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Matt Ocko retweeted
A look at what @DCVC /@DCVCBio founders delivered /this week/: 💪 🚚
🤖 Fleet-scale humanoid deployment: @agilityrobotics expanded its commercial footprint with GXO Logistics, soon moving into facilities across North Carolina and Tennessee after crossing an unprecedented 100,000-tote operational milestone.
⚛️ Microreactor regulatory progress: @RadiantNuclear cleared a major hurdle as the US Dep't of @ENERGY approved the documented safety analysis for its Kaleidos test unit at @INL, moving it one step closer to criticality.
🧬 Predictive computational biology: Latus Bio published the first predictive computational model of Huntington’s disease built on human data in Nature Communications, along with preclinical data supporting its gene therapy candidate LTS-201 as a potentially disease-modifying treatment. This is BIG.
🔬 Rapid stem cell reprogramming: @SyntaxBio drew major biotech coverage for using its CRISPR-based Cellgorithm platform to differentiate human stem cells into pancreatic beta cells in just four days, an early step toward faster development of cell therapies for Type 1 diabetes.
🎯 Clinical precision oncology: @FrontierMeds posted a standout 56% confirmed response rate in its Phase 1 lung cancer trial (FMC-376) presented at the ESMO - European Society for Medical Oncology Congress.
💡 Quantum photonics breakthrough: @NVisionQuantum published research introducing the first organic molecule capable of directly linking quantum processors with light, unlocking a scalable path for optical quantum networking.
🧠 Frontier AI compute architecture: Unconventional AI (@unconvAI) AI CEO @NaveenGRao joined @20vcFund to talk about why inference could be a $10 trillion market and why robotics could be 100x bigger than coding agents.
Onward!
Matt Ocko retweeted
This accomplishment reflects a massive amount of dedicated and thoughtful work by so many people. Congratulations to the @RadiantNuclear team along with @INL and @GovNuclear! Approval for full power operations for a new reactor is an massive feat
#innovation #NuclearEnergy
Radiant has secured U.S. Department of Energy (@ENERGY) approval of its Documented Safety Analysis for Kaleidos, making it the only microreactor to be reviewed and approved by the DOE for full power operations.
The approval is not just for criticality, but for Radiant’s full power, full temperature testing at the Idaho National Laboratory. Radiant will test the complete reactor system using the same design it will manufacture at scale.
Next up in the path to commercialization: Readiness Review.
Read more here 🔗 radiantnuclear.com/news/radi…
Matt Ocko retweeted
Congrats to @NVisionQuantum on its @Nature publication and new partnership with @HyperLight_LN!
We’re excited to back this terrific team, whose molecular qubit platform could make qubits easier to manufacture, scale, and industrialize—accelerating the roadmap for quantum computing.
To scale quantum computers, qubits must store information and connect. Our @Nature paper brings together quantum memory and an interface to light in one molecule.
With @HyperLight_LN, we're working to bring molecular qubits onto photonic chips.
nvision-quantum.com/blog/nvi…
.@agilityrobotics’ customer depth and traction just keeps increasing. 👇
Today, we announced an expanded partnership with GXO and detailed three previously unannounced enterprise manufacturing customers. This builds on our active pipeline of more than 30 prospective customers in manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, defense, logistics, and consumer products.
CEO Peggy Johnson discusses our commercial progress at 12 p.m. ET.
Watch her remarks: edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/…
Read more: agilityrobotics.com/content/…
#Agility #Digit #MadeToWork
Matt Ocko retweeted
A look at what @DCVC founders delivered /this week/: 💪 🚚
⚛️ Defense-grade nuclear momentum: @RadiantNuclear was selected by the @USNavy to supply its microreactor for Naval Weapons Station Crane while advancing site planning with the @USArmy to install three microreactors at Fort Benning.
🤖 Factory-floor humanoid deployment: @agilityrobotics signed a commercial agreement with @AGCOcorp, a farm equipment leader, to deploy Digit humanoids in its Kansas manufacturing facilities—after partnering just last week with @nyobolt for ultra-fast charging batteries to unlock near-continuous uptime.
💧 Industrial water circularity at scale: @zwitterco secured a strategic investment from water and hygiene giant @Ecolab to scale its zwitterionic membrane filtration systems across food and beverage processing plants.
🧬 Multimodal AI data infrastructure: BioStack raised a $9.5M Series Seed (joined by DCVC) to expand its cross-border clinical data platform across 100M+ de-identified patient records for medical AI models.
⚡ Geothermal grid leadership: @fervoenergy's Cape Station in Utah was spotlighted by @Reuters as the first greenfield enhanced geothermal plant in the world to hit commercial operation.
