First of its kind institutional-grade fund opens access to a new and growing class of traditional and digital asset-native allocators

HAMILTON, Bermuda, July 4, 2025 — Members Capital Management (“MembersCap”), a Bermuda-regulated investment manager, today completed the successful investment of its initial portfolio through its fund, MCM Fund I, the first tokenised institutional-grade reinsurance fund designed for both sophisticated digital asset investors and traditional allocators. All portfolio trades were executed with global reinsurance companies and top-tier Lloyd’s of London syndicates, and were sourced through the top three global reinsurance brokers.

MCM Fund I opens access to reinsurance income for a rapidly expanding capital base of new investors seeking diversified and uncorrelated investment alternatives with attractive yield and structured liquidity.

The launch represents the growing importance of funds structuring their offerings to take advantage of the continuing convergence between traditional finance and digital assets. Backed by Solana, Aptos, and Cardano and supported by institutions like Coinbase, Archax, Apex Group, and Envelop Risk, MembersCap has selected the Solana, Aptos, Cardano, and Base protocols to provide access to qualified investors wishing to invest using eligible cryptocurrencies.

MembersCap has been selected as the first fund in the real-world assets category on the Archax platform, sitting alongside tokenized offerings from other institutions like BlackRock, State Street, and Aberdeen.

The reinsurance opportunity 

Being fundamentally uncorrelated with the financial markets, reinsurance has consistently outperformed most traditional alternatives over the past two decades. Despite being highly yield-generative, the sector has historically been reserved for pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, and other institutional giants.

Increasingly, both crypto-native investors and smaller traditional allocators are seeking refuge from market volatility by accessing reinsurance as a stable, diversified income stream to support a balanced portfolio and enhance overall returns.

“Every generation is presented with new technologies that unlock economic opportunity. To us, tokenisation and the blockchain represent access to better asset management for a different class of investor,” said Lloyd Wahed, Co-Founder and CEO of MembersCap. “We’re excited to be one of the first institutional funds to emerge from this space.”

“Our investors– digital asset institutions, family offices, HNWIs —want to meet their goals of resiliency and long-term sustainable growth through new and more efficient means. With this novel approach, we’re seeing these investors view reinsurance as a core part of their portfolio for the first time,” said Patrick Barrett, Co-Founder and COO at MembersCap.

“This launch proves that tokenisation can bring new capital to help address the growing insurance protection gap by lowering barriers and providing access to the private reinsurance market,” said Dr. Benjamin Fox, Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer at MembersCap. “Our tokenised model enables a new cohort of investors to participate pari passu alongside large institutions in an uncorrelated asset class with a track record of reliable, attractive returns.”

Positioned as an alternative to private equity, venture capital, and fixed income strategies, MCM Fund I provides qualified investors with regulated and collateralised access to reinsurance via direct exposure to natural catastrophe and cyber reinsurance contracts sourced through blue-chip global partners.

For Web3 treasuries, foundations, and institutions, the Fund delivers high-yield opportunities and structured liquidity, derived from high-quality, real-world reinsurance returns, without exposure to DeFi volatility and over-concentration in altcoins.

MembersCap was founded in 2024 and is backed by a strong coalition of both institutional and blockchain-native partners. This blend of traditional underwriting expertise and on-chain architecture ensures institutional-grade standards while embracing next-generation accessibility.

About Members Capital Management
Founded in 2024, Members Capital Management (“MembersCap”) is a licensed investment manager regulated by the Bermuda Monetary Authority, bridging institutional finance and blockchain infrastructure. Backed by leading blockchain protocols including Cardano, Aptos, and Solana, and supported by institutional infrastructure from Archax, Coinbase, Apex Group and Envelop Risk, MembersCap delivers a new institutional blueprint: tokenised participation to the global reinsurance market, an asset class traditionally closed to most investors.

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“Khachkar Studios makes one of the largest philanthropic investments in modern history to advance Judeo-Christian faith”

Get educated with Briefing Packet #5 at https://khachkarstudios.com/ecosystem-briefing-packet-5/ 

WASHINGTON, July 4, 2025 — [EMBARGOED UNTIL 08:00 EDT JULY 4, 2025]

Khachkar Studios today announced a $100 million investment to advance Judeo-Christian faith, one of the largest philanthropic investments in modern history to advance Judeo-Christian faith. This historically unprecedented investment — shepherded by 5,000 senior management hours of world-class benchmarking and management excellence — is primarily focused on revitalizing the U.S. Armenian Christian Ecosystem by closing performance gaps and generating a 6.1x SROI (Social Return on Investment).

