Sam Fort

Investing in the future @ DFJ Growth

[Sam Fort @samofort]

Honored to be included on the 2026 Forbes Midas List alongside so many investors I admire, including many friends and co-investors.

Venture is a team sport, and this recognition reflects the incredible people I get to work with every day at @DFJgrowth and the exceptional founders we’ve had the privilege to back over the years.

Grateful to Forbes for the inclusion, to my partners and colleagues for making this work so rewarding, and most of all to the founders who have allowed us to be a small part of their journeys.

[Forbes @Forbes]

Venture capital is on the cusp of what could be its greatest returns ever.

This year’s Forbes Midas List—the 25th anniversary edition—reflects the staggering rise of SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic, three private companies whose valuations are reshaping the venture landscape and driving a record 25 newcomers onto the ranking.

Read more: https://t.co/6s7cg0qAD2 (Photos: Guerin Blask for Forbes) #ForbesMidas

[Gwynne Shotwell @Gwynne_Shotwell]

Congrats and a huge thank you to the SpaceX team that always delivers. This was an incredible first flight of a brand new vehicle. Our collective future flying amongst the stars has become so much closer.

[XBOW @Xbow]

Anthropic’s Mythos raised the bar for AI vuln detection but kept it invite-only.

GPT-5.5 is OpenAI’s answer, and it’s open to all.

We had early access. Ran the benchmarks. Blackbox GPT-5.5 already beats whitebox GPT-5.

Best pentesting model we’ve tested.

Read our analysis: https://t.co/Xlh1iQVu3e

[DFJ Growth @dfjgrowth]

Thrilled to back the @Saronic team in their $1.75B Series D. At @DFJGrowth, we love partnering with founders who are reimagining how critical industries are built – Saronic hits the mark with a clear-eyed vision that is both compelling and crucial.

https://t.co/WX4E41EVzZ

[Sam Fort @samofort]

We’re thrilled to partner with @oegerikus and @XBOW in leading their $120M Series C to bring autonomous, 24/7 hacker intelligence to the enterprise. 🏹

If it can be exploited, XBOW will find it before the bad guys do. 🎯

More on our investment:
https://t.co/kiNWfyLyNn

[XBOW @Xbow]

Technology proven ✅

Market fit proven ✅

Now it’s time to SCALE 🏹🚀

Together with @dfjgrowth and @northzoneVC, we just announced a $120M funding round, valuing XBOW at over $1B.

Our Autonomous Hacker was trained by elite human security experts. In 2025, we proved it can safely and effectively operate in real production environments. Today, over 100 customers worldwide already trust XBOW to protect their most critical assets.

As AI allows attackers to move faster, defenders need the same continuous speed and capabilities.

This milestone allows us to bring autonomous offensive security to the entire industry at the exact moment it’s needed most.

Read more: https://t.co/zEEINPaPZr

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

SpaceX has acquired xAI, forming one of the most ambitious, vertically integrated innovation engines on (and off) Earth → https://t.co/3ODfcYnqfg

[Sam Fort @samofort]

Our first meeting with Yevgeny Dibrov and Nadir Izrael was in @ArmisSecurity's modest Palo Alto office back in 2018. We were immediately struck by their ambitious vision and the product's early breakout growth.

DFJ Growth officially partnered with Armis in early 2020, and it’s been an epic run ever since. It has been phenomenal to watch the team scale from an emerging leader into a global powerhouse, protecting everything from IT to critical OT infrastructure.

Armis has gone well beyond their initial product by defining the Cyber Exposure Management category. Their $7.75 billion acquisition by @ServiceNow is a well-deserved validation of the relentless execution and culture this team has built over the past decade.

So proud to see Armis reach this milestone. A massive congrats to the entire team!! 🚀

[Armis @ArmisSecurity]

📢 MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT 📢

We are excited to announce today plans for Armis to become part of @ServiceNow, the AI control tower for business reinvention.

At Armis we are focused on building a generational cybersecurity business; with this mission in mind, partnering with ServiceNow will allow us to expand on their security workflow strength and accelerate our mission to deliver Exposure Management and Security as well as Cyber Physical System Security in an accelerated fashion.

With its advanced AI-driven software for workflow process and automation, becoming part of ServiceNow is an exciting next step that will expand the security innovation Armis delivers to our diverse customers globally.

Our synergies with ServiceNow enable us to connect real-time asset discovery, threat intelligence, and risk prioritization with automated remediation and response workflows - driving the very best security outcomes for our customers through:

➡️ Stopping attacks before they happen by leveraging Armis Exposure Management and ServiceNow response workflows.
➡️ Protecting the most important physical environments and critical infrastructure, while allowing customers to focus on running their business.
➡️ Accelerated innovation and more value by connecting market leading ServiceNow AI Platform with Armis Exposure Management and CPS solutions.

Read more in our official announcement: https://t.co/kbeQoh0W0f

[Sam Fort @samofort]

Congrats to @ArmisSecurity on their $6.1B valuation and continued momentum toward IPO! Proud that @dfjgrowth has been a partner and investor for nearly six years.

