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I’m thrilled to share a major milestone for Range: Scale Venture Partners has led a $60M investment to accelerate our mission to put an AI-powered wealth manager in every American’s pocket. This partnership is a powerful validation of the future we’re building—one where intelligent, accessible, all-in-one wealth management is no longer a privilege, but a standard. Alexander Niehenke led the deal and will be joining our Board of Directors. From our earliest conversations, it was clear that Alex and the entire Scale team understand the magnitude of what AI will unlock for personal finance. Their conviction in the category, belief in our team, and ambition for what Range can become made this an incredibly natural fit. We’re excited to “scale” Range together and pursue our shared vision of becoming the world’s leading digital wealth platform. I’m also incredibly proud to welcome Haroon Mokhtarzada, CEO of Rocket Money, to our Board. Haroon is one of the rare founders who has built a multibillion-dollar fintech platform that truly improves people’s financial lives at scale. He brings unparalleled experience and a deep passion for helping consumers thrive financially. I’ve learned so much from him over the years, and officially building Range alongside him is going to be both inspiring and energizing. My cofounder David Cusatis and I are deeply grateful for our existing board members and investors—Darian Shirazi of Gradient and Simon Wu of Cathay Innovation —who continue to be steadfast champions of Range’s mission. Their support has been instrumental in shaping the company we are today. We’re also excited to welcome Jason Pritzker and the 53 Stations team to the Range family. This raise marks a new chapter—one defined by scale, innovation, and an unwavering commitment to helping families build and protect their wealth through the power of AI. My apologies to everyone I couldn't tag, but are instrumental in helping us build a world class company. If you don't see yourself tagged, LinkedIn simply stopped allowing me to tag folks! Jonathan Abrams, Kent Lindstrom, Andrej Henkler, Fadwa Ouardani, Denis Barrier, Denise T., Noah Gross, Aurelia Han, Damian Gardiner, Leblon Capital, Brave Capital, 8-Bit Capital, and all the amazing people at Range! If you’d like to read more, here are the links to our announcement: Range blog: https://lnkd.in/ev4CFcVi Axios coverage: https://lnkd.in/enQE4D7k

Lambda has raised over $1.5B in equity to build superintelligence cloud infrastructure. TWG Global, USIT, and existing investors led the Series E round to position Lambda to execute on its mission to give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU. Press release: https://bit.ly/3X3lOOb

Clarify is starting to get crazy good. We just rolled out AI Fields in Beta, and it’s pretty mind-blowing. Here’s a quick demo where I use it to automatically generate and populate a “Recent funding news” field based on what it can find on the internet. Before, I would’ve had to: --> Make a list of target companies in Clarify --> Export that list as a CSV and upload it into Clay --> Enrich the funding news there --> Re-export as a CSV --> Re-upload into Clarify Now it’s just… in Clarify. Insane. And huge shoutout to Igor Luchenkov for leading the project — absolute wizard of an engineer.

AND WE'RE OFF!! My favorite days of the year — when we get 200 of the top leaders in the WRITER community together to talk about the outcomes they are driving inside of their companies. Joining us are companies like Amazon, Apple, Adobe, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock, Walmart, Salesforce, IBM, NVIDIA, Accenture, Uber, Airbnb, and Wells Fargo — companies that are bucking the trend and getting value from AI! Thank you to our first speaker of the day — the incredible Ekta Chopra who wowed the audience with her WRITER playbook!