$250M Series D $2.4B+ valuation 6 new satellites launched The world needs more resilient, precise GPS infrastructure, and @XonaSpace is leading the way Proud to back @FoundTheSpace & the entire team since the beginning

Less than 2 years ago, Access was an idea + some scrappy hardware in a garage Today it's one of @TIME's Best Inventions Reminder: you can just do things 🔥 congrats @jcriss_1 & @VitalLyfe team

Today, we launched Ambition at Work 3,000+ open roles across some of America's most ambitious hard tech startups & fastest growing companies Find your mission within the Ambition Capital universe:

Greetings from the American Frontier! 🇺🇸 Introducing the definitive Austin Deep Tech 50. 50 companies. $10B+ raised in the last 12 months. Selected by the leading VC firms in town. And we’re just getting started🚀

Last Thursday, @The_TrueAnomaly hosted an epic Block Party at their factory in Long Beach More than 500+ engineers, industry veterans, employees & investors True Anomaly has 200+ open roles, consider joining this incredible team:

My first conversation with Bryon Hargis (@hargsb), Cofounder and CEO of @Castelion. This is a special edition of our show recorded at @reindsummit. Since then, Castelion has announced a $1 billion Series C funding valuing the company at $13 billion making it one of the most valuable defense technology companies in the ecosystem. What we cover: - Why Bryon sold his SpaceX stock to bootstrap Castelion and bet two-thirds of his savings on the mission. - Why affordable, mass-produced hypersonic missiles are central to his vision of American deterrence. - Building Blackbeard, winning the first Navy order, and scaling production to thousands of missiles a year. - The SpaceX lessons behind faster hardware development: rapid testing, questioning convention, and knowing when to change course. - Hiring for mission over money and why company culture is built one person at a time. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 01:00 Bootstrapping with SpaceX stock and crypto mining 07:00 Why Bryon started a defense company 11:00 Building deterrence and landing the first Navy order 14:00 Scaling missile manufacturing in New Mexico 18:00 Meet Blackbeard: Castelion’s hypersonic missile 20:00 Hypersonic vs. ballistic vs. cruise missiles 23:00 Golden Dome and the future of missile defense 25:00 How SpaceX enables America’s national security 27:00 Elon Musk, ambitious deadlines, and moving faster 30:00 Why rapid testing beats over-engineering 33:00 Lessons from SpaceX: Question convention, follow the data 38:00 Hiring for the mission and building company culture 45:00 Growing as a founder and being willing to be wrong Congrats to friends of the show @a16z @davidu @TheAmbitionCap @lacostejonathan and others including @lightspeedvp @AltimeterCap @generalcatalyst Special thanks to @falondonohue @austinbishop @aphysicist for hosting @WeThe_Builders in Detroit

Today, we announce our Series C Funding of $250M at $2.5B post money valuation to scale our Autonomous and Interceptor drone programs. This round of funding is co-led by Sequoia Capital and American Strategic Technology Fund (ASTF) with participation by Interlagos, Valor Equity Partners, Allen & Company, Thiel Capital, Spark Capital, and Dylan Field. These funds will accelerate the development and production ramps for new drone programs including Archer AI, an FPV platform augmented with autonomy features including Terminal Guidance and GPS-denied Position Hold, and Bandit, a c-UAS interceptor drone intended to counter Class 2 and 3 drone threats including Shahed-style systems. These platforms are being developed with the hardware and compute required for multi-asset control (often called “swarming”) while retaining the cost efficiency Neros is known for – and that’s essential to achieving true attritable mass. Both Archer AI and Bandit will be deployed for combat by the end of 2026.

The first-ever pursuit of an evading vehicle in space: complete mission success ✅ A massive step-function jump for space domain defense & security Unapologetically proud to back @jollyrogersta & this team since the beginning