Turnout is building the most important consumer AI company that you haven't heard about...until now! Today, @turnouthq announced its free benefits scan, Radar, and a unique partnership with @IAmSteveHarvey. @itai_hirsch is an N-of-1 founder, building a consumer advocacy platform that most Americans desperately need. This is one of the largest unmet needs in consumer, which can only be solved with AI upskilling advocates in ways previously impossible. There is no ceiling for this company and the good it can do for our country and its citizens. @shinecapital is proud to be their partner on this journey. Onwards and upwards! More in @Forbes below 👇🏼

It is my distinct privilege today to announce @shinecapital's seed investment in @WaldenRobotics, alongside an incredible syndicate of leading strategic and financial investors. @WaldenRobotics is a full-stack Physical AI company building and deploying general-purpose robots that put human ingenuity to work at industrial scale. @RussTedrake, @adnothing, and the rest of the @WaldenRobotics team are luminaries in humanoid robotics. @RussTedrake is one of the field's pioneering professors at @MIT and served as @ToyotaMotorCorp's Senior Vice President of Robotics Research and Large Behavior Models at the Toyota Research Institute. This lived experience -- both in the lab and in real-world, at-scale, industrial environments -- gives the team a unique perspective and has shaped @WaldenRobotics' view of what is required to successfully deploy robots across the global manufacturing and logistics sectors. Realizing the dream of humanoid robots requires a combination of technical expertise and practical experience. Building in the lab will not get you there. Amassing simulated training data will not hold up in real-world environments. Building general-purpose humanoid robots will not solve industrial-scale problems. Only by combining best-of-breed intelligence with sophisticated yet adaptable hardware and training it on real data in real-world environments can we achieve the industrial automation we all see on the horizon. @RussTedrake and team are already deploying robots in @ToyotaMotorCorp factories. Every day, @WaldenRobotics robots perform more tasks, get more live data, and achieve higher reliability. By partnering with giants like @ToyotaMotorCorp, @Boeing, @Samsung, @Prologis, and more, @WaldenRobotics is building the real-world flywheel that will bring humanoid robots to the factory floor at scale in the near term. Perhaps most importantly, @RussTedrake and team understand how robots and humans will work together in harmony to delegate difficult-to-automate tasks to robots, while humans focus on the problem-solving, judgment, and dedication to craft that make their work more gratifying and impactful. @WaldenRobotics operates with the deep-seated principle that this transformative technology should be used to expand human potential and enable everyone to work, craft, and live with greater purpose. @WaldenRobotics is hiring aggressively. If this intrigues you, they would love to hear from you. The future we want is at our fingertips. It is a privilege to partner with this special team to help make it a reality. Today's press release on the company and financing can be found below.

Today, @shinecapital welcomes its first six Luminaries and new Operating Partner, @kamjamshidian. Human agency matters more than ever. As AI automates cognitive labor, we believe that investors distinguish themselves through agency, taste, creativity, and judgment. These qualities matter most when aligning with founders. If I have learned any lesson in my almost twenty years of venture capital investing, it is that everything is downstream of the founder(s). At @shinecapital, we back unique humans capable of doing extraordinary things. When founders achieve remarkable things, they fulfill the true promise of venture capital: excess returns. We recently launched Shine Luminaries, our new approach to collaborating with young builders as investors. The Luminary program organically expands the firm's surface area across the next generation of creative, convincing, relentless entrepreneurs. We launched Luminaries in March, and today, we are excited to introduce our first six Luminaries. We also welcome @kamjamshidian to Shine Capital as an Operating Partner focused on talent. In addition to building and growing the Luminary program, Kam helps identify singular talent for our team and our portfolio companies. We are delighted to welcome Kam and our first Luminaries to the Shine team. You can read more about them on our Substack, linked in the post below. We are inspired to help build the future we want, together with the brightest lights. Onwards and upwards! ✨