t maleh

no risk, no reward 🏒

[t maleh @tmaleh9]

@LewisHowes if you know the person, text.
if you don't know the person, call.

[t maleh @tmaleh9]

@raycast did it again. one less subscription for me to pay. Whisperflow was great, but Raycast is my everything tool.

[Raycast @raycast]

🎙️ Become a Dictation Pro with out new video guide. Free during Beta for all of our Mac and Windows users.

[t maleh @tmaleh9]

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[t maleh @tmaleh9]

@Tristanrhee3 artificial depression

[1752vc @1752vc]

Congratulations to KINDRED! 🎉

Last night, 4 incredible founders took the stage and delivered standout pitches to a panel of industry decision-makers.

After a highly competitive round, KINDRED — led by founder Julia Klingberg — emerged as the Lightning Round VIII Champion!

KINDRED is an agentic regulatory intelligence that turns medical-device data into defensible, citation-backed regulatory filings using a reasoning engine built on a lawyer-encoded regulatory graph.

A huge shoutout to all the founders who pitched:

a2a cloud - Robert Seares
Contrax AI - Day Cantave
Prilog - Robert Markovski

And a massive thank you to the people who made this event possible:

Lucas J. Pols, Taissa Maleh, Ben Kahan, Kunal Phalak, Zachary Betts, Keith Yoder, Reda Roqai Chaoui, Zanc Zhao

Your support, energy, and expertise continue to make Lightning Round a place where new category leaders are discovered.

Ramp Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP Innovent Capital Group

[t maleh @tmaleh9]

very sad day ... had to enlarge the display to "default"! I'm getting old. 😭👵

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

JUST IN: AI datacenters now require nearly as much power as the entire US

[t maleh @tmaleh9]

@BessemerVP one of the riskiest AI innovation constraints - a costly, time-consuming bottleneck.

[Bessemer @BessemerVP]

1/ We've been mapping the AI data center stack — and the opportunity is hiding in plain sight.

Everyone's talking about GPUs. The real bottleneck is physical infrastructure: power, permitting, cooling, and the grid. 🧵

[t maleh @tmaleh9]

@ADINonline @awrigh01 @pridesai @dnlklr @anamitra @HustleFundVC @1752vc - pre-seed, generalist with strong preference for deep tech, AI infrastructure/orchestration/application. rolling application through our website 1752 dot vc 🚀

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

Nvidia is joining the AI debt financing boom:

Nvidia, $NVDA, sold $25 billion of investment-grade bonds on June 15th, its first debt offering since 2021.

This ranks as the 2nd-largest US high-grade bond sale of 2026.

The deal attracted ~$85 billion in investor orders, more than 3 times the offering size, leading the company to increase the offering from an initial target of ~$20 billion.

This follows Alphabet, $GOOGL, Amazon, $AMZN, Meta, $META, Oracle, $ORCL, and Salesforce, $CRM, collectively raising ~$132 billion in investment-grade bonds this year alone.

Debt is becoming a key source of AI infrastructure funding.

[This Week in Startups @twistartups]

Sam Altman walked into YC, offering founders $1M in free tokens for a slice of equity.

Jason's advice: run.

OpenAI is watching your token usage, ranking the winners, then shipping the top 5 as native features.

Get off the frontier models, use open source, and own your data.

@Jason

[t maleh @tmaleh9]

@FBIDirectorKash let’s gooo 🙏🙌

[t maleh @tmaleh9]

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[TSA @TSA]

If you’re visiting for a very large sporting event & you happen to discover RANCH while you’re here… pls pack it in your CHECKED BAG on the way home.

Thank you.

[t maleh @tmaleh9]

@geoffreywoo pre series B, they are mostly acqui-hires.

[t maleh @tmaleh9]

@PolymarketMoney what was the catalyst event for this buy?

[1752vc @1752vc]

Lightning Round Pitch Competition VIII is TONIGHT 🔥

After fierce competition and hundreds of applicants, only the top 2% remain.

Join us at 4:30 PM PT as four exceptional startups battle it out in the Grand Finale:

Featuring:

a2a cloud: A governed runtime for autonomous agents that adds identity, scoped permissions, and signed receipts so every agent action in production can be audited and replayed.

Contrax AI: An AI platform purpose-built for federal DLA/DIBBS contracting that surfaces winnable solicitations, auto-compiles bids, and prices them to win.

prilog: Self-healing software that turns production incidents into ready-to-review fix PRs automatically, cutting hours of debugging down to minutes.

KINDRED: Agentic regulatory intelligence that turns medical-device data into defensible, citation-backed regulatory filings using a reasoning engine built on a lawyer-encoded regulatory graph.

Also featuring a panel of investor-judges:

Kunal Phalak — Vice President, WestBridge Capital.

Invests in early- to growth-stage AI. A founder-turned-investor since 2018, focused on vertical AI, Voice AI, and enterprise automation. Wharton MBA; IIT Bombay EE.

Zachary Betts, MBA — General Partner, Zandia Ventures.

SF Bay Area family-office investor-operator. 25+ years advising seed-to-growth startups across healthcare, medical devices, and AI, all built for measurable human and planetary impact.

Keith Yoder — Senior Associate, Innovent Capital.

Senior investment associate and venture builder at Innovent Capital, the family office of serial entrepreneur Brett Markinson, backing early-stage technology companies.

Want to spectate tonight? Sign up below👇️

[t maleh @tmaleh9]

@nic_detommaso @1752vc is great for technical founders with all its GTM support.

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

BREAKING: SpaceX has agreed to acquire Cursor, the world's fastest growing software startup, for $60 billion in an all stock deal.

Cursor has over 1 million paying customers, more than $2 billion in annualized revenue, and is projected to hit $6 billion by end of 2026.

At $60 billion, this is the largest software acquisition in history, paying 20 to 30 times Cursor's current revenue.

The deal is subject to regulatory approval and expected to close in Q3 2026.

SpaceX now owns the rockets, the satellites, the AI models, the chips, and is about to own the tool every developer on earth uses to write code.

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

bringing the trophy to NYC 🏆