JP Parmer

GM @nominal_io
Frmr CEO/cofounder @plotlygraphs
Published physicist @stanford

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Project Crystal Sun

[Alfred Lin @Alfred_Lin]

Defense, space, energy, and robotics are all pulling hardware toward software-speed iteration. The teams winning in these markets ship in hours, days, and weeks, not the months and years hardware has traditionally taken.

Testing is where that pace breaks down. Test data lives in too many places and gets stitched together by hand. @nominal_io is the modern stack for this. They combine test automation, telemetry, and analysis in one place, from the first prototype through production and into operation.

Customers’ behavior is the best evidence. Nominal was recently selected for a $71M STRATFI, and won a delivery order award through PAE’s Rapid Capabilities Cell to speed up integration and testing of Castelion’s Blackbeard on the F/A-18. These are programs where test speed decides how fast a capability reaches the field.

Congrats to @CameronLMcCord, @jrshoch, @brycestrauss and the whole team on the Series C. We’re excited to keep partnering with them.

[Nominal @Nominal_io]

Nominal just raised $240M at a $3B valuation.

Engineers today are building some of the most ambitious machines humanity has ever seen. They should have AI that’s purpose-built for them.

We started Nominal with a simple observation, that hardware teams needed better ways to work with test data and make decisions from it. Over the past four years, we’ve built software that understands the complex realities of hardware development.

Now we’re building the Hardware Intelligence Platform that gives engineers increased visibility into complex physical systems, helps them make better decisions, and ultimately gets their products into the real world faster. It brings together the systems, data, intelligence, and applications hardware engineering requires to meet the AI moment.

Our Series C was led by @Lightspeedvp and co-led by @Insightpartners, with participation from Lux Capital, Sequoia, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Avenir, Lockheed Martin Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, M13, DE Shaw Ventures, Deployment Capital, Avra, Red Glass Ventures, Carpenter Capital, Audacious, PSP, Overmatch Ventures, XYZ, Haystack, and Brave Capital.

Thank you to our customers, partners, team, and every hardware engineer building on Nominal.

Read more here → https://t.co/LEnefGOx9V

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

US voters just rejected data centres everywhere they got the chance.

That investment has to land somewhere.
Clean hydro. Open land. Cold winters.

That's Canada 🇨🇦

This is a massive opportunity for us. Generational.

[Nominal @Nominal_io]

Right now, @aerovironment are scaling production at pace to meet the demands of their customers.

Their CTO, Scott Bowman, on connecting every lesson from test, production, and the field, so engineers and AI models start from what the team already knows.

[Antonio @mozzarellamob]

as per Anthony Bourdain.

case closed.

[Adam Wolnikowski @AdamWoptimized]

"I hate Gundo halloween, what do you mean you're @PalmerLuckey and his Warhound"

[JP Parmer @jp_parmer]

Millions of LiDAR points - synched with vehicle video & telemetry.

Any unmanned vehicle startup can now access the viz & storage capabilities of the autonomy giants with Nominal.

(All in browser with Rust & WebAssembly 🦀 🤯)

https://t.co/CqvY6Lz4iv

[JP Parmer @jp_parmer]

@zanehengsperger The dream

[Adam Wolnikowski @AdamWoptimized]

I was not familiar with the design game @generaldynamics had in the 50s

[JP Parmer @jp_parmer]

@reynoir_will @Nominal_io mais bien sûr!

[JP Parmer @jp_parmer]

Build baby build 🇨🇦

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

Scale like this doesn't happen by accident. High agency, long time horizons, and a willingness to actually ship. More of this, Canada.

[JP Parmer @jp_parmer]

Build baby build 🇨🇦

Churchill Falls + Gull Island == up to ~12 GW of hydro 🌊

And @hydroquebec already operates 37GW of hydro 🤯

[Eliot Pence @EliotPence]

The scale of what Canada is building is hard to overstate:

--Churchill Falls = roughly 9 nuclear reactors worth of clean power.

--Pacific Link = an oil export route approaching the consumption of the entire UK.

