July brought our largest Demo Faire yet, a hands-on robotics hack day in New York, exciting new company launches, and a packed calendar across SF, NYC, and Bangalore.
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This week we hosted our most ambitious ** Demo Faire** yet: over 25 companies demoed live in San Francisco to a packed room of investors and builders. The lineup spanned hypersonic ground launchers, wildfire-detection sensors, new drug chemistry once thought impossible, agents handling real enterprise workflows, and generative fashion intelligence.
raised aPreseen$5.6M seed roundled by SPC to build forecasting agents for global macro events.raised anNirva$8M seed roundled by Lightspeed with participation from SPC, to build an AI wearable that listens only to you and turns your day into a journal, coach, and companion.
Product Launches & Company News
ChippubliclyMotorslaunchedtheir LUV: Life Utility Vehicle.launched on the App Store, an accessibility-first AI voice assistant that lets you talk to your inbox instead of staring at a screen.Lumin
Personal Projects, Explorations & Publications
Eric createdGhost Font, a font only humans can read.David builtNYC sim, a digital twin simulation of New York City.Jake created (and livestreamed)armcade.tv, letting anyone remote-control two robots playing chess against each other.Achyut releaseda benchmark for long-list extractionfrom messy, long documents.Jasper wrotea post on bottom-up learning in models
In addition to Demo Faire, we hosted a large slate of events across locations. In NYC we brought experts in for ** The Future of Biosecurity** panel (moderated by member Amit Gupta) digging into how quickly AI is lowering the barrier to engineered biological threats. Our
with Ramp, Anthropic, Clay, Hebbia, and Browserbase followed, turning the room over to the tools teams are building for themselves. The month closed with a
Design Tools Demo Night, where builders spent a Friday getting robots to do something real.
Hack Day with Viam RoboticsIn SF, ** Guardant Health CEO Helmy Eltoukhy** chatted with us about building a cancer diagnostics company for more than a decade.
SPC India hosted a fireside chat with ** Thejo Kote**, founder of Journal, Airbase, and Automatic, and a conversation on foundational science with
Prof. Rajesh Gopakumar, Director of ICTS-TIFR.
We released a conversation between SPC GP Evan Tana and SPC alum Thariq Shihipar, who leads Claude Code at Anthropic, on what it takes to build a product that developers reorganize their work around.
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