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Steve Jurvetson reposted thisSteve Jurvetson reposted thisAtoms instead of photons: Norwegian startup Lace Lithography is developing a chip-making technology that could one day succeed ASML's #EUV tools. For the foreseeable future, the EUV machine is the only tool capable of printing ultra-fine chip patterns. But the huge demand for #AI computing is encouraging inventors to explore alternatives to ASML's approach, in which #EUV light is generated by firing a powerful laser at tin droplets (#LPP). Techniques such as #nanoimprint (stamping) and #ebeam (writing with electrons) are not suited for mass production. xLight Inc. wants to generate EUV light using an electron accelerator. Chinese companies like Huawei may be trying to produce EUV light by creating a spark near a bath of tin (#LDP), and startup Substrate wants to use X-rays. But in Norway, it's different. "Where light stops, atoms begin," says Bodil Holst, founder of Lace Lithography, a startup based in Bergen. She explains it in a call with NRC, along with co-founder and CTO Adrià Salvador Palau. The #wavelength of light determines how precisely you can 'print'. EUV uses a wavelength of 13.5 nanometers and further reduces that beam using mirrors. The wavelength of helium atoms is less than 0.1 nanometer and could achieve better resolution. Today's best-in-class tool is High-NA EUV, with a half pitch currently at 8 nm. Lace presented 50 nm but could, in theory, shrink to 0.5 nm. By fitting more transistors on the same surface, chips become more efficient and powerful. In practice, you will also need metrology and inspection to verify that all the lines still fit neatly together, otherwise the chip will not work. And that must also happen at high speed, since chipmakers want productivity and need to keep stamping wafers. Lace drives metastable #helium atoms, carrying higher energy in one of their electrons, through a mask with holes. The atoms that are not blocked, hit the light-sensitive layer of a silicon wafer and thus draw the pattern. That mask with holes reminded Bodil Holst of lace making (in Dutch: kantklossen). Lace just raised €40 million in a new investment round. The #EU already provided a grant for research together with imec in Belgium. Holst presented those results at #SPIE, in a room where ASML researchers were also seated. "They said they found it an interesting approach." Around 2030, a Lace prototype capable of printing multiple chip layers should be ready. For a roadmap beyond EUV, Lace has to address issues like #pattern transfer (the chemical process in the #photoresist), as well as #mask creation and inspection and accurate placement of IC features. It requires a great deal of computing work to design that perforated mask so that the chip lines still come out correctly. You need AI and fast chips, explains Adrià Salvador Palau. "Without the powerful chips from EUV machines, we would never have been able to solve that problem." #semiconductors #lithography John Petersen #compute link to article in NRC in comments
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Steve Jurvetson shared thisSome great investors preempted the next round at Centivax: the Collison brothers, Structure Fund (Oliver Mulherin & Sam Altman) and Meiji Seika Pharma. "If our data looks good by the end of this year, effectively, the pandemic era for influenza is over" 💥 "Centivax is a 'universal immunity company,' developing universal snake venom, Alzheimer's, malaria and cancer vaccines. 'You want to treat all the flus, not just one strain,' Glanville says." — From the news: https://lnkd.in/gcbAu2n6Steve Jurvetson shared thisThis latest funding represents momentum. Momentum around a shared vision that is both profound yet practical. The profound realization that there is a direct technology path from here to a world where the pandemic era is over and infection is no longer a common human experience. Practical in that the path carries us over an immense tsunami of profitability, by solving a $7B/year product problem for everyone who has ever said “I took the vaccine but then I still got sick.” We are immensely grateful to Structure Fund, Meiji Seika Pharma Co., Ltd., Sigmas Group, Kendall Capital Partners, Patrick Collison and John Collison for leaning into that vision and enabling us to accelerate our mission. Meiji Group holds the No. 1 