James Pardee

VC @ 137 Ventures | 🧢😈

[James Pardee @jameslpardee]

@Katie_Roof This dynamic seems to be under appreciated

[Eoghan McCabe @eoghan]

We’re excited to share that we just signed an agreement for @salesforce to acquire @fin_ai for ~$3.6B. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Salesforce’s fiscal year 2027.

Fin started as Intercom 15 years ago. We changed our name to cap our transformation just weeks ago. We were a darling of the SaaS era and invented so many of the patterns you see in software today. Nearly four years ago, in need of a reboot, we jumped on weeks-old modern LLMs to create and define the category we know as Customer Agents today.

Salesforce invented modern software and SaaS. And @benioff is like the final boss of tech founder CEOs. In seat for 27 years, he’s one of the last of his era. Still pushing, pivoting, placing big bets. It’s a privilege for @destraynor and I to get to partner with him and join forces with Salesforce upon close at this most fascinating time. And will be very fun to get their help bringing Fin to magnitudes more consumers.

To our customers: Over the past few years we’ve been shipping intensely. Including recently our groundbreaking model, Apex, and our paradigm-defining internal agent, Operator. With the resources of Salesforce this will only accelerate. And yet little will practically change. I’ll still be CEO, Des will still be running R&D, we’ll both still be committed to continuing to lead this category. Thank you very sincerely and deeply for your belief in us.

To all of our friends, our families, and our employees, past and present: While this is not the end, it is a major, pivotal, special, and emotional moment for us. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you. For everything.

To my cofounders, my exec team: Look what we built. Four young lads with a dream and nothing to lose. And a home grown exec team who pulled off the greatest and arguably only late stage software company pivot to AI, and invented one of the most important categories in AI. Thank you for sticking through all of this with me.

And now, time to get back to work. See you at our next product launch in a couple weeks. (:

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Teams are go for launch with a $135 price per share for the SpaceX IPO → https://t.co/HlsF4GxRbI

[Impulse Space @GoToImpulse]

We've raised a $500 million Series D to continue solving the next big challenge in space: movement beyond launch.

With over $1 billion in total capital raised, our team and our production are scaling aggressively to accelerate humanity’s future beyond Earth.

Read more: https://t.co/lDhjQyADHU

[Department of War CTO @DoWCTO]

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has approved the second round of appointments to the recently established Science, Technology and Innovation Board (STIB), bringing the newly unified advisory body to a total of 33 members.

By bringing together top-tier talent that combines scientific and technical rigor with private-sector agility, the STIB serves as a single, unified voice for innovation. This newly integrated board replaces competing recommendations with fast, coherent guidance to support and equip the Joint Force.

STIB Members:
• Dr. Mark Albrecht, Ph.D.
• Dr. Michael R. Anastasio, Ph.D.
• Dr. John W. Betz, Ph.D.
• Mr. Alec M. Bierbauer
• Colonel Gregory L. Bowman, U.S. Army (Ret.)
• Dr. Gary D. Butler, Ph.D.
• Dr. Victoria Coleman, Ph.D.
• Mr. Angus Davis
• Dr. Kelvin K. Droegemeier, Ph.D.
• Commander James Galambos, U.S. Navy (Ret.), Ph.D.
• The Honorable James F. Geurts
• The Honorable James P. Gfrerer
• Mr. Kellen Giuda
• Captain James R. Gosier, U.S. Navy (Ret.)
• Mr. John Hering
• Dr. Alicia Jackson, Ph.D.
• Mr. Alex Jacobson
• Colonel Daniel Javorsek, U.S. Air Force (Ret.), Ph.D.
• Colonel Bruce D. Jette, U.S. Army (Ret.), Ph.D.
• Lieutenant Colonel Robert F. Lehman, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.)
• Mr. Thomas D. Lehrman, J.D.
• Mr. Shaun Maguire
• The Honorable Christopher C. Miller
• Mr. Thomas F. Mooney
• Dr. Milan Nikolich, Ph.D.
• The Honorable David L. Norquist
• Mr. Vayl Oxford
• Mr. John D. Robusto
• Mr. Joshua Steinman
• Lieutenant Colonel Bradford C. Tousley, U.S. Army (Ret.), Ph.D.
• Dr. James Trebes, Ph.D.
• Dr. Steven H. Walker, Ph.D.
• Captain Bryant T. Wysocki, U.S. Air Force (Ret.), Ph.D.

