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ACME Capital retweeted
Today, Sphere Semi is announcing that our AI-designed chip is deploying into military hardware in partnership with Northrop Grumman.
This is the first AI-designed semiconductor to move from concept to deployment in a defense system.
A new era has begun. Full video below.
ACME Capital retweeted
Our daughter is the first US baby born from an automated IVF lab.
I wrote the first check into Conceivable, & eventually, they gave us our daughter. Watching the robots work felt like a moon landing. @sarahfrier captures the heartbreak, joy, life & death of this journey in @BW
A new robotic lab that makes human embryos using AI is now responsible for 19 babies. Is it better at IVF than humans are? bloomberg.com/news/features/…
ACME Capital retweeted
This morning, @axios broke the news:
@aryahealth_ has raised an oversubscribed $18.2M Series A.
This capital is fuel for accelerating our mission of using AI to bring humanity back to healthcare delivered across homes, communities, and screens.
In a world obsessed with AI, we wanted to remind everyone that behind every algorithm, there are still people - the ones building it, and the ones it’s meant to help.
So I asked my 9-year-old daughter Arya - the namesake behind the company - to help me tell the "human story".
The story that somewhere along the way, we've made providers really busy with all the "chores" to be done around delivering distributed care.
Forms. Portals. Calendars. Clicks. Text Reminders. Desperate phone calls.
So busy that they don't have enough time-or resources-for what matters. Connecting deeply with those in need of care. And with those delivering care.
We built Arya Health to fix that.
Because the most urgent job for AI right now isn’t to become smarter than humans - it’s to make space for more humanity.
And for that, it needs the best humans - the builders, dreamers, and doers who believe that technology should make people feel seen, not replaced.
If you’re a provider and feel like busywork is keeping you from the humanity in care, please reach out. We'd love to help.
If you're a builder and want to build AI with a focus on humanity, please reach out. We need you to move faster.
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Special gratitude to:
1/ @aikeho (@ACME ) for leading our Series A round,
2/ @byronling1 (@twelve_below), @Rosenrosen (@ridgevc) and many other early backers for doubling down on their conviction in Arya,
3/ @ColinEvans34598 (@OpenAI ) for seeing and backing our AI-powered vision,
4/ Industry leaders Fred Johnson, Chris Gerard, Sandra Bell and @guyfriedman for putting their trust in Arya as a customer,
5/ Melinda Phillips for hanging up her home care CEO gloves to come build the future with us,
6/ Arya's co-founder and CTO Arun for being the perfect yin to my yang,
7/ @FinnMurphy12 (@Nebularvc) for reminding me that it's my job to take big bets
8/ Joshua Rahn (Oceans) for reminding me that it's OK to be human
9/ @zachweinberg (Operator) for reminding me that it will take great pain, time and commitment to build the "next Flatiron Health" in NYC
10/ My partner in life Goksu Dogan for reminding me that if this was easy, anyone could do it...
11/ And my little Arya for reminding me every day that building a business is never "just business". It's personal. Especially in healthcare.
ACME Capital retweeted
.@StevenGlinert (Co-Founder & CEO of Sphere Semi) on how they're using AI to change how chips are designed:
“CPUs and GPUs get all the attention, but analog is a third of the trillion-dollar chip industry and it’s critical for communications, warfare, and more.”
“We think human chip design is coming to an end. In analog, it’s still done by hand and we’re putting that to an end.”
ACME Capital retweeted
@elonmusk’s multiplanetary ambitions require multigenerational thinking. But Mars will still be there while humans may not. Choosing not to have kids is the real quiet quitting.
Today I wrote for @PirateWires. Link below 👇
NEW TODAY: There’s no point of a multiplanetary future if there are no people left to populate it
The U.S. fertility rate sits at an anemic 1.79, far below the required level to replace our population. The global rate is not much better. This means we’re watching civilization compound into oblivion through the powerful force of exponential decline.
Even in countries with state-funded IVF programs, policy and technology have had little effect, because depopulation isn’t something you can fix with tax subsidies and robots. It stems from a fundamental devaluation of family life in post-industrial economies.
Once, having children was how you joined the world. Today — with help from parenthood’s total absence from narratives that celebrate professional ambition, romantic conquest, and lone-wolf heroism — it’s framed as opting out of it. Freedom is childlessness. Kids are a burden. DINK life (Double Income, No Kids) is not only accepted but vaunted like an achievement. In a culture addicted to self-optimization, the case against children practically writes itself.
