Fred Ehrsam
@FEhrsam
Co-founder and CEO @Nudge. Co-founder @Paradigm and @Coinbase.
We've raised a $100M Series A from @ThriveCapital, @greenoaks, and a host of great angels. Everyone’s brain can work better. Engineering that idea into reality is the most impactful advancement we can make to life.
Half the world will experience a brain disorder in their lifetime. At @nudge, we're building brain interfaces that are safe, precise, and non-invasive to solve that problem. We've raised a $100M Series A led by @ThriveCapital and Greenoaks to go faster. We're hiring. Join us.
Proud to support the @newlimit team: @byersblake, @brian_armstrong, @jacobkimmel. A great example of a new type of bio company that starts with helping sick people on the way to enhancement for all humans.
We’ve raised a $130 million Series B led by @kleinerperkins alongside new investors @natfriedman/@danielgross , @vkhosla, and @humancapital — joined by existing investors @foundersfund , @_DimensionCap, and @brian_armstrong (yes, the cofounders are doubling down). We also raised…
There will be more bio companies explicitly going after enhancing life for “healthy” people over time. This will often go through first helping “sick” people, as with GLP1s.
Computers able to zero shot antibody discovery. Science fiction is becoming real.
We’re excited to introduce Chai-2, a major breakthrough in molecular design. Chai-2 enables zero-shot antibody discovery in a 24-well plate, exceeding previous SOTA by >100x. Thread👇
Creating abundant energy by pushing nuclear in the US is one of the most important things to work on. @ScottNolan is pushing very, very hard to make that happen. Proud to be a seed investor.
General Matter is enriching uranium for the US. We will revive nuclear fuel production in America. We chose to do this not because it’s easy, and not because it’s hard, but because it needs doing. Nothing gets made if fuel isn’t made. America’s ambitions, from manufacturing to…
Matt was born and bred to lead a new kind of investment firm. His mom was one of the few computer science profs at an elite university, his dad ran quant at Goldman. He effectively ran investment team meetings at the dinner table every night for his younger brothers. His friends…
How bureaucracies naturally accumulate “code debt”: changes to a bureaucracy require emotional activation. Sufficient emotional activation only occurs around acute negative events. Not around the small costs that add up of having lots of rules or rules which no longer make sense.…