1. $100 Million Investment: Khachkar Studios’ $100 million investment is one of the largest philanthropic investments in modern history to advance Judeo-Christian faith, and surpasses by 623% the total religious spending of the four largest Armenian-founded foundations over the past 23 years.
2. 5,000 Hours of Management Excellence: The investment is shepherded by 5,000 pro bono senior management hours of world-class benchmarking and management excellence in 10 skill areas over the next 5 years, which is equally historically unprecedented and will have an unparalleled impact on revitalizing the U.S. Armenian Christian Ecosystem.
3. Total Armenian Church Annual Spending: Khachkar Studios’ historic $100 million initiative is 243% of the total annual spending of all 164 U.S. Armenian churches. Khachkar Studios’ “Good News” media outreach will be more than 25 times the size of all other Armenian religious total media spending in the U.S. combined.
4. Armenian Government Spending: The 2024 increase in Armenian government spending is US$1 billion and 338 times larger than the projected increase in spending by 67 of the largest U.S. Armenian philanthropic organizations.
5. Ecosystem 12 Body Parts: The 3% “Faithful” U.S. Armenian Christian Ecosystem bottom decile performance permeates 11 of the 12 Ecosystem Body Parts with deeply rooted barriers to change, and the lowest percentage “Faithful” Armenian churches believing they are best of the best with possibly insurmountable barriers to change.
6. “Faithful” Attendance: A systemic misconception held by many Armenian Americans is that U.S. Armenian churches have among the highest non-holiday church attendance rates, as high as 35%, when in fact they are 10% of major U.S. religions, and rank next to last – bottom decile – among 23 U.S. Orthodox Christian groups.
7. 3 Near-Term Goals: The 3 near-term goals are focused on closing the performance gap, by doubling the number of “Faithful” from 12,894 to 27,847, increasing the number of daily Bible readers from 1,000 to 41,423, and achieving a 6.1x SROI.
8. High-Impact Pilot Church Funding: Each selected pilot church or ministry can receive between $300,000 and $400,000 or more during the first 5 years of the program from an 8 activities menu (“The Pilot Menu”), approximately 51% of average annual church related income.
9. Performance Gaps: A careful study of the 19 variables of the 37 Potential “2025 Pilots” reveals insights to have an unparalleled impact on revitalizing the U.S. Armenian Christian Ecosystem, by closing performance gaps with a 6.1x SROI.
10. 10 Pervasive Traits: Our 18 months of research – including 69 years of Armenian Church related materials and world-class benchmarking data – is the foundation for understanding why these 10 pervasive traits yield a ≤0% SROI.

About Khachkar Studios: Khachkar Studios is a multimedia studio that empowers Christian role models through “Good News” education-training-retention (E-T-R), shepherded by world-class benchmarking and management excellence. Khachkar Studios is an affiliate of the Charles & Agnes Kazarian Foundation, JI-Analytics, and Japonica Partners.

For more information about Khachkar Studios and its initiatives, contact:
www.khachkarstudios.com
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The Open Platform, the leading tech company developing TON-based innovations in Telegram, has announced the completion of its Series A and subsequent extension funding rounds, reaching a $1 billion valuation and becoming the first unicorn in the TON-based ecosystem in Telegram.

The Open Platform raised $28.5 million in an extended Series A funding round, led by Ribbit Capital, with Pantera Capital also participating. Including this latest raise and previous seed investments, The Open Platform has now secured over $70 million in total funding. These investments demonstrate the confidence that leading investors have in The Open Platform’s ability to spearhead the growth of the blockchain ecosystem in Telegram. This ecosystem is being built on TON Blockchain – a fully decentralized and highly scalable blockchain that is the exclusive blockchain partner of Telegram Messenger.

The current strategic focus of The Open Platform centers on geographical expansion. The involvement of prominent investors, along with the newly raised capital, will support the launch of TOP’s portfolio companies across the U.S., EU, and other key regions — in alignment with TON Foundation’s global vision. This expansion will involve significant investment in go-to-market strategies, regulatory licensing, compliance infrastructure, and security enhancements, all aimed at ensuring sustainable growth and long-term success in these new jurisdictions.