Some people have deeply personal reasons not to have children. As for the rest of us, especially the self-proclaimed futurists who are resourced and capable? Wake up to the programming. Have kids now. Don’t wait for the perfect apartment with a nursery. Don’t wait until you can afford a night nurse, like I did, cutting into the window of opportunity to have another, and another. Don’t wait for your startup to exit, or to make partner, or to hit some phantom “ready” (readiness is just control, repackaged). Stop shitposting. Stop procrastinating. You need less money, space, and time than you think. Let it be messy. Let it be visible.
Choose this fundamentally creative act, a reason for living that breaks you open and remakes you. The future of humanity — whether on Earth, Mars, or beyond — depends on it.
(No pressure.)
(Link to the full piece is threaded.) 👇
ACME Capital retweeted
Thrilled to announce that Akash Systems has received CHIPS Act funding to scale up our Diamond Cooled servers & GaN-on-Diamond Space Radios! đź’Ž
Our tech sets new standards in AI performance & space communications.
Huge congrats to the team on this milestone! 🚀
ACME Capital retweeted
A top VC predicts the industry is heading for a massive and enduring contraction trib.al/vU7QClQ
ACME Capital retweeted
Excited to share that we've raised $20M in Series A 🚀
Thanks to Astanor Ventures, R7, ACME, Y Combinator, Nicholas Francis, & Per Falholt! Big shoutout to our team. Next up: Accelerating R6D for a sustainable future & expanding our team. Join us on the journey! Details below👇
ACME Capital retweeted
Today, we announced a major technical milestone! IonQ’s Research & Development team achieved the first known commercial demonstration of ion-photon entanglement, a key technical milestone for networking quantum computers.
Learn more at our blog: ionq.com/posts/enabling-netw…
Scott Stanford, Co-Founder & Partner at ACME, had the privilege of leading a Venture Capital class at USC Business School this week. Thanks to @PalafoxCarmen for the opportunity to engage with such a talented group of future leaders!
Congratulations to the True Anomaly team on achieving another significant milestone!
Our #Jackal autonomous orbital vehicles (AOVs) have completed vibration testing to ensure they can withstand the launch environment to orbit. Check out our video clip for an inside look at this intense process. ⬇️
We’re pleased to welcome True Anomaly into the ACME family. For a full list of ACME portfolio companies, please visit acme.vc.
We're proud to announce our $100M Series B funding! This will further accelerate our growth and investment in people, products & services to ensure the sustainable security of #space.
Thank you Bloomberg @technology for covering this exciting news: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
ACME Capital retweeted
We're proud to announce our $100M Series B funding! This will further accelerate our growth and investment in people, products & services to ensure the sustainable security of #space.
Thank you Bloomberg @technology for covering this exciting news: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Congratulations to @rodneybwilliams, @TravisHoloway and the @solofunds team on achieving significant milestone being named to the 2023 @CNBCDisruptors 50 list! Read more here: cnbc.com/2023/05/09/these-ar…
ACME Capital retweeted
#FortuneHealth is excited to welcome @aikeho, General Partner at ACME (@ACME), to our conference April 25–26.
See our full list of speakers here: trib.al/oF0xvmg
ACME Co-Founder and Partner Hany Nada, @hnada speaks with @Inc. Magazine about 'How to Pitch Venture Capital and Private Equity Firms in 2023.' "Work Your #Network", read more here: inc.com/magazine/202304/jill….
ACME Capital retweeted
How this founder and former NASA exec is using drills to take on wildfires and Elon Musk. @kimlembo @whereskr #FemaleFounders on.inc.com/tUk5kvK
Congratulations to Petra @we_are_petra Founder and CEO Kim Abrams @kimlembo on being named to @Inc Magazine’s #FemaleFounders 200 list! 🎉
Read more about how Petra’s tunneling technology seeks to revolutionize the utilities industry. lnkd.in/gGqXMnhT
Congrats to our founder and CEO Kim Abrams @kimlembo for gracing the cover of the @Inc #FemaleFounders 200 Issue! To learn more about her and Petra @we_are_petra check out the article here! inc.com/female-founders
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