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- At 18, we backed James Dacombe before it was obvious. Here’s his story, and what we saw early.OLIX has raised a $312M Series B at a $3.3B valuation to build the infrastructure for frontier AI inference. Founded by @jamesdacombe in London in 2024, OLIX is designing complete rack-scale systems across chips, photonics and networking. Its X-1 platform uses specialised chips
- OLIX has raised a $312M Series B at a $3.3B valuation to build the infrastructure for frontier AI inference. Founded by @jamesdacombe in London in 2024, OLIX is designing complete rack-scale systems across chips, photonics and networking. Its X-1 platform uses specialised chips
- @wearejunobio just announced the opening of its first sequencing lab built entirely for women’s health. To fuel this stage of growth, the company has raised $3.8M in funding from investors including Ada Ventures, Artesian, and Illumina Accelerator. Cofounded by Hana Janebdar and
- EverSettled raised a $5M Seed round led by Emergence Capital to help families across the US navigate estate settlement with far less confusion, cost, and burden. Founded by Arum Kempster and Jacob Effenberger earlier this year, EverSettled is already supporting thousands of

