Michael Tolo

General Partner @blackbirdvc

[Elise Jenkins @Elise__Jenkins]

Ever wondered what cancer sounds like?

Cancer rewires neural circuits in the brain, and we’ve been listening in. More to share in our upcoming pre-print.

[Tuhin Srivastava @tuhinone]

https://t.co/YPONx4IZSz

[Charlie O'Neill @oneill_c]

https://t.co/ERAhd412li

[PsiQuantum @PsiQuantum]

We are thrilled to announce that @LipBuTan1, Intel CEO and longtime veteran of the semiconductor industry, has joined PsiQuantum's Board of Directors.

His appointment reflects PsiQuantum's ongoing work to leverage existing semiconductor manufacturing as the company rapidly scales its silicon photonics platform and drives toward deploying utility-scale quantum computers. Learn more: https://t.co/NxFZlUt1Mo

[Charlie O'Neill @oneill_c]

https://t.co/DpJGks81oW

[Jack Zhang @awxjack]

https://t.co/maiA35u1xp

[Enhance @enhance_labs]

What if the product was the canvas? There's no higher fidelity prototype than... not a prototype at all.

Enhance is the first product development environment:

- Edit your actual product
- See the results instantly
- Share a link and get real feedback
- Generate a clean PR

[Michael Tolo @michaelatolo]

@camhahu @enhance_labs That's actually amazing!

[Michael Tolo @michaelatolo]

@camhahu @enhance_labs Hang on, hang on, you're telling me that I can vibe code whole new features on a mirror of our production codebase ... and that engineering will actually accept my PR?

[Pete Shadbolt @PeteShadbolt]

Amazing work from colleagues at @IcebergQuantum

[Michael Tolo @michaelatolo]

Determination, persistence, and a never-wavering mission!

Building one of the great global businesses from Australia ... congratulations @awxjack and the whole @airwallex team!

[Jack Zhang @awxjack]

Stripe offered to acquire us for $1.2 billion when we had $2M in revenue.

Today, we've raised $330M at an $8B valuation and reached $1B ARR.

We could've died three times during this journey.

This is the story I've never told anyone before:

[Jack Zhang @awxjack]

Stripe offered to acquire us for $1.2 billion when we had $2M in revenue.

Today, we've raised $330M at an $8B valuation and reached $1B ARR.

We could've died three times during this journey.

This is the story I've never told anyone before:

[Ben Woodington @WoodingtonBen]

Today, @Elise__Jenkins and I are thrilled to announce our $10m seed round.

Coherence Neuro is building foundational neurotechnology that will overhaul how we track and treat cancer.

40% of us will get cancer in our lifetimes, yet there is no single cancer care company. Why? Because the entire process involves numerous moving parts, various approaches, medications, and monitoring techniques, with no unified whole.

We solve this through our therapeutic neurotechnology and BCI platform—a critical technology for extending life and improving the human condition. Our platform brings a new approach to treating the disease while capturing biological data that was previously impossible to harness.

Combining these breakthroughs with AI, we can build cancer prediction models that update in real-time. We’ll adapt stimulation and drug therapies with continuous feedback to guarantee the most effective course of treatment.

All this begins with a tiny implant that treats cancer with electricity via your body’s master control system—the nervous system.

Our round was led by @topology_vc (@caseykcaruso) and @artesianvc , with continued support from all our pre-seed investors @Blackbird (@michaelatolo), @PossibleVC, and joined by investors and angels, @XEIA (@samalanascience & @therealbrom), @akilian, @arminbuilds, @mattkrisiloff , @lintaho, @timshi_ai, and @tszzl

[Felix Thomsen @felix_thomsen]

proud of the team. more to come!

[Mike Keating @yzeeklabs]

Stoked to announce that @enhance_labs has raised $2.3m in funding from the best investors in Australia - @blackbirdvc x @qic

We're building voice-first collaboration tools that help teams think better together

Most AI tools try to do the thinking for us. The result is a flood of generic output that looks polished but misses the point. The more we outsource our thinking, the less capable we become at doing meaningful work

The problem isn't that we need more automation. It's that we've never had tools built for how great thinking actually happens. We need to talk through ideas, test our assumptions, build on what others see that we miss. Tools that help us think better, not replace our judgment

I couldn't be more excited to work on this problem with two of my great mates - @HaziqBuilds x @head_jm

I best get back to it.. we have a lot of work to do!
#AI

[Molly O��Shea @MollySOShea]

Slowly, then all at once.

SpaceX now accounts for
- 80-85% of global orbital launches YTD
- 65-70% of satellites in orbit (8,000+)

Reaching:
547 Completed missions
508 Total landings
472 Total reflights

2003, 2012, 2016, 2018, 2024.. SpaceX has been on the edge of bankruptcy & breakthroughs to becoming the clear power law winner

All thanks to Elon & SpaceX's "complex, vertically integrated monopoly structure"

Ashlee Vance (@ashleevance) explains how the biggest companies he's ever covered take 10-12 years

"The biggest things I've ever covered they all take 10-12 years.

I think Silicon Valley sometimes you have this overnight sensation kind of thing where Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg turn up when they're 26, & they're worth a dollars, & I don't know it all looks so easy sometimes.

And especially in software I think sometimes you could get something closer to like a overnight success, even though even that usually takes longer.

But on the hardware side I think everything worthwhile [takes time] even like SpaceX..

2003-2012: From like 2003 it took them until 2012 to actually start looking like a real rocket company

And even then it was like they could go bankrupt at any minute if just a couple things went wrong

2016: Then you get to like 2016 & they start getting closer to flying their main rocket the Falcon 9 a bit more often

2018: All of a sudden you get to like 2018 and they've flipped the entire world on its head and they're flying more than all their competitors combined

But you know through that first 10-12 years it's like they could have gone under at any moment required tons of money and it all looks If you'd asked somebody in 2012 there still would have been people who said:

"This company's ridiculous. It will never work. And they're just gonna spend themselves into oblivion and nobody can make a reusable rocket and this is all pointless."

And those people wouldn't even just be jerks, they would like sort of have a reasonable argument to say all that stuff

So yeah the hardware things are always tricky."

@elonmusk @corememory @PeteShadbolt

[Haziq Nordin @HaziqBuilds]

There's a bunch of chatter about the importance of context. Almost all useful context isn't in your companies docs. It's in your employees heads.

No, Notion and Slack do not approximate a humans head

[Jesse @head_jm]

yoooo that’s us baby @enhance_labs

[Enhance @enhance_labs]

Look, Enhance is for everyone, but founders get the real cheat code: more hours in the day.

If you’re still digging through emails, shuffling calendars, and dumping notes into Notion before your first coffee, you’re bleeding time.

Let Enhance chew through the boring stuff so you can get back to actually building cool things.

Fun fact: Haziq cooked up this feature on a random weekend. Now it lives inside a whole stack of tools we’re shipping.

We’re giving 100 waitlisters early access in two weeks. Come see what a truly universal tool feels like.

[PsiQuantum @PsiQuantum]

There's a lot of noise out there.