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Over the past few months, our team visited universities to meet students doing AI research. We left convinced that some of the most original thinking in the field is coming from undergrads.

We met students studying how models reason, building new evaluation methods, and applying AI to science and medicine. Their ideas were ambitious and their research was rigorous. And nearly all of them were held back by the same thing: compute.

The GC Research Fellowship, in partnership with @modal, gives 20 exceptional undergraduates up to $25,000 each in compute to pursue their biggest questions.

Applications are open: generalcatalyst.com/research-fello…

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Accounting can’t be one-shotted. One firm uses six different systems to prepare a single tax return.

@getCos co-founded @AccrualHQ to turn accounting from a cost center into a growth lever. Its AI drafts the work across tax, audit, and advisory, then shows accountants what needs a closer look.

Watch @marcbhargava in conversation with Cosmin.

Chapters
00:00 — Meet Accrual
00:26 — Breaking the School Network
02:29 — Best Friends at Stripe
06:19 — The Test for Every Startup Idea
18:54 — Why Accounting Can’t Be One-Shotted
23:20 — Earning an Industry’s Trust
27:13 — From a W-2 to a K-1
30:14 — Buying a Firm Out of Fear
33:55 — The Two-Day Work Trial
39:36 — Reaching Escape Velocity

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We're tripling down on @HypersonicaGmbH's €100M Series B.

Revisit @jcfurstenberg's conversation with CEO Philipp Kerth.

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"We can't claim our values if we can't defend them."

@HypersonicaGmbH exists because Europe needs to own its critical capabilities so no one can hold it hostage.

Watch @jcfurstenberg in conversation with Philipp Kerth.

Chapters
00:00 — “Europe Is Losing Its Best People”
03:32 — Hacking the Academic System
08:13 — The Coolest Problem in Aerospace
14:24 — Aegis 1: Nine Months to Launch
21:01 — Racing to 2029
28:14 — Stopping Wars Before They Start
34:11 — On to the Next Launch

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We’re quadrupling down on @getserval's $150M Series C.

Revisit @marcbhargava’s conversation with CEO @jakeserval.

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Before starting @getserval, @jakeserval changed one question in his customer interviews. He asked IT teams what they would hand to someone hired to sit next to them and do their work.

Almost everyone said the same thing. Building automations took longer than doing the task itself, which left them resetting passwords by hand, week after week.

Serval automates the automations for every team that supports employees.

Watch @marcbhargava in conversation with Jake.

Chapters
00:00 — Meet Serval
00:35 — Brain Scans and a First Startup
02:24 — Seven Years at Verkada
07:43 — The Question That Unlocked Serval
10:06 — Build the Hardest Thing First
13:04 — Why Startups Can Compete With the Labs
20:11 — Training Future Founders
23:01 — Perplexity to the Fortune 20
27:17 — Fixing Problems Before the Ticket
29:28 — Hiring Salespeople in the AI Era
34:24 — Chasing Product-Market Fit Forever

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General Catalyst @generalcatalyst Oct 28

Many manufacturers run on exceptions that their software can’t resolve, @fragmentdata's agents resolve them end to end.

Today, Fragment comes out of stealth with $56M in total funding. General Catalyst co-led their seed round, and are back to support their Series A. Listen to @pranavmulgund and @stopitnaveen discuss the procurement and economic impact of the iPhone in this short clip.

cc: @vedantsuri, @yuris

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