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All posts Most biological models share the same blind spots. Basecamp Research built one grounded in the deepest map of natural biology yet, now available in Claude Science and across Anthropic products through a newly announced partnership. True’s Rohit Sharma shares more. © 2026 True Ventures. All rights reserved.

All posts True Ventures' 2026 Fellowship is built around a rooted goal: AI fluency. We welcomed 11 fellows to AI-native True Portfolio companies so they can develop the skills to solve problems and build what’s next. © 2026 True Ventures. All rights reserved.

All posts June 17, 2026/Rohit Sharma Robotic surgery assumed better tools meant bigger machines. Rohit Sharma debunks the myth and shares why True backed Channel Robotics to put the next wave of surgical robotic intelligence in surgeons’ hands. © 2026 True Ventures. All rights reserved.

All posts June 12, 2026/Puneet Agarwal Chips and models get the press. The next massive AI opportunity is the governance layer quietly deciding whether enterprise agents actually work. True Partner Puneet Agarwal shares why we invested and what it looks like when there’s a behavioral assurance layer protecting performance. © 2026 True Ventures. All rights reserved.

All posts June 10, 2026/Adam D'Augelli True backed Ari Jacoby and Todd Lieberman before. Here's why Adam D'Augelli and the True team bet on them again — and the AI infrastructure problem they're solving at scale. © 2026 True Ventures. All rights reserved.

Somewhere off-camera, I hope, someone said something unprintable, in Finnish. This story is inspiring because the experiment was cheap, fast, and answerable. The ISS pass was free. The physics is always unforgiving, but on this night in these hands, it was on their side. That is the useful lesson: find the smallest ridiculous experiment that can tell you whether nature and physics is on your side, then run it before the organization learns how to say no. A prototype. A tent. Some scaffolding.

All posts May 19, 2026/Madeline Minshew True’s hands-on AI Accelerator returns June 17 in San Francisco as the AI Workflow Summit: one day, demo-driven, practical, and open beyond the True community for the first time. Request an invite. © 2026 True Ventures. All rights reserved.

All posts May 14, 2026/Mike Montano Real cinema, not slop. Mike Montano on why Flick's founders — an award-winning filmmaker and a founding Instagram Stories engineer — are the rare team to build Flick, True's latest investment. © 2026 True Ventures. All rights reserved.

By Soul Dayan, April 21, 2026 In February I spent a day in Santa Fe at a quantum investor roundtable co-hosted by Los Alamos and Sandia National Labs. The room was full of brilliant builders, researchers, and professors, marrying the missions of pushing the fundamental science forward and figuring out what it actually looks like to bring their work to a commercial market.

By Madeline Minshew, April 6, 2026 In my house, with two super active toddlers on the loose, there’s always music in the background – both to drown out the screaming and as a (sometimes) delightful soundtrack to this chapter of absolutely delightful yet incredibly challenging chaos.