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    Dec 15, 2025
    Today we're announcing over $9B in capital for a new family of funds — our largest raise in 25 years. AI is rewriting the rules. We're backing the founders building what comes next.
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    Jul 16
    $1B ARR. More than 43 trillion tokens per day. Companies deserve to "own" their intelligence and are turning to Fireworks to build, serve, and scale the models that matter most to their business. Congratulations @lqiao and team @FireworksAI_HQ on yet another milestone!
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    Fireworks Secures $1.5 Billion in Series D Funding
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    Jul 16
    Enterprises are looking to control their AI destiny with their own data. @FireworksAI_HQ is helping to make that possible. We are excited to continue backing Fireworks for their $1.5B Series D raise, bringing the company’s total valuation to $17.5B. We first backed the team for
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    Fireworks AI
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    Jul 16
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    Fireworks Series D Announcement
    Every Company Must Own Its Intelligence Today, we are announcing our $1.5 billion Series D at a $17.5 billion valuation, led by Atreides Management, Index Ventures, and TCV, with participation from...
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    Jul 16
    Read more about Fireworks here:
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    Nvidia-backed Fireworks hits $17.5 billion valuation as companies pursue cheaper AI models
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    Jul 16
    Congrats @thinkymachines on the release of their first open-weights model! Inkling: 975B parameters, 41B active, supporting a context window of up to 1M tokens. Inkling’s controllable thinking lets developers dial performance with token efficiency, which we believe is a
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    Thinking Machines
    @thinkymachines
    Jul 15
    Today, we are introducing Inkling. Inkling reasons efficiently across text, image, and audio modalities. We are making the full weights available. thinkingmachines.ai/news/introduci… Available today for fine-tuning on Tinker. Play with it in the Inkling Playground. 🧵
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    Jul 15
    “What if AI could make a real clinical decision?” Last month, Lightspeed had the privilege of co-hosting Humans in the Loop alongside friends at @ForerunnerVC. On stage at HITL, @doctronic co-founder Dr. Adam Oskowitz unveiled their master plan to build the best AI doctor:
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    Jul 15
    Most healthcare starts with a symptom. @Neko starts much earlier. We’re excited to deepen our partnership with Neko Health and lead the company’s $700M Series C. The company brings together two dynamic founders who entered healthcare from two very different directions. Hjalmar
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    Jul 15
    Today we're announcing that @Neko has raised a $700M Series C. @eldsjal and I started the company with the belief that the solution to the trickiest problems in healthcare won't come from scaling the existing system. Medicine has spent centuries getting good at treating
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    Jul 15
    Learn about Neko here:
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    Neko Health raises $700m Series C ahead of US launch
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    Jul 14
    We may look back on colds the way we now look back on cholera. @clairejyz and @Machiz discuss why airborne disease could become a problem we actually solve: "For hundreds of years, society just accepted that water had diseases." "We've done the same thing with airborne
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    Doctronic
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    Jul 14
    Getting seen by a clinician shouldn't take days. We're building with the aim to deliver quality care in seconds, and connect patients to physicians in minutes. @lightspeedvp partner @f_fatemi21 mapped out the entire patient journey and how Doctronic is working to shape access
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    Faraz Fatemi
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    Jul 13
    More than 80% of US physicians are already leveraging AI. The question now is how consumer adoption of health AI is going to drive real patient outcomes, with companies like @doctronic & @Neko helping lead the charge to deliver both access *and* accuracy. I had a chance to
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    Jul 13
    NEW EPISODE: @AnthropicAI looks inside AI's mind with the “J-Space,” the $500M fund to end the common cold, and @amazon’s Project Leo challenges @Starlink @lightspeedvp Partners @GalymImanbayev and @f_fatemi21 map the AI-native patient journey, and the companies we see
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    Jul 13
    Do models have something like a subconscious? @clairejyz on Anthropic’s research into J-Space and the hidden processing behind model behavior: "For many years, people have been trying to understand how a model's brain works." "Could a model have a divide the way humans do
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    Claire Zau
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    Jul 13
    NEW EPISODE: @AnthropicAI looks inside AI's mind with the “J-Space,” the $500M fund to end the common cold, and @amazon’s Project Leo challenges @Starlink @lightspeedvp Partners @GalymImanbayev and @f_fatemi21 map the AI-native patient journey, and the companies we see
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    Claire Zau
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    Jul 13
    HEALTHCARE x AI: THE PATIENT JOURNEY @GalymImanbayev and @f_fatemi21 broke down all 7 stages, from "get covered" to "get paid," and companies building in each one (1/9)👇
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    Claire Zau
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    Jul 13
    NEW EPISODE: @AnthropicAI looks inside AI's mind with the “J-Space,” the $500M fund to end the common cold, and @amazon’s Project Leo challenges @Starlink @lightspeedvp Partners @GalymImanbayev and @f_fatemi21 map the AI-native patient journey, and the companies we see
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    Jul 13
    NEW: $500M is being poured to end respiratory diseases. This week, @clairejyz and @Machiz unpack why some big names in tech are backing Intercept, a new initiative focused on making illnesses like the common cold, flu, and COVID far less common. Lightspeed Partners
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    @clairejyz
    Jul 13
    NEW EPISODE: @AnthropicAI looks inside AI's mind with the “J-Space,” the $500M fund to end the common cold, and @amazon’s Project Leo challenges @Starlink @lightspeedvp Partners @GalymImanbayev and @f_fatemi21 map the AI-native patient journey, and the companies we see
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    Jul 13
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    Anthropic Reads a Model's Mind, $500M to End the Common Cold & Amazon Takes On Starlink | Lightwork
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    Jul 13
    Replying to @lightspeedvp @clairejyz and @Machiz
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    Jul 13
    Europe's defense infrastructure is being rebuilt. The New York Times @dealbook covered @HelsingAI’s drone factory in Germany. When @torstenreil, Niklas Köhler, and Dr. Gundbert Scherf started the company in 2021, democracies were looking to future-proof their defenses. Today,
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    Jul 13
    Helsing SE, which makes autonomous jets and drones, is the most valuable A.I. defense start-up in Europe.
    Inside the Secret Factory That Supplies Ukraine’s War Drones
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