Andrew Rogozov, CEO and Founder of The Open Platform, said, “This investment supports our long-term strategy to scale the adoption of blockchain-based products by leveraging the power of Telegram as a distribution channel. By combining TON Blockchain with Telegram’s global reach, we’re building both the infrastructure and the consumer-facing apps needed to onboard a billion users to crypto.”

The Open Platform is driving the growth of the TON-based ecosystem within Telegram, building both core infrastructure and consumer-facing apps across finance, gaming, and entertainment. Products that The Open Platform has powered include Wallet in Telegram, a digital asset solution seamlessly embedded into Telegram’s interface; Tonkeeper, TON’s leading non-custodial crypto wallet; STON.fi, the leading swap dApp on TON and the developer of a liquidity aggregation protocol, Omniston; Getgems, TON’s foremost NFT marketplace; Tribute, a monetization platform for creators in Telegram; and Notcoin, a viral Tap-to-Earn game, along with many more products.

By integrating blockchain technology into everyday digital experience, The Open Platform is creating a seamless, scalable platform designed for a billion users, accelerating the mainstream adoption of crypto — expanding global access to financial services, and enabling a new generation of builders and developers to build the next wave of consumer dApps.

This latest investment from Ribbit Capital, which has previously provided early-stage investment to Coinbase, Nubank, and Revolut, amongst many others, and Pantera Capital, is a testament to the potential these investors see in the integration of blockchain technology into a messenger application with over a billion users. 

Micky Malka, Founder of Ribbit Capital, said, “We back teams that reimagine how the world experiences money and technology. The Open Platform’s vision of building an intuitive and open platform that enables a robust digital ecosystem to form within Telegram — a platform used by hundreds of millions — opens a new frontier of opportunities for builders and users on a global scale.””We’re thrilled to back this exceptional team led by Andrew. The opportunity to support groundbreaking tech and financial products that reach 1 billion people is inspiring,” said Ryan Barney, Partner at Pantera Capital. “We’re excited to collaborate with the TOP team and strengthen our commitment to TON and Telegram’s ecosystems.”

TON Blockchain has been the subject of increased institutional interest throughout this year. In March, TON Foundation announced that several leading investors, including Sequoia Capital, Ribbit Capital, Benchmark, Draper Associates, Kingsway, Vy Capital, Libertus Capital, CoinFund, SkyBridge, Hypersphere, and Karatage, have acquired and now hold $400 million worth of Toncoin, signaling growing interest in the TON-based ecosystem in Telegram.

About The Open Platform:

The Open Platform (TOP) is the leading tech company developing Web3 innovations in Telegram. TOP is fueling the Telegram economy through both foundational infrastructure and consumer-facing apps. By integrating blockchain technology into day-to-day digital experience, TOP is building a seamless, scalable platform designed for a billion users — accelerating the mass adoption of crypto.

For more information, users can visit: top.co

Stay connected on: LinkedIn | X | Telegram

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The Open Platform
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PALO ALTO, Calif., July 3, 2025 — Recently, the prestigious media platform Caijing Magazine officially unveiled its “Top 50 Global Chinese Venture Capitalists” list. Wei Zhou, Founding Managing Partner of Cyber Creation Ventures (CCV), earned a coveted spot on the list thanks to his exceptional investment achievements, global vision, and profound influence in the global venture capital ecosystem.

This recognition further cements Wei’s status as a leading figure not only in the venture capital industry but also within the global Chinese business community. Last year, he was named among Forbes’ “Top 100 Most Influential Global Chinese,” a testament to his far-reaching contributions and leadership in shaping the future of innovation and entrepreneurship. His inclusion in Caijing Magazine’s prestigious list this year once again underscores his vital role in driving global technological transformation and fostering cross-cultural collaboration.

In its announcement, Caijing Magazine remarked: “Within the global venture capital landscape, Chinese venture capitalists are redefining the flow of capital with their unique cross-cultural advantages and keen sense of innovation. Over the past three decades, these investors have skillfully navigated the complex waves of global capital, identifying critical signals of technological transformation. The groundbreaking applications and companies they have nurtured represent not only substantial returns but also a powerful value proposition from the global Chinese venture capital community to the world. From Silicon Valley to China, and from China to Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and back to Silicon Valley, they have both shaped and exported the ‘China model,’ playing a pivotal role in global technological and business revolutions. The influence of Chinese venture capitalists on the global stage is undeniable.”

