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Mark Leslie reposted thisMark Leslie reposted thisToday marks the beginning of a new era. We are now Cowboy Space Corporation. We are building a power grid in outer space for artificial intelligence. Using an integrated system of satellites and rockets, we will send high-performance compute and optical data transmission to Low Earth Orbit. To fuel this next chapter and the launch of our latest technology, we’ve raised a $275M Series B at a $2B valuation led by Index Ventures, with participation from new investors IVP, Blossom Capital and SAIC, alongside existing investors Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Construct Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates-NEA, Interlagos and Baiju Bhatt. Our constellation of satellites, Stampede, will harness abundant solar power to run on-orbit GPU data centers. With each launch, Stampede grows the power and compute capacity for humanity. Earth's energy grid can't run at the pace of AI. We can. Why now? AI is driving the largest infrastructure build-out in recent history, and the power grid on planet Earth can't keep pace. In major US markets, average grid connection lead times for new data centers can run 5-7 years or more. Meanwhile, AI demand is flat-out outgrowing Earth's pastures. Full-Stack Architecture: Traditional architecture treats the rocket as a workhorse and the satellite as freight. In our system, the rocket's upper stage is the satellite itself. It's a 1-megawatt data center with active thermal management and integrated compute, designed as one unified vehicle from the ground up. We trim the fat on redundant structure and avionics, dedicating every possible kilogram of compute to Low Earth Orbit. Furthermore, by owning our manufacturing and dedicated launch sites, we vertically integrate core technologies that enable deploying compute at scale. Later this year, we are scheduled to launch our first satellite into orbit to demonstrate space-to-Earth power beaming. Our second mission, targeted for early 2027, will operate a cluster of GPUs for high-performance compute and demonstrate end-to-end optical data transmission from space to Earth. This will pave the way for the launch of our rocket, scheduled for the end of 2028.
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Mark Leslie shared thisCorageous CEO to pull the plug to transform the company for the AI economy!Mark Leslie shared thisWe raised $72M from Sequoia/YC and hit 8-figures in ARR. Then we shut it all down & rebuilt the company from scratch. Today we’re launching the new Mutiny: the first AI agent for GTM teams to create anything customer-facing, in minutes. A decade of leading GTM teams taught me that dependencies are the biggest blocker to growth. Too many great ideas die waiting for resources: design, content, web. We started Mutiny to let sellers and marketers move at the speed of their ideas, building experiences that wow buyers. Mutiny 1.0 was beloved, but it was built on a SaaS foundation, which meant execution depended on humans. No matter how much we injected AI, we couldn’t unlock the real power of automation. So we killed it and rebuilt everything for an agentic world. Meet the new Mutiny: the first AI agent that gives GTM teams full autonomy to create anything they need to hit their goals, on-brand and personalized. - ABM Campaign - ROI Report - Business Case - Prospecting page - Case study - Competitor comparison 30,000+ assets have already been published by companies like Rippling, Snowflake and Uber. Here's what sales users say: - Speed: 4.5X faster to create - Quality: 100% said it meets or exceeds their design bar - Impact: 4 out of 5 reps said they're more likely to hit quota with Mutiny - Edge: 89% said it gives them an edge in competitive deals What sets Mutiny apart is the quality: 1. On-brand, every time. Mutiny extracts your colors, fonts and visual style from your website to set the guardrails, so every asset looks and sounds like you. Just describe what you need and get a polished, on-brand asset in minutes. 2. Personalized, automatically. Mutiny researches your prospect and pulls in your CRM and call transcripts, so every asset is tailored to the account. Their challenges, relevant metrics, case studies, industry messaging and logo are all personalized instantly. 3. Full visibility. Most of the buying process happens behind closed doors. Your champion is forwarding decks & pitching you in meetings. Mutiny shows who opened your assets & what they read, so you can sell even when you're not in the room & engage new stakeholders w/ context. 4. Proven GTM best practices. Our agent has analyzed top-performing GTM assets and frameworks and built templates for every deal stage. The agent applies your brand and context so you get a polished asset in minutes. Sign up for free: MutinyHQ.com To celebrate the launch, comment “Mutiny” and I’ll triple your AI credits for free.
