1789 Capital

Venture capital firm

At a glance

1789 Capital appears in 6 funding rounds tracked by ValueAddVC since 2025, leading 1. Its most frequent sectors in these rounds are AI & Infrastructure and Defense & Space, and its most recent tracked deal was Nous Research's $90M Series B round (Oct 7, 2026). It co-invests most often with Nvidia, Altimeter Capital and Andreessen Horowitz.

Strategy

Geographies
Palm Beach, Florida, USA

Recent changes

  1. Oct 7, 2026Invested in Nous Research (Series B, $90M) TechCrunch
  2. Aug 31, 2026Invested in Polymarket ($1B) Bloomberg
  3. Aug 6, 2026Follow-on: Invested in Hadrian (Series D, $1.37B) Hadrian
  4. Jan 14, 2026Invested in Skild AI (Series C, $1.4B) Skild AI
  5. Jan 10, 2026Invested in Hadrian (Undisclosed) Pulse 2.0
Earlier changes (1)
  1. Oct 2025Invested in Reflection AI (Series B, $2B) Wikipedia

Portfolio

5 total

Recent Investment Activity

6

Track record: led 1 and participated in 5 of 6 tracked venture rounds · 5 in the last 12 months

DateCompanyEventRoleAmountValuationInvestorsSource
Oct 7, 2026Nous ResearchSeries BParticipated$90M$1.5B
Robot VenturesLeadunverifiedNvidiaunverifiedUnion Square VenturesunverifiedMenlo VenturesunverifiedSamsungunverified1789 Capitalunverified
TechCrunch
Aug 31, 2026Polymarketfunding roundLed$1B$21BPulse story
Aug 6, 2026HadrianSeries DParticipated$1.37B$7.87B
Washington Harbour PartnersLeadunverifiedValor Equity PartnersLeadunverified137 VenturesLeadunverifiedBaillie GiffordLeadunverifiedJPMorganChase Strategic Investment GroupLeadunverified1789 CapitalunverifiedApollo Global ManagementunverifiedT. Rowe PriceunverifiedCapitalGunverifiedAndreessen HorowitzunverifiedFounders FundunverifiedLux CapitalunverifiedAltimeter CapitalunverifiedConstruct CapitalunverifiedWCM Investment ManagementMorgan Stanley Wealth Management
Hadrian
Jan 14, 2026Skild AISeries CParticipated$1.4B$14BSkild AI
Jan 10, 2026Hadrianfunding roundParticipatedUndisclosed$1.6B
T. Rowe PriceLeadunverifiedAltimeter CapitalunverifiedD1 Capital PartnersunverifiedStepStone Groupunverified1789 CapitalunverifiedFounders FundunverifiedLux CapitalunverifiedAndreessen HorowitzunverifiedConstruct Capitalunverified
Pulse 2.0
Oct 2025Reflection AISeries BParticipated$2B$8BWikipedia

Sector / Stage Activity

By sector (portfolio)
AI infra
2 · 40%
Defense
1 · 20%
Crypto
1 · 20%
Robotics
1 · 20%
By stage (tracked rounds)
Series B
2 · 33%
Series D
1 · 17%
Series C
1 · 17%

Co-Investors

12

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Value Add Research

Latest Pulse

  1. Nous Research Confirms $1.5B Valuation, Launches HermesNous Research confirmed it closed a $90 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation, settling what was reported in July as talks, and launched Hermes for Businesses to push into enterprise AI agents.→
  2. Reflection AI Launches Beam, Its First Open ModelReflection AI unveiled Beam, a 501-billion-parameter open-weight model it says matches top Chinese open models on reasoning benchmarks using a fraction of the inference compute, intensifying the US-China race for open AI.→
  3. Polymarket Raises $1B at $21B, Adds Trump Jr.Polymarket is closing roughly $1 billion in new funding at a $21 billion valuation, with Donald Trump Jr.'s 1789 Capital putting in $300 million on top of an earlier $200 million check and Trump Jr. joining the company's advisory board.→

1789 Capital FAQ

What companies has 1789 Capital invested in?

1789 Capital's portfolio includes Nous Research, Polymarket, Hadrian, Reflection AI, Skild AI.

Who does 1789 Capital co-invest with most?

In the rounds Value Add tracks, 1789 Capital most often invests alongside Nvidia (3 shared deals), CRV (2 shared deals), Founders Fund (2 shared deals), Lightspeed Venture Partners (2 shared deals), Samsung (2 shared deals).

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