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Duke Capital Partners
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About Duke Capital Partners
Duke Capital Partners, Duke University's official early-stage venture investment arm, provides capital and expertise to help Duke startups, and features one of Duke’s most innovative experiential learning opportunities for students. As one of the largest and oldest university investment entities of its kind, Duke Capital Partners consistently places among the top five in North America. Our mission is to support the global Duke entrepreneurial community with an angel investing platform and co-investment fund (the Duke Innovation Fund) that engage and leverage the unparalleled Duke network.
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People
Duke Capital Partners employee John Glushik returned to Duke University to speak with student associates about launching the Duke Angel Network, growing it into Duke Capital Partners, and building a career in venture capital.
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Presence & Recognition
Duke Capital Partners portfolio companies three founders, Elon Musk of SpaceX and xAI, Daniela Rus of Liquid AI, and Michael T. of Cursor, have been named to the 2026 TIME 100 AI list.
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Presence & Recognition
Duke Capital Partners portfolio companies SpaceX, Vestwell, and Levitate earned spots on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list for three-year revenue growth from 2022 through 2025.
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People
Duke Capital Partners is closing applications for the next class of DCP Associates.
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Presence & Recognition
Duke Capital Partners is participating in Y Combinator's Demo Day in San Francisco alongside Sanjeev Chauhan and Synapse Semiconductor.
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Capital & Finance
Duke Capital Partners portfolio company acquired Cursor, bringing the team into SpaceXAI to help build out Grok Build, Grok Bot, Grok API, and Cursor itself.
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Capital & Finance
Duke Capital Partners invested alongside Y Combinator, TeleSoft.AI, Alumni Ventures, Pelion Venture Partners, Robinhood Ventures, and Nucleation Capital for Apollo Atomics' $31M seed round to build compact, mass-manufacturable nuclear reactors.
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Capital & Finance
Duke Capital Partners founder Max Hodak detailed PRIMA's clinical results on the No Priors podcast, detailing blind trial patients regained enough functional vision to read and complete crossword puzzles.
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Capital & Finance
Duke Capital Partners Syntra crossed $200M in insurance claims processed across 1.5M+ patient encounters.
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Capital & Finance
Duke Capital Partners Otter.ai was selected as one of 13 new Google Gemini connected apps announced at Made by Google.
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Capital & Finance
Duke Capital Partners Linear Labs Inc. brought its first PitchPro system online, live on a wind turbine at Lamar Light And Power in Colorado.
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Capital & Finance
Duke Capital Partners signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cylinder Health for $105M cash, closing Q3, extending into digestive/GI care.
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