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Mark Leslie reposted thisMark Leslie reposted thisWe raised $72M from Sequoia/YC and hit 8-figures in ARR. Then we shut it all down & rebuilt the company from scratch. Today we’re launching the new Mutiny: the first AI agent for GTM teams to create anything customer-facing, in minutes. A decade of leading GTM teams taught me that dependencies are the biggest blocker to growth. Too many great ideas die waiting for resources: design, content, web. We started Mutiny to let sellers and marketers move at the speed of their ideas, building experiences that wow buyers. Mutiny 1.0 was beloved, but it was built on a SaaS foundation, which meant execution depended on humans. No matter how much we injected AI, we couldn’t unlock the real power of automation. So we killed it and rebuilt everything for an agentic world. Meet the new Mutiny: the first AI agent that gives GTM teams full autonomy to create anything they need to hit their goals, on-brand and personalized. - ABM Campaign - ROI Report - Business Case - Prospecting page - Case study - Competitor comparison 30,000+ assets have already been published by companies like Rippling, Snowflake and Uber. Here's what sales users say: - Speed: 4.5X faster to create - Quality: 100% said it meets or exceeds their design bar - Impact: 4 out of 5 reps said they're more likely to hit quota with Mutiny - Edge: 89% said it gives them an edge in competitive deals What sets Mutiny apart is the quality: 1. On-brand, every time. Mutiny extracts your colors, fonts and visual style from your website to set the guardrails, so every asset looks and sounds like you. Just describe what you need and get a polished, on-brand asset in minutes. 2. Personalized, automatically. Mutiny researches your prospect and pulls in your CRM and call transcripts, so every asset is tailored to the account. Their challenges, relevant metrics, case studies, industry messaging and logo are all personalized instantly. 3. Full visibility. Most of the buying process happens behind closed doors. Your champion is forwarding decks & pitching you in meetings. Mutiny shows who opened your assets & what they read, so you can sell even when you're not in the room & engage new stakeholders w/ context. 4. Proven GTM best practices. Our agent has analyzed top-performing GTM assets and frameworks and built templates for every deal stage. The agent applies your brand and context so you get a polished asset in minutes. Sign up for free: MutinyHQ.com To celebrate the launch, comment “Mutiny” and I’ll triple your AI credits for free.
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Mark Leslie reposted thisMark Leslie reposted thisBig news: we've partnered with Honeywell Aerospace Technologies to bring a new airborne counter-UAS solution to market. ✈️ This collaboration builds on more than a year of joint development and systems integration work to adapt Honeywell's SAMURAI Autonomous Airborne platform into Laila — our long-range hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft. The result? A new defensive counter-UAS layer that: • Bridges the gap between ground sensors and missile defense systems • Reduces reliance on costly kinetic defenses • Extends protection from the doorstep to the horizon Modern threats demand modern solutions. Together with Honeywell, we’re delivering. 🔗 Full press release in the comments.
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Mark Leslie reposted thisMark Leslie reposted thisEnergy infrastructure. Ports. Industrial assets. The risk profile has changed, and traditional methods can’t economically scale to effectively defend against new threats. Inbound UAV threats don't come one at a time, slowly. They come in swarms, with onboard intelligence and mother-ship / daughter-ship capabilities with ever evolving tactics. They’re inexpensive, coming online quickly. And they shift potential targets from just military bases to all forms of civilian infrastructure. The only effective defense is to move the engagement zone from the doorstep to the horizon. And this is what we’ve built for. With class-leading hybrid-electric propulsion, Laila redefines counter-UAS capabilities: • 450 mile range, 8 hour loiter, 18,000 ft max altitude • Our proprietary hybrid system is powering a full suite of cUAS capabilities: • Detect/ID/Track: Sigint, radar, EO/IR gimbals • Defeat: EW, cyberattack, airborne Directed Energy At the core of Laila’s propulsion system lies our proprietary 100 kW high-speed generator, capable of powering a full suite of counter-UAS defeat options while maintaining long-range mission performance. Laila not only expands the limits of airspace security, it does so at a fraction of the traditional cost-per-defeat. Infrastructure defense is no longer optional, and no other UAV is more primed for this moment. To read more about Laila and counter-UAS capabilities, visit the link in the comments below.
