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Excited to announce Somos Internet $40M Series B! Super grateful for the group of crazy pirates I have working with me and the incredible investors backing us: Ribbit Capital Bracket Capital Union Square Ventures KASZEK Y Combinator Zero Infinity Partners Western Technology Investment Joshua Tree Partners Packy McCormick Thanks Alex Konrad for covering the story Somos has built a world class team in Colombia/NYC/SF to bring the world's fastest, lowest latency, most stable internet to Colombia and then the rest of Urban Latin America. First international expansion to Mexico City planned for this year. We build everything ourselves: network architecture, custom hardware, in-house firmware, and all the software to run our 1,000+ person operation - no one does this, its really hard and a bit insane but it gives us a structural advantage in cost/performance We're building the fastest internet in the world: 2.5Gig internet for $24/month, 10Gig and 20Gig internet plans available. 40Gig and 100Gig to end consumers coming later this year. We deflating the cost of basic infrastructure through a lot of work intentional engineering. We were building hardware and vertical integrate before it was cool. The world has seemingly finally moved in our direction. If you want to build amazing tech, cause disinflation, work in paradise, and rebuild the future as it used to be. Shoot me a DM and come join us in https://lnkd.in/ehh23j8v

Isembard has raised $50m in Series A funding led by Union Square Ventures. We will open 25 factories this year in the United Kingdom and United States, expand our engineering teams and launch into Germany, France and Ukraine. Tamarack Global and IQ Capital joined the round alongside existing investors Notion Capital and CIV. Angels include Alex Bouaziz (Deel), Andrei Danescu (Dexory) and Matt Briers (Wise). Manufacturing is the rate limiter on our collective security, prosperity and sense of purpose as nations. Isembard is the manufacturer for aerospace, defence and robotics customers. We operate both owned and grow franchisee factories powered by our proprietary software and AI platform, MasonOS. Our mission is to forge industrial acceleration. If you are doom scrolling but would rather solve the hardest problems of our time, get in touch. Roles we are hiring for are in the comments below. Saying that, we prefer to craft roles around the individual rather than craft individuals to roles. And if you're interested, the oil painting in the image is The Iron Rolling Mill (also known as Modern Cyclopes) by Adolph Menzel, which depicts engineers inside a 19th-century German rolling mill.

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Efficient Computer has raised a $60M Series A led by Triatomic Capital, with participation from Eclipse, Union Square Ventures, Overlap Holdings, BoxGroup, RTX, Toyota Ventures, and Overmatch Ventures—bringing total funding to $76M. Energy—not compute—is now the defining constraint as AI and advanced software move into the physical world. This round helps us accelerate our roadmap and expand our engineering and developer teams. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gjzTqtnz #SeriesA #EdgeAI #StartupNews #TechNews #SeriesAFunding