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We just did World’s first on-stage autonomous demo of long-horizon dexterous VLA 🚨
No training. No setup. Performance out of the box. Live demo is hard and unpredictable, but we felt great about our model’s generalization, and it went pretty well!
💯 Zero-shot. 100% success.
HCVC retweeted
🧠For the first time, a general-purpose foundation model is performing diverse daily tasks at commercial scale, across various environments. All in real life. We're seeing true generalization emerge as our robot enters a new environment, no extra data, it just works - out of box
HCVC retweeted
🦾In year one, we:
• Shipped DYNA-1 (generalized robotics foundation model)
• Ran real-life pilots across laundry, restaurants, hotels, gyms in <90 days
• Observed 99%+ success in a 24-hour non-stop run
HCVC retweeted
Excited to announce that we have raised $120M in our Series A to advance the frontier of general-purpose high-performance robots. 🤖
The new funding will accelerate progress towards our mission of bringing foundation-model powered robots to everyone, everywhere.
Read more 👇
HCVC retweeted
Excited to present my recent work in AI for bio-molecular engineering at the @Stanford_AI_Bio AI+Biomedicine seminar this week! 🧬🧪🤖
HCVC retweeted
Excited for @cosmic_robotics to come out of stealth today! 🤖🦾
Autonomous robot to place solar panels and accelerate putting PV capacity on the grid, backed by @thisisHCVC. ☀️⚡️
Well done team! 🙌
Excited to be doubling down on Alpine Eagle less than two years after leading their pre-seed. Jan & Timo are changing the nature of C-UAS by building a scalable air to air platform. Europe needs to innovate and adapt to protect itself, and it can. techcrunch.com/2025/03/05/al…
HCVC retweeted
Check out @jcaread from @ARIA_research 🇬🇧 talking about lab automation, robotics 🦾, and dexterity youtube.com/watch?v=bjQxfi2U…
HCVC retweeted
Standing room only Q&A session yesterday on how to build a deep tech company, with @zhang_isaruihan presenting the @thisishcvc Synthesis Fellowship, and Francesco Marchioni of Stanford Founders.
Thanks everyone for the great questions!
We are doubling down on methane mitigation!
Excited to announce that a year after raising their pre-seed round led by HCVC, atmio is announcing a 5.1m round to fight climate change by finding, fixing, and reporting methane leaks.
The startup, which is based in Hamburg, will use the capital to grow its team and work towards going to market. sifted.eu/articles/atmio-met…
📣 Excited to announce our investment in Nūmi’s $3m Seed round
Nūmi is a Paris-based biotech start-up pioneering the production of cell-cultured breast milk 🍼
More here 👉 hcvc.co/blog/announcing-our-…
We are thrilled to announce the launch of our latest venture—a $75 million fund dedicated to advancing innovation in hardtech across Europe and North America. 🛠️
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Learn more about how @ArkBiotech is working to democratize cultivated meat 🍔
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🥩Cultivated meat has been approved for sale in the US!
📹 During our ZERO session at @usv, @YQuint of @ArkBiotech outlined how to bring cell culture production into the digital age to make cultivated meat a reality
Watch Yossi's talk here👇
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🎉 HCVC is hiring a Community and Platform intern to join us for the summer!
Find out more and apply here -> tinyurl.com/4f64ee9h
HCVC retweeted
Thanks to everyone that joined us for ZERO last week and to @usv for hosting!
See you at the next one - stay tuned 🌿
@A_Houssou @YQuint @KatherineMizrah @albertwenger @hardware_club
Last day to register for our ZERO event on Thursday in NYC!
More info and registration 👉🏼lnkd.in/eRtv3GD7
Excited to announce our next session in NYC co-hosted with @usv 🔥
We'll have a fireside chat between USV's @albertwenger and HCVC's @A_Houssou, and talks by @KatherineMizrah of @osmosesinc and @YQuint from @ArkBiotech🌿
More info and registration 👉🏼lnkd.in/eRtv3GD7
In NYC? Only a few days left to sign up for our next ZERO session on June 1st, co-hosted with @usv
Register now to secure a spot! 👇
In addition to the keynotes from @osmosesinc and @ArkBiotech , @albertwenger from @usv and @A_Houssou from @hardware_club, will be having a chat on all things climate investing.
We have limited seats so don't forget to apply for a spot here 👉 lnkd.in/eRtv3GD7
HCVC retweeted
Curious about lab-grown meat? 🥩
@ArkBiotech is accelerating the cultivated meat revolution by creating industrial scale, affordable, and efficient bioreactors.
Only a few spots left for our session, co-hosted with @usv, so secure yours here 👉 lnkd.in/eRtv3GD7
Our @A_Houssou and Chris Wade from @isomercapital had a great chat with EuVC on GP/LP co-investment dynamics 👥
Listen to the podcast here 👇
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