I've been investing heavily in defense via our deep tech fund, Humba Ventures, & I'm thrilled to announce our investment in Danti. Danti makes geospatial data easier to work with for defense/govt applications. Jesse Kallman, Martice Nicks III, and team are excellent! medium.com/susa-ventures/…

I’m excited to finally unveil Antares to the world! Julia DeWahl and I started Antares because we believe our nation’s military will benefit greatly from rapidly deployable nuclear energy. antaresindustries.com

Great post from Pratyush about Humba Ventures's investment in Antares, which is developing nuclear microreactors for remote off-grid locations & space applications (!). Jordan Bramble & Julia DeWahl are an amazing team for bringing this idea to life. medium.com/susa-ventures/…

Since I'm investing in deep tech & critical national sectors via our fund Humba Ventures, I wanted to better understand if deep tech is VC-fundable. So, I did what any engineer would: I analyzed data! TLDR: deep tech is probably the best place to invest today. codingvc.com/p/betting-on-d…

I'm excited to reveal the new Humba Ventures logo to the world! Humba is a new deep tech fund in the Susa Ventures fund family, and we wanted its logo to reflect Susa's gorilla theme + a more futuristic/high tech feel. The result is a gorilla in the style of a circuit diagram! 🦍

I'm amazed at how many products ChatGPT replaces. One silly example: I wanted to make a Zoom background for Humba Ventures today. I tried a few websites, but they were clunky and had paywalls. Then I asked ChatGPT to generate a sci-fi zoom background, and the first result was great. 🤷‍♂️

Expect the unexpected! So excited to announce our $6.3M seed led by Founders Fund and a16z with participation from Also Capital, Long Journey , BoxGroup, Humba Ventures At Northwood we have our sights on building a data highway between earth and space. We are designing

We're tired of competing with the Filipino humba pork dish recipe when it comes to SEO, so we're changing our logo from a gorilla to the humba dish. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!

We're excited to be working w/Shinkei! They're developing automated fish processing solutions.🐟🤖 It's a great application of robotics: more humane for the fish, the fish meat is higher quality & longer-lasting, there's less waste, and this job is hard for humans to do.

I 💛 deep tech. Startups I got to meet this week: 🎞️AI chip design 🌴carbon capture @ palm oil farms 💱chip marketplace 🪸coral reef protection ⛽️green fuel production 👶ivf v2 🚨marine sensor network 🧬multiomic sequencing 🧠neuromodulation hardware 🤖sw for hardware testing 🤯

I'm looking forward to hiring Humba Ventures's first full time employee in the next few months (details coming soon). It's going to be a really fun job for someone!

I'm thrilled to announce that anna-sofia is joining me at Humba Ventures to invest in deep tech and American Dynamism startups. We back incredible and spiky people, and our team should be incredible and spiky, too. Anna-Sofia is a perfect fit! 🦍💪

The ebbs and flows in deal flow are so dramatic in VC. Humba Ventures averages one investment per month, but two years ago we had two 1-month periods w/4-5 investments each, and one 5-month period with 0 investments.

A few deep tech founders raising Series A's recently asked me about what to include in their data rooms. I wanted to be data-driven, so I compiled some stats from ~30 data rooms on which sections were common and which were not. Here's what I found:

We've been investing in deep tech for a few years at Humba Ventures, but it's just too hard and we've realized the future is in AI and vibes. So, we're doing the smart thing and pivoting our fund focus.

Founders face endless high-stakes decisions with too many options and limited time -- who to hire, which customer segment to prioritize, and more. I wrote a post about how to balance exploring new options vs. committing to the best one using the explore/exploit framework.

We've raised $22M Series A to restore American food sovereignty.  Co-led by Founders Fund and Interlagos. One of our most important supply chains is broken. Shinkei is here to fix it. 🧵

9 days left to apply for the Humba Ventures Deep Tech Fellowship! It's a 5-week program where you join us for pitches & we learn from each other. Sample startups from July: - SAR satellites - terraforming robots - BCIs for thought-to-text - next gen cell analysis - mid-range missiles

Only 2 days left to apply for the Humba Deep Tech Fellowship! It's a chance to check out what's at the bleeding edge in deep tech and American Dynamism. There's no requirement to be an aspiring VC (unlike most fellowships). Details + short application: humbaventures.com/fellowship/

Rocket scientists rebooted space. Now they want to fix energy. They say “if we can put a 40MW turbopump in a rocket, we can damn well fit a 2MW generator in a shipping container.” Here's my piece on Critical, a team rethinking how we build power plants from first principles.