[Armis @ArmisSecurity]

📢 We are excited to announce that Armis has successfully completed a pre-IPO funding round of $435 million, bringing the company’s valuation to $6.1 billion.

This milestone comes amid continued growth and was led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Asset Management and CapitalG. This round was also joined by new investor Evolution Equity Partners, alongside several existing investors.

Read the full press release: https://t.co/LLXOnTeUzQ

[Sam Fort @samofort]

Every era of computing is defined by breakthroughs that simplify layers of complexity. We believe Modular is building this for AI, freeing developers from hardware lock-in so they can focus on creating, not configuring.

Proud to partner with @clattner_llvm, @iamtimdavis, and the @Modular team on their $250M Series C!

[DFJ Growth @dfjgrowth]

Today, we’re proud to back @Modular $250 million Series C financing and its mission to build AI’s unified compute layer.

https://t.co/ZGeGMosbzt

[Modular @Modular]

We raised $250M to accelerate building AI's unified compute layer! 🔥 We’re now powering trillions of tokens, making AI workloads 4x faster 🚀 and 2.5x cheaper ⬇️ for our customers, and welcomed 10K’s of new developers 👩🏼‍💻. We're excited for the future!

[Front @FrontHQ]

Front has surpassed $100M in ARR.

This milestone shows what’s possible when support teams have the right tools and fuel a future where AI and humans work together to deliver faster, more personal customer experiences.

https://t.co/TYlSASHuye

[Sam Fort @samofort]

Excited to back @mitesh711, @trsohmers and @positron_ai in their Series A!

Inference is becoming the backbone of AI workloads, and Positron is building the “brain” to power it. Proud to support a breakthrough product and an exceptional team!

More here:
https://t.co/xot3RFSkom

[Thomas Sohmers @trsohmers]

My startup, @positron_ai just raised $51.6M Series A to rebuild the infrastructure powering AI inference and bring Superintelligence to everyone.

Led by Valor Equity Partners (@valorep) , Atreides Management (@Atreidesmgmt) , and DFJ Growth (@dfjgrowth) —the same teams behind SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, and other companies pushing compute to its physical and economic limits.

Why inference? Because as AI moves from research into production, the real bottleneck isn’t training—it’s deploying transformer models at scale. GPUs were built for flexibility, not predictable workloads. That mismatch means wasted bandwidth, poor density, and massive power costs.

So at Positron, we built silicon specifically optimized for inference:
•>90% memory bandwidth utilization (GPUs typically ~30%)
•Multi-model hosting per card (higher density, lower power)
•Zero code changes — drop in compatability with the HuggingFace Transformers ecosystem.

U.S.-made silicon, stable supply chain, geopolitically resilient
We’re already shipping and running in production environments today.

Here’s what we’ve built, and link to our WSJ coverage and press release in the follow up reply ↓

[Jocelyn Kinsey @Jocelynkinsey]

As longtime believers in the Commercialization of Space🚀 going back to our investment in SpaceX over 15 years ago, we see Impulse as a key enabler unlocking high precision and responsive in-space mobility. Thrilled to be partnering with Impulse Space in their $300M Series C!

Read about our investment here: https://t.co/5IAx3e4Bsm

[Impulse Space @GoToImpulse]

We’ve raised a $300M Series C to #MobilizeSpace. 🚀

It’s one of the largest venture rounds in space industry history—and it means we’re growing our team and scaling production to keep accelerating in-space mobility.

Since our founding in 2021, we’ve flown two successful Mira missions, signed over 30 commercial and government contracts, and maintained our timeline to deliver Helios in 2026.

We’re building the infrastructure to move anything, anywhere in space. And we’re just getting started.

Learn more: https://t.co/lW3zynxhLs

#ImpulseSpace

[Barry Schuler @BSchuler]

We are thrilled to announce DFJ Growth’s launch of our $1.2B Fund V. It was been quite the journey captured by Allie Garfinkle at Fortune Termsheet https://t.co/hGKto8jW6I

[Sam Fort @samofort]

AI is rapidly changing how software gets built — but security products haven't kept up. That’s why we’re so excited to announced @dfjgrowth is leading the $93M Series B in @EndorLabs.

Endor is rethinking AppSec for the AI era, giving devs a smarter way to ship secure code without drowning in false positives or dependency chaos. Their platform cuts 92% of alerts and helps teams fix real issues 6x faster — and now they’re using AI to review AI-generated code before it ever hits production.

Huge shoutout to founders @varun__badhwar and @dstiliadis — the team is building something truly special, and we're thrilled to partner on the journey ahead!

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Endor Labs, which builds tools to scan AI-generated code for vulnerabilities, lands $93M https://t.co/8fEuWC2E1v

[SMX 🇺🇸 @iam_smx]

Elon Musk's Starman, who is currently in space, also urges you not to panic: "Don't Panic!"