfolio company Datology's founder Ari Morcos appeared on the Latent Space podcast to discuss his journey from neuroscience to AI research.