Founder/GP Wave Function Ventures investing in early stage deep tech. Former SpaceX engineer on Falcon 9 reentry and Co-Founder/CEO Talyn Air, Y Combinator.
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Stoked to get to finally announce Wave Function Ventures $15M Fund 1! Wave Function was created to partner with deep tech founders building hardware solutions to the world’s most important problems. I'm 9 investments in, with 15-20 left to go.
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“People have been saying” : “you can just do things”
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Guy started this week who spent 12 years on a Navy Nuke
Another guy from a *big* nuclear startup accepted an offer
Tobe Energy Corp has 3 nuclear engineers??
2027 gonna be a big year for energy.
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Great piece on @maglutheavy by @jasonjoyride . Check out how Maglut is going to reshore rare earth processing capability back to the US. 🇺🇸 Great work @azharayer and Curtis Wu.
Rare earths aren't actually rare, they're as abundant as copper. What's scarce is the ability to purify them, and that's what China controls: over 90% of it.
@maglutheavy founders are borrowing a technique from biotech to modernize rare earth purification. S3 went inside their lab to see their unique take on chromatography.
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An extraordinary @Nature paper has just landed from the lab of @Sergiu_P_Pasca at @Stanford - led by Konstantin Kaganovsky. They have found a way to create "xenocortical mice" which have ~92% of their cortex occupied by a cortical organoid derived from human stem cells. This human-derived cortical graft integrates deeply with the host nervous system, supporting organised neural activity and behaviour.
This study is a milestone in synthetic biology and chimera research. It has the potential to generate multiple medical breakthroughs by providing an enhanced biological model of human brain tissue that allows behavioural as well as neural and genetic assays.
The Stanford team have been exceptionally thorough and proactive in addressing ethical concerns that comes from this frontier work. But their pioneering work nonetheless raises many open questions: are the xenocortical mice conscious? Do they have any human-like properties of consciousness or cognition?
@NitaFarahany and I will be addressing some of these questions in a forthcoming commentary - where we'll also offer an ethically-informed roadmap to guide this important research as it progresses. In this context, "pacing the frontier" really does make sense 😉
Read the Stanford @nature paper here, and buckle up. It's wild. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Last May, President Trump signed 4 Executive Orders: kicking off a race to turn on 3 nuclear reactors by July 4th.
I talked to the people who made it happen: including @SecretaryWright, @emundz42, @adamblake, @OverReactor1776, and Rian Bahran.
Exclusively, how the Trump administration laid the groundwork for an American nuclear renaissance.
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I can’t imagine living your life with no other purpose than to *oppose* something.
Building is the only true path to enlightenment.
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I'll be at Dirty Jobs in San Francisco on September 23rd, always looking for early-stage hardware founders. Come talk Physical AI. dirtyjobs.ai/ @JayKapoorNYC
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A new era of flight has arrived. Congrats @billythalheimer and Regent team. Killer work!
Today marks the start of the Seaglider era - WE FLEW!!
Our 15,000 lb, human-crewed Viceroy Seaglider prototype took flight today. Years of hard work culminating in this moment.
Flight was smooth and exactly as planned.
So proud of this team.
More details to come!
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If you want evidence that capitalism is a force for good, just visit a grocery store.
My ode to the humble American supermarket, for @WSJFreeEx
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