Wei has long been a champion of globalization in the investment community. Against the backdrop of de-globalization, he has repeatedly emphasized the importance of companies maintaining a global strategy to avoid the pitfalls of insular competition. He has proposed a new model of “Distributed Globalization 2.0,” encouraging entrepreneurs to leverage the advantages accumulated over the past 40 years and, with the ingenuity and adaptability of the Chinese people, write a new chapter in globalization.

Wei believes that “Distributed Globalization 2.0” is the optimal strategy for navigating today’s evolving environment. This model harnesses China’s strengths in resources, talent, supply chains, and technology while integrating with local markets, cultures, and regulations to create a distributed system of collaboration that benefits from the comprehensive advantages of a shared platform. He identifies two key breakthrough directions for this model: intelligence and sustainability.

He stated: “Today may mark the beginning of a new era. At this critical juncture, both Chinese companies and individuals must break out of the confines of intense domestic competition and embrace the era of Globalization 2.0. By stepping out into the world and adopting new entrepreneurial models that emphasize distribution and localization, we can create new value. In this age of de-globalization, leveraging the many advantages China has built over the past four decades, and with the intelligence and flexibility of the Chinese people, we can achieve a 2.0 version of globalization. I believe this represents a massive opportunity for the next generation of Chinese entrepreneurs and young people.”

Looking ahead, CCV will continue to partner with outstanding entrepreneurs worldwide to ignite the sparks of technological and industrial innovation, reshaping the global business landscape. The CCV team will also capitalize on the global resources accumulated from managing top-tier international venture capital funds and its current global footprint to provide robust support for Chinese teams entering the era of Global Entrepreneurship 2.0. Together, they aim to create transformative companies and applications that improve lives and redefine industries on a global scale.

Wei’s repeated recognition by global platforms such as Forbes and Caijing Magazine highlights not only his influence in the venture capital world but also his unique role in bridging cultures, fostering innovation, and driving the global success of the Chinese entrepreneurial community. His leadership exemplifies the growing impact of global Chinese leaders in shaping the future of technology, business, and society.

SOURCE Cyber Creation Ventures(CCV)

MUSCAT, Sultanate of Oman, July 2, 2025 — Oman Investment Authority (OIA), the Sultanate‘s sovereign wealth fund, closed 2024 with US $53bn in assets under management and a US $4.12bn net profit, enabling a US $2.1bn transfer to the state budget and reinforcing its growing fiscal role. Recognized among the top ten sovereign wealth funds by Global SWF for five-year annualized returns, OIA is harnessing Oman’s potential through globally diversified investments in future-focused sectors.

OIA invests through three verticals: the National Development Fund (NDF), Future Generations Fund (FGF), and Future Fund Oman (FFO). Spanning over 50 countries, the portfolio remains 63% domestic, with 19.9% in North America, and the rest across Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The strategy reduces risk while advancing Oman Vision 2040 priority sectors. NDF deployed US $4.9bn in 2024, surpassing its US $4.4bn target to accelerate domestic projects. Energy dominated at 68% of commitments, including additional funding for Duqm Refinery and launching the 500 MW solar plants. The rest targeted logistics, tourism, mining, and telecoms, with capital allocated to Asyad Container Terminal and reopening copper mines.

FGF broadened international exposure through stakes in 13 new funds across AI, healthcare, fintech, and energy transition. As an early investor in xAI, OIA is positioned to capture value from global innovation trends while evaluating its relevance to Oman’s economy.

Launched in January 2024 to attract foreign investors and scale local champions, the US $5.2bn FFO committed US $865mn to projects including the Sohar PolySilicon plant, set to be the world’s largest outside China, and joint funds with IDG Capital and ewpartners targeting ICT, renewables, EV supply chains, and agritech.

OIA portfolio companies repaid US $4.7bn in debt, including prepayment US $1.4bn repayment by state energy group OQ. Sovereign guarantees fell to US $4.7bn, nearly half 2023 levels. Six assets were divested, one more than planned, raising fresh capital and broadening local equity participation. The flagship exit was a 25% IPO of OQ Exploration & Production. These reflect efforts to empower the private sector and attract strategic and financial partners.