--LNG Canada Phase 2 = enough gas to equal roughly half of Canada’s domestic consumption.

[Atelier Missor @AtelierMissor_]

The statue of Prometheus is finally finished.

It was cast in Paris, crossed the Atlantic, and was assembled at Starbase. It took us 100 days to go from nothing to this.

People of the West, we have lived through an era devoid of dreams, devoid of destiny.

But the time has come to reclaim our dream of antiquity.

In a few months, we will start building a new city. It will be the most magnificent city in all of history.

After all, the great dream of the West has always been to rebuild Rome.

Come walk beside us in this endeavor. The world is waiting.

[JP Parmer @jp_parmer]

@bznotes Did Plotly work with ADIA pre-Covid - would setup shop in Emirates or Qatar in a heartbeat

[JP Parmer @jp_parmer]

preach

[Sola 🇨🇦 @SolaTheAnalyst]

North America’s strongest “I could live here” cities:

1. Montreal
2. New York
3. Chicago
4. Mexico City
5. Toronto

[JP Parmer @jp_parmer]

5 y/o daughter, opening a new toy:
... "i'm so happy!"
me: "i'm happy when you're happy"
5 y/o: "no, i'm happy when you're happy!"
2 y/o daughter: "wut?"
5 y/o: "we're having a fight of love"
5 y/o: "it's nice to have a fight of love; it's not nice to have a fight when you're angry"

how sweet is that?

[JP Parmer @jp_parmer]

Yes please 🫡
(cc @harleyf)

[Eliot Pence @EliotPence]

@MarkJCarney - check this out. Let’s do this with the Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre.

Also, let’s find more things in NRC and DRDC that we can commercialize.

Thanks,
Eliot

[JP Parmer @jp_parmer]

Like children, you're not supposed to have a favorite customer, but the @AntaresNuclear team comes damn close. Nice to see @jordanbramble and crew today.

[JP Parmer @jp_parmer]

.@harleyf I founded this Montréal startup with McGill undergrads who’d all interned at Shopify and met @tobi.

Almost all have since moved to the US - to work at @JaneStreetGroup, @Citadel, or start YC companies. I folded the startup to join @Nominal_io.

The Québec brain drain is real. Even at 19, top-of-class McGill CS students already believed “Québec was cooked.”

We need to create more compelling, in-province opps for top 0.1% new grads.

https://t.co/ljRPfQZf6k

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

Quebec is 53rd out of 54.

Among Canada's four biggest provinces and all 50 US states, only Mississippi has a lower GDP per person.

That should bother every one of us.

I moved back to Montreal three years ago. On purpose.

It's one of the most unique places in the world to live. And I've never been anywhere with more entrepreneurs per square foot. Everyone I meet is building something.

It's personal for me too. My family came to Quebec to escape the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. They got their start running small businesses. Quebec (and Canada) gave them a chance.

Lindsay and I want our daughters, and their kids, to stay here and see what I see.

But these numbers are hard to ignore (and insanely scary):

- The average Quebecer's share of the economy is more than $5,500 a year smaller than the average Ontarian's. Last of Canada's four biggest provinces.

- Every hour of work here produces about $22 less than the average of 19 advanced economies. In 1981, that gap was under $3.

- Our businesses invest $11,455 less per worker in equipment, technology and software. Less investment means lower wages.

- We start new businesses at a lower rate than Ontario and the rest of Canada. For more than 20 years straight.

This isn't abstract. It's wages. Housing. Hospitals. Schools.

We can't be in the bottom 10% economically and expect top 10% social services.

Andrew Lutfy of Groupe Dynamite and Alain Bouchard, founder of Couche-Tard, just made this case in open letters in La Presse. They're right. Creating wealth is our job as entrepreneurs. And as Andrew put it, if the Habs finished near the bottom every year, nobody here would shrug. So why do we accept it with our economy?

On October 5, whoever you vote for, ask them one question: what's your plan to make Quebec richer?

It doesn't have to be this way.

We can just choose ambition. We can just choose building. We can just choose to win.