Breaking news, straight off the wire.
Sriram Krishnan, the former White House AI policy adviser, is raising a roughly $500 million fund.
The target: growth-stage and later-stage US AI startups. Not seed-stage dreamers, but companies that already proved their model works and now need serious fuel to scale.
Here's the twist that makes this newsworthy.
The fund is explicitly prioritizing national security.
That's not just a buzzword. It signals this capital is hunting for AI companies that could become strategic assets in America's tech competition with the rest of the world.
Picture someone who spent years inside the policy kitchen, watched exactly how decisions get made, and then walked out to personally fund the players who can keep that edge sharp from the outside.
When a figure this close to the White House turns policy insight into a half-billion-dollar check, that's not just another VC story. That's a signal the AI race just got officially tangled with geopolitics.
🔗 Original Source & Reference: https://www.techmeme.com/261007/p35#a261007p35
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