Before we knew how our space series was going to start, we knew how it would end House5 (the unofficial name of GC Creative) wanted to really capture the childlike wonder that space inspires in each of us To get there it will take a tremendous amount of capital, ambitious teams, and seemingly impossible dreams If you haven't yet explored the series, it truly has some beautiful highlights An introduction by the one and only @carlorovelli The opening of launch outside of SpaceX A conversation on Orbit with EON @brycestrauss reflecting on his time at Lockheed Martin supporting NASA Thank you to our partner on this @astrmn_studio for helping us shoot this on the gorgeous PANAVISION lens Here's a behind the scene look at how this came together 🚀🚀🚀

Our short film started with one line: "I want to ride my bike on the moon." When it comes to the creative case for investing in space, imagination precedes ambition. What looks naive in scientific progress is remembered as inevitable, but only if someone funds the gap in between.

Forbes piece here: forbes.com/sites/innovationr…

cc @elad_walach at @aidocmed, Steve Liou at Clarium, @tanay_tandon at @commurehealth, @anrahman at Fabric, @munjalshah at @hippocraticai, AJ Loiacono at @judihealth, @GlenTullman at @transcarent, Dhaivat Pandya at @versemedical, @hirshjain at @percepta

In 2024, we made the unprecedented decision to acquire a hospital system. It was an opportunity to create a blueprint for healthcare transformation to make American healthcare proactive, accessible, and affordable. @SummaHealth and our Health Assurance Transformation Company (HATCo) revealed their technology transformation stack, partnering with some of our portfolio companies @aidocmed, Clarium, @CommureOs, @poweredbyfabric, @hippocraticai, @judihealth, @transcarent, and @versemedical. @percepta is serving as a transformation partner, unifying the tech stack into a seamless Al-native operating system. We believe the future of healthcare is health assurance with tech founders and health system leaders working together to reimagine healthcare in the US and beyond.

I sat down with Hemant in his garden to discuss River AI's vision and our bets for how to democratize control of the AI systems we use every day.

We put together a $1.1B round for @river_ai_inc to build American leadership in open weights. Frontier labs push the boundary of humanity, but open weights empower humanity, putting intelligence into everyone's hands. @ibab has built frontier capability three times over. Now he's making it something you can own.

In his Quarterly Review for Q2, @GeneralCatalyst CEO @htaneja writes that the quarter was largely about scale and concentration of power and access, with three deals — @OpenAI, @AnthropicAI, and xAI — drawing around two-thirds of all AI funding.  And that’s why, he argues, we need a counter-move to build toward greater access to spread the benefits wider.  In healthcare, that’s going to require more public-private collaboration. “No government can transform healthcare alone, and no technologist or health system can do it alone either,” writes Taneja. “Building an affordable, accessible system takes all of us. And the stakes reach well past medicine. A health system is the largest employer in most American towns, the anchor of its local economy as much as its care. Get this right, and you deliver three things at once: better health, lower cost, and the jobs with agency that a community needs.” I couldn’t agree more. And given that we spend one-third of our lives at work, the workplace can be a critical part of that collaboration to transform healthcare. You can read it in full here: hemant-taneja.com

How can venture better serve founders in an era of extremely concentrated outcomes? This question runs through my Q2 review and my conversation with @packyM: The Great Concentration Fixing the K-shaped Economy Buying a Hospital What a VC Is Actually For (and capital entrepreneurship) The Stack as the Antidote My answer, across all of it: innovate on capital so more companies can thrive, and transform legacy institutions so the benefits of intelligence reach everyone. read here: hemant-taneja.com

Models know the internet. @EngramLab believes they should know you. Congrats to @dan_biderman and the team. few have worked on continual learning longer.

We are quadrupling down on @AnthropicAI. This is the largest single investment in @generalcatalyst history. We first invested four rounds ago (March '25 at $61.5b) because of the tech and the soul. It's been a privilege to watch Anthropic grow into one of the world's most important companies.

Had a great chat with one of my favorite investors, @generalcatalyst General Intuition x General Catalyst - The Next Phase of Pre-training

“If you want to lead, you have to be willing to serve” - Our chairman, Ken Chenault

Long Lake, one of our very first AI roll ups, has agreed to acquire Amex GBT for $6.3 billion. @alextaubman had a vision to take durable franchise businesses with decades of customer trust and make them better with AI. In two years: doubled free cash flow in HOA management businesses without reducing headcount. This is Long Lake's 31st acquisition and their first take-private. Congrats Alex and team

Thrilled to welcome @nikesharora as @generalcatalyst's first lead independent director. Nikesh brings the rare combination of investor thinking and operator execution and has led some of the most consequential tech orgs in the world. I've long admired the clarity and ambition he brings to everything he does. Nikesh joins me and our chairman @ChenaultKen on the board. Look forward to our work together building GC and supporting the founders we back.