✨ A glass half-full: @Forbes named @DCVC co-founder @mattocko to its list of the Greatest Living American Optimists, for backing science- and computer-intensive deep tech founders solving the world's hardest problems.
Deep tech is grueling. It's also inspiring.
Onward!
Proud of another amazing week for the incredible companies we support--
And humbled by, and grateful for, @Forbes naming me one of the Greatest Living American Optimists. Chalk it up to being surrounded by people who simply will not quit. 💪 🚀 🔥
A look at what @DCVC founders delivered /this week/: 💪 🚚
⚛️ Defense-grade nuclear momentum: @RadiantNuclear was selected by the @USNavy to supply its microreactor for Naval Weapons Station Crane while advancing site planning with the @USArmy to install three microreactors at Fort Benning.
🤖 Factory-floor humanoid deployment: @agilityrobotics signed a commercial agreement with @AGCOcorp, a farm equipment leader, to deploy Digit humanoids in its Kansas manufacturing facilities—after partnering just last week with @nyobolt for ultra-fast charging batteries to unlock near-continuous uptime.
💧 Industrial water circularity at scale: @zwitterco secured a strategic investment from water and hygiene giant @Ecolab to scale its zwitterionic membrane filtration systems across food and beverage processing plants.
🧬 Multimodal AI data infrastructure: BioStack raised a $9.5M Series Seed (joined by DCVC) to expand its cross-border clinical data platform across 100M+ de-identified patient records for medical AI models.
⚡ Geothermal grid leadership: @fervoenergy's Cape Station in Utah was spotlighted by @Reuters as the first greenfield enhanced geothermal plant in the world to hit commercial operation.
✨ A glass half-full: @Forbes named @DCVC co-founder @mattocko to its list of the Greatest Living American Optimists, for backing science- and computer-intensive deep tech founders solving the world's hardest problems.
Deep tech is grueling. It's also inspiring.
Onward!
Matt Ocko retweeted
(1/7) A look at what @DCVC founders delivered this week 💪🧵👇
⚡ A landmark grid-power deal: @MainspringEnrgy signed a supply agreement with @AEPnews for up to 1.6 GW of linear generators in a deal that could top $4 billion.
Matt Ocko retweeted
@DCVC is excited to support @Kairos Power. This company has done incredible work developing and proving their technology, which has been rewarded with valuable commercial partnerships.
#FirmElectricity #NuclearEnergy #Innovation
This combined private investment and @ENERGY financing is helping to advance Hermes 2 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Thank you to @googleventures, @DCVC, Samsung C&T, Nuclear Capital Partners, Mavrik, and @GovNuclear for supporting our path to deployment.
Safety requires a relentless focus on every design decision. Only @agilityrobotics has made those painstaking commitments for over a decade of hard work and as a co-lead in critical partnerships with folks like @nvidia 👇
Functional safety's goal is simple: keep people safe around the robot. Delivering it means designing for it at every layer — electrical, mechanical, industrial.
Kevin Reese, Sr. Director of Robotic Safety, breaks it down 👇
Watch the full breakdown: youtube.com/watch?v=WpGs7DKe…
#Agility #Safety #Digit #MadeForWork
Matt Ocko retweeted
90 minutes of work. 9 minutes to charge.
Digit 5’s battery, powered by @Nyobolt’s ultra-fast charging technology, is designed for a 10:1 run-to-charge ratio and more than 20 hours of work in a 24-hour day.
Read more: agilityrobotics.com/content/…
#Agility #MadeForWork #Digit5
Matt Ocko retweeted
Artificial intelligence brought into the physical world. This is what building the future looks like.
Explore Digit: agilityrobotics.com/solution…
#Agility #MadeForWork #Digit
Matt Ocko retweeted
Two missions. Two @SpaceNews_Inc Icon Award finalist honors. 🏆
Impulse was selected as a finalist for the Commercial Space Achievement category alongside @StarfishSpace for the Remora RPO mission. Starfish software autonomously controlled our LEO-2 Mira through a series of maneuvers, bringing it within approximately 1,250 meters of our LEO-1 Mira on orbit. See the mission in action in the video below!
We are also finalists in the Military Space Achievement category for our contract with the USSF for a future Space Force space domain awareness mission. Mira will host a government-furnished optical payload built by MIT Lincoln Laboratory to support SDA for objects located in GEO.
Mira is putting maneuverability at the center of what’s possible in orbit. Congrats to our crew behind the work. Two well-earned honors for the missions we’re bringing to life. 👏
Full list of finalists in the comments.
Matt Ocko retweeted
One step closer to Nasdaq: the SEC has declared effective our Form S-4 for the proposed business combination with Churchill Capital Corp XI (Nasdaq: CCXI).
