# June 2026 Update

> Source: <https://blog.southparkcommons.com/p/june-2026-update>
> Published: 2026-06-30 16:15:18+00:00

# June 2026 Update

### Space Guns, AI Inference, Neural Headbands

June closed out with new fundraises, acquisitions, and plenty of companies building the future, from [brain-controlled interfaces](https://x.com/Reddy_XX/status/2064358966277312948) to [space guns](https://www.southparkcommons.com/news/investing-in-a-longshot).

**If you’re interested in joining SPC, apply**[here](https://www.southparkcommons.com/apply).

**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 Lewenstein](https://x.com/soleio/status/2065188479911555535)In 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 Showcase](https://x.com/spc_india/status/2061450319910064371)**Fund Updates**

It was a landmark month for SPC companies.

**Baseten** raised a[$1.5B Series F](https://www.baseten.co/blog/announcing-our-series-f/)at 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](https://www.southparkcommons.com/news/investing-in-a-longshot), 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 be[acquired by Adyen](https://www.adyen.com/press-and-media/jtrg4qd7j3p4rj)for $335M. Orb’s usage-based billing infrastructure will unify billing and payments for Adyen’s enterprise merchants.**Town** announced a[$55M Series A](https://www.town.com/press/series-a)led by a16z to build Townie, an AI assistant learns how you work and does the work alongside you.**Qosmic** raised[$3.33M](https://m.economictimes.com/tech/funding/qosmic-raises-3-3-million-from-prosus-accel-south-park-commons-to-solve-spaces-growing-data-bottleneck/amp_articleshow/131948724.cms)led 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 let[AXION](https://www.axionclick.com/)[Ivan](https://x.com/Reddy_XX/status/2064358966277312948)—quadriplegic after a spinal cord injury—order dinner himself using only his eyes and his mind, with no surgery or implant.**Pilot** launched[Meridian](https://pilot.com/meridian), an AI accounting platform that runs the entire month-end close so firms can grow without scaling headcount.

**Personal Projects, Explorations & Publications**

**Rohit** wrote an[accessible explainer on full-duplex voice AI](https://www.frisson-labs.com/moshi-for-mere-mortals), models that can speak and listen at the same time.**Jonathan** published breakthrough research on[reading emotion from neural data](https://x.com/jonxuxu/status/2061433592371405010).**Vaibhav** released[datasets.bot](https://datasets.bot/), a curated list of open robotics datasets spanning 32,000+ hours of robot data.**Noah** open-sourced[vibethis](https://github.com/0xinsanity/vibethis), a Chrome extension for vibe-coding the software you’d otherwise pay for.

**Coming Up**

**Recent Content**

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 Andersson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPqH3ZSbVjo)The work continues.