Space Guns, AI Inference, Neural Headbands
June closed out with new fundraises, acquisitions, and plenty of companies building the future, from brain-controlled interfaces to space guns.
If you’re interested in joining SPC, applyhere. Events at SPC
In SF, we hosted ** Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy **for a conversation on leadership in the AI age and where value lives once software commoditizes. Soleio hosted a
Design Chat with
, who leads design at Anthropic.
Joel LewensteinIn NYC, ** Demo Night** filled the room with builders showcasing work from Luma, ElevenLabs, Sentience, Sandbar, and Flora. SPC India closed out its
, where teams demoed working prototypes across physical AI, bio, and deep tech.
Curiosity 2.0 Hard-Tech ShowcaseFund Updates It was a landmark month for SPC companies.
Baseten raised a$1.5B Series Fat a $13B valuation, led by Altimeter, Conviction, and Spark Capital, to power inference for the world’s most advanced applications.Longshot Space raised$5M from SPC, bringing total funding to $20M, to build a ground-based kinetic launcher that propels payloads to hypersonic velocities and opens a scalable path to orbit.Orb has entered a definitive agreement to beacquired by Adyenfor $335M. Orb’s usage-based billing infrastructure will unify billing and payments for Adyen’s enterprise merchants.Town announced a$55M Series Aled by a16z to build Townie, an AI assistant learns how you work and does the work alongside you.Qosmic raised$3.33Mled by Accel and Prosus Ventures to build the optical highway to the cosmos, the communication backbone for the next generation of satellites.
Member Updates
Product Launches & Company News
launched their neural headband, which letAXIONIvan—quadriplegic after a spinal cord injury—order dinner himself using only his eyes and his mind, with no surgery or implant.Pilot launchedMeridian, an AI accounting platform that runs the entire month-end close so firms can grow without scaling headcount.
Personal Projects, Explorations & Publications
Rohit wrote anaccessible explainer on full-duplex voice AI, models that can speak and listen at the same time.Jonathan published breakthrough research onreading emotion from neural data.Vaibhav releaseddatasets.bot, a curated list of open robotics datasets spanning 32,000+ hours of robot data.Noah open-sourcedvibethis, a Chrome extension for vibe-coding the software you’d otherwise pay for.
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We released new conversations with ** Nato Saichek** (Longshot Space) on the 15-kilometer space gun they’re building to fling payloads into orbit, and
with Soleio on lessons from Figma, software decay, and creating the Inter font.
Rasmus AnderssonThe work continues.