market share for influenza vaccines in Japan. The Collison brothers lead Stripe, Inc. This financing builds on Centivax's $45 million oversubscribed Series A completed in June 2025, led by Steve Jurvetson of Future Ventures, who has long shared our common vision of a future of a post-pathogen humanity. That Series A included a syndicate who shared that vision and leaned in to the practical path to get there, including participation from Helen McBride, Ph.D. at BOLD Capital Partners, David Zhu at Kendall Capital Partners, Elliot Hershberg at Amplify Partners, Amol Jain at Base4 Capital, Vandon Duong at Ergo and follow-on from seed investor Vidya Vasu-Devan at Global Health Investment Corporation, and Omri Amirav-Drory at NFX, Centivax's largest shareholder. Special thanks also to Anastasia Budinskaya at NFX, Victor Olmos, PhD from Kendell, Nico Enriquez at Future Ventures and Christopher Ghadban. See the press release for how we are going to use the funds to accelerate the work https://lnkd.in/gFHf3tqu Stephanie Wisner Sawsan Youssef Jerry Sadoff Nicholas Bayless David Tsao Gusti Zeiner Atsuko Sakurai-Sangria Shawna CoteCentivax Closes $37 Million Financing to Accelerate Phase 2 Clinical Development of Universal Flu and Advance Follow-On Portfolio to Clinical ReadinessCentivax Closes $37 Million Financing to Accelerate Phase 2 Clinical Development of Universal Flu and Advance Follow-On Portfolio to Clinical Readiness
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Steve Jurvetson shared thisMarvell at the Mojo By using a grid of micro-LEDs instead of lasers, Mojo delivers 100x more bandwidth/channel and lower energy/bit. Mojo’s fiber has thousands of physically discrete channels for massively multiplexed bandwidth + redundancy for reliability in orbital data centers. Today, Marvell announced their long-term partnership with Mojo to develop a new class of optical interconnect solutions for next-gen AI data centers. Like the human cortex, AI is bottlenecked by memory bandwidth, and Mojo is the cure. They provide many terabits/sec of data from a footprint the size of a grain of sand. • Marvell news: https://lnkd.in/gVgA9X84 • Mojo Risin: https://www.Mojo.vision P.S. Cue the Doors: Mr. Mojo Risin is an anagram for Jim MorrisonSteve Jurvetson shared thisAI workloads are pushing traditional data center I/O infrastructure to its limits. That’s why we’re excited to announce a long-term collaboration with Marvell Technology to develop next-generation, high-density micro-LED connectivity solutions for AI infrastructure. Our approach enables thousands of optical lanes in a tiny footprint, delivering orders-of-magnitude improvements in bandwidth density while significantly reducing energy per bit. Built on Mojo's micro-LED platform and the Marvell Technology industry-leading connectivity technology portfolio, these solutions have been in development for more than a year and are designed to support a variety of AI data center applications for hyperscale and cloud data center customers. Excited to be working alongside such an outstanding partner. More to come. https://lnkd.in/gHQpzZGD #AI #MicroLED #Datacenter #Semiconductors #OpticalInterconnectMarvell and Mojo Vision Collaborate to Develop Next-generation, High-density Micro-LED Connectivity SolutionsMarvell and Mojo Vision Collaborate to Develop Next-generation, High-density Micro-LED Connectivity Solutions
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Steve Jurvetson shared this📲 Last week ZaiNar emerged from stealth. Today they show how powerful a commercial tool their technology is, especially for 5G and carrier customers. The first 5G positioning system to deliver sub-10cm accuracy using only existing connectivity signals; no device software, no dedicated hardware. As a board member, watching this team solve a problem the wireless industry has struggled with for decades has been extraordinary. Carriers can now unlock an entirely new layer of value from their 5G investments. Deets: https://lnkd.in/gMf5uCSH #ZaiNar #5G #PhysicalAI #MWC2026
