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The Birth of The Decentralized Energy Grid

By Cory Anderson, Kyle Harrison, Alexander Stratmoen, Aryan Afrouzi, Alice Ao

The US electric grid was built for a one-way world—now it’s being rewired on the fly to handle two-way power, surging demand, and a decentralized future.

America’s Shipbuilding Crisis

By Krishna Ramamoorthy, Kyle Harrison

The Science Behind Second Chances: De-Extinction and Beyond

By Michael Kim, Kyle Harrison

From reviving lost ecosystem functions to engineering disease-resistant crops and reimagining industrial production, the science behind second chances is transforming how we interact with life itself and reshaping our biological future at a planetary scale.

The Birth of The Decentralized Energy Grid

By Cory Anderson, Kyle Harrison, Alexander Stratmoen, Aryan Afrouzi, Alice Ao

The US electric grid was built for a one-way world—now it’s being rewired on the fly to handle two-way power, surging demand, and a decentralized future.

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Alloy

By Deepti Aggarawal

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Midjourney

By Alexa Kayman, Etienne Segal

Cognition

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HeyGen

By Miu Kumakura

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Poolside

By Braneeth Dayan

Magical

By Alice Ao

Found

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Klarna

By Alexa Kayman, Etienne Segal

Flexport

By Rohan Gupta, Etienne Segal

Zipline

By Rahul Konapur, Sachin Maini, Etienne Segal

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Saronic

By Krishna Ramamoorthy

Titan

By Dhruv Methi

OneTrust

By Naman Modani

Bolt

By Etienne Segal

Anthropic

By William Guo, Alice Ao, Etienne Segal

Formation Bio

By Ranjani Sundar, Teo Dimov

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Synthesia

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Alloy

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Perplexity

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AI / ML

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The Trillion-Dollar Battle To Build a Robotaxi Empire

Autonomous Driving

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The Long Tail of AI

Deep dive

Building an AI-Native Company

Data Infrastructure

Deep dive

The Openness of AI

Deep dive

The New Frontier in Finance

Finance Software

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From Notetaking to Neuralink

Modal

Magical

Midjourney

OpenAI

Synthesia

Poolside

Cognition

Helsing

HeyGen

Consumer Social

Perplexity

Scale AI

OneTrust

Anthropic

Applied Intuition

Autonomous Driving

Writer

Bolt

Windsurf

Formation Bio

Bowery Farming

Agriculture Tech

Character.AI

Consumer Social

Figure

Abridge

Moveworks

Crusoe

Shield AI

Decagon

Customer Service

Sword Health

Captions

Consumer Social

Checkr

Copy.ai

Epirus

xAI

Glean

Hippocratic AI

Lumafield

Skild AI

Runway

Foundry

Cloud Computing

Optimizely

Sales & Marketing

ElevenLabs

LangChain

Tecton

Together AI

Cloud Computing

Otter

Vannevar Labs

Hebbia

AlphaSense

AMP Robotics

Neuralink

Pinecone

Weaviate

Data Infrastructure

Mistral AI

Socure

Hugging Face

Cohere

Nomic

Mem.ai

Instabase

AssemblyAI

Data Infrastructure

Ada

Customer Service

Abnormal Security

Grammarly

Weights & Biases

DataRobot

DeepL

Hive

DoNotPay

Descript

Fivetran

Data Infrastructure

Snorkel AI

Anduril Industries

Jasper

Sales & Marketing

Dialpad

Fintech

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The Great Bank Unbundling

Deep dive

Living Landscape: Fintech Infrastructure

Deep dive

The Crypto Creed

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Klarna

Found

eToro

Titan

Mercury

EarnIn

Airwallex

Cedar

Metronome

Built

Nova Credit

Ramp

Finance Software

Blockchain.com

Melio

TruckSmarter

Equitybee

Ripple

CoinTracker

Plastiq

Chime

Pulley

Wealthfront

Wrapbook

Revolut

Moov

Lithic

Sardine

Plaid

Finix

Vertical Market SaaS

Lead Bank

Unit

Column

Modern Treasury

Treasury Prime

Monzo

Brex

Finance Software

Navan

MoonPay

Kraken

Stripe

Long-Term Stock Exchange

Addepar

PhonePe

Groww

Kalshi

Razorpay

Rapyd

DailyPay

GoCardless

Public

Greenlight

Checkout.com

Neo Financial

Flutterwave

Papaya Global

Goldfinch

Deel

Divvy Homes

Cybersecurity

4 Deep Dives · 28 Companies

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Identity Crisis: The Biggest Prize in Security

Deep dive

Taking The Fight To The Cloud

Cloud Computing

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The Era of Endpoints

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Unlocking the Cybersecurity Landscape

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Persona

Data Infrastructure

Orca Security

Cloud Computing

Stytch

Automattic

Creator Economy

Secureframe

Cloud Computing

Lacework

Cloud Computing

Cyera

Data Infrastructure

Chainguard

Axonius

Vertical Market SaaS

Cribl

Data Infrastructure

Semgrep

Wiz

Cloud Computing

Lookout

Cloud Computing

1Password

Panther

Data Infrastructure

Socure

Illumio

Netskope

Resourcely

Cloud Computing

Snyk

Cybereason

Verkada

Abnormal Security

Fireblocks

Flock Safety

Arctic Wolf

Vanta

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