📢 The Current #16 is here: After Assembly Line Finance
Henry Ford said you could have any color, "so long as it is black." 🧑🏭Finance has run the same playbook for a century.
NEA's Hunter Worland on why that's reversing:
📉 AI collapses the cost of building bespoke financial
In addition to @cusp_ai's AI Materials Foundry launch this week, Cusp has raised $450M Series B to power materials discovery for chip making and beyond.
Congratulations! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
We're proud to lead this round alongside @kleinerperkins, @bezoxexpedi and others. More details via
For nearly 5 decades, NEA has believed in teamwork that bridges generations. It's why we built the NEA Fellowship: real VC experience for the builders of tomorrow. 🧑🏽🎓
We recently wrapped the 2026 spring cohort — 15 students, 10 schools, zero shortage of ambition.
The future is
🎉 Congratulations, @wonder--$650 Million Series D Round at a $9 Billion Pre-Money Valuation.
"It's been exciting to watch the evolution of what Wonder is building — a fundamentally new way for people to access great food, at a level of quality and speed traditional players
