Dan

Today, we’re excited to launch Prism into General Availability. Prism is the AI platform for hardware engineering. Describe what you want to build, and agents design the CAD, run the simulations, and write the report. Free to get started for Windows, Mac and Linux 🧵

Congrats to @igmarinelli, Gabriel, and @Tractian (W21) on their $130M Series D at a $1.4B valuation! Tractian builds sensors and AI that predict when industrial machines will fail, before they do. Most industrial equipment has no instrumentation at all, so factories find out about problems when something breaks. Tractian retrofits machines with a dozen kinds of sensors measuring vibration, temperature, and pressure, and its AI recommends maintenance ahead of the breakdown. They’ve now passed $100 million in ARR, growing 90% year over year. theinformation.com/briefings…

Today we are proud to announce our $100M Series B. With this fresh round of capital we will hire the best researchers and scale our operations to build Rainmaker into the world’s foremost lab for weather modification and atmospheric science. By 2030, 40% of global water demand will go unmet. The most vital, critical resource for life on our planet will, within three years, be unavailable to nearly half of the people and places that need it. Yet, at any given moment, the atmosphere holds enough water to meet annual global demand three times over. If only we could look up … and bring that water down. For more, read @ADoricko’s announcement below, and enjoy footage from Rainmaker’s summer research deployment in Alaska, shot on beautiful 16mm film.

Rainmaker has raised $100M to become the world’s best lab for weather modification and atmospheric science. Thank you @noavctech @upfrontvc @DCVC @lowercarbon @DreamVenturesVC and other visionary partners. We are aggressively hiring and scaling our research org to create a flywheel of atmospheric data collection, synthesis, understanding, and intervention. We will solve the weather and we will set the stage for the terraformation of Earth. More in my essay below.

Thanks for the feature @WSJ! The team is working very hard to make more Airforms right now here in Kailua, Hawaii. You can check out more here at airform.space. They are now delivering in Hawaii and California.

See The Build. Announcing Dirac's new identity and the evolution of BuildOS into the first AI Process Design Platform, expanding from our beginnings in automating work instructions.

Today we’re launching the new Pylon, the first platform built for Agentic Customer Support. It’s available in beta now.

Maggie's Refuel, a new high-end gas station brand just opened in LA ~ "Maggie’s Refuel is a high-end convenience store brand planning to modernize and innovate the current gas station experience. Think Autogrill meets 7-Eleven Japan: matcha, local croissants, premium CPG, and yes, a soft-serve cone - all alongside a gas (or EV) fill-up."

the table. an update on opal electronics. op.al/table

The @DiscipulusVent Spring Cohort just wrapped up in the 'Gundo. 🇺🇸 Joined by @PalmerLuckey, @isaiah_p_taylor, @ADoricko & more throughout the week. 10 hardtech founders building for the American Interest. Companies below 🧵👇

After 4 years, we’re announcing Instant 1.0. Instant is the best backend for AI-coded apps. Let us tell you why.

Today we're announcing Shepherd's $42M Series B — and I want to share what we're actually building. Commercial insurance underwriting works the same way it did 30 years ago. Broker emails a submission. Underwriter manually keys data across a half-dozen tools, cross-references loss runs, pulls comparable accounts. A great underwriter handles twenty accounts a month. We've spent four years building the intelligence layer that changes that. We're months away from the first fully agentic submission in commercial insurance. A submission arrives by email. The system reads it, enriches it, prices it, and returns a quote. No human intervention. A year from now, this industry will be unrecognizable. None of this happens without the underwriters who pushed us to build something actually useful, and the investors who saw the vision before it was obvious. Thank you to Justin Smith-Lorenzetti and Intact Private Capital for leading this round, and to Costanoa Ventures and Spark Capital for doubling down again. shepherdinsurance.com/blog/t…

BuildList 2.0: An updated list of companies doing important work. • Upvote — pull your fav companies to the top of the list • Explore — by sector, by stage, by location • Discover — find new companies close to you Join the builders. buildlist.xyz

We @DiracInc need to scale our engineering team aggressively, immediately. If you know a world-class software engineer that wants to build the operating system that will power Western Reindustrialization, from within the Empire State Building, ping me at [email protected]

I’ve been distilling what it means to be part of Dirac, rooted in one idea: We do what we must in order to win. Here is the ethos that defines us. nitter.gq/FilArons/status/199340…

It's our absolute pleasure to share that we've raised a $4.4m seed round from world class investors to push the ball forward on mobile wallet credentials! It's been special to work with the teams at @HarlemCapital , @hf0, @ExceptionalCap, @spice_cap, @buildexante and more. We'll use this funding to build a more secure future for everyone.

We're excited to announce Roi has been acquired by OpenAI. Huge thank you to all our users, amazing investors, family, and friends who've supported along the way 💙. More info below:

Today we're releasing an experiment: manyminiapps 1. You don't need to sign up 2. You write one prompt 3. You get an app back with it's on database, un under 2 minutes. It's the world first massively multiplayer online, mini app maker.