Today, we announce our $25M fundraise to build the future of creative work. For all of history, what you could create was dictated by the resources accessible to you. That's why we built @trymelius, the agents lab for creatives, to tear down that constraint and let agents leverage generative models to bring all your ideas to life. So that anyone can make anything. Huge thanks to @yuris at @generalcatalyst and @verorellana02 + @reidRMC at @CRV for leading the round, and to @gefkovicz + @benmtaft at @geniusventures, @amosk1120 + @adamvalkin at @VineVenturesLP, @jakepaul + @geoffwoo at @antifund, @rauchg, @bykahlil and many more amazing investors for taking a bet on us.

Today we’re launching Parallax, the AI energy company with a $117m fundraise led by Founders Fund, Eclipse, Lux, Diffusion, Greylock and General Catalyst. (1/5)

We have raised $200M at a $5B valuation to scale self-improving software development in the enterprise. @FactoryAI has grown to serve hundreds of thousands of developers at companies including RBC, Adobe, Nvidia, T-Mobile, and Palo Alto Networks. We will use this capital to accelerate our investments in research, product, and global go-to-market.

BREAKING: Alan Li is joining @babahq as a founding designer

Today, Maven Robotics officially launches. 🙌 After two years in stealth, we’re introducing the first general-purpose robotics system for industrial work, backed by $100M in Series A funding. We’re excited to finally share where we’re headed next. Read more 👇 (1/7)

Artist Mackenzie Cantor married entrepreneur Benjamin Taft in a garden wedding at the Carmel Valley Ranch, with the cream and pastel blue hues of the bride’s gown defining the palette of the wedding. vogue.com/slideshow/mackenzi…

Today, we're launching Base Core, our own battery designed & built in Texas, and announcing our $1B Series D to bring it to homes across the country. Three years ago, we started Base with a belief that batteries were the unlock to energy abundance. We saw battery storage as the foundation of a modern energy system, and believed we could win the market with vertical integration, technology, and relentless execution (what we now call Base Pace). So we set out to build a network of distributed batteries to deliver affordable, reliable electricity to homeowners and utilities. While the job is far from finished, the launch of Base Core is the most meaningful step in that plan. We’ve spent the last few years learning hard lessons about building a distributed battery fleet, going from 1 install per day in June of ‘24 to 100 installs per day in June of ‘26. These lessons - how the battery is shipped, installed, used, and monitored - informed the design of Core. Now, Core will be the foundation of the company's next phase of growth. Base Core is a first-of-its-kind home battery. At ~40 kWh it is 3x the size of most home batteries, providing up to 36 hours of backup for the average home. In the event of multi-day outage, Core is equipped with a (first of its kind) generator port - pull out a small portable generator and charge the battery back up to keep your home running as long as you need. When an outage does happen, the backup is seamless - most members won't even notice the grid went down. It's built to withstand Texas summers, Chicago Winters, and everything in between. And finally, it’s manufactured by our team in Austin, at Base Factory 1, right across the street from our HQ. This new capital will bring Core to more homes and to accelerate our ambition beyond batteries. The round is co-led by Ribbit, Addition, Valor, and JP Morgan, with participation from new major investors D1, Sands, Coatue, Layer Global, and Energy Impact Partners. All of Base’s major existing investors are re-investing, including Thrive, Altimeter, Lightspeed, a16z, CapitalG, Trust, and more. This brings our valuation to $13B. As we enter the most important growth period in the history of the electricity industry, our mission has not changed - advance human prosperity by delivering the world's most affordable and reliable electricity. Our strategy has not changed - technology, plus vertical integration, plus relentless execution, leads to a compounding cost advantage. What has changed is the scope of our ambition - this new capital, along with the team and capabilities we've built over the last three years, positions us to build technology across the electric stack, including what it takes to serve surging demand from AI, and to deepen our partnerships with utilities as they work to meet rising demands. Electricity is the largest and most essential industry in the world, and it does not have a defining technology company. The company that delivers the most affordable, reliable power will be one of the largest and most impactful companies in the world. We intend to build it. If you'd like to join us, reach out. Onwards. basepowercompany.com/core.

Excited to announce that @naturalpay has raised a $30M Series A led by @ForerunnerVC to build payments infrastructure for AI agents. To celebrate, we gave our agent $100K to give to you. Just sign up and our agent will send you between $5 and $10,000 on natural.com ¹

We at @khoslaventures made the largest initial investment yet, as we did in OpenAI, into @TeamOratomic after we looked at a dozen Quantum starts in a decade. On its way to solve Shor's algorithm, the true symbol of getting to "quantum computing" FIRST. oratomic.com/. Join them in building the world’s first fault-tolerant quantum computer capable of useful applications and a fundamentally new model of computation that could have consequences far beyond what we can predict today

I dropped out of high school at 17 to build my first startup. Now, at 20, I'm thrilled to share that @TryOmenAI has raised $41.5M in total funding to build intelligence protecting the world's most critical AI compute infrastructure.

Today, Melius is launching the new way for creatives to work with agents. Introducing the slash command. Creative work with agents painfully moves one step at a time. Each idea is queued sequentially, so even a full campaign only moves at the pace of a single agent. Your eyes flips back and forth between the chat constantly. Slash changes that. Hit the slash key anywhere on the canvas to start an agent on a task. Run as many as you want, side by side. Each agent works in parallel, each with a clear status showing its progress. Every designer, marketer, and director will be that much more productive - building images, videos, audio and more at the speed of thought. Try it now on Melius.

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