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Steve Jurvetson shared thisZaiNar emerges today from 9 years of stealth. The company has developed a totally novel technology that tracks the location of anything that emits a radio signal (phones, drones, vehicles, IoT devices, anything with cellular or WiFi). No new hardware needed, and you get sub-meter accuracy for location and sub-nanosecond for timing sync. As AI moves into the real world with robotics, autonomy, and live agents, having location services like ZaiNar's becomes essential. It is radically different from any other approach, more akin to a spread spectrum interferometer as a software overlay. And they are built into the 5G cellular standards allowing carriers to offer more precise geolocation than ever before. Today���s news: https://lnkd.in/g5tQKYEfSteve Jurvetson shared thisNine years ago, we started working on a problem most people told us was impossible: synchronizing time across wireless networks at the sub-nanosecond level. Today, I'm proud to share that ZaiNar has had more than $100 million in funding and a valuation exceeding $1 billion. More importantly our technology is deployed and operating right now, across healthcare, construction, and industrial environments on multiple continents. Physical AI needs a live, continuous feed of where everything is. That dataset simply did not exist. By solving time synchronization at sub-nanosecond precision, we've turned existing 5G and WiFi infrastructure into the foundation layer for Physical AI. No new hardware. No added software on devices. No drain on device power or compute. I'm grateful to our investors, Steve Jurvetson, Jerry Yang, Tom Gruber, Jaan Tallinn, Nicholas Pritzker, among many others and to our advisors like Andreas Weigend for believing in this vision. And to the extraordinary #ZaiNar team that built something the industry said couldn't be done. This is just the beginning. More to share very soon. https://lnkd.in/gDJpwMVj #ZaiNar #PhysicalAI #Unicorn #StealthEmergence #noGPSZaiNar, the Foundation Layer of Physical AI, Valued at $1B+ and $100M InvestmentZaiNar, the Foundation Layer of Physical AI, Valued at $1B+ and $100M Investment
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Steve Jurvetson reposted thisSteve Jurvetson reposted this💥 Today is a meaningful milestone for Mythic 📣 We announced a joint development agreement with Honda to bring Mythic’s analog AI compute technology into future vehicles 🚗 Having spent a decade building #NVIDIA’s automotive business, I know firsthand how serious automakers are about the technology they put into production vehicles. Honda does not bet on speculative tech. Their decision to license Mythic’s analog compute-in-memory platform — and to co-develop new chips with us — followed deep technical validation by their engineering teams. 🧠 This matters because the “brains” inside vehicles are about to face an order-of-magnitude increase in compute demands, driven by safety, autonomy, and intelligence at the edge — all within tight power constraints. That is a fundamentally hard problem. Our architecture was built for exactly this class of constraint: delivering major performance gains with radically lower energy consumption. 🚀 For a company founded in 2012, this partnership is powerful validation that what once felt experimental is now ready for real-world scale. 🤝 Huge respect to the Honda engineering team for their rigor and partnership. We’re excited to build what’s next together. Full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/dBMqzamV #AI #Automotive #AV #SDV #semiconductors #sustainabletech #compute #futureofmobility #chipdesign #AIarchitecture #edgeAIHonda and Mythic Announce Joint Development of 100x Energy-Efficient Analog AI Chip for Next-Generation VehiclesHonda and Mythic Announce Joint Development of 100x Energy-Efficient Analog AI Chip for Next-Generation Vehicles
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Steve Jurvetson shared thisGenerative AI works best when solutions are hard to find, but easy to verify. For AI-driven drug development, the challenge has been our complex systems biology making tox and off-target effects hard to model. ShennonBio has cracked the code for the AI flywheel to radically improve drug development.Steve Jurvetson shared thisThis last year was massive for Shennon. I’m excited to share 3 major milestones and 1 big ask: 1️⃣The Tech: Deployed proprietary AI models onto our screening platform with 2 patents issued. We can now discover novel targets, design and screen therapeutic binders, and predict potential clinical toxicity. 2️⃣The Trust: Welcomed several biopharma veteran executives as advisors to guide our clinical strategy. 3️⃣The Fuel: Closed a Series A in Oct and are actively expanding our team. 🚀The Ask: We are looking for partners to advance the next generation of treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases. If you’re looking to accelerate your pipeline, let’s talk. 🌍Check us out: www.shennonbio.com More updates to come. #Biotech #DrugDiscovery #AI #SeriesA #Innovation #cancer #AutoimmunediseaseAccelerate Drug Development with Ultrafast Functional Interaction Mapping andAccelerate Drug Development with Ultrafast Functional Interaction Mapping and
