Our portfolio company Liquid AI is advancing the foundation for more personal, device-native AI under a collaboration with Qualcomm. Congratulations! 💙
Congratulations to Vulcan Elements, a Duke Capital Partners portfolio company, on its competitive selection by the U.S. Army to supply high-performance neodymium iron boron magnets for the Army’s SkyFoundry drone initiative! 🚀⭐
💙🏆 Congratulations to Dr. David Smith, Duke’s James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, on being named a 2026 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Fellow. Smith's lab spun out DCP portfolio companies Extellis and Neurophos.
Vestwell turns ten: 2.65M savers, 750K businesses, $58B saved!
@Vestwell powers workplace 401(k)s, IRAs, 529s and state savings programs. Founder Aaron Schumm is a Duke Fuqua MBA alum, and DCP has backed the company since its earliest rounds. 💙
The Pentagon is in talks to lend our portfolio company Fluidstack about $5B, per the WSJ.
Fluidstack builds and runs the data centers AI models train in, hosting other firms' hardware instead of buying chips. Forbes reports an $18B valuation. Congrats to the team! 🚀💙
🤝💙 Did you know that Otter.ai connects meeting intelligence with the tools teams use EVERY day? From @salesforce , @Jira , @NotionHQ , @Google Drive, Gemini, @glean and @Egnyte to ChatGPT & Claude.
Keep it going CTO & @DukeU alum YunFu, CEO Sam Liang, and team
💙 Duke Capital Partners portfolio companies are hiring! 🔥
@fluidstack: 250+ roles across the US & UK
@otter_ai: 22+ roles in engineering, marketing & sales
@neurophos: 25+ roles across silicon, AI and photonics
🔗 Apply via the links in comments - and share
💙⭐ Another phenomenal milestone! Three founders from across our portfolio have been named to the 2026 @TIME 100 AI list: @elonmusk of @SpaceX and @xai, Daniela Rus of @liquidai , and @mntruell of @cursor_ai. Congrats to the teams!
Three Duke Capital Partners portfolio companies have been named to the 2026 Inc. 5000. Huge congratulations to the teams at @SpaceX, @Vestwell , and @levitateai! 💙🚀
Science Corporation's @maxhodak_ explains PRIMA on the No Priors podcast: a 2 x 2 mm chip under the retina, plus glasses that project the image onto it. "Like a cochlear implant for the eye." Proud of our portfolio company, founded by a Duke BME alum.
Our portfolio company @otter_ai is one of 13 new connected apps coming to @GeminiApp, grouped under productivity with Granola and Wix. @Google says the connections roll out over the next few weeks. Congrats to the team!
Our portfolio company Apollo Atomics has raised a $31M seed led by FCVC. It rebuilt the steam generator, normally the largest thing on a nuclear plant site, at roughly the size of a person, and says that makes the whole system about 40x smaller.
🔥 💙 @cursor_ai has officially been acquired by Duke Capital Partners portfolio company @SpaceX 🚀
Cursor joins the SpaceXAI team to help make Grok more useful and advance products including Grok Build, Grok Bot, Grok API, and Cursor itself.
Onwards!!
Syntra has now processed $200M+ in insurance claims across 1.5M+ patient encounters, reading charts before submission to catch undercoded visits, missing modifiers and compliance flags — corrections rather than appeals.
Hinge Health has agreed to acquire Cylinder Health for $105M in cash, adding virtual digestive care to its musculoskeletal platform. Cylinder covers about 2 million lives across nearly 100 clients. The combined GI care program is planned for 2027.
Duke ranks 8th among US universities by startup exit value at $85B, in an Andreessen Horowitz analysis of 735 US companies that reached $1B and exited between 1997 and 2026.
Science Corp's PRIMA retinal implant just earned a CE mark: the first treatment shown to restore functional central vision in geographic atrophy. In the NEJM trial, 84% of patients could read again. Founded by Duke alum Max Hodak.
$1.2B — Europe's largest defence-tech round ever. Quantum Systems' Series D values the Munich company at ~$8B, co-led by Blackstone, Noteus, Airbus, and Advent. 19,000+ missions flown in Ukraine in 2025.