Formation

An investment firm at the Formation Stage.

[Solly Garber @sollygarber]

The last series went so well the participants themselves asked for more sessions. Apply now: https://t.co/zb8HKBx3Yj

[Leeor Mushin @lmushin]

In honor of the Cerebras IPO and inspired by The Ringer, I vibe-coded a site to celebrate my favorite venture investments in the last 15 years - link below

[Leeor Mushin @lmushin]

A blast to be working on Cliff Club with friends/office mates @CharleyMa and @yrechtman

Focused communities with great people have been some of the most valuable resources for me in life

Join if you’re an early employee who would benefit from that too! First event in NYC

[yoni rechtman @yrechtman]

Really excited to work on this with @CharleyMa and @lmushin. Cliff club - come take the dive.

[Charley Ma @CharleyMa]

Everyone throws events for founders and investors. We wanted to do something different.

Introducing Cliff Club: a community exclusively for early employees at venture-backed companies and we're starting with NYC first! 🧵

[Leeor Mushin @lmushin]

Have been lucky enough to work with the generational A* team on several occasions

No surprise they have even more fuel to find the next great founders

Congrats my friends

[Project Eleven @projecteleven]

Quantum Vault - An audited reference implementation for account abstraction

Post-quantum readiness must be achieved at all layers of the stack. We’ve worked with protocols on post-quantum testnets and hybrid signing models, deployed yellowpages as an attestation service for Bitcoin migration, proposed and optimized PQC algorithms, and proved BIP32 HD Wallets can work in a post-quantum world.

Today, we are releasing our latest contribution to the open-source blockchain community: two repositories on GitHub under Project Eleven. Libqc is a TypeScript SDK for ERC-4337 account abstraction with parallel Bitcoin support, and quantum-vault is a browser-extension vault built on libqc. Both are MIT-licensed and have been audited by Cure53. They are reference implementations; not production wallets.

Try out Quantum Vault today! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

[Sharp Performance @sharp_usa]

@SharpAlexCabral joined @TheIshLopez on @RelentlessPrjct to discuss how police departments can be more strategic with their key personnel when the day-to-day side of wellness is handled by a trusted partner like Sharp Performance.

[Solly Garber @sollygarber]

Even Tesla is "selling the work" with FSD

[Vishal Satish @vsatish_]

Excited to announce our $6M seed round led by @kleinerperkins to build the next generation of agentic systems that thrive in messy real-world environments:

@BalerionAI is taking AI out of the lab and putting it in the hands of hundreds of real world lenders to realize the American dream of home ownership and bring mortgage lending back to its fundamentals: a relationship-driven business, not the costly operational gauntlet it has become. To this end we are building the agentic copilot for lending that helps lenders move loans across the finish line faster.

We’re thrilled to be working with @josh_coyne, joined by @formation_vc, @BoxGroup, @thehousefund, and an all-star line-up of operators and investors across the financial services.

And last but not least, we’ve assembled a world-class team to tackle this challenge: ex-operators and leaders who have built, scaled, and pushed the boundaries of AI across robotics, financial services, gaming, and some of the most exciting vertical tech companies out there. If you think that’s you, let’s chat.

This is just the beginning, and we’re fired up for the journey ahead. Take a look: https://t.co/FeMcgHCZZH

[Naren Krishna @NarenKrishna16]

Loan origination for the future. $6M backed by @kleinerperkins, @formation_vc, @BoxGroup. World-class team of operators. If this resonates with you, DM me and I’d love to find a way to partner for the long-term. https://t.co/rURKfjqETk

[Leeor Mushin @lmushin]

Pumped to be working with @BalerionAI

@sollygarber and I had been searching for a team helping mortgage lenders move at the speed of modern tooling - then we met Naren and Vishal. We committed almost as fast as they move. (Almost)

[Solly Garber @sollygarber]

@lmushin and I are excited to announce our investment in @BalerionAI, alongside our friends at @kleinerperkins and @BoxGroup . One of the bedrocks of the American economy, the residential mortgage, is running on rusty rails. $2 trillion a year. Naren, Vishal, and team are setting out to change that.

[Alex Pruden @apruden08]

Everyone has been talking about the @GoogleQuantumAI paper about quantum risk to cryptocurrencies that dropped this week.

That paper is great. But another paper, by @TeamOratomic is arguably the more significant scientifically, at least from a quantum computing perspective.

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[Dolev Bluvstein @DolevBluvstein]

I am deeply proud and enthusiastic to share one of our recent scientific advances https://t.co/GOyF4snNeC, as well as the announcement of our company, @TeamOratomic. This scientific work was realized in close collaboration with @Caltech, who has been an incredible partner in our adventures.

I believe it is quite plausible, although not guaranteed, that we will have a utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer by the end of the decade. Although exciting, this also means that the transition to post-quantum encryption should be taken seriously and done in a safe and timely manner.

The teammates I have had the privilege to work with at Oratomic are nothing short of exceptional. The rate of progress is astonishing---due in particular to the diverse expertise of the team and the mission-focus of our environment. We are working together to build a utility-scale quantum computer as soon as we can.

For those who would like to join us, please reach out.

[Solly Garber @sollygarber]

A team the world will be hearing alot more about is @TeamOratomic

[Leeor Mushin @lmushin]

Meeting Dolev Bluvstein a couple years ago was a window for me into the future of computing.

Since then, a truly astounding team has assembled in Pasadena, and now, Oratomic announces itself to the world with the first of many groundbreaking discoveries.

Oratomic is building the world’s first fault-tolerant quantum computers to unlock potentially transformative applications that are infeasible for classical computers like simulating molecules, optimizing complex systems, and most immediately, breaking classical encryption much sooner than expected.

Proud to be an early backer for what could be one of the most important companies in the world. Much, much more to come.

[Tyler Whittle @Dr_DAO_]

https://t.co/7aB0ShhqhN

[Robbie King @robbieking1000]

Today we are announcing Oratomic. Based in Pasadena, our goal is to build the world’s first fault-tolerant quantum computer using neutral atom qubits.

Last Fall, I came to fully appreciate the potential of neutral atoms combined with high-rate error correction. Soon after, I made the decision to leave Google and Berkeley to go all-in on what is now Oratomic.

My teammates are truly exceptional, and it’s an honor to work alongside them with a chance to make history.

If you are excited by this mission, please get in touch!

Website → https://t.co/tOll34RdhT

[Oratomic, Inc. @TeamOratomic]

Today, we introduce Oratomic.

We are on a focused mission to build the world’s first fault-tolerant quantum computers and unlock their transformative applications. Quantum computers offer a fundamentally new way of understanding and interacting with the physical world.

Our recent scientific advance finds that Shor’s algorithm is possible with as few as 10,000 reconfigurable atomic qubits: https://t.co/VS6Ste00fC

Our team integrates world-class expertise in quantum error correction, neutral atom systems, artificial intelligence, and optical engineering. We are working together to make fault-tolerant quantum computing a reality.

To learn more about Oratomic and our team, visit https://t.co/Pjtg9n2R2P