Foreword @forewordvc

Official NVFP4 W4A16 version is out! W4A4 variant is still under consideration, and we’d welcome your feedback. huggingface.co/bottlecapai/Th…

ThinkingCap + FP8 quantization + MTP decoding runs 5–7× faster than the original Qwen 3.6 27B on the same tasks! 🚀 For comparison, FP8 + MTP without ThinkingCap gets you less than half that gain.

Stocard Founder Björn Goß Receives 12 Million Euros to Fundamentally Change the Tax Industry. Skalar, providing digital tax consulting for companies, led by Björn Goß, Niklas Wagener, Florian Lang, Martin Gugel, and Christian Pötter, has closed a pre-seed and seed funding round totaling €12 million. The round was led by Headline @HeadlineVC, with participation from futurepresent, QED Investors @QEDInvestors, Repeat @RepeatVentures, MS&AD, and Foreword @forewordvc, as well as several prominent angel investors.

Great speaking to the @FT today about @IsembardGroup. Factories are the front line!

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🚨Introducing efficiency focused “ThinkingCap” AI model series.  Starting with 2× thinking token reduction on average in Qwen 3.6 27B, with up to 10x faster generation on individual examples. Now available on HuggingFace!

We just shipped a feature that was literally impossible to build a month ago. Introducing Surfaces! We automatically render every page in your product with zero setup so you can design on top of it. One of our customers walking through how they use Surfaces in Dessn. 👇

As part of the launch we built datacenterbuildout.com with an agent on Tilebox. The site tracks US data center construction using satellite imagery, with a web frontend, backend workflow, before/after imagery, rankings.. Here's what we didn't have to do: - set up workflow infrastructure - build a complex CI/CD pipeline to roll out changes - wire up observability - copy-paste logs, traces, errors, and failure modes back into the agent - explain where the satellite data lives or how to load it - tell the agent how to parallelize the work - manually deploy each workflow iteration That's the development loop that this launch unlocked data context → workflow code → deployment → observable jobs → inspectable outputs → iteration

So excited to share that @Dessn_ai has raised $6m, led @pietrobezza , with participation from @betaworks , N49P, and a few other amazing partners and angels. @eminimnim and I started the company 2 years ago with one conviction: the future of product development wouldn’t happen in disconnected mockups or recreated environments. It would happen directly in production. Today, Dessn is the only product that enables an entire team to design and prototype directly in prod — visually, collaboratively, and in one click.

TechCrunch @TechCrunch

3 months ago

Dessn raises $6M for its production focused design tool techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/des…

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Habibis, @xomarket just closed a $6M seed to build permissionless conviction markets anyone can spin up a Yes/No market on any belief in seconds. Led by @20vcFund and @picuscap , with @cbventures, and others along with 30+ angels including @patcummins30 Prediction markets cracked this open. We're opening the rest.

We designed Olto to be the ultimate bike lane vehicle. Two passengers. 40 miles of range. Cargo capacity. Theft proof. No license, no registration, no insurance. $3,495, about a quarter of what the average used car costs. Bike-lane legal in 50 states. Olto is now shipping nationwide. To celebrate, we’re launching our Spring Campaign featuring ~100 New Yorkers from all walks of life. It goes live today around NYC and on the internet. We’re very excited for Olto to be in the world and for all kinds of people to make it a part of their lives. Oh the places you will go.

Infinite Machine @infinitemachine

4 months ago

Olto is now shipping to customers in the United States. We designed Olto to be a new kind of vehicle, a better way for everyone to get around. To celebrate its launch, we photographed almost a hundred New Yorkers on Olto in a single day. Friends, neighbors, strangers, NYC Icons.

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When I first met @paulscherer I was struck by his intellect, values, and vision for how technology can help bring people together in a time of extreme hyper-personalization. I've long believed one of the most important consumer opportunities in AI would be something that felt like a friend. But most of what I saw created more loneliness, not less. Paul’s vision for @eigenhq is the first in this category that felt truly different. This was something our team needed to be a part of, and @Benchmark is proud to partner with Paul on this journey. More here in Fortune (link below):

paul @paulscherer

4 months ago

I’m honored to share that @eigenhq has raised $15M from @benchmark to build a mutual friend that’ll help us belong and grow, together.

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I’m honored to share that @eigenhq has raised $15M from @benchmark to build a mutual friend that’ll help us belong and grow, together.

