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Building the Infrastructure for AI-Native Hedge Funds: Our Thesis on Databento

Investment Essays

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Jul 9, 2026

Building the Infrastructure for AI-Native Hedge Funds: Our Thesis on Databento

A new infrastructure for modern financial markets

Ted Wagner
Ted Wagner
Building the Industrial Stack of America: Standard Bots Raises $200M

Investment Essays

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Jun 10, 2026

Building the Industrial Stack of America: Standard Bots Raises $200M

Why we believe Standard Bots can democratize industrial automation and help rebuild the foundation of American manufacturing.

Ted Wagner
Ted Wagner
The Future of AI in Retail: Our Investment in Profitmind

Investment Essays

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Feb 25, 2026

The Future of AI in Retail: Our Investment in Profitmind

Ted Wagner
Ted Wagner
Why we invested in Parloa

Investment Essays

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Jan 27, 2026

Why we invested in Parloa

AI will fundamentally redefine how enterprises deliver customer experience. Parloa is building the infrastructure layer that makes that transformation operationally real.

Ted Wagner
Ted Wagner
The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 8/31/2026

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Aug 31, 2026

The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 8/31/2026

Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9B, a federal judge overturns the Pentagon's ban on Anthropic, and OpenAI publishes its full accounting of the Hugging Face breach.

Ted Wagner
Ted Wagner
The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 8/24/2026

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Aug 24, 2026

The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 8/24/2026

Etched ships its first rack and doubles to $21B, Synthefy raises $6.5M to build foundation models for numbers, and Stripe buys OpenRouter for a reported $7.5B

Ted Wagner
Ted Wagner

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The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 9/8/2026

Weekly Newsletter

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Sep 8, 2026

The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 9/8/2026

OpenAI ships GPT-6 Astra, Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9B, and a second swarm of rogue agents escapes onto the open internet

Ted Wagner
Ted Wagner
The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 8/24/2026

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Aug 24, 2026

The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 8/24/2026

Etched ships its first rack and doubles to $21B, Synthefy raises $6.5M to build foundation models for numbers, and Stripe buys OpenRouter for a reported $7.5B

Ted Wagner
Ted Wagner
The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 8/17/2026

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Aug 17, 2026

The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 8/17/2026

Riven Systems emerges from stealth, Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7B+, and Anthropic's Q2 revenue tops $11.5B

Ted Wagner
Ted Wagner

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The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 9/8/2026

Weekly Newsletter

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Sep 8, 2026

The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 9/8/2026

OpenAI ships GPT-6 Astra, Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9B, and a second swarm of rogue agents escapes onto the open internet

Ted Wagner
Ted Wagner
The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 8/31/2026

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Aug 31, 2026

The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 8/31/2026

Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9B, a federal judge overturns the Pentagon's ban on Anthropic, and OpenAI publishes its full accounting of the Hugging Face breach.

Ted Wagner
Ted Wagner
The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 8/24/2026

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Aug 24, 2026

The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 8/24/2026

Etched ships its first rack and doubles to $21B, Synthefy raises $6.5M to build foundation models for numbers, and Stripe buys OpenRouter for a reported $7.5B

Ted Wagner
Ted Wagner
The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 8/17/2026

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Aug 17, 2026

The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 8/17/2026

Riven Systems emerges from stealth, Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7B+, and Anthropic's Q2 revenue tops $11.5B

Ted Wagner
Ted Wagner
The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 8/10/2026

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Aug 10, 2026

The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 8/10/2026

Google's AI brain drain births Discovery Loop, rogue agents rattle three frontier labs, and Anthropic goes vertical with a custom chip and a $10B compute deal.

Ted Wagner
Ted Wagner
The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 8/3/2026

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Aug 3, 2026

The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 8/3/2026

OpenAI's rogue agent hacked more than Hugging Face, Anthropic discloses its own models breached three companies, and Sam Altman says he's ready to decelerate

Ted Wagner
Ted Wagner
The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 7/27/2026

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Jul 27, 2026

The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 7/27/2026

Etched announces its Series C at a $10.3B valuation, OpenAI's rogue models hack Hugging Face, and Anthropic launches Opus 5 alongside a $5B AMD deal

Ted Wagner
Ted Wagner
The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 7/20/2026

Weekly Newsletter

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Jul 20, 2026

The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 7/20/2026

Apple takes OpenAI to court, China's Kimi K3 rattles the frontier, and Databricks hits a $188B valuation

Ted Wagner
Ted Wagner
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