OIA continued supporting innovation and entrepreneurship through startup funding, accelerators, and targeted procurement. In 2024, Small Medium Enterprises accounted for nearly 20% of OIA‘s supply chain spend, bolstered by ring-fencing and over US $28mn in direct funding.

OIA strengthened ties with institutional investors and hosted the largest-ever global gathering of sovereign wealth funds in Muscat. This engagement, along with improved disclosure, earned World Bank recognition and supported upgrades that restored Oman to investment-grade status.

Amid energy volatility and geopolitical risk, OIA plans to scale renewables, digital infrastructure, and critical minerals, while trimming hydrocarbons and divesting non-core assets. It also plans to expand co-investment to accelerate knowledge transfer into Omani ventures. With strong 2024 results, deeper capital market access, and a tech-driven project pipeline, OIA is emerging as a key stabilizer of Oman’s public finances.

The 2024 Annual Report is available at www.oia.gov.om.

OIA Press Office
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Website: www.oia.gov.om 

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Led by Khosla Ventures, the financing follows the release of Circulate’s trial study, the first of its kind to demonstrate the effectiveness of TPE in improving healthspan and reducing biological age

NOVATO, Calif., July 2, 2025 — Circulate Health, a longevity startup dedicated to harnessing the potential of therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) to advance human healthspan and lifespan, announced today that it raised $12 million in a seed funding led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Seaside Ventures and CSC Ventures.

A patented method of therapeutic plasma exchange uses a procedure that separates, removes, and replaces a patient’s plasma to treat inflammation, improve healthspan, and address certain chronic diseases. Circulate has been operating in stealth for the past three years, studying the benefits of TPE and its ability to improve human healthspan and address the hallmarks of again, while partnering with clinics to deliver TPE across the country and soon internationally.

Circulate was founded based on scientific research from world-renowned geroscientist Eric Verdin, MD, who is a co-founder of Circulate and CEO of the Buck Institute of Research on Aging. In partnership with the Buck Institute and led by scientific advisor David Furman PhD, Circulate recently published a clinical trial that found TPE combined with intravenous immunoglobin (IVIG) reduced patients’ biological age by an average of 2.6 years, as measured by multi-omics biomarkers.

“We have been immensely dedicated to our research and delivering the highest quality medical care to patients and clinic partners in order to further address healthspan, and the hallmarks of aging,” said Brad Younggren, MD, CEO and co-founder of Circulate. “Khosla Ventures’ investment into our work truly demonstrates the power of and potential for the work we’re doing. We plan to use these additional funds to expand our clinic network across the country and internationally, and provide greater access to those seeking access to a therapy shown to improve biomarkers and biological clocks.”

“We incubated Circulate to explore whether a safe, well-understood therapy like TPE could counter the deleterious effects of aging, and offer broader health benefits like potentially removing microplastics from the body,” said Alex Morgan of Khosla Ventures. “Early clinical results are promising, and we’re excited to continue backing the team as they work to make TPE more accessible to more people.”

Circulate scientific advisory board also includes Matt Kaeberlein PhD and Alex Aravanis MD PhD, both providing additional expertise and strategic guidance.

Circulate Health already has 24 partner clinics, across 8 states, and the Circulate Network is expected to grow to over 50 clinics by the end of 2025 in the U.S. and abroad.

Clinicians and patients can learn more about Circulate at www.circulate.health.

About Circulate Health
Circulate Health is pioneering technologies to improve healthspan and reduce biological age.

SOURCE Circulate Health

NEW YORK, July 1, 2025 — Metafide, an innovative startup combining human intuition and cutting-edge artificial intelligence to revolutionize financial trading, announced today $3.275 million in new funding. The capital will fuel the growth and market launch of SURGE, a gamified predictive trading platform designed to harness collective human expertise and advanced AI neural networks to accurately forecast market movements, particularly in volatile conditions.

Further amplifying its reach, Metafide has secured a strategic go-to-market partnership with DogeOS—the leading application layer for Dogecoin, an asset boasting a $25 billion market capitalization. Alex Hoffman, Head of Ecosystem, DogeOS on the excitement of partnering with such an innovative project said, “Metafide is building the kind of infrastructure this industry has been missing: fast, intelligent, and built for real participation. Their approach to predictive finance aligns perfectly with where we see the market going, and we’re proud to support a team turning data, intuition, and execution into a unified system that actually works.”