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Mark Leslie reposted thisMark Leslie reposted thisToday is the biggest product launch in Mutiny's history, and a huge leap forward in building the next frontier of AI for GTM teams. Every B2B CMO I talk to is fighting the same battle. AI has turned their marketing playbooks upside down: • Outbound effectiveness is plummeting as AI spam floods inboxes • Ads that used to work are now just more noise • Inbound leads are down as LLMs hijack their SEO traffic But what if instead of spamming buyers with AI, we used AI to deeply understand our buyers and build genuine relationships with them? That’s why we built 𝗔𝗜 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗚𝗧𝗠: the fastest place to launch breakthrough campaigns for target accounts. We use AI agents to: • Research accounts to identify needs and uncover themes across accounts • Create personalized landing pages and ads based on what’s relevant for each account • Arm sales with personalized content and engagement insights for their accounts Companies like Uber, GitLab, Twilio, and LaunchDarkly are transforming how they connect with enterprise buyers with Mutiny. Early results are insane! In just 60 days, LaunchDarkly used the product to: • Book 45 enterprise meetings with Fortune 500 accounts • Exceeded pipeline goals by 50% • Operated at 12X the average ABM productivity Even established enterprises with more complex workflows like BMC Software have hit the ground running, launching breakthrough campaigns in hours: “Partnering with Mutiny has been transformational for our marketing team,” said Martyn Etherington, CMO of BMC Software. “Their AI platform powers everything from account research to dynamic personalization and sales alignment—at scale and with precision. These are mission-critical capabilities that directly fuel how we drive enterprise pipeline. Mutiny isn’t just a vendor. They’re a trusted partner helping us personalize at scale and win in the AI era.” We're building a world where go-to-market teams can move at the speed of thought, executing every creative idea instantly without dependencies. Link to launch blog post in comments. #B2BMarketing #AI #EnterpriseGTM #ABM
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Mark Leslie shared thisExiting news from Numenta: https://lnkd.in/gzu3YWP9 https://lnkd.in/gFrM7DcPNumenta Unveils NuPIC 2.0, Elevates CPUs to Superior Choice for Running AI ModelsNumenta Unveils NuPIC 2.0, Elevates CPUs to Superior Choice for Running AI Models
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Mark Leslie shared thisCheck out my new podcast on leadership: https://lnkd.in/gvTwRrQyMark Leslie, Veritas Founding CEO and Chairman, Shares His Leadership PrinciplesMark Leslie, Veritas Founding CEO and Chairman, Shares His Leadership Principles
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Mark Leslie shared thisdeep tech investment from Leslie Ventures!!Mark Leslie shared thisToday we are excited to announce $17M in additional growth funding as well as new members on our executive team! The funding round was led by Valor Equity Partners, with participation from new investors Salesforce Ventures, T-Mobile, and 5G Open Innovation Lab, as well as existing investors Initialized Capital, Congruent Ventures, Convective Capital, January Ventures, Kevin Patrick Mahaffey, and Jade Van Doren. This funding brings Pano AI’s total capital raised to $45M. We are also excited to announce 3 new members of our executive team, top #AI leader Ryan White, our new VP of Engineering, hailing from Amazon and Meta, our VP of Finance, Michael Golub, from Doordash and Sunbasket, and our Director of Talent and People, Lina Rizzo, from Nest, Square, Apple, and Noon Home. With this new injection of funding and new world class leaders onboard, our entire 45-person team is more energized than ever to rise to the challenge of tackling the wildfire threat by building and delivering world class technology solutions for our customers, the front line emergency managers who are battling the effects of climate change every day. Thank you to the amazing Pano team for your dedication and to our trailblazing early customers and partners for your trust in us and for making today’s exciting milestone possible. Read more in our release: http://bit.ly/44uy0cI #StopWildfires Thank you to Haje Kamps at TechCrunch for breaking this news: http://bit.ly/3O7h7iD Abe Yokell, Joshua Posamentier, Claudine Emeott, Adrianna Alterman, John Saw, Kim-Mai Cutler, Garry Tan, Jennifer Wolf, Brett Gibson, Bill Clerico, Ilya Volodarsky, Jim Brisimitzis, Scott Waller, Jeff Pellegrini, Callie Field, George J. Fischer, Ulf Ewaldsson, Rick Balakier, Scott Jacka, Jennifer Keiser Neundorfer, Maren Bannon, Kevin Patrick Mahaffey, Jade Van DorenWildfire detection startup Pano AI extends its $20M Series A with another $17M | TechCrunchWildfire detection startup Pano AI extends its $20M Series A with another $17M | TechCrunch
