Wayfinder Ventures

noun: wayfinder; plural noun: wayfinders;
a person who opens up new ways; an innovator, a trailblazer.

[Remora @remoracarbon]

🚨 Big news: $117M raised. 90% CO₂ capture achieved. Expanding our mission to rail.

We're partnering with Union Pacific & Norfolk Southern to capture CO₂ from locomotives.

Check today's coverage in the WSJ!

https://t.co/t1G8tkUWyn

https://t.co/UElreRQVN3

[TBPN @tbpn]

IN NEWS: @ianbrooke on raising $27.1M for Astro Mechanica

"We are building the world's first trans-Pacific non-stop supersonic aircraft."

"We can do California to Taiwan in under 4 hours, without refueling."

"It's not hard to make a thing fly, it's hard to make it safe and put people on it."

[Ashley Pelzel @AshleyAPelzel]

Onward. @AstroMechanica 🇺🇸 🚀

[Ian Brooke @ianbrooke]

The best part about fundraising is when it ends and I can get back to building.

This raise marks the end of just working on engines and the start of building airplanes — couldn’t be more excited

[Ian Brooke @ianbrooke]

Many thanks to @JeffBezos and the MARS team for inviting me out for a talk and demo!

And especially for dinner under a Saturn V rocket, 10/10 experience

[Ian Brooke @ianbrooke]

it was documented! very cool, thanks @thegarrettscott

[Matt Loszak @MattLoszak]

Yesterday, we hosted a crowd of 300 to make three big announcements.

The audience included investors, customers, suppliers, government, press, family, and friends.

We unveiled:

1️⃣ The Aalo Pod, our 50 MWe nuclear power plant, purpose built for AI data centers.

2️⃣ The first full-scale prototype of Aalo-1, which we’ll be doing non-nuclear testing on in the coming months.

3️⃣ The Aalo Factory, which now is capable of building more prototype Aalo Pods, and soon, the real thing.

We still have a long road ahead of us before we achieve criticality, but these are major steps in the right direction.

We’re proud that this was all accomplished in the past 6 months, since we moved into our new Austin HQ (which was initially an empty 40,000 sqft shell).

We’ll be posting more photos and videos from the event soon, stay tuned!

In the meantime, here’s our blog post announcing the launch of the Aalo Pod:

https://t.co/pQn0oWKCKx

[Supabase @supabase]

Introducing the official Supabase MCP Server!

Supabase MCP Server allows you to read and write to your database, create new projects, apply migrations, and more, right from your favorite AI tools!

You can start using them in Cursor or Windsurf today!

[Paul Copplestone - e/postgres @kiwicopple]

Dropped today: our official @Supabase UI Library 🚢

It leverages the @shadcn "registry" feature and is compatible with Next.js, React, and Tanstack

Includes:
◆ Login components
◆ Dropzone for storage
◆ Realtime cursors/avatars/chat
◆ And (one I love): AI Prompts

[Browserbase @browserbase]

Announcing our official Windsurf and Browserbase integration 🅱️🤘

@windsurf_ai generates components on the frontend, while @Stagehanddev MCP tests the component functionality.

Automating the QA process seamlessly.

[Paul Copplestone - e/postgres @kiwicopple]

100 supabase meetups this week LFG

[Decagon @DecagonAI]

Excited to be named #2 on the 2025 Enterprise Tech 30 mid-stage list! 🎉

The Enterprise Tech 30 names the most promising private companies in enterprise technology with the most potential to meaningfully shift how tech enterprises operate.

[Paul Klein IV @pk_iv]

In the age of AI, talent is the biggest differentiator.

People always ask me how Browserbase has grown so fast. It's simple: our team.

They're some of the most impressive and fun people I've ever worked with.

Don't believe me? Here's a peek inside 🅱️ HQ.

(We're hiring)

[Browserbase @browserbase]

Today, we've been named the #1 early-stage company in the Enterprise Tech 30!

But we're just getting started and need amazing people like you to join our team as we continue to scale.

Come 🅱️uild with us.

[Gustaf Alströmer @gustaf]

Today @WeAreLegora (formerly Leya)(YC W24) launching in the US.

When @t_blom and I interviewed the founders of Legora for the @ycombinator Winter 24 batch, it was their second time interviewing for YC, and it was clear their ambition levels were different this time. They weren’t just going to win Sweden. They were going to take on the world.

At the batch kickoff, the other founders voted Legora one of the top three most likely to build a massive company and during the batch, they grew from $200k to nearly $900k in ARR—a crazy trajectory, even by YC standards.

Fifteen months later, they are the Legal AI leader in Europe with 70 employees and hundreds of law firms as customers. Today, they are also launching in the US with Goodwin as their launch partner. Goodwin is one of the leading US corporate law firms that has advised many, many YC companies over the years.

As part of the launch, they are opening their New York office, where CEO @MaxJunestrand will be based.

For a long time, the conventional wisdom was that lawyers didn’t buy much software. Law was seen as inherently manual. LLMs have changed that—but few companies are getting the product experience right. Legora is.
Welcome to the US, Legora.

[TBPN @tbpn]

We asked @TopherHaddad about dead satellites.

"In low earth orbit (LEO), they stay in space for 50-100 years."

"In very low earth orbit (VLEO) where @Albedo operates, it's a matter of weeks or days. It's a much more sustainable place to be."

[Albedo @Albedo]

In the three short days since Clarity-1 launched, we have:

- Established first contact (sound up to for the 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒔 🥹)
- Transitioned to Protect Mode
- Successfully commissioned our VLEO bus hardware, confirmed by our mission data of Clarity-1 tracking Pretoria, South Africa

[Albedo @Albedo]

We successfully made first contact with Clarity-1 at 5:11 am MT, approximately 3 hours after our SpaceX deployment. Commands and telemetry are flowing; all systems nominal. 🗣️

First contact, first mission, first satellite that will operate in VLEO - whole lotta firsts🥇

[Albedo @Albedo]

Clarity-1 is READY for primetime. Next stop: 𝑽𝑳𝑬𝑶 🫡

[Browserbase @browserbase]

We've partnered with OpenAI as one of their early research preview partners for the new computer use model.

With this model, AI can control a browser better than ever before 👀

Of course, we had to launch a free hosted version + open source implementation.

Check it out!