Will McCreadie

Partner at Red Glass | AI x physical world | Prev @generalcatalyst

[Will McCreadie @McCreadieWill]

I’m excited to announce that after nearly three incredible years at General Catalyst I’ve joined my long time friend, and former Lux Capital colleague, @bznotes at Red Glass Ventures as a partner.

As an early member of the Global Resilience team at GC, I was fortunate to work with companies at every stage, including Nominal, Cobot, Helsing, Physical Intelligence, and Serval. I’m looking forward to bringing this experience to Red Glass, where we invest in early stage companies at the intersection of AI and the physical world. I’m deeply grateful for everyone at GC, especially @htaneja , @paulkwan, @marcbhargava, Genevieve, @AlexaLiautaud, and the entire Resilience team, and look forward to collaborating in the future.

This is an amazing time to build and invest in AI, and I’m beyond excited for what’s ahead. Red Glass invests from formation stage (including incubations and EIRs) through Series A. We lead or co-lead, and work closely with founders to help build category-defining companies. If you’re exploring frontier AI, physical AI, or tech for the physical world, I’d love to connect.

Feel free to reach out to [email protected] or text/dm me.

[Will McCreadie @McCreadieWill]

Congrats @adarshkulkarni and @FoundryRobotics team!

Proud to be working with you on the future of American manufacturing.

[Foundry Robotics @FoundryRobotics]

American manufacturing is one of the hardest problems of our generation. We're here to solve it.

Today we announce $19M in seed funding, backed by @khoslaventures, @hanabicapital, @redglassvc, @ZeroShotFund, and all our other incredible investors.

AI-first. Software-defined. Just getting started. We're hiring.

[Bilal Zuberi // Red Glass Ventures @bznotes]

** Internship Opportunity **

We’re looking for a summer intern at @redglassvc. Past interns who worked with me have gone on to become VC partners, founders, executives at top companies, even yoga teachers! To be blunt, I want someone looking for real mentorship and learning via this opportunity, vs a job

You:
• Technical (software, AI, deeptech) - especially AI × the physical world
• Understand business, not just tech
• High hustle. You find exceptional founders and earn their trust
• Build real relationships with builders (not VC-to-VC noise)
• Understand the value of diligence in investment decision making, and using trust-but-verify techniques
• Actually want to help founders win
• Already use AI as a core part of how you network, think and work

If this is you, reach out. Email is best.

Let’s build. 🦾🚀

[Will McCreadie @McCreadieWill]

Huge congrats to @CameronLMcCord, @brycestrauss, @jrshoch and the entire @Nominal_io team!

Nominal is integral to developing the advanced hardware of the future, and we’re proud to continue supporting them at Red Glass.

[Bilal Zuberi // Red Glass Ventures @bznotes]

https://t.co/UuSMXRTfWk

[Cameron McCord @CameronLMcCord]

Ambition is timeless. Tools are not.

Today we are announcing an $80M acceleration round at a $1B valuation led by @foundersfund, with participation from @sequoia @generalcatalyst @Lux_Capital @RedGlass @lightspeedvp Avenir, and @Haystack.

In the last year, we grew revenue 7x, added some of the world’s most serious hardware enterprises, and built over twice the new product surface area than in our prior two years combined.

The most ambitious and fastest-moving hardware teams choose Nominal, from aerospace to energy, and automotive to defense, because it helps them learn faster and scale more efficiently. Our mission is to bring that advantage to every team building in the physical world. For those not yet using Nominal, we hope to have the opportunity to earn your trust and work hard for you and your company soon.

All systems Nominal. 🚀

Thank you @business and @EdLudlow for sharing out story. And @traestephens and @zebulgar for doubling down.

Read more about our announcement here: https://t.co/xxjndTBMdw

[Will McCreadie @McCreadieWill]

First of many!

[Bilal Zuberi // Red Glass Ventures @bznotes]

Red Glass (@redglassvc) hosted our first family meal. 🥗

Theme was East x West in Robotics🦾, and we were honored to have founders and execs of some amazing US and Chinese robotics companies join us: from Sharpa, Sunday Robotics, Dyna, Maven Robotics, Genesis, Generalist, Physical Intelligence, NVIDIA, Abundance, and others. Conversation was off the record, but the love for robotics, hardware and software supply chains, policy, and Mediterranean food was not! 🫒

Thanks @generalcatalyst for being a great co-host.

