Who is building YCombinator for politicians? We need a supply chain of techno-optimist candidates developing their skills to win elections, across both parties.

1/ We’re thrilled to announce that August has raised a $10M Series A to continue bringing institutions on-chain 🎉 The round was led by Dragonfly ＞|＜ with participation from 6MV, Robot Ventures, Foresight Ventures ​, SCB Ltd, Maven 11, FinTech Collective and several high

Nigel Eccles Solana There's feeling right, and then there's being right

Excited to announce our $23.6M fundraise, led by Ribbit Capital—to bring every business and AI agent onchain.

The Nasdaq-100 is down ~8% this week. Bitcoin is up +1.5% this week.

We're living thru a tribal era of revealed political preferences. From consumer goods to cars to food, politics has seeped into all aspects of our lives. Prev debates were on transitory inflation, today tariffs. No one has a crystal ball, but worth keeping this chart in mind.

We're thrilled to announce a strategic investment from Founders Fund. A critical milestone in our mission to scale stablecoin adoption globally.

The next information age won’t be driven by the 20th century’s media monoliths — it’ll be driven by markets. Our partnership with X marks a new chapter for truth on the internet. The future of news is optimized for truth, rooted in transparency, and anchored in reality.

Big win for AI. Nuanced interpretation that narrows fair use. Many more cases to come but a good first step.

This is going to be epic

There is no stopping this train.

The singularity is happening. Yet also, nothing ever happens.

Massive. Huge congrats Jean M Hébert

The first global financial platform, built from the ground up. Grateful to be building it with this team.

Today Forbes revealed their 2025 Next Billion-Dollar Startups List – and it was amazing to see that 20% of them were seed funded by the First Round team! Congrats to @LoyalforDogs (and Celine Halioua for gracing the magazine’s cover), Assort Health, Collate, David AI, and

🚀 DataHive Raises $3.5M Seed to build the world’s largest decentralized data factory for AI. - Compute is a commodity, - Model architectures are open, -> The real edge in AI is data! DataHive delivers the hardest-to-collect web data - collected, cleaned, labeled, and AI-ready.

Really great overview of 404 by Chain of Thought

We're enabling millions in LATAM, Africa & Asia to build a global portfolio with the hottest US stocks. And now.. the future of American real estate is in your hands. Opendoor ($OPEN) is live on Offramp. ⚡️ $OPEN Kaz Nejatian Keith Rabois Eric Jackson

Thrilled to announce that 375ai has raised $10m to build a new data layer for the physical world. The raise is led by Delphi Digital , Strobe Ventures and Hack VC, with participation from 6MV, Escape Velocity, Arca, peaq & others. Read today's exclusive from

During WWII Churchill put a newspaper magnate in charge of plane production. They won the war in large part bc of this decision. In 2025, 2 real estate developers just delivered the impossible. congrats Jared Kushner Steve Witkoff