[James Pardee @jameslpardee]

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[Christian Garrett @CGarrett_15]

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[Bloomberg @business]

137 Ventures, a repeat investor in Elon Musk’s SpaceX, has raised $700 million across two new funds to back startups over longer time horizons https://t.co/Dv13l8AnRi

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

SpaceX has released a new mini-documentary about Starship and version 3 of the rocket.

Incredibly well produced!

[James Pardee @jameslpardee]

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[James Pardee @jameslpardee]

@MollySOShea @artlevy @jasonmok Three 🐐s

[Arya Hezarkhani @_i_am_arya]

Today, we're announcing Heaviside, our foundation model for electromagnetism.

Trained on tens of millions of designs and over 20 years of proprietary simulation data, Heaviside predicts electromagnetic behavior from geometry in 13ms, which is 800,000x faster than a commercial solver.

Heaviside is not a language model, and it’s not a surrogate model. Heaviside marks a new class of foundation model for physics which understands the fundamental relationships between materials, the geometries and the electromagnetic fields they generate.

We’re releasing a research preview of Heaviside in Atlas RF Studio, an interactive agentic sandbox where you describe the EM behavior you want and the model generates the physical structure that produces it.

@arenaphysica , we believe the implications of this class of model extend well beyond RF, as the frontier of exquisite hardware is electromagnetically-governed: wireless communication, radar, power delivery, high-speed computing, and the interconnects inside every chip on earth.

In the months ahead, we’re excited to scale up Heaviside to broader frequency ranges, design spaces, and to support silicon-level designs, and deploy it with our closest partners and collaborators in service of their biggest design challenges.

If you’ve read our thesis, this is just Step 2 in our pursuit of electromagnetic superintelligence.

Read the full announcement and try Atlas RF Studio…tell us what you think: https://t.co/oCOsJQvF1h

[Arena Physica @arenaphysica]

Introducing Arena Physica.

For years, we've been quietly building alongside the teams defining the frontier of hardware — embedding with @AMD in AI compute, @anduriltech in defense technology, @BauschLomb in advanced manufacturing, and @SiversSemicond in satellite and 5G communications.

Atlas, our platform for agentic hardware workflows, is only the beginning. We believe a new class of foundation model will let humans push further into the physics that shapes our world but remains fundamentally unintuitive to us.

Read our thesis here: https://t.co/tmRxPcWrRi.

Thank you to @packyM for capturing why electromagnetism secretly runs the world - and what it means to build electromagnetic superintelligence.

Our foundation model launches in 7 days. Link in the comments to be first to know.

[Packy McCormick @packyM]

The future is electromagnetic.

One challenge is that there are ~ten people in the world who can deeply intuit electromagnetism. RF engineering is "black magic."

Arena Physica thinks machines can intuit EM better.

CEO Pratap Ranade & I on AI for EM:

https://t.co/U3CUnqcYPp

[Hadrian @HadrianInc]

We've been working to bring something big to The Shoals, and now, it's time. On March 20th, we'll be launching our newest facility - Factory 4 - in Alabama.

Expect:
• 2.25M sq ft of manufacturing
• 1,000+ jobs created
• $2B in Private/Public investment
• Remarks from @SenKatieBritt, @SenTuberville, @RepMikeRogersAL, @Robert_Aderholt and other senior officials
• A private concert from our favorite rock band of all time, local BBQ, and the best entertainment Alabama has to offer

Building for America is worth celebrating. Apply for an invite here, spots limited → https://t.co/NU2vZ0vVKW

[James Pardee @jameslpardee]

@NWischoff @jasonmok 👀

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[James Pardee @jameslpardee]

@davidneckstein @MaxJunestrand Congrats! 🚀🚀🚀

[Bridgit Mendler @bridgitmendler]

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