💙🎉 Honored to see @DukeCapPartners + our MD @whereskurt featured in Duke Magazine. “It’s about people. Always has been” From guiding founders, mentoring students, and connecting alumni investors — to backing 60+ Duke startups in a $105M portfolio — Kurt leads with purpose!

🚀 @LiquidAI_ just launched LFM2 — compact gen-AI models (350M–1.2B) for edge devices: phones, PCs, cars & more. ⚡️ Optimized on @AMD Ryzen AI day 0.📈 Best-in-class quality, latency & throughput.🧪 Try it on Liquid Playground, @huggingface, @OpenRouterAI

💙 Celebrating graduating Associates! Today: Zining Wang, Fuqua MBA ‘25, whose curiosity, creativity & teamwork shaped DCP. 🗣️ “DCP took me out of the 'MBA bubble'. I gained VC knowledge, confidence & friendships I’ll carry for years.” Off to @BCG in Seattle—We are proud of you!

💥 xAI has secured $10B in funding — split between $5B in equity and $5B in debt. The raise will support the Grok chatbot, a powerful AI supercomputer, and core infrastructure. 👀 Also, the company is actively hiring! Check it out 👉

Thrilled to share that Kurt Jacobus, CEO of @restor3d, has been named a 2025 @EYnews Entrepreneur Of The Year® Southeast winner! 👏Proud to see he gets recognized amongst visionary leaders building high-growth companies that drive innovation, impact, and lasting prosperity.

🚨 Excited to welcome the 2025–2026 Law Associate cohort at Duke Capital Partners! 💼 Ellie, Blake, Clarissa, FJ, Sawyer — supported by Sr. Assoc. Madeleine & Caleb 🙌🎙️ Also, thanks to Erika Buell for the generous shout-out on PLI’s podcast!.👉

🌍Releaf Earth has been selected for funding by the Climate Transformation Fund—co-founded by @milkywire & @Klarna their pioneering biochar work in Nigeria 🌿 Congrats to CEO @Uzoayo & team! 🚀.#NetZero #CarbonRemoval #ClimateAction #ImpactInvesting #Milkywire #Klarna

💙 Celebrating graduating Associates! Today: Grayson Rice — humble, sharp, and a steady presence in DCP. 📷 “DCP gave me hands-on VC education I couldn’t get anywhere else. The community, diligence work, and investor meetings shaped my path from PhD to consulting.” Proud of you!

Congrats to @otter_ai integrating w/ 8,000+ apps via @zapier powerful automations. DCP is proud to have supported them from the early stages. This is a major leap forward for productivity. SO COOL!

💙 THANKS @karthikprem, for joining us & sharing your journey with the DCP team! From @Apple to @Google, 20+ startup investments, and lessons on relationships and adaptability —your insights & people-first approach truly inspired us. 🗣️“DCP is my most fulfilling Duke connection.”

🚀 Big milestone: @Teamworks raises $235M Series F at a $1B+ valuation, led by @Dragoneer (via a @DukeCapital connection) — and celebrates by lighting up the @Nasdaq Tower! Founded by @DukeAlumni Zach Maurides & Mitch Heath, backed by Bill Luby & @ReggieLove33.

💙 Celebrating graduating Associates! Today: @OuyangYunxin , whose knowledge, thoughtfulness & leadership helped shape DCP. 📷 “DCP was a defining part of my PhD. It sharpened my strategy skills & prepared me to champion innovation at Triangle Insights and beyond.” Proud of you!

💙🌌 SO COOL - space news from @DukeU!.Duke researchers helped build the world’s largest digital camera — 3200MP 🤯 — now capturing the most detailed images of the universe. 👉👀📽️

💙Celebrating graduating Associates! Today: Vishesh Verma, for whom DCP defined his Duke experience, and whose leadership & insights shaped us. 📷 “DCP personifies ‘you get out what you put in.’ It gave me the skills & confidence I’ll carry into @JPMorgan & beyond.” Proud of you!

💥 A global leap for generative AI! DCP portfolio co. @Liquid_AI is teaming up with @G42ai, @core42_ai & Inception to deploy next-gen multimodal AI across finance, biotech, telecom & more—advancing sovereign AI across the Global South & beyond. 👏

💙 Celebrating our graduating Associates: Shamitha Shetty. 🗣️“DCP was a highlight while at Duke. From hands-on VC work to working in the Marketing committee, it shaped my growth beyond the lab. I'm excited to join @Guidehouse after completing my PhD in Biomedical Engineering!"

🌍 Climate tech in Africa 🌍 @Releafearth recently launched Nigeria’s 1st industrial biochar plant—turning waste into carbon removal + contributing to regenerative agriculture, benefiting smallholder farmers. Co-founded by Duke alum @Uzoayo. 👉

💙 Celebrating our graduating Associate: Maxwell Roth. 🗣️ “DCP gave me real-world insight into what drives great businesses. It laid the foundation for my role at @DeutscheBank.” 3 years of dedication—Max set the bar: always showing up & delivering. Off to Deutsche Bank! Congrats

🧬❤️🫁 Know someone interested about gene therapy for heart/lung disease? @DukeSurgery Alum, DCP Associate Alum, and DCP portfolio company founder (Lacuna Medical), @MuathBishawi is hiring a Postdoc + Lab Tech at @EmoryMedicine/@GeorgiaTech. 👉APPLY HERE:

💙 Celebrating our graduating Associates: Veronica Russell. 🗣️“DCP complemented my technical background by letting me contribute through hands-on VC work. It gave me the confidence to pivot beyond academia, and I’m excited to start at @BCG after my PhD in Computational Biology!”