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13 Aug 2025
Proud to see 3 @DukeCapPartners portfolio companies on the 2025 @Inc 5000:
326 β @AiFiInc : 270 autonomous stores, 9M customers served
586 β @Vestwell : Serving 350K employers, $35B assets
1,407 β @levitateai : AI-powered relationship marketing
#Inc5000 #Growth #Startups
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Databricks co-founder and Berkeley CS professor @istoica05 joined the Advisory Council of our portfolio company @liquidai to guide "the efficient AI infrastructure and platform for a hardware-aware, physical AI future." Welcome!
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π Read the full Founder & Investor Spotlight on Deb Liu β including more from her time at Duke: dukecapitalpartners.duke.eduβ¦
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The AI agents everyone's deploying are becoming an easy way in for attackers. That's the case Octane Security founder Giovanni Vignone made on the etn. show - and the exact problem his team's AI is built to catch. Congrats Giovanni & team!
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ππ Celebrating Ryan Sidawi
From diligence on Quantum Systems to conversations with founders and investors, Ryan made the most of every opportunity.
Next up: Chevronβs Finance & Commercial Leadership Development Program. Grateful for his impact & excited for whatβs ahead! π
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Our portfolio company Liquid AI released LFM2.5-8B-A1B, a mixture-of-experts model that runs real AI agents on your phone yet matches models ~3x its size (only 1.5B of 8.3B params active). Fastest in its size class. Open-weight on Hugging Face. Congrats @ramin_m_h & team!
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Our portfolio founder Max Hodak, Duke BME alumnus and Neuralink co-founder, is building the future of vision restoration at Science Corporation with clinical success. They are pushing the frontier of neuroscience, AI, and human health. Congrats @maxhodak_ and @ScienceCorp_ team!
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π π Learn more about Max's journey and Science Corporation π dukecapitalpartners.duke.eduβ¦
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Our portfolio company Tune Therapeutics shared first clinical data for TUNE-401 at EASL 2026 Γ’ΒΒ a first-in-class therapy that epigenetically silences hepatitis B (no DNA cutting), aiming for a functional cure from a finite course. Duke-rooted.
Congrats @cgersbach & team!
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ππ Congrats to Caleb Nelson on earning his J.D./LLMLE from @DukeLaw! From leading DCPβs legal associates and working across deals with MBAs, PhDs, & engineers (often over barbecue), Caleb helped make DCP Associates a stronger community. Next stop: @LathamWatkins πβοΈ Congrats!
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π @DukeU ranks #8 among university ecosystems producing funded startup founders, with Duke in Tier 2 for βstrong pipelines with consistent founder output across tech and finance.β Kuddos for John Gardezi's chart.
Proud to support Dukeβs growing founder ecosystem. π
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Our portfolio company @liquidai - CEO @ramin_m_h Hasani CTO @mlech26l on AI's biggest unsolved problem: their hardware-aware foundation models (AFMD) let intelligence run on every device, not just the cloud. Big things ahead. π
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Our portfolio company @restor3d_ just hit ~300 cases of its iTotal Identity 3DP Porous Knee, with the first Wisconsin implant landing this week. Congrats Kurt Jacobus & team! π
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ππ Celebrating Madeleine Sateri, who earned her J.D. & LL.M. in Law & Entrepreneurship at @DukeLaw while serving as Senior Associate at Duke Capital Partners. Madeleine led DCPβs largest-ever legal associate team and is joining @Kirkland_Ellis in D.C. Congrats! π
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Our portfolio company @Vestwell just went live inside Intuit QuickBooks Workforce β embedding 401(k) where millions of small businesses already run payroll. Congrats @AaronSchumm ! π
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Big news from our portfolio company @embracemobile β strategic partnership with @honeycombio means engineers can now trace a single user from a mobile crash all the way to the backend span, in one OpenTelemetry-native stack. Congrats to the team at Embrace!
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ππ Impact & Gratitude: Celebrating Mario Espinosa de los Reyes (Fuqua MBA, DCP Associate)
Mario brought an operatorβs mindset to DCP & drove real deal work
Next up: launching Andara Capital Partners, a self-funded search fund. Grateful for his impact & excited for whatβs next
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ππ Impact & Gratitude: Celebrating Ryan Bird (Fuqua MBA, DCP Associate)
From finance to the startup ecosystem, Ryan brought curiosity and a strong analytical foundation to DCP β gaining deep exposure to fundraising, entrepreneurship & what investors look for. Congrats Ryan!
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