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1789 Capital

1789 Capital is a venture capital firm backing conservative-aligned technology, media, and consumer startups, with Donald Trump Jr. as a partner.

Known aliases

  • 1789

Current stories

investOne report1 publisher

ABC's reporter wrote that editors stood by the Anduril story before the network called it premature

ABC News removed its Oct. 7 story on a $6.6 billion Anduril Navy shipyard deal, then republished it with a correction. Anduril puts Donald Trump Jr.'s 1789 Capital at 0.13% of the company, and the corrected version leaves the Trump-family claims unsettled.

Publishers:semafor.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+12
Incentives60
Confidence50
investConfirmed7 publishers

Nous Research bets its $90 million Series B on companies paying for controls around free Hermes code

Nous Research raised $90 million at a $1.5 billion valuation to sell its open-source Hermes agent to corporate IT departments. The money pays for single sign-on and audit controls, so the price depends on companies paying for features around code anyone may copy.

Perspective Coverage

8 publishers
Builder
Builder 29%
Operator
Operator 29%
Investor
Investor 42%

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption55
Hype gap+25
Incentives60
Confidence65
investOne report1 publisher

Polymarket recruits Goldman's former ETF-accelerator head to bring Wall Street desks onto its US exchange

Polymarket, valued at about $21 billion, hired ex-Goldman partner Lisa Mantil to bring big traders onto its US exchange. She starts selling while federal investigators, House members and New York officials still dispute how its contracts should be policed.

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption20
Hype gap+35
Incentives60
Confidence40
investConfirmed5 publishers

Polymarket's $1 billion round, including a $300 million 1789 Capital cheque, reprices it by $6 billion

1789 Capital's new money works out to about 1.4 percent of Polymarket at the $21 billion mark, roughly a fifteenth of what ICE holds, and the change the disclosed record shows since April is jurisdictional rather than financial.

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
Builder
Builder 9%
Operator
Operator 34%
Investor
Investor 57%

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption45
Hype gap+20
Incentives72
Confidence60
investConfirmed4 publishers

Polymarket's $6bn markup is six times the cash the round brings in

Polymarket has hired Warren Jenson, formerly finance chief at Amazon, Delta Air Lines and Nielsen, to set capital strategy for a business now marked at about $21bn with no revenue figure attached to it.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 8%
Operator
Operator 41%
Investor
Investor 51%

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption55
Hype gap+35
Incentives65
Confidence60
productOne report1 publisher

Selig signed three unreported Polymarket investigation orders between May and July

Wired's FOIA request turned up CFTC voting records for private investigations into pardon, Iran and Google contracts. Two of the three were signed within weeks of a broadcast report on the same trades.

Publishers:wired.com

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+5
Incentives45
Confidence62
investOne report1 publisher

A $6bn fusion merger dwarfs the $620m of Pentagon AI loans in the Trump family's portfolio

Crypto Briefing totals the family's AI positions at $620 million of Pentagon loans, a $6 billion Trump Media merger with fusion developer TAE, and 38% of a token issuer that has booked $1.4 billion in revenue. A counterparty would need to know which entity holds what.

Reality

Evidence24
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+46
Incentives56
Confidence28
investOne report1 publisher

ESMA calls prediction markets 'rife with insider trading' in its biannual risk report

The European Securities and Markets Authority put the phrase in a report published Thursday. Among the venues it describes is Polymarket, valued at $21 billion after Donald Trump Jr.'s 1789 Capital bought in when it was worth under a billion.

Publishers:fortune.com

Reality

Evidence33
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+38
Incentives57
Confidence41
investOne report1 publisher

Polymarket puts a former Amazon CFO in charge of capital strategy for its $112m US exchange

Warren Jenson, who has been finance chief at Amazon, Delta Air Lines and Electronic Arts, takes over capital strategy at a company that has published no audited numbers and paid $112m for its way back into the United States.

Publishers:crypto.news

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption30
Hype gap+20
Incentives62
Confidence58
productOne report1 publisher

Skild AI's brains are on hundreds of factory robots, and the buying decision moves up a layer

A $14 billion valuation on roughly $30 million of half-year revenue, and three arm makers now shipping someone else's model inside machines they sell under their own names.

Publishers:thenextweb.com

Reality

Evidence32
Adoption44
Hype gap+42
Incentives71
Confidence34