Graham Littlehale

Investing @ Felicis Ventures | prev. Point72

[Graham Littlehale @curious_graham]

When I left my first meeting with Arda, my jaw was on the floor. I’ve spent years researching digital engineering and advanced manufacturing, and @Arda_Industries is taking an approach that really resonated with me to bring manufacturing back onshore. Incredible team, and a lot of progress in a short time. Very excited to work with @pxd and the rest of the Arda team.

[Peter Deng @pxd]

We’ve been talking about how the industrial wave is coming. With @Arda_Industries, it’s officially here.

Today, Arda comes out of stealth with an AI agent that turns CAD files into assembly instructions. It’s already been deployed across every division at @anduriltech, reducing engineering workflows from 30 hours to 2.5.

That's step one of a three-act plan. Next: use those instructions to train robotic production lines that adapt quickly to new designs. Then: make it possible to build anything domestically.

Thrilled that we at @Felicis have joined this round. More at @felicis: https://t.co/8NTAiYH0Xx

[Peter Deng @pxd]

We’ve been talking about how the industrial wave is coming. With @Arda_Industries, it’s officially here.

Today, Arda comes out of stealth with an AI agent that turns CAD files into assembly instructions. It’s already been deployed across every division at @anduriltech, reducing engineering workflows from 30 hours to 2.5.

That's step one of a three-act plan. Next: use those instructions to train robotic production lines that adapt quickly to new designs. Then: make it possible to build anything domestically.

Thrilled that we at @Felicis have joined this round. More at @felicis: https://t.co/8NTAiYH0Xx

[Graham Littlehale @curious_graham]

@endurancegeo @felicis https://t.co/XDATnRJ9Xe

[Endurance Energy @endurancegeo]

Endurance is on a historic run. During our mission to the Axial Seamount, we successfully drilled the world’s first subsea geothermal well and generated net-positive power a mile beneath the Pacific. This mission was the first end-to-end test of subsea geothermal, and our fifth deep-sea deployment in just over a year. For three weeks, we worked around the clock over an active underwater volcano, running the drill and generator and handling every deployment and recovery. Along the way, we:
- Landed our drill within feet of target, drilled two holes, and cased and completed the second as a geothermal well, flowing at 260°C.
- Landed Adélie, our 3-ton test plant, and ran it in real time from Seattle over subsea fiber.
- Drilled with filtered seawater, not drilling mud, and monitored the site on every dive.
- Recovered, serviced, and redeployed Adélie in about 16 hours.
- And on Sept. 27, connected to a 281°C natural vent, spun the turbine up to 26,000 rpm and ran the plant net positive for 8.7 seconds, peaking at 16.5 kW.

Net power is the threshold every new energy source has to cross. For Endurance, it proves subsea geothermal is real, and gives us the confidence to keep sprinting towards commercial scale.

With a test like this, success comes from what we learn: a battery protection trip ended the run, a pump cable failed on restart, and the new well was too restrictive to run the plant. Those lessons go straight into Gentoo, our next test plant, this winter and Leopard, our 2 MW commercial generator.

We’re incredibly proud of what we accomplished together. It took creativity, precision, an uncompromising focus on safety from everyone on board, and it’s only the beginning of what we’re capable of. We couldn’t have done it without Stabbert Maritime and the crew of the Ocean Guardian, the ROPOS team, the University of Washington, WASSOC, and the National Science Foundation.

[Graham Littlehale @curious_graham]

Huge congrats to the @endurancegeo team! They drilled the world's first subsea geothermal well and made power on an active underwater volcano nearly a mile beneath the Pacific.

Watching it on livestream felt like a rocket launch! 🚀 @Felicis is lucky to be an investor.

[Graham Littlehale @curious_graham]

@hesspresso_ “Plowshares was a project to study peaceful use of atomic bombs, including for building canals, stimulating oil and gas wells, etc” — that’s wild!

[Graham Littlehale @curious_graham]

@Andercot Iykyk

[Graham Littlehale @curious_graham]

@Andercot But can you BxR?

[Graham Littlehale @curious_graham]

@sharedalbums @neurajohn @michlimlim @jorgetheyounger @AryaTschand @sumersao @NithinParsan @srivyanamandra @0xalpo @startingfromnix Sick reverso ⏱️

[Graham Littlehale @curious_graham]

@suffiyanmalikk @reindsummit @fw_automation Very sunny in South Bay

[Graham Littlehale @curious_graham]

@noah_schochet @MeenaRancourt Incredible

[Graham Littlehale @curious_graham]

@KipMock @jared_western The peanuts are oddly satisfying

[Graham Littlehale @curious_graham]

@peteoxenham Do you have a sense for how robust this is compared to Parasolid? This is huge, but hard to tell how many edge cases need to be burned down.

[Graham Littlehale @curious_graham]

“This is your Manhattan Project.” @LSJRobinson getting the next generation of nuclear innovators fired up about energy and @generalmatter at Stanford. 💪

[Graham Littlehale @curious_graham]

@generalmatter Let’s go!!!!

[General Matter @generalmatter]

Our first license application is the product of years of engineering and safety work –– and more than 100 engagements with NRC staff.

[Graham Littlehale @curious_graham]

@JacobZietek I definitely paid for my fair share of hacks in halo 2 ranked 😅

[Graham Littlehale @curious_graham]

@jakepaul @ScottNolan @generalmatter @antifund @geoffwoo ❤️

[Graham Littlehale @curious_graham]

@suffiyanmalikk @evanburns @StateAffairsUS @WeThe_Builders Can’t wait to listen!

[Graham Littlehale @curious_graham]

@IanRountree Spy blimp

[Graham Littlehale @curious_graham]

@zachglabman You should chat with Daven Niemala. Also, Nikki Malcolm at PNAA used to sell metal and knows everyone.