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It's a truly monumental day for H3X - very happy to announce our oversubscribed $20M Series A funding round! Infinite Capital led our round with participation from new investors - Hanwha Asset Management (USA) Ltd., Cubit Capital, Origin Ventures, Industrious Ventures - and existing investors - Lockheed Martin, Metaplanet, Venn10 Capital, LP, Liquid 2 Ventures, TechNexus Venture Collaborative, and PaperJet Ventures, among others. Over the past two years, we’ve been laser-focused on building amazing products and delivering them to our customers. For an early-stage deep-tech company, I’m very proud of how capital-efficient we’ve been in maturing the technology, ramping up mfg. operations, and executing on commercialization. It is definitely something that sets us apart and is largely a function of the dedication and effort put in by our team. We got *a lot* done with a relatively modest amount of funding. Many thanks are due here - our investors, our customers, our families, my incredible co-founders Max and Eric, and, most of all, the 30 H3X Technologies team members who decided to take the leap with us. With this new capital, we are going to take H3X to the next level. We have some very large contracts in the pipeline and must expand operations significantly to meet their demands. Additionally, our megawatt-class machines are coming online, and this funding will enable us to complete their development and commercialization. Given the tough fundraising environment over the last 12 months, this round certainly was not easy, but we continued to execute and came out the other side stronger than ever and are now positioned very well to skyrocket with this new funding ?? These next 6 months are going to be crazy. Stay tuned! Follow the links in the comments for more on the Series A.

If humanity truly aims to become multi-planetary species we still need to solve many problems. Weather predictions for space plays a crucial part in any attempt. Keep an eye on Perceptive Space progress!

Are thirteen-lined ground squirrels known to be fierce animals? Hardly. But Metaplanet portfolio company Fauna Bio has been featured as one of Fierce Biotech's 2024 Fierce 15! Congrats Ashley Zehnder and the team! Find out what thirteen-lined ground squirrels have to do with any of it in the attached link!

Neurable team! ?????????? Let’s go! I’m so proud of all of your work!! Our biggest years are still ahead of us!!!

We just announced Zama’s $73m Series A, one of the largest ever for a french company. Why did we raise so much, and what will we do with it? FHE is the holy grail of cryptography. It allows computing on encrypted data, without having to ever see it. This removed all issues of confidentiality, data leaks, surveillance, while also enabling novel use cases. But when we started Zama 4 years ago with Pascal Paillier, FHE didn’t work. It was too slow, too limited in terms of use cases, and too difficult to use. Thanks to our incredible team, these problems are mostly solved today: you can use our technology for anything you want, from blockchain to AI, without knowing anything about cryptography! Performance wise, we are on track to reach 100x speedup vs when we started. While this is still too slow for LLMs, it is good enough for most blockchain applications, as well as simple AI ones. The reason FHE is so great for blockchain is that it enables composability on encrypted states. FHE smart contracts compute on encrypted data instead of public data, but otherwise are exactly the same as regular contracts, written in plain Solidity. There are infinite use cases: from confidential RWA tokenization, to onchain DeFi compliance, games or DAO governance. Every day we talk to a new company, we discover a new use case. And we have had hundreds of such conversations. Incredible teams are using our technology today, such as Fhenix who is building an FHE optimistic rollup, Inco who is building a modular confidentiality-as-a-service blockchain, and Shiba Inu who is building an entire universe of confidential apps. We are also closely working with several large financial institutions on confidential permissioned blockchain networks, allowing them to interact with each other without revealing everything they do onchain. This funding allows us to do 3 things: 1. Continue doing research to improve FHE, 2. Support our partners who are in production, and 3. Have multiple years of runway so we don’t have to worry about market downturns. And importantly, it allows us to continue executing on our FHE masterplan: - first, make FHE available to every developer - second, make FHE fast enough to do 1000 tps in blockchain and run LLMs encrypted end-to-end - third, extend it to all web services - finally, make the internet encrypted end-to-end via an HTTPZ protocol Finally I would like to thank our incredible investors who have been trusting us all along. They are awesome, so if you are raising, you should go talk to them! MULTICOIN CAPITAL, Protocol Labs, Blockchange Ventures, Portal, Stake Capital Group, Vsquared Ventures, Lunar Ventures, Metaplanet, Robot VC, and our many awesome angels. Read more in the link in the comments

Huge news folks! ??Thank you for everyone who believed in us! We closed another DOD contract worth $2M. ?????? Thank you Neurable for all your hard work. The Neurable AI difference is real and you all make it happen!

?? VR ROI for construction is academically proven ?? I was thrilled to read a recent paper on #VR in ASCE Publishing's journal on Computing in Civil Engineering. The paper evaluated the use of VR on a $600M project which used Resolve + Meta Quest. And wait for it.... The research shows that 93% of building operability issues found in VR were not previously found using traditional coordination methods. That's huge news! The paper further breaks down the ROI and impact of using VR to review #MEP #BIM. I provide my thoughts on the paper on more in a blog post. https://lnkd.in/esWqAzTW

How could hibernation research help astronauts in space? Fauna Bio CEO Ashley Zehnder discusses their recent #NASA grant and what it could mean for drug discovery with Endpoints News: https://lnkd.in/eaxWpdZc

Kingdom Technologies has secured a fresh round of funding from the billionaire founders of Skype and Bolt, along with Iron Wolf Capital, Specialist VC and Scottish Enterprise, to further bolster its growing fleet of robotic lawn mowers for large lawns. #Tech | #News | #Robotics

Today, I’m very excited to announce with John Koetsier at Forbes what our incredible team and I have been working on in stealth for the last 4 years: https://lnkd.in/eg8TZBeK My co-founders, Ed Boyden, David Wang, Nir Grossman, and Heather Read, Ph.D. and I are developing a wearable neurotech device that stimulates the brain in a way that can achieve the same benefits of some drugs, but without chemicals or side effects.? We call our approach “Electric Medicine'', and we call the company Elemind Technologies, Inc. To date, our tech is supported by 2 clinical studies and several scientific studies that show Elemind may be effective at: 1. Inducing sleep 2. Suppressing physical tremor 3. Boosting memory 4. Increasing pain thresholds & enhancing sedation This is just the beginning.? Our first product - soon to be announced - will be a consumer wellness product and will focus on one of the applications described above. ***Sign up to get on the waitlist: www.elemindtech.com*** Hugely grateful to our incredible team, including our advisors, board members, and investors who have gotten us to this point: Village Global, LDV Partners, The Family Fund & Founder Community, Metaplanet, E14 Fund, Embark Ventures, Wharton Alumni Angels, Incite PartnersDr. J. Craig Venter, Pankaj Kedia, Susan Paley, Ken Hertz, Qing Z., Dr. Sebastian Schreglmann, Dr. Suzanne Bertisch, Dr. Andrea Goldstein-Piekarski, Ryan Neely, Ph.D. Jo McKinney Greg Burlingame Roshan Rajappa Tyler Gage Erik Su Rich Klosinski Scott Bressler, Ph.D. Ryan Yost Matt Workman Ariel Ganz Benjamin Rolnik Joyance Partners Social Starts John Abele Sumit Nagpal Sumeet Vadera, MD, MBA, FAANS Mike Sutcliff Igor Gonta Marc Mezvinsky Joshua Wachman Thomas Layton Michael Broukhim