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Steve Jurvetson reposted thisSteve Jurvetson reposted thisBuilt on more than a decade of offshore science, engineering, and environmental research, TMC's first-of-its-kind consolidated application over a larger commercial recovery area under NOAA’s modernized permitting process marks a pivotal step toward a transformational deep-sea minerals project governed by U.S. law���one with the potential to supply the metals needed for a new era of American industrial strength. Read the press release: https://lnkd.in/eiJ_jXN3 #deepseamining #criticalminerals #offshore #environment #madeinusa #supplchain #nationalsecurity #nickel #cobalt #copper #manganeseTMC USA Files First Consolidated Deep-Seabed Mining Application, Increasing Expected Commercial Recovery Permit Area to 65,000 km2 | The Metals CompanyTMC USA Files First Consolidated Deep-Seabed Mining Application, Increasing Expected Commercial Recovery Permit Area to 65,000 km2 | The Metals Company
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Steve Jurvetson reposted thisSteve Jurvetson reposted thisArguably, all Silicon Valley-styled venture capital stemmed from my grandfather, General William Draper of Draper Gaither & Anderson. From there Bill Draper started Draper and Johnson investment Company which spun out to become Sutter Hill Ventures and Asset Management Company. From there, VC flourished. Venture historians may see some day that Draper Associates was the seed for some of Silicon Valley’s most iconic VCs too. In 1991, John H. N. Fisher joined Draper Associates, and in 1995, we changed the name to Draper Fisher Associates. John now runs DFJ Growth, a successful growth fund with a significant position in Space X and others. In 1994, Steve Jurvetson joined the team, and in 1997, the firm came to be known as Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ). Steve now runs Future Ventures, focusing on technologies that he believes will be historic tectonic shifts. Jennifer Scott Fonstad started Aspect Ventures and Owl Ventures, Raj Atluru started Activate Capital, Emily Melton and Josh Stein became Threshold Ventures, Epic Ventures, Dragon Ventures, DNX Ventures, Draper B1, Molten Ventures, Mercury Ventures, ePlanet Ventures, and many others came through our VC network. Javelin Ventures, Index Ventures, CrossCut Ventures and many more came or were developed by people who worked at Draper funds. Many of our successful founders became VCs too. Niklas Zennström, founder of Skype started Atomico Ventures. And arguably Elon Musk, who we backed for Tesla and Skype is the greatest venture investor of all. And now, BoostVC, Halogen Ventures and Path Ventures are important funds started by Drapers. The roll continues to the next generation. So incredibly proud of the origins of Draper Associates and how many legendary investors have been a part of it.
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Thank you for your FOCUS on Lace... I posted a juxtaposition of the two recently: https://x.com/FutureJurvetson/status/2019169766146232423?s=20
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Congratulations!!! And soon, hopefully, the end of the pandemic era for influenza!
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Marvell at the Mojo
By using a grid of micro-LEDs instead of lasers, Mojo delivers 100x more bandwidth/channel and lower energy/bit. Mojo’s fiber has thousands of physically discrete channels for massively multiplexed bandwidth + redundancy for reliability in orbital data centers.
Today, Marvell announced their long-term partnership with Mojo to develop a new class of optical interconnect solutions for next-gen AI data centers.
Like the human cortex, AI is bottlenecked by memory bandwidth, and Mojo is the cure. They provide many terabits/sec of data from a footprint the size of a grain of sand.
