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weekly industry meetups

today, 02/17
  • Demo night (SF).

  • Founders dinner (NY).

  • Reverse pitch x founders (NY).

  • Climate tech meetup (NY).

tomorrow, 02/18
  • Elevator pitch workshop (LA).

  • Founders coffee meetup (LA).

  • Cursor meetup (LA).

  • Demo night (SF).

  • Engineers x Snowflake panel (SF).

  • Tech CFOs panel x public sector (SF).

  • Hackathon x YC founders x Carnegie Mellon (SF).

  • Founder mixer x Germany (SF).

  • Climate meetup (NY).

  • AI engineers x AWS (NY).

  • Venture x chess (NY).

  • NASA Viking meetup (Seattle).

  • Space Force meetup (Rocket City).

thursday, 02/19
  • Founders panel x Science Inc. (LA).

  • Tech showcase (SF).

  • Hardware pitch night (SF).

  • Founders dinner x defense x robotics (NY).

  • Founders hardware dinner (NY).

  • FemTech happy hour (NY).

  • VC happy hour (NY).

  • Founder drinks (NY).

  • Series A+ founder dinner (NY).

  • Founders dinner x JPM (NY).

  • AI happy hour (NY).

  • Space happy hour (Seattle).

friday, 02/20
  • Early stage meetup founders x funders (NY).

  • Quantum design hackathon (NY).

saturday, 02/21
  • Coffee meetup (LA).

  • Coffee meetup (LA).

  • Health tech ML meetup (LA).

  • AI Claude hackathon (NY).

  • Tech basketball (NY).

sunday, 02/22
  • Coffee meetup (LA).

  • Founders game night (NY).

upcoming

  • Denver space week (Denver).

  • Aerospace meetup (SF).

  • Deal flow golf (LA).

thought leadership opportunity at Boston Tech Week 05/29 or New York Tech Week 06/01.

robotics, biotech, cyber and space founders can block a 10 minute discovery on my calendar today or Wednesday.

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weekly capital flows

government

  • Dassault & HAL win $39.6B Indian defense order for long range fighter Rafale fleet (AT).

  • SatService wins German defense award for Q/V- band ground stations for secure comms (DP).

pre seed / seed

  • Biological Computing raises $25M Seed by Primary for neuro-silicon-based computer vision & GenAI (SA).

  • Terra Industries raises additional $22M by Lux, 8VC for drone intelligence for African defense (TC).

  • Stanhope AI raises $8M Seed by Frontline, Paladin for physical AI inference across defense & industrial automation (TPV).

  • Upside raises $7.5M Seed by Plural, Garage for fertilizer robots (TC).

  • The Compression Company raises $3.4M Pre Seed by Long Journey to compress Earth Observation data (VS).

  • Deep Space Energy raises $1.1M Pre Seed for lunar electricity generators (SA).

series A+

  • NScale raises $1.4B financing by PIMCO, Blue Owl, Luminarx to lease NVIDIA chips to European customers (BG).

  • Apptronik raises $935M Series A on a $5.3B valuation for humanoid robots (TC).

  • Stoke Space raises $860M Series D for medium lift launch vehicles (SD).

  • Axiom Space raises $350M by Qatar sovereign fund, Type One, 1789 for spacesuits & space habitats (CNBC).

  • Loyal raises $100M Series C financing by age1 to build out distribution for canine longevity pill (LT).

  • Alva Energy raises $33M Series A to modernize & de-risk existing U.S. nuclear reactors (SC).

  • Kainova raises $28M Series B for GPCR targeted cancer treatment (BK).

  • Nucleus Security raises $20M Series C by Delta-v for exposure management (SW).

  • Integrate raises $17M Series A by FPV Ventures for classified defense project management (TC).

  • Orbit AI raises $500k by PowerBank Corp to build orbital cloud layer for energy players (SN).

m&a

  • Amca acquires Electrocube for transformers, capacitors & EMI filters supplied to Boeing, Honeywell, GE (EV).

  • Skyrora explores taking over Orbex launch service assets (SD).

public

  • Leidos wins Department of War award to monitor risk for USAF controls (AT).

headlines

  • Southwest Airlines & Starlink modernize in-flight connectivity across fleet of 300 (VS).

  • Planet & AXA integrate earth observation data in insurance risk models for climate monitoring (VS).

  • Aspia Space & Stelia partner to scale geospatial data workflows for biomass changes, crop health (SN).

  • Collins Aerospace, General Atomic, Shield AI, Anduril & U.S. Air Force partner on combat mission autonomy software (ASF).

  • Canadian defense plans $60B capital spend on domestic SMBs, AI & quantum champions (BK).

  • Photonic & Telus partner on quantum data centers & quantum hacking (BK).

  • Alberta invests $20M in energy emission reduction projects (BK).

Discipulus Ventures El Segundo early stage hard tech residency.

Deadline February 20th.

Soma Fellows $2M uncapped capital.

Deadline April 1st.

orbital classifieds

Companies raising:

Kyber Labs - Raising $10M Seed.

General purpose Physical AI.

Founders: Yonatan Robbins, Tyler Habowski

Open roles:

1 Intrinsic (robotics engineer).

2 Tenna (RF signal processing engineer).

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