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Maple VC retweeted
That's a wrap on SCULPT 2026. Watch the opening keynote, then explore what we launched at Sculpt. → sculpt.clay.com/showcase
Maple VC retweeted
"Contrarianism alone isn't conviction. If we can't explain what we see, why others are missing it, and what proves us wrong, we don't have a thesis."
@acharoo, Founding Partner of @MapleVCFund, built a three-part test for what that actually means: see the person, see the inevitability, see the delta.
Watch the full episode: youtu.be/zGWpw8aOqaI
Maple VC retweeted
Today we're launching rentahuman.ai/signs
The easiest way to advertise your product to the highest concentration of builders in the world.
Pick a corner, an event, or a company's front door, and real humans will show up holding your sign.
Maple VC retweeted
My partner @jedgar explains the difference between a dream and a vision way better than I can. Check out his post maplevc.com/blog-john-edgar-…
“Most people confuse a vision with a dream.”
@acharoo, Founding Partner of @MapleVCFund, on the difference between founders who pitch pipe dreams and founders who can explain what they’re building.
A dream is an idea you can’t walk someone through. A vision is an argument. Being able to explain that to a generalist investor is a good test for how clearly you can explain it to hires, customers, and partners.
His partner @jedgar breaks down this idea in more detail in his full framework: maplevc.com/blog-john-edgar-…
Watch the full episode: youtu.be/zGWpw8aOqaI
Maple VC retweeted
Investors imagine the future. Builders create it. Operators scale it.
maplevc.com/talent-arbitrage
"Without the builder to start, you can't get the others. And when a company is built without the builder, while outcomes can still be spectacular, they're not enduring."
@acharoo, Founding Partner of @MapleVCFund, on the one archetype most early teams are missing, and why it's the one that determines whether a company changes the world or just makes money.
Watch the full episode: youtu.be/zGWpw8aOqaI
Maple VC retweeted
I’ve spent the last decade thinking about what makes an exceptional founder — especially the ones who are easy to misread early.
Really enjoyed unpacking what I’ve learned with @amritcat.
Thanks Amrit and @villageglobal for having me!
"When your mind is stretched by how we're going to get there, that's a builder. When it's linear and legible, you're most likely talking to an inventor."
@acharoo, Founding Partner of @MapleVCFund and Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School, has spent his career obsessed with one question: what makes a founder illegible to capital at the early stage, and why does that illegibility sometimes predict the biggest outcomes.
In this conversation with @amritcat, Andre shares the framework he's used across 4 funds to spot builders before the market can read them.
Watch the full episode: youtu.be/zGWpw8aOqaI
Maple VC retweeted
@Clay just raised a $115M Series D at a $7.1B valuation.
Now, more than 17,000 teams build on Clay, including Anthropic, SpaceXAI, Google, OpenAI, Stripe, Visa, UPS — and 80% of the Forbes AI50.
@nytimes just broke the news, but the story goes far beyond the raise. AI is unleashing the biggest wave of company creation in history. Clay’s goal is to be the engine they use to grow.
Clay is a self-learning revenue engine that figures out the best GTM play for your company, then runs it.
We started as the company with the best data about other companies. Then we became the infrastructure to run campaigns across email, ads, and landing pages.
Now we’re building agents that learn from every campaign, predict the next best action, and get better each time they run.
Software engineers use coding agents to write code. GTM engineers now use growth agents to autonomously grow their companies.
In 2023, we introduced GTME as a new role for people creating revenue systems with data, automation, and AI. Two years later, thousands of GTMEs are growing the world's best companies. They are gathering in nearly 100 Clay Clubs around the world, from Bangalore to Boston and Lahore to Lisbon.
That’s why we’re proud to launch a $1M scholarship fund, helping more people enter the profession.
@Wellington_Mgmt led our Series D, with participation from @sequoia, @stepstonegroup, @a16z Perennial, @MeritechCapital, DST Global, @CapitalG, @BoxGroup, @boldstartvc, @BloombergBeta, and @EvolutionEquity.
A gracious thank you goes out to our customers, community, partners, team, and every GTM engineer shaping this with us.
We are going to unveil the future of Agentic GTM at SCULPT on October 8.
Stay tuned to see how to use AI to grow every company.
🖤🩵❤️💛
Maple VC retweeted
Most investors do not appreciate the important role that @LayerZero_Core is playing in crypto messaging and interoperability. I am so impressed with the vision of Bryan, Simon, and the team.
Messaging/interop protocols have been critical infra since the proliferation of L1s, app-specific chains, and the rollup-centric roadmap.
As many more assets move on-chain, the need for ubiquitous interoperability only grows exponentially.
It's becoming pretty clear to me that @LayerZero_Core 's interop business ALONE will probably grow into nine-figure ARR very quickly.
Much more to come from the team.
Maple VC retweeted
After a decade of investing, I noticed the best founding teams all share the same pattern. I call it The Talent Arbitrage—a framework for understanding why some teams build enduring companies. Take the quiz to find your archetype: maplevc.com/talent-quiz
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We were honored to have Aalo CEO @MattLoszak at the White House with @POTUS to celebrate our criticality milestone and commercialization roadmap.
Aalo is proud to build under the leadership of the President, DOE, and NRC.
American sodium-cooled, mass-manufactured reactors have a bright future enabling electrification and strengthening the grid. 🇺🇸
Maple VC retweeted
Not sure why I was so out of breath (it was probably all the screaming) but here is my speech from after we achieved criticality.
To the second atomic age!!
Maple VC retweeted
PS, our crack marketing team also updated the website this week and it might be the coolest thing I've ever seen. aalo.com
Maple VC retweeted
Aalo Atomics brought a commercial-scale advanced reactor to initial criticality on July 4, 2026 at 12:20 AM (MT).
This means the President’s goal of at least three criticalities by July 4 has been surpassed, making "4 by the 4th" a reality.
Read more ⬇️
Maple VC retweeted
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright has just signed the approval to turn on our first nuclear reactor at the Aalo-X site.
And he did the signing live in person!
We can now begin to load fuel. It will take a few days—this is a big reactor— but we are on pace to achieve criticality before July 4th.
Thanks again to DOE and INL for their incredible support over the past few months.
More announcements soon!
Maple VC retweeted
Excited to announce two partners to @MapleVCFund: @jedgar and @janelee16. Both have been trusted advisors to me since 2019. They represent the beginning of this next chapter. Read more here: maplevc.com/memo-faith
Maple VC retweeted
Let’s go @AlexanderTw33ts! “Uber for humans” captured my imagination immediately. Incredibly excited about this future. Congrats on the launch!
#proudfirstcheckinvestor cc @MapleVCFund
Rentahuman (@RentAHumanX) allows AI agents to communicate with and pay humans to do tasks in the real world. Their mission is to use AI to create new jobs and coordinate workers at global scale.
The future will have more intelligence, more jobs, and more opportunities for people outside of the digital world.
Congrats on the launch, @alexandertw33ts!
ycombinator.com/launches/QXR…
Maple VC retweeted
MAPLE - MONEY - MONTREAL
In person.
Not an accelerator.
Not an incubator.
Not a bootcamp.
Real money. Real experience. Real results.
Full details - May 21st, 2026.
Cohort-01 applications open Q3 2026.
IPO or bust.
