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Proud to see 3 @DukeCapPartners portfolio companies on the 2025 @Inc 5000:

326 – @AiFiInc : 270+ autonomous stores, 9M+ customers served
586 – @Vestwell : Serving 350K+ employers, $35B+ assets
1,407 – @levitateai : AI-powered relationship marketing

#Inc5000 #Growth #Startups

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🔗 💙 Learn more about Max's journey and Science Corporation 💙 https://t.co/olIxVJAYTt

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Our portfolio founder Max Hodak, Duke BME alumnus and Neuralink co-founder, is building the future of vision restoration at Science Corporation with clinical success. They are pushing the frontier of neuroscience, AI, and human health. Congrats @maxhodak_ and @ScienceCorp_ team!

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Our portfolio company Tune Therapeutics shared first clinical data for TUNE-401 at EASL 2026 — a first-in-class therapy that epigenetically silences hepatitis B (no DNA cutting), aiming for a functional cure from a finite course. Duke-rooted.

Congrats @cgersbach & team!

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💙 Excited to announce Duke Capital Partners' participation in @Phiaco_ 's oversubscribed $35.5M Series A. In just one year, Phia has reached 1.5M+ users, 9,600+ brand partners, and 350M+ products scanned. Try it free on iOS & Chrome: https://t.co/g5GgQfJ8H7

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🎓💙 Congrats to Caleb Nelson on earning his J.D./LLMLE from @DukeLaw! From leading DCP’s legal associates and working across deals with MBAs, PhDs, & engineers (often over barbecue), Caleb helped make DCP Associates a stronger community. Next stop: @LathamWatkins 🚀⚖️ Congrats!

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💙 @DukeU ranks #8 among university ecosystems producing funded startup founders, with Duke in Tier 2 for “strong pipelines with consistent founder output across tech and finance.” Kuddos for John Gardezi's chart.
Proud to support Duke’s growing founder ecosystem. 🚀

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Our portfolio company @liquidai - CEO @ramin_m_h Hasani+ CTO @mlech26l on AI's biggest unsolved problem: their hardware-aware foundation models (AFMD) let intelligence run on every device, not just the cloud. Big things ahead. 🎉

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Our portfolio company @restor3d_ just hit ~300 cases of its iTotal Identity 3DP Porous Knee, with the first Wisconsin implant landing this week. Congrats Kurt Jacobus & team! 🎉

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🎓💙 Celebrating Madeleine Sateri, who earned her J.D. & LL.M. in Law & Entrepreneurship at @DukeLaw while serving as Senior Associate at Duke Capital Partners. Madeleine led DCP’s largest-ever legal associate team and is joining @Kirkland_Ellis in D.C. Congrats! 🚀

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Our portfolio company @Vestwell just went live inside Intuit QuickBooks Workforce — embedding 401(k) where millions of small businesses already run payroll. Congrats @AaronSchumm ! 🎉

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Big news from our portfolio company @ScienceCorp_ : Duke BME alum @maxhodak_ is building Science Corp's next-gen BCI factory in Durham — right where he trained in the Nicolelis lab. Neurotech, manufactured in Duke's backyard. 🧠

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Big news from our portfolio company @embracemobile — strategic partnership with @honeycombio means engineers can now trace a single user from a mobile crash all the way to the backend span, in one OpenTelemetry-native stack. Congrats to the team at Embrace!

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🎓💙 Impact & Gratitude: Celebrating Mario Espinosa de los Reyes (Fuqua MBA, DCP Associate)

Mario brought an operator’s mindset to DCP & drove real deal work

Next up: launching Andara Capital Partners, a self-funded search fund. Grateful for his impact & excited for what’s next

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@DukeU ranks #8 on the new Cure Innovation Index — and #7 for Market Translation, the measure of moving lab discoveries into real-world medicine. 243 US biomedical research institutions ranked across 25 indicators. Top 7: Harvard, Stanford, UPenn, MIT, UCSF, Johns Hopkins, UCSD

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🎓💙 Impact & Gratitude: Celebrating Ryan Bird (Fuqua MBA, DCP Associate)

From finance to the startup ecosystem, Ryan brought curiosity and a strong analytical foundation to DCP — gaining deep exposure to fundraising, entrepreneurship & what investors look for. Congrats Ryan!

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@Teamworks CEO Zach Maurides — former Duke Football O-line — named EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2026 Southeast finalist. Built from a Duke class project into the OS for 7,000+ sports orgs, now $1.5B+ valuation. Congrats Zach Maurides!

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https://t.co/9rPOr89JKm's Sam Liang on NYSE Live + BBC's The Interview, debuting the Conversational Knowledge Engine — a $100B+ category turning enterprise conversations into searchable institutional memory. "Individual meeting notes were never the destination."

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@liquidai 's LFM2-VL-3B is now running on a satellite in orbit, the first public demo of LLM inference happening in space. Built with DPhi Space on the Clustergate-2 platform. Congrats Ramin Hasani and the entire Liquid AI team. 🛰️ https://t.co/1voRyQ4Cb8

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Octane just received an Ethereum Foundation grant for continuous security analysis of Ethereum's core network software, the layer underneath the apps. Previously caught a bug that could have halted ~38% of network operators. Congrats @giovignone and the Octane team.

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🎓💙 Impact & Gratitude: Celebrating Tiago (Fuqua MBA, DCP Associate)

Tiago brought startup, consulting & GS IB experience to DCP—leading deals, elevating analysis & team discussions.

Next up: Goldman Sachs NYC. Grateful for his impact & excited for what’s ahead! 🚀