GitButler is redesigning the version control experience for you and your agents. We're very excited to lead their Series A. In this conversation, GitButler CEO Scott Chacon joins a16z GP Matt Bornstein to discuss: - Why Scott came back to version control after GitHub - Why Git's UI has barely changed since 2005 - How GitButler is building version control designed natively for agentic coding - Why AI makes communication a more valuable skill for developers 00:00 Intro 01:11 Why Scott came back to version control after GitHub 06:18 How Git was actually built 11:32 Designing GitButler's CLI for agents 18:05 Parallel branches: How GitButler handles multi-agent workflows 23:33 What happens to GitHub in an agentic world 27:00 Code review needs a rethink: PRs, commit messages, and what comes next 32:19 Writing and communication as the new developer superpower @chacon @BornsteinMatt

GitButler @gitbutler

4 months ago

We’ve raised $17M to build what comes after Git blog.gitbutler.com/series-a

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We’ve raised $17M to build what comes after Git blog.gitbutler.com/series-a

I am super excited to share that @Starcloud_ has raised a $170M Series A at a $1.1bn valuation to fuel our development of data centers in space 🚀 The round comes after the successful deployment of our first satellite, Starcould-1, a few months ago, which had the first @NVIDIA H100 on board and was the first to train an LLM in space. The funds will be used to develop our third satellite, which aims to be cost-competitive with Earth-based data centers in terms of AI inference cost. The round was led by @Benchmark and @EQT Ventures, and we are excited to welcome Benchmark GP, @Chetanp Puttagunta, to our board. We are also excited to welcome other new investors, including the world's largest infrastructure fund, @Macquarie Capital, @SevenSevenSix 7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣, Manhattan West, Adjacent, Carya, GSBackers, and Harpoon. We are very grateful for the continued support of existing investors, including @NFX, @NebularVC, @YCombinator, @FUSE_VC, @Soma_Capital, 3Capital Partners, Wyld VC, Tiny VC, and Taurus Ventures. Onwards!

Starcloud just raised $170,000,000 at a $1.1 billion valuation led by Benchmark & EQT because investors are finally realising there is only one solution to the AI energy crisis. Fortuitously for the 5th Episode of Forecast 2050 I sat down with my friend, @Starcloud_ CEO @PhilipJohnston to discuss how this future plays out. I wrote the biggest check out of Nebular in my first year of the firm back in December 2023 to lead Starcloud's pre-seed. It’s been quite the ride since then. @ezrafeilden & @AdiOltean also the heros and visionaries creating this category of space data centres. On the Forecast we speak about Philip’s ambitions - and his greatest concerns - for the next 25 years. We discuss: Why the Space GPU Skeptics are Wrong The 2050 Space Economy: Asteroid Mining, Moon Resorts, and Mars as the Next America How Elon’s @Tesla_Optimus Will Colonize the Universe The Hard Problem of Consciousness is Crackable Avoiding a Calamitous Event in the Near Future Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:59 Why the Space GPU Skeptics are Wrong 03:12 Elon Will Bring Launch Costs Down with Starship 06:50 The 2050 Space Economy: Moon Hotels, Asteroid Mining & Manufacturing 16:37 The 2050 Martian Colony: A Stepping Stone for Exploring the Universe 26:32 The Kardashev Scale of Civilization 28:44 We Live in a Simulation: The Fermi Paradox & The Great Filter 34:52 Cracking the Hard Problem of Consciousness 37:46 There is a Calamitous Event Waiting for Us 39:04 Mars is the Next America Thanks to @wavebyvento, @vento_ventures, and @dwarkesh_sp for permission to use some snippets for this interview! + big big ups to some of the gang that invested on the journey early like @pmoe, @deckelly, @arcurn, @Varungupta, @caffeinatedcap, @beller, @ncsh @jamiecuffe - long Starcloud 🙏

Today @IsembardGroup announces our $50m Series A. More factories, more engineers, more countries. If not now, when... 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇩🇪🇫🇷🇺🇦

We are in a moment of massive manufacturing need and @IsembardGroup sits right at the intersection of 3 happening simultaneously and quickly: 1/ A massively and quickly increasing demand for fast, flexible, and local manufacturing around aerospace, defense, and robotics. 2/ Increasing labor displacement fueling a resurgence in an SMB economy and individuals' desires to own their own destinies/run their own businesses. 3/ Agentic operating systems allowing for fast set ups, networked management, better results, and demand distribution. @IsembardGroup's franchise model and capital efficient approach is allowing incredibly fast scaling, with 25 factories by the end of this year across the US and Europe. @AFitzgerald1992 and his team are well on the path to delivering components 10x faster and 50% cheaper than current suppliers. We are thrilled to lead their $50M Series A @usv as they create the dominant decentralized manufacturing network.

Alexander Fitzgerald @AFitzgerald1992

5 months ago

Today @IsembardGroup announces our $50m Series A. More factories, more engineers, more countries. If not now, when... 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇩🇪🇫🇷🇺🇦

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How do you reconcile two incompatible velocities: continuous development and human validation? It's easy. You don't. Every software release widens the gap between what ships and what gets tested. We need a new model.

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