Co-Founder, American Dynamism. General Partner @a16z. Catholic. Mother. American. 🇺🇸 🚀💪
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We owe our normal days to the men and women brave enough to put on the uniform. They sacrifice their comfort and peace so we can have ours.
Grateful for our veterans and their families for the immense sacrifices they make every day. The best of America.
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Today, we honor all who have served, including the veterans across Saronic whose experience shapes what we build and why we build it.
To our veterans and their families, thank you for your service and sacrifice.
ALT Four American flags wave against a clear blue sky. On the left, text reads "SARONIC" with the logo above, and "November 11 Honoring Our Veterans" below. An American flag icon is at the bottom.
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Matt Kaplan, Chief Administrative Officer, flew Apaches and Chinooks for a decade before joining Anduril.
This Veterans Day, he reflects on his service and the idea that Anduril doesn't ask veterans to join its mission. It's honored to join theirs.
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Another Aries platform hard at work in orbit.
Our Aries platform is serving as the foundation for ANDURIL-216, an Anduril-funded technology demonstration spacecraft that launched on @SpaceX's Transporter-17.
After delivery to @anduriltech, our Mission Services team supported the integration of three Anduril payloads, which are working together to sense and process space domain awareness insights at the edge.
Watch the mission film below and read the full story here: firstbreakfast.com/p/from-th…
If you can’t see in space, you can’t win in space.
We started with the goal of proving advanced space domain awareness on-orbit. To do it, we developed a fully integrated satellite. ANDURIL-216 carries three modular mission payloads designed, built, and integrated by Anduril.
The payloads work together to deliver on the essential mission of never losing sight of an object as it circles the Earth, even in its shadow.
ANDURIL-216 is the foundation for space warfare supremacy.
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Learn more.
firstbreakfast.com/p/from-th…
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The Earth and the Moon. Captured by Anduril’s LWIR Space Sensor. 230,000 miles away from the Moon's surface.
Here's how we're setting the foundation to demonstrate Space Domain Awareness.
🇺🇸 Anduril 🤝 Apex 🇺🇸
“A project like this also couldn’t be undertaken alone. Anduril partnered with Apex again to execute this mission. The teams shared a solid foundation: during the early days of Project Jan, Apex’s Aries bus carried the first iteration of Anduril’s edge processing payload in its inaugural mission.”
If you can’t see in space, you can’t win in space.
We started with the goal of proving advanced space domain awareness on-orbit. To do it, we developed a fully integrated satellite. ANDURIL-216 carries three modular mission payloads designed, built, and integrated by Anduril.
The payloads work together to deliver on the essential mission of never losing sight of an object as it circles the Earth, even in its shadow.
ANDURIL-216 is the foundation for space warfare supremacy.
Katherine Boyle retweeted
In 1937, San Francisco finished the Golden Gate Bridge, initially derided as "the bridge that couldn't be built," ahead of schedule and under budget.
Nearly a century later, the same city couldn't build a single public toilet without exorbidant costs and years of delay.
Across America, communities face the same dysfunction: stalled factories, delayed energy projects, and crumbling infrastructure. We should be building faster and more safely than ever before. Instead, we struggle to deliver the basics.
The problem: our system rewards process over results. A growing bipartisan consensus offers a chance to change that.
a16z's Matt Cronin on the 5 priorities bipartisan legislation must address to get America building again: a16z.news/p/america-can-buil…
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Latest Mirage has hit the water.
Another hull in the water! This is Mirage - our 52 ft autonomous vessel. Built in Austin, launched in Galveston, TX this week.
4 years ago our initial test platform was an $800 plastic fishing boat off the internet with $30k of cameras and batteries strapped to it. We’ve come a hell of a long way but lots left to do. Right now China can build 23M gross tons of ships per year. US can do 100K. That's a big gap but with Corsair, Mirage and Marauder all in production, we’re working to close it.
None of this happens without our team who builds these hulls and the crew that gets them safely in the water. Great work by the @Saronic team this week.
Katherine Boyle retweeted
Another hull in the water! This is Mirage - our 52 ft autonomous vessel. Built in Austin, launched in Galveston, TX this week.
4 years ago our initial test platform was an $800 plastic fishing boat off the internet with $30k of cameras and batteries strapped to it. We’ve come a hell of a long way but lots left to do. Right now China can build 23M gross tons of ships per year. US can do 100K. That's a big gap but with Corsair, Mirage and Marauder all in production, we’re working to close it.
