Proud to see 3 @DukeCapPartners portfolio companies on the 2025 @Inc 5000: 326 – @AiFiInc : 270+ autonomous stores, 9M+ customers served 586 – @Vestwell : Serving 350K+ employers, $35B+ assets 1,407 – @levitateai : AI-powered relationship marketing #Inc5000 #Growth #Startups

⭐A monumental milestone: with @ScienceCorp_'s PRIMA, a patient blinded by Stargardt disease can see and read again. Congratulations! 💙

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

💙⭐ 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.