Led by serial entrepreneur Frank Speiser, known for multiple successful exits and pioneering AI-focused ventures, Metafide introduces a new paradigm where financial markets meet competitive gaming. SURGE hosts short-interval predictive trading competitions that allow users to compete for tangible rewards, blending AI-driven insights with human strategic skill to enhance market prediction accuracy.

The round was spearheaded by Payton Jonson at DIY Fund, based in Atlanta, GA. Additional funding was secured from a prominent consortium of venture capital and blockchain-focused investors, including Blockchain Founder’s Fund (BFF), Cogitent, Comma3 Ventures, IBC Group, Plassa Capital, London Real Ventures, Sweep Ventures, Ethos Capital, and DChained Capital. Notable angel investors Stephen Burnazian, John Tuminello, Lax Pichappan, Hern Kim, and others participated.

“Our goal with SURGE is to democratize market forecasting by combining the analytical depth of AI with the irreplaceable strategic insight of human traders on a global scale,” said CEO Frank Speiser.

The SURGE platform has already generated significant momentum, capturing attention as a winner at the prestigious Mantle AI Fest competition, growing its waitlist to over 110,000 eager users, and currently onboarding an initial set of testers from a community that has rapidly scaled to more than 120,000 participants.

To secure a place on the SURGE waitlist and apply for early access, interested users can visit: https://surge.metafide.io

About Metafide

Metafide is reshaping financial trading through a pioneering platform that merges AI-driven neural networks with human judgment in competitive, gamified settings. Committed to improving market accuracy and user engagement, Metafide’s flagship SURGE competitions empower traders and enthusiasts alike to contribute directly to predictive market insights.

SOURCE Metafide

With funding co-led by Eclipse and Khosla Ventures, Genesis will develop breakthrough physical AI infrastructure to power the era of generalist robotics and automate all physical labor

PARIS and PALO ALTO, Calif., July 1, 2025 — Genesis AI, a global physical AI research lab and full-stack robotics company, emerged from stealth today with a mission to unlock unlimited physical labor. The company is building a universal robotics foundation model (RFM) and a horizontal robotics platform, raising $105 million co-led by Eclipse and Khosla Ventures, with participation from Bpifrance, HSG, and visionary leaders Eric Schmidt and Xavier Niel.

Physical labor contributes an estimated $30-40 trillion to the Global GDP, yet over 95% of it remains unautomated due to the limitations of current automation solutions. Today’s robotic systems, such as industrial arms, rely on brittle, rigid, and overfitted software stacks. These systems are narrow in scope, costly to deploy, and challenging to scale. Genesis aims to revolutionize the next generation of general-purpose robots by unlocking unprecedented robustness, flexibility, and cost efficiency – ultimately automating all physical labor.

Genesis brings a data-centric, full-stack approach to physical AI – building a scalable and universal data engine that unifies high-fidelity physics simulation, multimodal generative modeling, and large-scale real robot data collection. Its simulation stack, developed entirely in-house, will generate rich synthetic data at scale, together with a more efficient and scalable real-world data collection system. This dual engine of synthetic and real data bridges historically siloed domains to collect the largest-scale, most diverse, and highest quality data to train RFMs.

“General-purpose robots powered by physical AI will define the next major chapter of human history. While digital AI has made extraordinary progress, physical AI – the intelligence that allows machines to perceive, understand, and interact with the real world – has lagged behind,” said Zhou Xian, CEO of Genesis. “We’re here to change that. By building on the foundations laid by existing digital AI models, we’re bringing human-level intelligence into the physical world. Genesis’s unique approach by fueling digital AI knowledge to drive the emergence of physical AI will deliver unmatched capability, scalability, and cost-efficiency to unlock unlimited physical labor. With 75% of global companies struggling to fill jobs, physical AI is more essential than ever.”

Founded by top academic and industry technical talents from Mistral AI, Nvidia, Google, CMU, MIT, Stanford, Columbia and UMD, with deep expertise across the full stack of physics simulation, graphics, robotics, and large-scale AI model training and deployment, Genesis is well-positioned to rapidly execute its vision through a differentiated approach to physical AI. The company also plans to open-source components of its data engine and foundation model to empower developers, researchers, and partners to build on its breakthroughs and accelerate progress across the broader field of physical AI.

