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Joined February 2021
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Proud to see 3 @DukeCapPartners portfolio companies on the 2025 @Inc 5000: 326 – @AiFiInc : 270 autonomous stores, 9M customers served 586 – @Vestwell : Serving 350K employers, $35B assets 1,407 – @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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Founder & Investor Spotlight: Deb Liu @debliu_ Duke alum, DCP Investor Member, and now a DCP-backed founder. From @eBay, @PayPal & @Meta to CEO of @Ancestry to co-founding Ember AI, now on the boards of @Intuit, @Poshmarkapp & Duke's Pratt School of Engineering. πŸ’™
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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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πŸŽ“πŸ’™ Celebrating Ryan Sidawi From diligence on Quantum Systems to conversations with founders and investors, Ryan made the most of every opportunity. Next up: Chevron’s Finance & Commercial Leadership Development Program. Grateful for his impact & excited for what’s ahead! πŸš€
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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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Our portfolio company Tune Therapeutics shared first clinical data for TUNE-401 at EASL 2026 Ҁ” 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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πŸ’™ Excited to announce Duke Capital Partners' participation in @Phiaco_ 's oversubscribed $35.5M Series A. In just one year, Phia has reached 1.5M users, 9,600 brand partners, and 350M products scanned. Try it free on iOS & Chrome: phia.com
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πŸŽ“πŸ’™ Congrats to Caleb Nelson on earning his J.D./LLMLE from @DukeLaw! From leading DCP’s legal associates and working across deals with MBAs, PhDs, & engineers (often over barbecue), Caleb helped make DCP Associates a stronger community. Next stop: @LathamWatkins πŸš€βš–οΈ Congrats!
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πŸ’™ @DukeU ranks #8 among university ecosystems producing funded startup founders, with Duke in Tier 2 for β€œstrong pipelines with consistent founder output across tech and finance.” Kuddos for John Gardezi's chart. Proud to support Duke’s growing founder ecosystem. πŸš€
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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. πŸŽ‰
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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! πŸŽ‰
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πŸŽ“πŸ’™ 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 DCP’s largest-ever legal associate team and is joining @Kirkland_Ellis in D.C. Congrats! πŸš€
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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 ! πŸŽ‰
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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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πŸŽ“πŸ’™ Impact & Gratitude: Celebrating Mario Espinosa de los Reyes (Fuqua MBA, DCP Associate) Mario brought an operator’s mindset to DCP & drove real deal work Next up: launching Andara Capital Partners, a self-funded search fund. Grateful for his impact & excited for what’s next
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πŸŽ“πŸ’™ 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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