June 2026 Update
Space Guns, AI Inference, Neural Headbands
June closed out with new fundraises, acquisitions, and plenty of companies building the future, from brain-controlled interfaces to space guns.
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Events at SPC
In SF, we hosted Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy for a conversation on leadership in the AI age and where value lives once software commoditizes. Soleio hosted a Design Chat with Joel Lewenstein, who leads design at Anthropic.
In NYC, Demo Night filled the room with builders showcasing work from Luma, ElevenLabs, Sentience, Sandbar, and Flora. SPC India closed out its Curiosity 2.0 Hard-Tech Showcase, where teams demoed working prototypes across physical AI, bio, and deep tech.
Fund Updates
It was a landmark month for SPC companies.
Baseten raised a $1.5B Series F at a $13B valuation, led by Altimeter, Conviction, and Spark Capital, to power inference for the world’s most advanced applications.
Longshot Space raised $5M from SPC, bringing total funding to $20M, to build a ground-based kinetic launcher that propels payloads to hypersonic velocities and opens a scalable path to orbit.
Orb has entered a definitive agreement to be acquired by Adyen for $335M. Orb’s usage-based billing infrastructure will unify billing and payments for Adyen’s enterprise merchants.
Town announced a $55M Series A led by a16z to build Townie, an AI assistant learns how you work and does the work alongside you.
Qosmic raised $3.33M led by Accel and Prosus Ventures to build the optical highway to the cosmos, the communication backbone for the next generation of satellites.
Member Updates
Product Launches & Company News
AXION launched their neural headband, which let Ivan—quadriplegic after a spinal cord injury—order dinner himself using only his eyes and his mind, with no surgery or implant.
Pilot launched Meridian, an AI accounting platform that runs the entire month-end close so firms can grow without scaling headcount.
Personal Projects, Explorations & Publications
Rohit wrote an accessible explainer on full-duplex voice AI, models that can speak and listen at the same time.
Jonathan published breakthrough research on reading emotion from neural data.
Vaibhav released datasets.bot, a curated list of open robotics datasets spanning 32,000+ hours of robot data.
Noah open-sourced vibethis, a Chrome extension for vibe-coding the software you’d otherwise pay for.
Coming Up
Recent Content
We released new conversations with Nato Saichek (Longshot Space) on the 15-kilometer space gun they’re building to fling payloads into orbit, and Rasmus Andersson with Soleio on lessons from Figma, software decay, and creating the Inter font.
The work continues.