• Mojo Risin: https://www.Mojo.vision
P.S. Cue the Doors: Mr. Mojo Risin is an anagram for Jim Morrison
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Steve Jurvetson liked thisSteve Jurvetson liked thisAtoms instead of photons: Norwegian startup Lace Lithography is developing a chip-making technology that could one day succeed ASML's #EUV tools. For the foreseeable future, the EUV machine is the only tool capable of printing ultra-fine chip patterns. But the huge demand for #AI computing is encouraging inventors to explore alternatives to ASML's approach, in which #EUV light is generated by firing a powerful laser at tin droplets (#LPP). Techniques such as #nanoimprint (stamping) and #ebeam (writing with electrons) are not suited for mass production. xLight Inc. wants to generate EUV light using an electron accelerator. Chinese companies like Huawei may be trying to produce EUV light by creating a spark near a bath of tin (#LDP), and startup Substrate wants to use X-rays. But in Norway, it's different. "Where light stops, atoms begin," says Bodil Holst, founder of Lace Lithography, a startup based in Bergen. She explains it in a call with NRC, along with co-founder and CTO Adrià Salvador Palau. The #wavelength of light determines how precisely you can 'print'. EUV uses a wavelength of 13.5 nanometers and further reduces that beam using mirrors. The wavelength of helium atoms is less than 0.1 nanometer and could achieve better resolution. Today's best-in-class tool is High-NA EUV, with a half pitch currently at 8 nm. Lace presented 50 nm but could, in theory, shrink to 0.5 nm. By fitting more transistors on the same surface, chips become more efficient and powerful. In practice, you will also need metrology and inspection to verify that all the lines still fit neatly together, otherwise the chip will not work. And that must also happen at high speed, since chipmakers want productivity and need to keep stamping wafers. Lace drives metastable #helium atoms, carrying higher energy in one of their electrons, through a mask with holes. The atoms that are not blocked, hit the light-sensitive layer of a silicon wafer and thus draw the pattern. That mask with holes reminded Bodil Holst of lace making (in Dutch: kantklossen). Lace just raised €40 million in a new investment round. The #EU already provided a grant for research together with imec in Belgium. Holst presented those results at #SPIE, in a room where ASML researchers were also seated. "They said they found it an interesting approach." Around 2030, a Lace prototype capable of printing multiple chip layers should be ready. For a roadmap beyond EUV, Lace has to address issues like #pattern transfer (the chemical process in the #photoresist), as well as #mask creation and inspection and accurate placement of IC features. It requires a great deal of computing work to design that perforated mask so that the chip lines still come out correctly. You need AI and fast chips, explains Adrià Salvador Palau. "Without the powerful chips from EUV machines, we would never have been able to solve that problem." #semiconductors #lithography John Petersen #compute link to article in NRC in comments
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Steve Jurvetson liked thisSteve Jurvetson liked thisThis latest funding represents momentum. Momentum around a shared vision that is both profound yet practical. The profound realization that there is a direct technology path from here to a world where the pandemic era is over and infection is no longer a common human experience. Practical in that the path carries us over an immense tsunami of profitability, by solving a $7B/year product problem for everyone who has ever said “I took the vaccine but then I still got sick.” We are immensely grateful to Structure Fund, Meiji Seika Pharma Co., Ltd., Sigmas Group, Kendall Capital Partners, Patrick Collison and John Collison for leaning into that vision and enabling us to accelerate our mission. Meiji Group holds the No. 1 market share for influenza vaccines in Japan. The Collison brothers lead Stripe, Inc. This financing builds on Centivax's $45 million oversubscribed Series A completed in June 2025, led by Steve Jurvetson of Future Ventures, who has long shared our common vision of a future of a post-pathogen humanity. That Series A included a syndicate who shared that vision and leaned in to the practical path to get there, including participation from Helen McBride, Ph.D. at BOLD Capital Partners, David Zhu at Kendall Capital Partners, Elliot Hershberg at Amplify Partners, Amol Jain at Base4 Capital, Vandon Duong at Ergo and follow-on from seed investor Vidya Vasu-Devan at Global Health Investment Corporation, and Omri Amirav-Drory at NFX, Centivax's largest shareholder. Special thanks also to Anastasia Budinskaya at NFX, Victor Olmos, PhD from Kendell, Nico Enriquez at Future Ventures and Christopher Ghadban. See the press release for how we are going to use the funds to accelerate the work https://lnkd.in/gFHf3tqu Stephanie Wisner Sawsan Youssef Jerry Sadoff Nicholas Bayless David Tsao Gusti Zeiner Atsuko Sakurai-Sangria Shawna CoteCentivax Closes $37 Million Financing to Accelerate Phase 2 Clinical Development of Universal Flu and Advance Follow-On Portfolio to Clinical ReadinessCentivax Closes $37 Million Financing to Accelerate Phase 2 Clinical Development of Universal Flu and Advance Follow-On Portfolio to Clinical Readiness
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Honors & Awards
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Venture Capitalist of the Year
Deloitte (with Cooley, SVB and Wells Fargo)
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Distinguished Alumnus Award
St. Mark's
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