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F·Prime Capital
Monitoring Digest
Vol. 2026 · May 19, 2026
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Prepared for
Chance Mathisen
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08 companies worth re-engaging, ranked by signal strength and contact recency.
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MONITORING
Tagged Dec 02, 2025 · 174 days as monitoring
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Prime Intellect provides a decentralized AI development platform that aggregates global GPU resources for training and deploying agentic models, utilizing technologies such as reinforcement learning environments, dynamic workload orchestration, and high-bandwidth networking. The platform supports large-scale model training and evaluation through a unified interface, facilitating effective management of compute resources. |
Funding (Harmonic) Latest round: Series A · $49.9M · Dec 2025. $70.4M raised · 3 rounds. |
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Data signals
| Product launch Website · May 12, 2026 · date from page metadata Prime Intellect open-sourced renderers, a standalone Python library for token-level templating in reinforcement learning and multi-turn inference. The library provides programmatic control over conversation formatting and is available on PyPI with support for major open-weight models including Qwen, DeepSeek, and GLM. |
| | Product launch Website · May 20, 2026 · date from page metadata Prime Intellect released Sprints, a free credits program enabling researchers to conduct reward hacking experiments on their platform. The initiative includes a new backdoor-ifeval environment and systematic methodology for studying reward hacking dynamics at scale. |
| | Customer win Website · Apr 20, 2026 Zapier selected Prime Intellect's Lab platform and Verifiers framework as the foundation for building AutomationBench, a benchmark for evaluating AI agents on realistic multi-step business automation workflows. Zapier is using Lab for stress testing, RL training, and ongoing evaluation development. |
| | Partnership Website · Apr 16, 2026 · date from page metadata Prime Intellect announced a collaboration with Proximal to develop the granite_inf task within the FrontierSWE benchmark, designed to evaluate agents' ability to optimize model implementations in inference engines. |
| | Partnership Website · Mar 30, 2026 · date from page metadata Prime Intellect announced a partnership with Browserbase to build BrowserEnv, a training platform for browser and computer use agents. The platform enables live web training at scale and has been validated by fine-tuning Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct on 600 real web tasks from the WebVoyager benchmark. |
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Website source checked May 26, 2026.
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Since you last spoke Prime Intellect open-sourced renderers, a Python library for token-level templating in reinforcement learning workflows with support for Qwen, DeepSeek, and GLM models, on May 12. The company hasn't logged contact in 181 days. |
Outreach contacts Vincent Weisser CEO & Co-Founder | Johannes Hagemann co-founder / CTO |
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Last contact
| ◉ | Meeting “30 Min Meeting between Jimmy Zheng and Chance Mathisen” 188 days ago · Nov 19, 2025 |
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MONITORING
Tagged Feb 25, 2026 · 89 days as monitoring
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Most LLMs are trained to be chatbots. Ours are trained to be agents. |
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Data signals
| Exec hire Website · Mar 17, 2026 · date from page metadata Dana Wensberg, a founding engineer with 10 years of experience, joined Subconscious. She was previously at another company where she built AI agents from first principles and identified the context management problem that Subconscious is solving. |
| | Partnership Website · May 21, 2026 · date from page metadata Subconscious Systems announced a hackathon partnership with BaseTen and Cloudflare during Boston Tech Week at Wayfair HQ, where teams will build on TIM-Qwen3.6-27B, with plans to provide early local access on laptops and mobile devices. |
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Website source checked May 26, 2026.
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Since you last spoke Dana Wensberg, a founding engineer with 10 years of experience and prior expertise building AI agents and identifying context management problems, joined Subconscious on March 17. Your last logged contact was 81 days ago. |
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Last contact
| ✉ | Email from Jack O'Brien “********” 5 days ago · May 21, 2026 |
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Website signals cited inline above.
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MONITORING
Tagged Mar 20, 2026 · 66 days as monitoring
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Data signals
| Product launch Website · Apr 23, 2026 Unkey launched its Deploy product, enabling developers to deploy APIs directly on Unkey's servers with features including instant rollbacks, zero-downtime deployments, and integrated API management (keys, rate limiting, analytics, billing). |
| | Product launch Website · Apr 23, 2026 Unkey launched Unkey Deploy in public beta alongside a new website and brand refresh. The product launch represents a major milestone in the company's mission to help developers build, secure, and scale APIs. |
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Website source checked May 26, 2026.
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Since you last spoke Unkey launched Deploy on April 23, enabling developers to deploy APIs directly on their infrastructure with integrated management tools like keys, rate limiting, and analytics. Your last contact was 56 days ago. |
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Last contact
| ◉ | Meeting “********” 63 days ago · Mar 24, 2026 |
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Website signals cited inline above.
