Primal Capital

Early capital for builders at the edge of digital assets, AI and the physical world.

[Standard Bots @standardbots]

@Google just featured Standard Bots in its roundup of startups pioneering robotics with AI. Physical AI only matters when it works on the factory floor. That takes hardware, software, and AI built as one system working together.

"The real transformation is happening where these models meet the physical world."

That’s where we live. We’re deploying intelligent robots you can talk to. Robots that adapt. Robots that anyone can use. This is how we expand human capacity.

Read on: https://t.co/gHkmqdlsU1

[Deniz Kent @Deniz_H_Kent]

What % of adults are more excited than concerned about AI? I opened a talk last weekend with that question, to a room full of brilliant frontier AI researchers. Hands went up. 70%! 50%! 60%! 80%!

I then shared the data. The answer is 9%, and it's trending down. It caused quite a stir. So, how does public trust come back? When people rank dozens of possible AI futures, the one they see as most beneficial and least risky is AI that improves our health. I went on to explain why current approaches in AI understanding biology are both critical and insufficient. And why AI companies need to integrate their algorithms directly into the cell, using light as a digital actuator. I provided a roadmap for how to use that to make all biological products, and how it could completely transform human and planetary health.

Parts of the deck I presented is attached, and the essay that inspired it is in the comments. Feel free to share with anyone who you think might be interested!

[Plume @plumenetwork]

Kimber Digital Securities, Plume's affiliated broker-dealer, has been approved for FINRA membership and is now registered as a broker-dealer with the SEC.

This is a milestone for Plume and a major step toward achieving Plume's mission to bring the real world onchain, compliantly.

The broker-dealer is built to put real tokenized securities with full shareholder rights into an investor's wallet. It carries the protections of a regulated firm, e.g., best execution, independent oversight of operational and cyber risk, and clear, continuous disclosure.

Broker-dealer registration also gives our customers access to the core of U.S. market infrastructure, the Depository Trust Company. Investors will be able to hold eligible stocks, ETFs, and bonds in their self-custodial wallets while keeping the book-entry claim that's already recorded at the DTC.

DTC entitlements give these tokens what most onchain assets lack, a settled, recognized claim on the real U.S. equity, ETF, or bond asset.

Real ownership. Onchain distribution. Designed for compliance.

Read the full announcement: https://t.co/3jgn6WGPyB

Securities offered through Kimber Digital Securities LLC, member FINRA. Investment products are Not FDIC Insured, Not Bank Guaranteed and May lose value.

[Primal Capital @primal_capital]

Congrats to the @plumenetwork team on bringing SBI Asset Management's Japanese equity strategy to Bybit as JPE.

[Plume @plumenetwork]

SBI Asset Management's Japanese high-dividend equity strategy is launching on @Bybit_Official via @DigiFTTech as JPE, powered by Plume.

JPE is the first Japanese equity product on Bybit RWA Earn, subscribed in USDC on a platform trusted by 80M+ users.

From PIMCO to CMB International, and now SBI, Plume helps make institutional-grade assets available across borders.

[Primal Capital @primal_capital]

Congrats to the @plumenetwork team on the FinChain partnership to launch FLEX & FINO. Proud to back you.

[Plume @plumenetwork]

FinChain, incubated by Fosun Wealth Holdings, is partnering with Plume to launch FLEX & FINO, a leveraged yield product.

FUSD is backed by tokenized U.S. Treasuries and money market funds. Holders can post it as collateral, borrow USDC, and use that USDC for looping strategies.

With $1B+ in onchain assets minted, Plume Vaults is helping Open Finance move beyond issuance into genuinely usable financial applications.

Learn more about our partnership with @FinChain_EN → https://t.co/w5ylJ7ACf9

[Fasset @fasset]

23 digits. Retired.

Our app has a new look, with a cleaner design and instant payments.

With Fasset Tag, just use someone’s @ tag to send or receive money.

[Plume @plumenetwork]

FinChain, incubated by Fosun Wealth Holdings, is partnering with Plume to launch FLEX & FINO, a leveraged yield product.

FUSD is backed by tokenized U.S. Treasuries and money market funds. Holders can post it as collateral, borrow USDC, and use that USDC for looping strategies.

With $1B+ in onchain assets minted, Plume Vaults is helping Open Finance move beyond issuance into genuinely usable financial applications.

Learn more about our partnership with @FinChain_EN → https://t.co/w5ylJ7ACf9

[Grvt @grvt_io]

GLP is going on-chain.

Through our partnership with @axcess_finance , we will bring GLP on-chain, build dedicated institutional credit infrastructure, and introduce institutional credit as a new yield category in Grvt Earn.