Expected ticker: AGLT
Read the announcement: agilityrobotics.com/content/…
Matt Ocko retweeted
The microbiome is essential to human health but until recently, we couldn't do much with it. @DCVC's @jason_pontin examines the breakthroughs finally making the microbiome druggable (DCVC-backed @kanvasbio leads here).
More in the Deep Tech Opportunities report: dcvc.com/reports/deep-tech-o…
#DCVCDeepTech
Real robots, delivering real ROI to real customers, *repeatably and reliably*, respectfully of and safely with their human co-workers
That’s @agilityrobotics — and literally no one else close… 👇
A highlight reel proves a robot can do something once, for the camera. A deployment proves it can work safely on a real floor, shift after shift. Only one of those scales a business. Agility CBO Daniel Diez on what actually separates this market: agilityrobotics.com/content/…
#Agility #MadeForWork #Digit5
Matt Ocko retweeted
.@FortemTech is integral to defense. With every advance, this company makes people safer. 👇
Fortem and MBDA just expanded our partnership: DroneHunter and FireThorn now integrate into the air-defense architectures European and allied forces already operate.
- businesswire.com/news/home/2…
Good reporting from Marina Temkin (@MTemkin) at @TechCrunch.
Proud to have led @typesafeai's Series Seed less than a month ago and to have participated in the $870M @a16z-led A alongside @sequoia --prouder still to see the tremendous response from software developers around the world (TypeSafe's first model, Jev, has already been adopted by 1/3 of the @FortuneMagazine 500).
This is a team that gets it done 👇
TypeSafe AI raised $870 million in a round led by a16Z.
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Great reporting from Natasha Mascarenhas (@nmasc_) and @RebeccaTorrenc5 at Bloomberg (@business).
In less than a month, from the day we led @typesafeai's Series Seed, the company's valuation has risen from ~200M to $7.5B (we were glad to participate in the @a16z-led Series A alongside @sequoia). The company now has nearly $1B to put to work.
Why all the fuss? Because TypeSafe is making reliable, affordable, fast, machine-native AI, which will revolutionize software broadly.
Hats off to an incredible team led by cofounders CEO Diogo Almeida (@CompleteSkeptic) Erik Gafni (@EGafni) and Sasha Sheng (@hackgoofer).
Their first model, Jev, has already been adopted by 1/3 of the @FortuneMagazine 500—but they're just getting started.
🔥🔥🔥
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Trillions of tokens a day. Almost $1b in new firepower for @typesafeai’s mission.
The execution quality and pace of Diogo Almeida (@CompleteSkeptic) Erik Gafni (@EGafni) Sasha Sheng (@hackgoofer) and their teammates at TypeSafe AI is off the charts.
We’re glad that @DCVC could lead the Seed and now double down in the A with our friends from @a16z (who led the A) and @sequoia.
@martin_casado of a16z is a talented entrepreneur in his own right and a great partner for driven operators changing the world.
launched a model
accidentally served trillions of tokens a day
29.4% of the fortune 500 showed up
raised a really big series A from @a16z
it's been 3 weeks
we would like to sleep now
and that wraps another 7 days for our steely-eyed founders . . .👇
A look at what @DCVC founders delivered /this week/: 💪 🚚
🧠 Major funding for machine-native AI: @typesafeai closed an $870M Series A led by @a16z at a $7.5B valuation—with DCVC participating alongside @sequoia —less than a month after emerging from stealth with a $40M Series Seed led by DCVC at a ~$200M valuation. 1/3 of the @FortuneMagazine 500 have already adopted their first model, Jev.
⚛️ Record-setting UK quantum milestone: @universalquant raised over $100M in Series A funding co-led by DCVC—the largest-ever Series A for a UK quantum firm—to scale its modular trapped-ion architecture into error-corrected quantum computers.
🏛️ @DARPA validated quantum scale: @Atom_Computing and @IonQ_Inc advanced to the final stage (Stage C) of DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative—with both companies unlocking agreements worth up to $300M each in potential funding to build utility-scale quantum systems.
🌾 Award-winning AI agriculture: @verdantrobotics was named to @FastCompany's list of the Next Big Things in Food and Agriculture for its SharpShooter AI tech, which cuts pesticide application by up to 99%.
🛸 In-space operations & defense: @GoToImpulse (Impulse Space) reached the finals for the @SpaceNews_Inc Icon Awards after demonstrating autonomous proximity operations between two Mira spacecraft in LEO, while @FortemTech showcased its autonomous counter-drone radar integrated directly onto new unmanned ground platforms.
⚡ Grid flexibility & geothermal momentum: @EmeraldAi_'s flexible load coalition with @Google and @nvidia made @Reuters as a blueprinted fix for data center power bottlenecks, while @fervoenergy's record-breaking Cape Station launch continued making headlines across national energy press.
Onward!
