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funding brilliant founders with big ideas @outlandervc/ former founder and US Marine Corps

[Michael LaFramboise 🇺🇸 @LaFrogman]

Hiring: Founding Creative / Videographer
Competitive starting comp + equity — SF + Detroit (travel both). Report directly to the CEO at @aureliuslasers

You're a fit if you have:
- Shipped real YouTube (channel, series, or long-form product/factory films you owned end-to-end).
- A portfolio that proves it — reel + links only. No resumes.
- Gone viral or broken through on X / YouTube with hardware, industrial, auto, aerospace, or defense-adjacent work.
- Set the look for something, then gotten behind the camera and cut it yourself.
- Talked shop with at least one founder shipping real product (not just decks).
- Native English speaker.

Aurelius Systems builds autonomous directed energy — lasers that stop drones at the speed of light, for the cost of electricity. Archimedes is autonomous, edge-deployed, and field-repairable. We're a small team in San Francisco and Detroit reindustrializing what defense forgot how to build.

The US and our allies are unable to effectively destroy drones at scale, we believe that every day we're delayed more people die, or infrastructure is destroyed to these drones.

The job is one seat: creative ideator and videographer. You'll set the visual and narrative system, then shoot, edit, and ship it. Shop floors, field tests, founder cuts for X, longer YouTube / launch films

We are a very small and tight knit team, traveling the country shooting down drones with lasers. It's demanding and if you love making hard things look as cool as they are, it's a dream.

DM me a reel + YouTube + 2 links if you are a fit
(or [email protected] — portfolio only, not interested in a resume, just what you've made).

[paigecraig @paigecraig]

@LaFrogman @aureliuslasers Amazing two years guys! Looking forward to the next 20

[Michael LaFramboise 🇺🇸 @LaFrogman]

Our country and allies deserve counter-UAS solutions that are mass producible, field serviceable and instantly effective.

In 2 years the team at @aureliuslasers has designed, built and tested the first mass producible directed energy systems. We didn't use 50 subcontractors to do it either. Our entire fire control, sensing and decision-making stack has been built in house - there was nothing on the market sufficient for us. What we couldn't get off the shelf we built in house.

Our Series A raise will allow us to stand up our own vertically integrated optics and laser production and expand our team to support systems production needs - also supporting further integration with partner technologies and vehicle platforms as we take on land, sea and air.

Join us as we expand our San Francisco and Detroit teams here:
https://t.co/cDMhojSV4l

[Assistant Secretary of War Mike Dodd @ASWCTDoddFather]

Laser weapons are neutralizing drones - and this is just the beginning. The Archimedes directed energy system knocked out more than 25 of them as part of a review of 60 counter-drone platforms. We're putting the best tech in our warfighters' hands. Fast.
https://t.co/KePalfYGpO

[paigecraig @paigecraig]

@DoWCTO @DeptofWar @DOWResponse @aurelius all the way

[paigecraig @paigecraig]

@dickc @pitdesi The maths are workin for me !!

[paigecraig @paigecraig]

@varadh Thanks buddy - returns have been *relatively* easy. But I still have no idea how to amp up my brand … maybe too many years living in the shadows recruiting talent in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan ;)

[paigecraig @paigecraig]

@business Love this! But @business how did you miss that we (@outlandervc) are the second largest investors in the company. Regardless awesome news for the best founders and team in the biz

[paigecraig @paigecraig]

@thogge @pitdesi We’re in Coco together buddy! That’s the next centicorn 100%

[paigecraig @paigecraig]

@pitdesi Hah. No we did the preseed at a $3M Cap in June 2016

[paigecraig @paigecraig]

@pitdesi More than that for those in the preseed before YC …

[Zach Rash @zac_rash]

We're excited to announce our global partnership with @DoorDash starting with Los Angeles, Chicago, and Helsinki!

600+ merchants, over 100,000 orders completed, and just getting started.

https://t.co/FqpDxEWLd6

[Outlander VC @outlandervc]

TOMORROW: Join our conversation with Venture Visionary @saarsaar of @CRV!💡

Saar has been highlighted in the @Forbes Midas List as one of the World’s Best VC Investors multiple times.

Next, he's sharing his expertise with all of us! RSVP 👇 https://t.co/Fcd2uJdtIv

[Outlander VC @outlandervc]

Happy Outlander Showcase week! 🎉 Meet 5 of our portfcos building the future of UAVs, AI/ML, AI agents, SaaS-enabled marketplaces, + beyond.

📍 virtual
🗓️ 4/4/24
🚀 5-min. pitches + live Q&A

RSVP for exclusive + async access to decks, pitches, etc.!👇 https://t.co/xJ2QDUi5Rs

[Outlander VC @outlandervc]

Join us on 4/10 with our next Venture Visionary: @saarsaar of @CRV! 💡

Saar has been highlighted in the @Forbes Midas List as one of the World’s Best Venture Capital Investors multiple times.

Next, he's sharing his expertise with all of us! RSVP ↘ https://t.co/Fcd2uJdtIv

[Outlander VC @outlandervc]

For 14+ years, we’ve invested in unicorns like Lyft, Wish, Gusto, and Scale at the earliest stages.

On 4/4, you're invited to meet 5 of our *current* early-stage portfolio companies at the Outlander Spring Showcase!

Here's a sneak peek at the lineup 👇

[Outlander VC @outlandervc]

Tune in TOMORROW for Venture Visionaries with @bonatsos of @generalcatalyst!💡

RSVP to learn why Niko loves working with 1st-time tech founders + the specific signals he looks for to identify breakthrough startups as early as possible ↘ https://t.co/QiHDxYvi7a

[Outlander VC @outlandervc]

#OutlandersInTheNews 📰  Yesterday, @PitchBook highlighted their top-performing 2015 vintage VC funds, and our first fund—Outlander Archimedes—is among the top 3 globally. 🎉

Two funds later, our strategy's the same: bet on exceptional founders as first-check, lead investors at the earliest stages. Learn more: https://t.co/pS3YQcey7S

[Outlander VC @outlandervc]

Meet 5 of our game-changing early-stage portfolio companies at the next Outlander Showcase!🌟

Here's what you need to know:
🗓️ 3/21 @ 4 pm ET
📍virtual
🚀 5 minute pitches + audience Q&A

So, what're you waiting for? 👀 Save your spot now! ↘ https://t.co/xJ2QDUi5Rs

[paigecraig @paigecraig]

RT @outlandervc: #OutlandersInTheNews 📰 Congrats to @JoinPasses on their $40M Series A led by @bondcap!

As first check investors into Pas…