Nathaniel Manning
@natpmanning
Founder & investor focused on updating the world for the 21st century. Co-founded Kettle & Wayfinder. Investor w/ @djrosent @Kindergartenvc.
We started @lgnd_ai to make Earth data accessible and understandable for people and AI. Today, I’m thrilled to share that we’ve raised $9M to help bring that vision to life. Over the past year, our team has built tools that turn raw satellite imagery into insight and action.…
Imagine being Powell right now. Brought inflation down from 9% to 2% while keeping the unemployment rate at 4%. Stocks, Bitcoin, and Gold are all at all time highs. And people are demanding he resign.
Heck yea!!
Today, we’re announcing @TrustVanta's Series D and new valuation – $4.15 billion – led by @Wellington_Mgmt alongside @sequoia, @ycombinator, @CrowdStrike, @GoldmanSachs, @jpmorgan, @craft_ventures, and @Atlassian. Vanta’s mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust.
We asked @natpmanning (Co-Founder & CEO @lgnd_ai) about the ideal customer for their Earth imagery products. "The typical Earth observation market has been mostly government and defense with agriculture, climate, supply chain, logistics, finance, and insurance." "There's almost…
Got a gong today on @tbpn for our $9m seed round @lgnd_ai - go time!
I will be going on @TBPN at 1:20pm pst to talk about @lgnd_ai and making Earth searchable - make sure to tune in!
Morning. On today’s stream: – OpenAI’s Product Roadmap – WSJ reports struggles with OpenAI Project Stargate – Are VCs quietly reducing market volatility? – @aeyakovenko (Solana) – @levie (Box) – @neilparikh (Slingshot AI) – @jansramek (California Forever) – @natpmanning (LGND…
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Morning. On today’s stream: – OpenAI’s Product Roadmap – WSJ reports struggles with OpenAI Project Stargate – Are VCs quietly reducing market volatility? – @aeyakovenko (Solana) – @levie (Box) – @neilparikh (Slingshot AI) – @jansramek (California Forever) – @natpmanning (LGND…
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We at @AvilaVC_ are delighted to be a small part of this - can’t wait
Good timing with our announcement today from @lgnd_ai “enterprise earth intelligence is a $20b business in the next few years” businesswire.com/news/home/2025…
Cloud seeding: tiny weather tweak → mass panic Climate change: global climate disruption → “probably fake news” The cognitive dissonance is wild. Make it make sense!
In the summer of 2024, over a beer with my longtime friend Dan Hammer, we started talking about a familiar obsession: how to make Earth data more useful? Story here: medium.com/@natpmanning/i…
Big day today, as we begin to unveil the vision for LGND AI, Inc. TechCrunch did a fantastic job covering our big audacious goals and our seed round. I wanted to also share this post from myself and the company about how we came about founding LGND and what we are setting out to…
"LGND wants to make ChatGPT for the Earth" - great piece by @tdech in @TechCrunch on LGND AI, Inc. launch and $9m Seed round. Want to shout out so many incredible investors backing our big vision to make Earth searchable over space and time. @JavelinVP @Aenu_impact…
“You probably sink, you know, couple hundred thousand dollars — if not multiple hundred thousand dollars — to try to create that data set, and it would only be able to do that one thing. LGND wants to slash those figures by an order of magnitude or more." Great piece on @lgnd_ai…
JDs boiled down: CEO: what needs to get done and decided, in what order, and by who? CPO: make sure the right thing is built on time CTO: make sure everything is built in the right way, for scale and moat CRO: make sure we hit our sales goals, and customers keep buying COO:…
Who’s going to be @AcquiredFM Radio City Music Hall live event? Lmk!
Wow, Senate democrats showing to be the fiscally responsible party right now. How about that? So will all the tech folks who yelled about the debt as the single most important issue the last 4 years now reverse and support these 47 Senators?