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Caught up with a few of our favorite founders on stage at @GoannaCapital's Global Frontier Summit in Abu Dhabi
@zebulgar building space drug factories
@PhilipJohnston building space data centers
@Willob building the ocean company
The real world is the frontier
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I’ll be speaking at Frontier Summit in Abu Dhabi this month about the core thesis of my recently published book: Genetic Optimization as a new mechanism for directed human evolution.
Hope to see you there.
Thank you @GoannaCapital for having me!

ALT This is a promotional poster for Kian Sadeghi's talk "Frontier Summit" titled "Evolution by Genetic Optimization," taking place on October 19 & 20 in Abu Dhabi. The background features a blurred cityscape. The lower part of the poster includes a portrait with the name "Kian Sadeghi, Founder & CEO of Nucleus." The Goanna Capital logo is at the bottom right.
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This week we saw AI on both sides of the cyber fight. Attackers are using autonomous agents to break into systems, and critical software flaws are being found and exploited faster than ever.
Technology is reorganising our society at a rate never seen in human history. Yet the people building it and those governing it rarely understand each other. That gap will help determine who shares in the prosperity it creates, and who is left exposed.
Opening day two of @GoannaCapital #FrontierSummit in Abu Dhabi, I shared Australia’s experience.
Australia made innovation a national priority. As Minister responsible for innovation, we brought entrepreneurs, scientists and industry into the tent and, within months, delivered 24 reforms across 9 departments to back the private sector in creating a new pillar of the economy. Ten years on, the @techcouncil_aus ranks technology as the second-largest contributor to Australian GDP, after mining.
The future is not predetermined. It will be written by those who can bring policy, politics, commerce and technology together.
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The next wave of technology is moving well beyond software, and Frontier Summit 2026 was a pretty good reminder of that.
The UAE did it again and brought together some of the world’s leading investors, founders and operators working on AI, robotics, space and other frontier technologies to talk about what actually needs to happen to move these things out of the lab and into the real world.
AI was everywhere, obviously. But so were hardware, robotics and infrastructure. And more and more serious people are openly saying the same thing now: the next wave will require going much deeper into infrastructure, hard tech and deep tech. Investors are increasingly willing to fund things that take longer than one software sprint to build. We all knew this shift was coming, but it’s still exciting to see it happening.
Thanks to Robert Hilmer from @GoannaCapital and to Jordan Keslow for the invitation.
And the conversation continues this week: the Goanna Capital team is coming to our lab to film with us, so I’ll get to show them around and reveal what we’ve actually been building behind those lab doors.
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Epic day at Frontier Summit 2026!
Super impressive group that @GoannaCapital has gathered here in Abu Dhabi
Replying to @billythalheimer
@billythalheimer, @regentcraft's CEO and Co-founder, took the stage at the Frontier Summit in Abu Dhabi to share the latest Seaglider developments and momentum, and to explain how this transformative technology will revolutionize passenger, cargo, and defense mobility.
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Karim closed on what sovereign capability requires, and what it does not. “Sovereignty does not mean separation,” he said. “It simply means that at the time of your choosing, you can bring this capability together.” The outcome he pointed to is a capability a nation controls on its own terms, built through partnership with like-minded counterparts rather than in isolation.
Megzhan Kenesbai, Chief Growth Officer of Presight, joined Karim on the panel with Presight’s perspective on deploying AI at national scale and earning the confidence of governments and public boards. Brian Lee, Global Head of Strategy at Goanna Capital, moderated.
@PresightAI
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#Space42 #FrontierSummit2026
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At #FrontierSummit2026, ADIO connected with global leaders to advance investment and innovation in AI, robotics and space.
استعرض مكتب أبوظبي للاستثمار خلال #قمة_فرونتير2026 دوره في جذب الاستثمارات ودعم الابتكار وتعزيز الشراكات في قطاعات التكنولوجيا المتقدمة.
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Seagliders on the Main Stage. @billythalheimer and @regentcraft are up Day 1 at Frontier Summit in Abu Dhabi.
Don't miss this one!
Who's psyched for Frontier Summit 2026?! I'll see you in Abu Dhabi Oct 19.
Be sure to catch my keynote: Monday (Day 1) at 2:55pm on the Main Stage to catch the latest on what @regentcraft has been building.
Also excited for the awesome speaking lineup of some of the best founders and investors in the world right now. It's the place to be.
Grateful to @GoannaCapital for the opportunity.
@GoannaCapital is pleased to announce #FrontierSummit - October 19 & 20 in #AbuDhabi:
We are convening 200 founders, researchers, LPs, GPs & Governments. The summit is focused on AI, space & robotics.
• We believe founder keynotes, fireside chats, closed door roundtables, technical sessions and product announcements will make this Summit one of the most impactful technology conferences of the year.
• Many significant GPs, LPs, founders, researchers, sovereign wealth funds and Governments are attending.
We have reached capacity, but please contact us if you would like to join our waitlist.