[Will McCreadie @McCreadieWill]

@startingfromnix You got me, this is awesome. Also v @Cam39Porter coded

[Bilal Zuberi // Red Glass Ventures @bznotes]

Turns out there is little to no hardware without software. So this marriage of AI with the Physical World may have some legs.

cc: @redglassvc | @McCreadieWill

[Nominal @Nominal_io]

The rumors are true: Anduril Industries tests really, really fast. And high-tempo testing demands high-tempo analysis.

Anduril runs tests across dozens of autonomous vehicle programs—air, land, sea, space—but this test volume creates a bottleneck: analysis infrastructure.

To break this constraint, Anduril adopted Nominal as their unified analysis platform for test & evaluation. One system where every signal from every program could be captured, synchronized, and understood. Now 300+ engineers, operators, and leaders analyze test data in real-time.

[TBPN @tbpn]

BREAKING: @McCreadieWill has joined Red Glass Ventures as a Partner

[Brad Gerstner @altcap]

@ianjmccreadie Watch out for the McCreadie brothers - the new new gen of VCs are 💪

[General Catalyst @generalcatalyst]

The future of energy resilience, as we see it, isn’t about starting from scratch — it’s about transforming what we’ve got. We believe winners in the energy transition will rethink existing infrastructure to be cleaner, cheaper, and more secure. That’s exactly what Mainspring is doing with its breakthrough linear generator: software-defined, fuel-flexible, and combustion-free.

We’re proud to lead Mainspring’s $258M Series F and welcome Shannon Miller and the entire team to the GC Famiglia.

[Nominal @Nominal_io]

Nominal is proud to share our partnership with @shieldaitech. The most innovative companies aren't treating test as a hurdle. They're using it as a competitive advantage.

At Shield AI, operations are mission-critical. Testing speed and data validation have dramatic impacts on outcomes – fielding trusted products faster than ever and accomplishing the mission at hand: protecting civilians and service members with intelligent systems.

With Nominal, engineers are making confident decisions before the engines cool – no matter the environment. Every file is synchronized, every frame is indexed, every root cause identified in minutes. Shield AI has more than tripled their test cadence with Nominal – and it’s only accelerating.

“Speed of iteration is what matters in fielding new capability. The pace of testing - reviewing data and making decisions - defines everything else we can do. We had to solve this. Nominal has helped us deliver on both speed and validation.” — Armor Harris, SVP Aircraft

To learn how Shield AI is delivering capability at scale using Nominal, read more here:
https://t.co/GOfm1rZJXq

[Nat Friedman @natfriedman]

Recently learned that the Starlink facility in Bastrop, TX is on track to be the largest PCB factory in the country.

[Will McCreadie @McCreadieWill]

Outperforms a prev gold standard weather model 97% of the time.

Runs a scenario in 8 min on 1 TPU vs hours on a large cluster in status quo.

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

Today in @Nature, we’re presenting GenCast: our new AI weather model which gives us the probabilities of different weather conditions up to 15 days ahead with state-of-the-art accuracy. ☁️⚡

Here’s how the technology works. 🧵https://t.co/PWCNWbQnlU

[Andy Marshall 📸 @fotofacade]

✨A full day of light within one photo: A few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. #thread

[Will McCreadie @McCreadieWill]

Congrats to @BradPorter_ and the entire Cobot team on unveiling Proxie!

From the start, the team has been
principled about designing a system that generalizes across industries and is useful today.

Proxie is already delivering on that goal, and has moved over 5M lbs of product!

[Brad Porter @BradPorter_]

Excited to introduce Proxie, our first cobot, to the world today!

[Will McCreadie @McCreadieWill]

We @generalcatalyst are so excited to partner with Pacific Fusion and lead their Series A!

[General Catalyst @generalcatalyst]

For decades, fusion has been the holy grail of energy generation—offering the potential for limitless, clean energy to power our future. Pacific Fusion’s committed interdisciplinary team is working toward expanding what’s possible for the energy future with its affordable, scalable, and practical fusion systems, built on advancements in pulsed power.

We could not be more proud to lead Pacific Fusion’s $900M+ Series A and welcome @eric_lander, Will Regan, Keith LeChien, Carrie von Muench, Leland Ellison, and the entire team to the GC Famiglia.

More from Genevieve, @htaneja, Paul, & @McCreadieWill → https://t.co/4WH0mz27r6

Plus, a @WIRED exclusive → https://t.co/8bEPovV0xk