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Mark Leslie liked thisMark Leslie liked thisToday marks the beginning of a new era. We are now Cowboy Space Corporation. We are building a power grid in outer space for artificial intelligence. Using an integrated system of satellites and rockets, we will send high-performance compute and optical data transmission to Low Earth Orbit. To fuel this next chapter and the launch of our latest technology, we’ve raised a $275M Series B at a $2B valuation led by Index Ventures, with participation from new investors IVP, Blossom Capital and SAIC, alongside existing investors Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Construct Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates-NEA, Interlagos and Baiju Bhatt. Our constellation of satellites, Stampede, will harness abundant solar power to run on-orbit GPU data centers. With each launch, Stampede grows the power and compute capacity for humanity. Earth's energy grid can't run at the pace of AI. We can. Why now? AI is driving the largest infrastructure build-out in recent history, and the power grid on planet Earth can't keep pace. In major US markets, average grid connection lead times for new data centers can run 5-7 years or more. Meanwhile, AI demand is flat-out outgrowing Earth's pastures. Full-Stack Architecture: Traditional architecture treats the rocket as a workhorse and the satellite as freight. In our system, the rocket's upper stage is the satellite itself. It's a 1-megawatt data center with active thermal management and integrated compute, designed as one unified vehicle from the ground up. We trim the fat on redundant structure and avionics, dedicating every possible kilogram of compute to Low Earth Orbit. Furthermore, by owning our manufacturing and dedicated launch sites, we vertically integrate core technologies that enable deploying compute at scale. Later this year, we are scheduled to launch our first satellite into orbit to demonstrate space-to-Earth power beaming. Our second mission, targeted for early 2027, will operate a cluster of GPUs for high-performance compute and demonstrate end-to-end optical data transmission from space to Earth. This will pave the way for the launch of our rocket, scheduled for the end of 2028.
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Mark Leslie liked thisMark Leslie liked thisWe raised $72M from Sequoia/YC and hit 8-figures in ARR. Then we shut it all down & rebuilt the company from scratch. Today we’re launching the new Mutiny: the first AI agent for GTM teams to create anything customer-facing, in minutes. A decade of leading GTM teams taught me that dependencies are the biggest blocker to growth. Too many great ideas die waiting for resources: design, content, web. We started Mutiny to let sellers and marketers move at the speed of their ideas, building experiences that wow buyers. Mutiny 1.0 was beloved, but it was built on a SaaS foundation, which meant execution depended on humans. No matter how much we injected AI, we couldn’t unlock the real power of automation. So we killed it and rebuilt everything for an agentic world. Meet the new Mutiny: the first AI agent that gives GTM teams full autonomy to create anything they need to hit their goals, on-brand and personalized. - ABM Campaign - ROI Report - Business Case - Prospecting page - Case study - Competitor comparison 30,000+ assets have already been published by companies like Rippling, Snowflake and Uber. Here's what sales users say: - Speed: 4.5X faster to create - Quality: 100% said it meets or exceeds their design bar - Impact: 4 out of 5 reps said they're more likely to hit quota with Mutiny - Edge: 89% said it gives them an edge in competitive deals What sets Mutiny apart is the quality: 1. On-brand, every time. Mutiny extracts your colors, fonts and visual style from your website to set the guardrails, so every asset looks and sounds like you. Just describe what you need and get a polished, on-brand asset in minutes. 2. Personalized, automatically. Mutiny researches your prospect and pulls in your CRM and call transcripts, so every asset is tailored to the account. Their challenges, relevant metrics, case studies, industry messaging and logo are all personalized instantly. 3. Full visibility. Most of the buying process happens behind closed doors. Your champion is forwarding decks & pitching you in meetings. Mutiny shows who opened your assets & what they read, so you can sell even when you're not in the room & engage new stakeholders w/ context. 4. Proven GTM best practices. Our agent has analyzed top-performing GTM assets and frameworks and built templates for every deal stage. The agent applies your brand and context so you get a polished asset in minutes. Sign up for free: MutinyHQ.com To celebrate the launch, comment “Mutiny” and I’ll triple your AI credits for free.
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Mark Leslie liked thisMark Leslie liked thisBig news: we've partnered with Honeywell Aerospace Technologies to bring a new airborne counter-UAS solution to market. ✈️ This collaboration builds on more than a year of joint development and systems integration work to adapt Honeywell's SAMURAI Autonomous Airborne platform into Laila — our long-range hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft. The result? A new defensive counter-UAS layer that: • Bridges the gap between ground sensors and missile defense systems • Reduces reliance on costly kinetic defenses • Extends protection from the doorstep to the horizon Modern threats demand modern solutions. Together with Honeywell, we’re delivering. 🔗 Full press release in the comments.
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