Today, our team is excited to announce @InspiredCap Fund IV, $450M in new capital to back early-stage founders.
There has never been a moment in history when more is possible. It takes just one person with exceptional ambition to take on the world’s problems and change billions of lives for the better.
Listen to Penny Pritzker's full episode of Inspired with Alexa von Tobel below.
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Microsoft’s boardroom at a defining moment for AI. The stewardship of Harvard. The work of rebuilding Ukraine’s economy. Few people have held a vantage point like Penny Pritzker’s, and I have the privilege of calling her my friend and every day partner at @InspiredCap.
We finally sat down together on my podcast:
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@InspiredCap closed a $450M Fund IV
- ~$1.4B AUM
- Fund sizes: $200M, $281M, $330M, now $450M
- 10 unicorns, 10 portfolio companies past $100M revenue
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Congrats to the @standinsurance team on their $70M Series C at a $1B valuation! Since backing Stand in 2024, we’ve watched them rebuild home insurance from first principles, using physics and AI to simulate how each home will perform in a wildfire, hurricane, and beyond, then helping make it more resilient.
With a billion-dollar weather disaster now striking the U.S. every 10 days, insurance can’t keep pricing risk by looking backward. Stand’s approach is working, now insuring more than $10B in property, up from $1B a year ago.
We’re so excited to keep backing @danpres, @jasonxmueller, @samshank, and @billclerico as they build the future of home insurance.
Today @standinsurance announced $70M at a $1B valuation, led by @Saga_Ventures. A year ago, we insured $1B of property. Today it's $10B. Disasters follow the laws of physics. Insurance should too. Here's what our team is building:
Today @standinsurance announced $70M at a $1B valuation, led by @Saga_Ventures. A year ago, we insured $1B of property. Today it's $10B. Disasters follow the laws of physics. Insurance should too. Here's what our team is building:
Every company is being ranked and described by AI right now. Most have no idea how they show up.
@profound co-founder @thejamescad joins @alexavontobel on Inspired to talk AI search, marketing for machines, and why AI slop is a skill issue.
.@rhobusiness, the business banking platform built for the AI era, made @Cosign list of the companies people would most want to work at. https://t.co/MN5HkSd2X9
They bring everything a business does with money into one place, from checking and corporate cards to expense management, and they’re hiring across the company right now. Here are a few roles you can apply to today:
Partnerships Associate | SF
VP of Product | NY
Marketing Operations Lead | NY
Growth Engineer | NY
Events and Community Manager | Miami
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Next week, season 2 of our podcast—Inspired—launches! We have a truly INCREDIBLE line up and I couldn’t be more excited.
The next decade is being built *right now.* We sit down with the founders building the future in AI, rebuilding the industries we depend on most, like healthcare and defense. We'll dig into what's actually coming, what keeps them up at night, and what the most AMBITIOUS version of the future could look like. If you’re looking to be Inspired by the next decade, this is the place to tune in.
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AI agents can do a lot, but they still hit a wall when the work moves into the real world.
Someone has to make the call, handle the payment, confirm the booking, or run the errand. That is the problem our portfolio company @duckbillai has been solving behind the scenes, powering 30M+ real-world interactions for several of the AI agents you may already use. Today they're opening it up to everyone as @getseaworthy, a single API integration that lets any agent complete real-world tasks reliably and at scale, with humans as the backstop.
We're proud to back the team and excited to see what builders do with it. If you're building agents, or know someone who is, we'd love to make an introduction!
Seaworthy is live.
One API that lets your AI agent make phone calls, payments, and run errands in the real world. Already powering AI assistants you love, now available to everyone.