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AI House hosts a Seattle demo day where 25 early-stage startups pitch to investors brought in from across the country. The event aims to connect local founders with outside capital, drawing investors from Conviction, Threshold Ventures, and NextView Ventures, and includes companies beyond AI House’s portfolio. Friday Harbor says it underwrites 0.6% of U.S. residential mortgage applications in August and is beginning to raise its Series A.

Sep 2026 · GeekWireNews article

Freeform raises $67 million in a Series B to expand its AI-native metal 3D-printing platform. The funding will support an upgrade from its 18-laser GoldenEye system to Skyfall, designed to use hundreds of lasers to produce thousands of kilograms of metal parts daily. Freeform says it already delivers hundreds of mission-critical parts each week and plans to hire up to 100 employees and expand its facility to address its contract backlog.

Feb 2026 · TechCrunchNews article

Inertia Enterprises raises $450 million in a Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with GV, Modern Capital, Threshold Ventures, and other investors participating. The startup is developing a laser-based fusion system drawing on technology from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility, and aims to build a laser delivering 10 kilojoules 10 times per second. It hopes to begin construction on a grid-scale power plant in 2030.

Feb 2026 · TechCrunchNews article

Kristen Faulkner says lessons from her venture-capital career helped shape her approach to winning two Olympic gold medals. Before leaving VC in 2021 to pursue cycling, she worked as an associate investor at Threshold Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners. She took teammate Taylor Knibb’s place in the Olympic road race at the last minute, then won gold with the U.S. women’s velodrome team. Faulkner says assessing risk and committing fully to a decision informs how she races.

Aug 2024 · TechCrunchNews article