[Science Corporation @ScienceCorp_]

This morning, Science received the 2026 Prix Galien award for Best Startup, recognizing the innovations around the continuing development of our vision restoration BCI, PRIMA.

Thank you to @GalienFdn for this recognition.

[Evan Beard @evanbeard]

A talented crew (EO) spent weeks on a mini documentary on @standardbots, and it's live today.

Their crew came to our factory in Glen Cove, New York, and saw everything up close. That included the SMT room where we make every circuit board that goes into our robots, a factory floor we're growing from 30,000 to 70,000 square feet, and the team training our AI on real data from robots working in the field. A lot of the Standard Bots team came in to show them what we do and why we care so much about it.

I'm really proud of how they told our story, including the hard parts. It took us seven years to sell our first 100 robots. At one point my friends staged an intervention and told me it was time to go do something else. We kept going.

Here's why. Last year China installed 9x as many robots as the United States. Robots aren't just another kind of hardware. They're what makes everything else: semiconductors, medicines, defense systems, energy infrastructure.

Our mission is to bring robotics and manufacturing back to the U.S. and rebuild the middle class along with it. Manufacturing has always been the heart of the American middle class. Robots make American workers more productive, and that's how we earn the right to create high-paying jobs here. Instead of welding in the smoke, a worker runs six welding robots. That's a better job, a safer job and a higher-paying job.

We build robots in America, for use in America.

Thank you to the EO team, and to everyone at Standard Bots who made time for this. Watch the full episode here:

https://t.co/ZeictLZwL9

[Plume @plumenetwork]

Plume Vaults now offers access to home equity yield from @Figure through nPRIME.

nPRIME holds @HastraFi's PRIME, which earns from Figure's Democratized Prime pool, where lender capital finances Figure-originated home equity lines of credit.

@ether_fi is already allocating. Open Finance is just one deposit away.

[Atoms @atomsandbitsxyz]

First major CDMO partnership for @ProlificMachine , and the bridge from lab results to industrial scale. Congrats @Deniz_H_Kent and team.

https://t.co/VOyIo4RiZm

[Atoms @atomsandbitsxyz]

Congrats to @stelliostech and @DrStarson.

American high-energy power, from counter-drone defense to compact fusion.

Proud to back you at pre-seed, and this is just the beginning.

[sebby_d @sebbydavies]

Stablecoins made settlement work.

Spending them at a till is a different job, and for now it runs through the card networks.

A short piece on The Spend Layer, the boring parts that make it work, and where @Immersve fits. https://t.co/wa5qdZtxKs

[Standard Bots @standardbots]

“We believe data quality matters far more than raw volume, and we focus on getting the most out of targeted data rather than chasing the largest possible dataset,” explained Standard Bots Head of Applied AI @leifjentoft.

Jentoft and CEO @evanbeard talked with @ricmac of @latentspacepod about how we build AI-native robots for reliable execution on the factory floor.

Read the full piece: https://t.co/HW7AHrjKai

[Science Corporation @ScienceCorp_]

Our first blind patient in a clinical trial with Stargardt disease received the PRIMA implant and at his first rehab session, he saw a letter, and during his second session, he read a word. Watch the video:

[Fasset @fasset]

"Everyone's excited about the ocean. We're building the ports."

Our CEO & Co-Founder @RaafiHossain on crypto-native neobanks, emerging markets, and moving any asset to any asset at @kbwofficial, alongside @ether_fi and @raincards.

[Standard Bots @standardbots]

Robots create jobs. Better jobs.

“When we asked parents whether they’d like to see their kids working in manufacturing jobs, the overwhelming response is no. The work is physically demanding and can be dangerous. But when we asked if they’d like to see their kids managing robots, it flipped,” explained @evanbeard, Standard Bots Founder & CEO, in conversation with @JasonrShuman of @PrimaryVC.

Robots take on the heavy, repetitive, dangerous tasks. People move up to running, maintaining, and improving the machines. Work gets safer. Shops get more capacity, and capacity creates room for growth.

When manufacturers become more competitive, they can grow their businesses, create more jobs, and raise wages. For every manufacturing job, another five jobs are supported elsewhere in the economy.

That’s the future we’re building: manufacturing where the work is safer, the jobs are better, and the next generation wants in.

[Auki @Auki]

Shelf scanning practice for next week's live demo at an important expo for the convenience store and fuel retailing industry.

We'll be there with our partners @bracketbot and Bruegmann.

[Standard Bots @standardbots]

$200M raised. A 70,000 sq ft facility. Robots in real production.
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