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MONITORING
Tagged Apr 23, 2026 · 33 days as monitoring
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The main product is an AI code agent that leverages advanced AI models to facilitate coding tasks, enabling users to utilize its features without requiring payment information or API keys. It is designed for seamless integration with various development tools and environments. |
Funding (Harmonic) Latest round: Seed · $5.7M · Oct 2025. $5.7M raised · 1 round. |
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Data signals
| Partnership Website · May 08, 2026 · date from page metadata cto.new announced that every web app project built on its platform now comes with Convex pre-configured as the backend, including database, auth, file storage, functions, scheduled jobs, and logs. Users can build AI-generated applications without manual configuration and scale to Convex Cloud when ready. |
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Website source checked May 26, 2026.
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No logged contact on record.
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Website signals cited inline above.
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MONITORING
Tagged Feb 17, 2026 · 97 days as monitoring
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Ornn develops financial products specifically for the AI infrastructure sector, including indices, derivatives, and structured products that enable price discovery and risk management for computational resources. Their offerings feature cash-settled contracts and a pricing index based on actual trades, ensuring reliable benchmarks for GPU compute across various hardware types. |
Funding (Harmonic) Latest round: Seed · $5.7M · Oct 2025. $5.7M raised · 1 round. |
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Data signals
| Headcount Headcount up 22.2% in 30 days (+2 hires, now 11) Harmonic · May 18, 2026 Ornn grew headcount from 9 to 11 in the last 30 days (22.2% growth). |
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Website source checked May 26, 2026.
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Outreach contacts Wayne Nelms Co-Founder & CTO |
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Last contact
| ✉ | Email from David Jegen “Kush Bavaria (Ornn) <> David Jegen (F-Prime)” 97 days ago · Feb 18, 2026 |
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MONITORING
Tagged Jan 23, 2026 · 122 days as monitoring
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Theta provides a self-learning infrastructure for AI agents that features an intelligent memory layer, allowing for real-time learning and adaptation without requiring additional data or human intervention. This technology is designed to integrate with existing systems, enhancing agent performance by utilizing insights from prior interactions. |
Funding (Harmonic) Latest round: Pre Seed · $500K · May 2025. $500K raised · 1 round. |
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Data signals
| Headcount Headcount up 20.0% in 30 days (+2 hires, now 12) Harmonic · Apr 29, 2026 Theta grew headcount from 10 to 12 in the last 30 days (20.0% growth). |
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Website source checked May 26, 2026.
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Outreach contacts Rayan Garg Co-Founder, CEO | Gurvir Singh Co-Founder | Tanmay Sharma Co-Founder, CPO |
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Last contact
| ✉ | Email from Chance Mathisen “********” 125 days ago · Jan 21, 2026 |
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MONITORING
Tagged Feb 20, 2026 · 94 days as monitoring
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Orbifold AI provides a multimodal data curation platform that automates the processing and structuring of various data types, including text, images, video, and audio, to facilitate AI model training and inference. The platform utilizes data distillation techniques to enhance data quality and optimize dataset size, delivering a unified, queryable data feed via API. |
Funding (Harmonic) Latest round: Seed · $5M · Nov 2024. $5M raised · 1 round. |
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| Headcount Headcount up 20.0% in 30 days (+2 hires, now 12) Harmonic · Apr 29, 2026 Orbifold AI grew headcount from 10 to 12 in the last 30 days (20.0% growth). |
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Website source checked May 26, 2026.
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Outreach contacts Enoch Zhu Co-Founder, CEO | Mike Cheng Co-Founder |
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Last contact
| ◉ | Meeting “F-Prime <> Orbifold Intro” 88 days ago · Feb 27, 2026 |
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MONITORING
Tagged Apr 20, 2026 · 35 days as monitoring
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Naftiko offers an open-source framework that integrates existing data and APIs into a governed capability fabric, utilizing a declarative, policy-driven approach to manage API sprawl. The platform employs technologies such as YAML for capability specification, JSON Schema for validation, and Docker for deployment, ensuring secure and efficient integration management. |
Funding (Harmonic) Latest round: Early Stage · $1.6M · Dec 2025. $1.6M raised · 1 round. |
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| Product launch Website · May 21, 2026 · date from page metadata Naftiko released manage-openlaw, a new capability that aggregates AI legislation searches across all 50 U.S. states through a single MCP tool and REST endpoint. The capability integrates OpenLaws API and enables agents and humans to search AI-related statutes, rules, and regulations across jurisdictions simultaneously. |
| | Product launch Website · May 20, 2026 · date from page metadata Naftiko released 54 declarative integration capability files for Stripe partners in YAML format, covering CRM, billing, accounting, identity, analytics and other categories. Each integration is defined as a machine-readable contract that agents can consume directly without marketing pages or bespoke install flows. |
| | Headcount Headcount up 25.0% in 30 days (+2 hires, now 10) Harmonic · May 26, 2026 Naftiko grew headcount from 8 to 10 in the last 30 days (25.0% growth). |
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Website source checked May 26, 2026.
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Outreach contacts Jérôme Louvel Chief Executive Officer |
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Last contact
| ✉ | Email from Jerome Louvel “********” 32 days ago · Apr 24, 2026 |
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Website signals cited inline above.
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Colophon
Sources: Affinity (canonical universe & contact recency), Harmonic (funding & people), classified web pages (product & customer signals).
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