“Even in the most ‘automated’ industries today, the robot-to-human ratio rarely exceeds 1:30, due to the long tail of tasks requiring dexterity, cognition, mobility, and real-world reasoning that current robots simply can’t handle,” said Eclipse Partner, Charly Mwangi. “General-purpose robotics is the breakthrough we’ve been waiting for and stands to impact trillions in labor value across sectors. Genesis has the vision, strategy, and world-class team to define the era of physical AI in order to unlock unlimited physical labor through general-purpose robotics.”

“Physical AI has yet to scale like LLMs because collecting and aligning real-world data can be operationally complex,” said Kanu Gulati of Khosla Ventures. “Genesis is taking a full-stack approach by integrating best-in-class simulation data with real-world robotics data in a continuous, closed-loop system. Owning the entire data pipeline in-house gives them a unique data advantage. We’re excited to back Genesis early as they work to build a universal foundation model for robotics.”

To learn more about Genesis or explore career opportunities to help define the future of robotics, please visit genesis-ai.company.

About Genesis
Genesis is a global physical AI research lab and full-stack robotics company pioneering the world’s first universal robotics foundation model and horizontal robotics platform. With a mission to unlock unlimited physical labor, Genesis empowers the deployment of general-purpose robots to perform the essential physical work that underpins the global economy.

About Eclipse
With ~$5 billion in assets under management, Eclipse is a team of operators and investors partnering with exceptional companies from ideation to all stages of growth to unlock solutions to age-old physical industry problems through the intersection of bits and atoms and the rise of physical AI. For more information, visit www.eclipse.capital.

About Khosla
Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on investments in artificial intelligence, financial services, healthcare, consumer, enterprise, and sustainability sectors. It is known for making early capital investments in startups such as OpenAI, Instacart, Affirm, DoorDash, and Block.

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., July 1, 2025 — Colorado ONE Fund, a venture arm of ONE Funds, has announced a seed investment in Bedrock Research, a Highlands Ranch, Colorado-based startup pioneering AI-powered global remote sensing and monitoring.

Bedrock Research is transforming how organizations monitor the world by fusing and analyzing data from optical and SAR imagery, AIS, thermal sensors, full-motion video, open-source feeds, analyst reports, and more. Its robust data fusion engine then applies AI-powered anomaly detection and semantic annotation to pinpoint meaningful signals in real time before they escalate into high-risk situations. With growing traction across defense, energy, and infrastructure sectors, Bedrock enables decision-makers to shift from reactive to anticipatory action with speed, clarity, and confidence.

“Bedrock fills an important gap in U.S. defense and intelligence capabilities,” said Kevin O’Neil, Founder and CEO of ONE Funds. “Their technical innovation and exceptional team align strongly with our investment thesis. We are excited to support their continued growth and real-world impact both nationally and globally.”

Unlike traditional systems that require months to configure, Bedrock’s model can be rapidly customized and delivered within days or weeks—empowering customers to respond swiftly in dynamic operational environments.

“It’s critical to help our customers adapt to a constantly shifting world,” said Kevin LaTourette, CEO of Bedrock Research. “Today, they might be looking for a needle in a haystack. Tomorrow, they could be tracking a single snowflake in a blizzard. Our solution is designed to cut through the noise and highlight what truly matters.”

About Bedrock Research

Bedrock Research builds AI-powered solutions for real-time remote sensing and geospatial intelligence. By fusing sensor-agnostic data streams and applying anomaly detection and semantic understanding, Bedrock accelerates decision-making across energy, supply chain, humanitarian, environmental, and defense domains. Learn more at www.bedrockresearch.ai.

About ONE Funds
Founded in 2023, ONE Funds focuses on impact investing in the defense sector. With a unique ecosystem, ONE Funds connects defense technology innovators with government leadership, applying a strategic consortium model to grow small businesses. Boasting 250 years of cumulative defense experience, ONE Funds invests in aerospace and national defense technologies to deliver strong returns while advancing critical security innovations. As part of ONE Funds, Colorado ONE Fund partners with the Colorado Venture Capital Authority (VCA) to back early-stage, high-impact technologies supporting national defense. Learn more at www.onefunds.com.

German Nunez
Managing Director 
[email protected]

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