None of this happens without our team who builds these hulls and the crew that gets them safely in the water. Great work by the @Saronic team this week.
Katherine Boyle retweeted
Proud to report that the 2nd Marauder is in the water and running under its own power out of our yard in Franklin, Louisiana. The team really stepped up across the board - this hull took 8% fewer labor hours than the 1st. That’ll continue to get better, every build needs to be more efficient than the last.
When we took over this shipyard it was shutting down and capacity was trending towards 0.
Today it's is active again + expanding. Fully ramped we’ll do 20 Marauders a year in Franklin.
Thanks to everyone @Saronic for their hard work getting this done.
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Bridgit Mendler of @NorthwoodSpace says the builders of the early internet bet on a direction without knowing exactly what it would become, and the space industry is in that same moment now:
"For folks that were early with the internet, there's no way they would've foreseen what the internet is today. But they were betting on a direction... and look what we have today."
"I think we're in a similar moment with the space industry where we don't know what is going to be built. A year ago today, would we think that everybody would be talking about orbital data centers? No way."
"But it's captivated the public imagination and who knows what's gonna come next... The whole thing that we're about is taking companies further faster. Taking space missions further faster."
"If you analogize to the internet, you have a couple of kind of platform infrastructure plays that really wind up becoming enmeshed across the internet... There are a few that wind up becoming really influential and fundamental."
"Cloud is one that we analogize to a lot and we are inspired by. And we wanna be one of those companies."
@BridgitMendler
Today, Northwood is announcing a $375M Series C.
In February of 2024, less than three years ago, we announced Northwood as a small six-person team.
We’ve grown a lot, but the goal stays the same – solve connectivity between Earth and space to take missions further faster.
The world is hungry for more data movement through space, and that is what we're building for, with scalable network capacity for the most challenging use cases.
We are proud to add new partners to our cap table and continue the journey with existing ones as we enter this new chapter.
Thanks to @a16z @DFJvc @WashingHarbour Alpine Space Ventures @stepstone and many others.
Read more: northwoodspace.io/blog/north…
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@USNavyCNO, meet Blackbeard.
ALT Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle received a tour of several sites around NAS Patuxent River during his visit Oct. 28, including a briefing of the @USNavy's new hypersonic air-launched missile, Blackbeard. Photo courtesy of U.S. Navy.
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It's hard to believe it's been less than two years and nine months since we first announced Northwood as a small team of six. Today we are announcing a $375M Series C.
Griffin, Shaur, and I founded the company on the premise that the demand for data through space would grow exponentially and the industry needed a fundamentally new approach to ground infrastructure to support that. We are still early innings in this story and grateful for our capital partners joining in this next chapter.
Thanks to @a16z @dfjgrowth @HSBCInnovation @WashingHarbour Alpine Space Ventures @StepStoneVC @ICONIQCapital In-Q-Tel Activate Capital @balerion @CapitalAlso @hberkman GC1 Ventures
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Northwood has raised $375M at a $2 billion valuation. @bridgitmendler pushing to buildout critical ground infrastructure to match pace of satellite network build out.
a16z and DFJ Growth led the round
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Two years after selling @flyAerodome to @flocksafety, I’m leaving it in good hands.
Thanks to Flock, drones provide air support for 911 calls around the country.
Next, I'm joining @a16z as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence. There has never been a better time to build for America 🧵
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Katherine Boyle retweeted
This year has been a busy one for Northwood! We’ve announced and deployed two product lines across multiple continents, we’ve tripled in headcount, we’ve contracted with new customers and deepened engagements with existing ones.
There is so much to do and we are just getting started.
Grateful for the partnership of @a16z and @dfjgrowth and substantial follow-on investment from
@washingharbour Alpine Space Ventures @stepstone and others in our 300M equity raise and @HSBCInnovation for joining with us for a 75M debt financing.
Let’s go build!
Today, Northwood is announcing a $375M Series C.
In February of 2024, less than three years ago, we announced Northwood as a small six-person team.
We’ve grown a lot, but the goal stays the same – solve connectivity between Earth and space to take missions further faster.
The world is hungry for more data movement through space, and that is what we're building for, with scalable network capacity for the most challenging use cases.
We are proud to add new partners to our cap table and continue the journey with existing ones as we enter this new chapter.
Thanks to @a16z @DFJvc @WashingHarbour Alpine Space Ventures @stepstone and many others.
Read more: northwoodspace.io/blog/north…