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1517 Fund

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1517 Fund

@1517fund

We back dropouts, renegade students, and deep tech scientists at the earliest stages, before anybody else. Want to chat? Reach out:👇

Investing across North America

Joined July 2015

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1517 Fund
@1517fund
Dec 24, 2023
1517 is more than just vibes & techno-retrocool! We back people who want to build the future. We are the first believers & the last doubters. For startups: 📜 Thesis: Sci-Fi tech (passes the Kubrick test), dropouts & renegade scientists 🌱Stage: Angel/preseed — seed 🌎 Geo
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1517 Fund
@1517fund
Jun 20, 2024
Industry doesn't have to be ugly. It can be beautiful. Shin-Nagoya Thermal Power Station, Japan.
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1517 Fund
@1517fund
Jan 15, 2025
No one cares about your middle school grades. But they do care about the robots & apps you made. Remember kids, grades get stale in a year. Projects are fresh for life.
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1517 Fund
@1517fund
May 11, 2025
Why Bell Labs Worked. ps — apply to Flux!
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1517 Fund
@1517fund
Jul 3, 2024
Nuclear cargo ships. The renaissance. > for commercial shippers, there aren’t any realistic alternatives to nuclear [..] "Engines in ordinary ships are the size of houses,” [..]large container ship needs 3k MWh/day [..] the capacity of the biggest grid battery ever built.
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1517 Fund
@1517fund
Jul 30, 2024
RETVRN.
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1517 Fund
@1517fund
Jun 21, 2024
Yes, it can. Culture changes all the time. But it requires us to show up & put in the work.
sphinx
@protosphinx
Jun 20, 2024
I can't get over this pic. Look at this. Engineering Art. This can't be taught. Either you have it, as a culture, or you don't.
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1517 Fund
@1517fund
Oct 31, 2022
Today is Reformation Day. 505 years ago, Luther nailed 95 Theses to Wittenberg church. He protested the sale of indulgences — pieces of paper that, if you had one, you got heaven. Without it? Fires of purgatory. Our thesis: the university degree is the modern indulgence.
1517 Fund
@1517fund
Dec 22, 2023
"Moon base" by Evgeny Kazantsev
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1517 Fund
@1517fund
Jun 16, 2020
Young builders have a choice this fall: They can go (back) to school, and risk campus shutting down again because of the pandemic. Or they can build. We’re launching The Invisible College: $50K investments in ideas / R&D for builders to leave campus: 1517fund.com/post/invisible…
1517 Fund
@1517fund
Apr 4, 2024
Yes.
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1517 Fund
@1517fund
Oct 3, 2024
Chat, we're sorry we let you down. We've covered nuclear cargo submarines, nuclear cargo ships, nuclear aircraft, nuclear rockets.. But we've neglected the most awesome segment, nuclear blimps. If the blimp could gather water, it could stay afloat for decades / until material
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1517 Fund
@1517fund
May 7, 2024
The earliest attempts to build a car didn't look anything like a car. Inventors in the 1860s were convinced that the next leap in mobility would be obtained by building a steam-powered anthropomorphic walking machine that pulled a carriage. And so the steam man was born.
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1517 Fund
@1517fund
Mar 11, 2025
but why apps when you can build rockets and robots? :)
Samuel Spitz
@samuel_spitz
Mar 9, 2025
The smartest VCs are giving $100k uncapped notes to palo alto high-schoolers. I will give you $10,000 to skip 8th grade and Cursor a viral app for teens.
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