#GoannaCapital #frontiertech #ai
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Thanks so much @NYSE! 🚀
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Squire is just a badass machine.
Recently back from a military exercise where we demonstrated electronic warfare capabilities carrying communications and sensing equipment.
Big unlock to combine the speed of a UAV with the infinite on-station time of a USV.
Best of both worlds: the first USA-V 🇺🇸
Replying to @Deloitte
@Deloitte published its lunar economy report this week.
The headline figure is $566B in cumulative economic value through 2050. That is the accelerated scenario. The conservative case in the same report is $343B.
The report is organized around what has to get built first: transportation, energy and power, communications and navigation, surface mobility, construction, and life support.
Report linked in the comments.
Deloitte Report: deloitte.com/us/en/about/pre…
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Announcing @regentcraft's $240M Series B to bring our Seaglider manufacturing facility online and deliver them to our military and commercial customers. Lets go!!
Could not have asked for better co-leads between Mare Liberum (@lcselby) and AE Ventures, bringing vast experience and connectivity across maritime and aerospace. Its not easy building in either of these sectors, so their backing is amazing validation for the business.
So excited to be partnering with @ereborbank on the financing. @PalmerLuckey and the team are absolutely putting their money where their mouth is on backing the next generation of American industry and defense technologies.
Access to this $120M in debt unlocks significant manufacturing purchases across tooling and equipment to stay on track for first Seagliders out of the factory by end of next year. We have a quarter-million feet of factory floor to fill.
This is a major growth moment for REGENT. To date, we've largely been focused on prototyping. Seagliders are the first new mode of transportation since the helicopter, and its taken a lot of engineering and test to get here.
Now we are focused to getting Seagliders into the hands of our customers, whether it is contested logistics and MEDEVAC missions in the Indo-Pacific, or commuter service to New York or Miami. The growth of the order book over the past year has been amazing.
It's a huge moment for us, but we're keeping our heads down and working. We are on the eve of flying our full-scale, human-safe Viceroy Seaglider prototype. Investors in our Series B got deeply involved in our technology development and testing campaigns and gained conviction in REGENT to unlock this fundraise even before Viceroy has flown.
I must say, it's awesome to see this team - even while celebrating this Series B - remain so locked in on flight.
Thank you to our existing investors who doubled down on us like @_edgegroup / SDF, @GiantStepVC, @LockheedMartin, @caffeinatedcap/@tonsing, @JAL_Official_jp, @mcuban, @foundersfund/@zebulgar, East X, and @Future_Planet.
And excited for all the new support with @DCVC, iGrow, @BalnordVC, @VanderbiltU, and Inceptional.
Massive day for REGENT. Next steps: flight, production, deliveries!
New episode of Very First Win with @CIO_Baylor , Dave Morehead, CIO at @Baylor University's Office of Investments.
@iimag named him Endowment/Foundation CIO of the Year in 2025, voted on by his peers. He told me that award, at 53, was his very first win.
We got into groupthink, loyalty, and why he hires undergrads and gives them more responsibility than they'd get anywhere else.
#GoannaCapital #VeryFirstWin
@GoannaCapital is pleased to confirm we are no longer accepting subscriptions to our $300M Global Tech Leaders Fund.
After just 6 years, we are approaching $4 Bn in firm-wide AUM as we scale the platform globally.
Our focus on building exposure to what we believe are the most generationally important private technology companies has been our mission since the inception of the firm.
Replying to @Starcloud_
@Starcloud_ just added $250M to their Series A round.
The company builds data centers that run in orbit.
@GoannaCapital participated in the round at a $2.3B valuation.
Other participants included @Manhattan_West, @Cisco_Invests, @CedarCapital , @Standard_Cap, @benchmark, @eqtventures , @Soma_Capital , @NFX , @sevensevensix , and @nvidia whose H100 chip is in space and being used to train Starcloud’s AI model.
Congrats to @PhilipJohnston and the rest of the @Starcloud_ team!
Replying to @VardaSpace
@VardaSpace makes pharmaceuticals in orbit and flies them back to Earth by capsule.
Their factory is orbiting Earth right now making drugs that can't be made as well down here.
We went to their facility in El Segundo, CA
Co-founder and President of @VardaSpace, Delian Asparouhov walked us through reentry, in orbit production, and hypersonic flight.
@GoannaCapital is an investor in @VardaSpace. The companies referenced do not represent all portfolio companies purchased, sold or recommended, and no assumption should be made that any investment was or will be profitable. Exits may be full or partial.
Our team got an inside look at @GrayMatterRobot w/ co-founder and CEO @ariyankabir
100,000 square feet of robots sanding, grinding, polishing, and spraying parts on their own.
What stood out: these aren't programmed for one specific part. They use Physical AI to read whatever geometry or material is in front of them and adjust in real time.
@GrayMatterRobot calls it Factory SuperIntelligence.
#robotics #automation





















