@DukeCapPartners

Connecting Duke-related investors with Duke-related companies!

Durham, NC
Joined February 2021
Proud to see 3 @DukeCapPartners portfolio companies on the 2025 @Inc 5000: 326 – @AiFiInc : 270+ autonomous stores, 9M+ customers served 586 – @Vestwell : Serving 350K+ employers, $35B+ assets 1,407 – @levitateai : AI-powered relationship marketing #Inc5000 #Growth #Startups
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💙Three DCP portfolio companies made @a16z’s latest Consumer AI rankings. 🚀 @grok (SpaceXai): #6 Web + #19 Mobile @cursor_ai: #35 Web @otter_ai: #14 Consumer AI Revenue Congratulations to the Grok, Cursor, and Otter.ai teams on the continued momentum! 💙
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We’re excited to see Duke Capital Partners portfolio company RetailReady launch their new chapter -- bringing the complexity of retail operations into one platform built around three core workflows: Connect, Ship, and Dispute. 💙🚀 Congratulations to the team!
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💙🏆 Incredibly proud to see DCP portfolio company @ScienceCorp_ recognized by @TIME, with PRIMA named one of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2026. PRIMA is a vision-restoring BCI designed for people with geographic atrophy, an advanced form of age-related macular degeneration.
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Two Duke Capital Partners portfolio companies were named to @LinkedIn's 2026 Top Startups list: @LilaSciences at #28 and Icarus at #40 nationally. We’re proud to see both teams recognized for the momentum they’re building! 💙🚀
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Introducing Cortex Harness 🤖 CortexAI’s new platform lets teams run AI models on real robots, guide them with language, and take over remotely when human help is needed. AND it creates a self-feedback loop. Congrats to the team on the launch! 🚀💙
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Join us in welcoming our newest associates to Duke Capital Partners! 💙 The next two years they’ll take part in a hands-on venture capital program, working across the investment process—from sourcing and screening companies to conducting due diligence and supporting operations.
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🏁@Teamworks is helping keep @NASCAR's paddock connected. Proud to see the team continuing to power communication and operations across elite sports organizations! 💙🚀
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A continued behind the scenes look at Duke Capital Partners in Silicon Valley! 💙🚀 Building relationships, learning from experienced investors, and staying close to the next generation of innovative companies is at the core of the DCP experience. ⭐💙
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Behind the scenes from the Duke Capital Partners Ops team’s visit to Palo Alto for @a16z speedrun’s Demo Day! 💙🚀 Staying close to founders and emerging ideas is core to how we support innovation early and build relationships with the next generation of companies.
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🕶️ Duke Capital Partners portfolio company Retail Ready is partnering with @Supergoop to help support the operational complexity that comes with scaling across major retail channels. Congratulations on the partnership! 💙
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⭐A monumental milestone: with @ScienceCorp_'s PRIMA, a patient blinded by Stargardt disease can see and read again. Congratulations! 💙
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Our portfolio company Liquid AI is advancing the foundation for more personal, device-native AI under a collaboration with Qualcomm. Congratulations! 💙
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Congratulations to Vulcan Elements, a Duke Capital Partners portfolio company, on its competitive selection by the U.S. Army to supply high-performance neodymium iron boron magnets for the Army’s SkyFoundry drone initiative! 🚀⭐
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💙🏆 Congratulations to Dr. David Smith, Duke’s James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, on being named a 2026 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Fellow. Smith's lab spun out DCP portfolio companies Extellis and Neurophos.
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Vestwell turns ten: 2.65M savers, 750K businesses, $58B saved! @Vestwell powers workplace 401(k)s, IRAs, 529s and state savings programs. Founder Aaron Schumm is a Duke Fuqua MBA alum, and DCP has backed the company since its earliest rounds. 💙
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The Pentagon is in talks to lend our portfolio company Fluidstack about $5B, per the WSJ. Fluidstack builds and runs the data centers AI models train in, hosting other firms' hardware instead of buying chips. Forbes reports an $18B valuation. Congrats to the team! 🚀💙
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🤝💙 Did you know that Otter.ai connects meeting intelligence with the tools teams use EVERY day? From @salesforce , @Jira , @NotionHQ , @Google Drive, Gemini, @glean and @Egnyte to ChatGPT & Claude. Keep it going CTO & @DukeU alum YunFu, CEO Sam Liang, and team
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💙 Duke Capital Partners portfolio companies are hiring! 🔥 @fluidstack: 250+ roles across the US & UK @otter_ai: 22+ roles in engineering, marketing & sales @neurophos: 25+ roles across silicon, AI and photonics 🔗 Apply via the links in comments - and share
🤖 Made with AI
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💙⭐ Another phenomenal milestone! Three founders from across our portfolio have been named to the 2026 @TIME 100 AI list: @elonmusk of @SpaceX and @xai, Daniela Rus of @liquidai , and @mntruell of @cursor_ai. Congrats to the teams!
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