@forewordvc

Early-stage fund led by @deckelly. Investor @Starcloud_ @AikidoSecurity @fyxerai @Sorare @IsembardGroup @withdelphi

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Trace.Space launches Trinity: the AI harness that makes scaling physical AI possible. Hardware teams have the ideas, the funding and working prototypes. What slows them down is finding out, weeks too late, what a change broke. See Trinity live on October 8.
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🚨ThinkingCap: Qwen3.8-27B is out! The most token-efficient Qwen3.8 27B available, this time optimized for agentic use. 🚀 Up to 65% fewer thinking tokens, 37% on average 🎯 Minimal accuracy loss 📈 Long-context retrieval actually went up 2.3pp 📄 Blogpost: bottlecapai.com/post/thinkin… 🤗 Hugging Face: huggingface.co/bottlecapai/T… 🔗 GGUF: huggingface.co/bottlecapai/T…
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Thomas Wolf
@Thom_WolfSep 21
nice to start seeing more open-weight security model with defensive capabilities which are close to the frontier altar-1 from Aikido is a pruned and quantized version of the open-SOTA GLM 5.3 which is lightweight enough to fit on one 4-H200s node
Aikido
@AikidoSecuritySep 21
Introducing Altar-1, our first open-weight security model. Frontier-grade defensive AI, built to deploy. Own your own security.
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I'm excited to announce Altar-1, our first open-weight security model. The first of many to come from @AikidoSecurity's wider investment in applied AI research to advance the performance and accessibility of security intelligence for all.
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Aikido
@AikidoSecuritySep 21
Introducing Altar-1, our first open-weight security model. Frontier-grade defensive AI, built to deploy. Own your own security.
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USV
@usvSep 14
Massive news out of London. Congratulations to @AFitzgerald1992 and the @IsembardGroup team on opening their 160,000 sq ft global HQ and factory in Southwark. Growing from 4 factories to 16 in a year is a testament to their unique approach of re-invigorating manufacturing while bringing ownership, great jobs, and resilient supply chains to Europe and the United States.
Alexander Fitzgerald@AFitzgerald1992Sep 14
Today @IsembardGroup is launching the largest factory to open in London since WW2. (1/n)
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dec kelly@deckellySep 14
This team is building at an insane pace - can’t wait to visit! Go Alex & @IsembardGroup 💪
Alexander Fitzgerald@AFitzgerald1992Sep 14
Today @IsembardGroup is launching the largest factory to open in London since WW2. (1/n)
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Today @IsembardGroup is launching the largest factory to open in London since WW2. (1/n)
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front and center give defenders means to defend
OpenAI
@OpenAIAug 27
We have a limited window to strengthen cyber defenses, and together with organizations including @AnthropicAI, @awscloud, @Google, @Microsoft, and @Oracle, we're calling for a global effort to give defenders the tools, resources, and support to protect the infrastructure we all depend on. If we act decisively, we can turn today's AI advances into lasting improvements in security and make our digital world safer for everyone. openai.com/collective-cyberd…
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I'm super excited to share that we have raised $250M at a $2.3B valuation to build a LOT more AI compute capacity in orbit 🚀 Thanks so much to our supporters, including Manhattan West, who led the round, and new investors, @NVIDIA, @Cisco_Invests, @CedarCapital, Goanna Capital, and @Standard_Cap, as well as continued investment from existing backers @Benchmark, @EQTVentures, @Soma_Capital, @NFX, @SevenSevenSix, and others. Next week, @Starcloud_ will move into a new 100,000 square ft facility that will enable us to ramp up our production rate to 100 satellites/week. This is just the beginning! @EzraFeilden, @AdiOltean🏃🏻‍➡️🏃🏻‍➡️🏃🏻‍➡️
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Introducing the Aikido Box errrrr... Machine | Signature Edition ✨ Our GPU servers, that run continuous penetration tests on your critical applications, fully within your premises. For regulated industries.
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Official NVFP4 W4A16 version is out! W4A4 variant is still under consideration, and we’d welcome your feedback. huggingface.co/bottlecapai/T…

bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.6-27B-NVFP4 · Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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ThinkingCap + FP8 quantization + MTP decoding runs 5–7× faster than the original Qwen 3.6 27B on the same tasks! 🚀 For comparison, FP8 + MTP without ThinkingCap gets you less than half that gain.
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Menlo Times
@menlotimesJul 14
Stocard Founder Björn Goß Receives 12 Million Euros to Fundamentally Change the Tax Industry. Skalar, providing digital tax consulting for companies, led by Björn Goß, Niklas Wagener, Florian Lang, Martin Gugel, and Christian Pötter, has closed a pre-seed and seed funding round totaling €12 million. The round was led by Headline @HeadlineVC, with participation from futurepresent, QED Investors @QEDInvestors, Repeat @RepeatVentures, MS&AD, and Foreword @forewordvc, as well as several prominent angel investors.
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Great speaking to the @FT today about @IsembardGroup. Factories are the front line!
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BottleCapAI
@BottleCapAIJul 6
🚨Introducing efficiency focused “ThinkingCap” AI model series.  Starting with 2× thinking token reduction on average in Qwen 3.6 27B, with up to 10x faster generation on individual examples. Now available on HuggingFace!
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nim
@eminimnimJun 11
We just shipped a feature that was literally impossible to build a month ago. Introducing Surfaces! We automatically render every page in your product with zero setup so you can design on top of it. One of our customers walking through how they use Surfaces in Dessn. 👇
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As part of the launch we built datacenterbuildout.com with an agent on Tilebox. The site tracks US data center construction using satellite imagery, with a web frontend, backend workflow, before/after imagery, rankings.. Here's what we didn't have to do: - set up workflow infrastructure - build a complex CI/CD pipeline to roll out changes - wire up observability - copy-paste logs, traces, errors, and failure modes back into the agent - explain where the satellite data lives or how to load it - tell the agent how to parallelize the work - manually deploy each workflow iteration That's the development loop that this launch unlocked data context → workflow code → deployment → observable jobs → inspectable outputs → iteration
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So excited to share that @Dessn_ai has raised $6m, led @pietrobezza , with participation from @betaworks , N49P, and a few other amazing partners and angels. @eminimnim and I started the company 2 years ago with one conviction: the future of product development wouldn’t happen in disconnected mockups or recreated environments. It would happen directly in production. Today, Dessn is the only product that enables an entire team to design and prototype directly in prod — visually, collaboratively, and in one click.
TechCrunch
@TechCrunchMay 12
Dessn raises $6M for its production focused design tool techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/de…

Dessn raises $6M for its production-focused design tool | TechCrunch

A new startup called Dessn has raised $6 million to build AI-powered design tools that work directly with production codebases.

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Ali ❌⭕
@AliHabbabehApr 30
Habibis, @xomarket just closed a $6M seed to build permissionless conviction markets anyone can spin up a Yes/No market on any belief in seconds. Led by @20vcFund and @picuscap , with @cbventures, and others along with 30+ angels including @patcummins30 Prediction markets cracked this open. We're opening the rest.
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