GP @swellvc — @LoftOrbital @ScienceDotIO @aretraasdahl @AndrewNinh @credal_ai @GoSharpei @ArrayLabs @modern_ai @exodysenergy Rybodyn Deepnight GodelaAI
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Jay Patil retweeted
Apr 20
Margs & Moonshots is back for year four
Swell VC’s annual AI mixer during NY @Techweek_ . B2B pre-seed and seed founders, investors, and builders under one East Village roof. No panels, no small talk, just the conversations that matter when AI meets critical infrastructure. Oysters and strong margaritas included
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Alex, Pierre and the Loft team have always been years ahead, quietly building next gen capabilities before the hype cycle catches up
Mar 10
Loft is all in on Space-based AI.
Today, satellites are passive sensor platforms. Human operated. Collectors of raw data that gets downlinked, processed on the ground and distributed to users.
Our vision is to turn satellites into flying inference engines. Autonomous nodes, connected to the ground by real-time data relays.
Satellites were not designed to work this way. Try asking any satellite operator to run a third party provided AI application onboard their satellite....not going to happen.
For the past several years, we've been quietly building the software layer onboard that solves this problem, allowing any first or third party AI application to deploy and run on a Loft satellite. This is the key unlock for how we transform our satellites into AI-enabled decision-making nodes.
More to come....
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the exact problem @credal_ai is solving in production today: permission-sync'd agents across Slack/GSuite/Salesforce/etc, auto PII redaction, human approvals on risky actions, full immutable logs
Multiple specialized agents, governed and compliant.
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When Rusty and I started investing as a team 14 years ago, we decided to put two constraints in place to stay disciplined - fund size (stay small, laser focused) and check size relative to fund size (high conviction, concentration)
25 Sep 2025
the first book that convinced me that it is worth studying the history of individual firms was "Let My People Go Surfacing": the history of Patagonia
not because I liked their weird anti-consumerism, but because the company is an incredible exercise in picking your constraints
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How about multiple agents — all accessing information across your work in a compliant, secure way — @credal_ai
23 Mar 2025
First agent to connect to all of your work apps — so it can access information and complete tasks across all of them — will probably win.
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Huge congratulations to @thatbergness, Pierre, and the @LoftOrbital team for staying audacious, humble, and obsessed with driving value for their customers. The insane complexity they've abstracted to simplify space access demonstrates their determination to solve the hardest problems first and build a machine around things that do not scale. Honored to be on this journey.
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Pumped to welcome RyboDyn to the swell fam - pioneering the "discovery-as-a-service" model to shift the paradigm in pharma r&d and personalized medicine prnewswire.com/news-releases…
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Imagine putting air filters in all Indian homes
27 Dec 2024
putting a cheap air filter in a classroom leads to roughly the same increase in student test outcomes as the best charter schools in the country ($18k/y)
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Awesome convo with Nick @TheFullRatchet on @swellvc and how we’re bucking current trends — invest in great people, invest in the shit that matters, and eventually with some luck, you might produce this magical thing called DPI
12 Nov 2024
@rusty_ralston & @jaypatil of @swellvc share why they back founders over trends, their unique recruiting edge, and how they help create category-defining companies. Learn how they’re achieving top-tier returns with a hands-on approach on The Full Ratchet, Episode 459.
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Jay Patil retweeted
6 Nov 2024
🇺🇸 I was fortunate to meet and hear retired US Space Force General and the first Chief of Space Operations of the @SpaceForceDoD, General John Raymond, speak at the @NYSE Space Summit
Key insights from General Raymond on America's future in space defense:
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Sums up the principal-agent problem in venture
8 Oct 2024
I have almost never seen a VC platform team that was actually effective at helping founders recruit pre-Series A.
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There's a lot of brand-building in VC, at @swellvc our brand is built around doing the work most GP's shy away from
4 Oct 2024
"We have recruiting not as an HR process but a sales process."
What's it like to have your VC GPs come from a talent and assessment background? @swellvc Cofounder @rustyralston explains their hands-on approach to helping early-stage founders build their crucial early team in this clip from Monday's podcast.
Want more? Subscribe to LinkedIn Presents: Redefining Work wherever you get your audio. 🎧
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Jay Patil retweeted
19 Sep 2024
There are two things that matter in VC that you don’t hear much about on VC podcasts
Judgement (picking winners) & DPI
Glad to be in the top decile club
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This is earned insight…there’s no fixing this. having instinct around who to hire is the single greatest superpower a founder can have. And sometimes, it’s binary
23 Aug 2024
One of the most frustrating things as a board member is trying to get a CEO to learn how to raise the talent bar in areas they aren't expert (eg, a technical CEO that consistently hires weak business leaders). It's is very very hard to fix. Requires tremendous coaching. WDYT?
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Pumped to play this (long) game with Rusty, our LPs and the incredible founders doing their life’s work
10 Jul 2024
Swell VC: An Interview With Co-Founder Rusty Ralston About Finding Market-Defining Opportunities In Venture Capital dlvr.it/T9PxZp
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Best partner in the 🌎 to build @swellvc with 🙏🏽
28 Jun 2024
Excited to share my recent interview with @VatorTV! 🎤 I had a great time discussing our journey and vision at Swell VC. Check it out:
vator.tv/news/2024-06-27-mee…
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