Will Summerlin

General Partner at Autopilot

📍 United States🔄 Updated July 2026💼 8 investments📅 2 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2026
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May 2026
Mach Industries is a defense manufacturing company that develops and produces unmanned aerospace and defense systems, along with the infrastructure required to manufacture them at scale. Its product portfolio includes strike aircraft, long-range munitions, high-altitude platforms, counter-drone systems, and propulsion technologies designed for military applications. The company follows a vertically integrated approach, designing and manufacturing key components and systems in-house to support production, testing, and deployment. Mach Industries also operates a decentralized manufacturing network that supports the production of defense hardware and related components. In addition to developing operational systems, the company provides capabilities in propulsion, energetics, testing, and advanced manufacturing for defense and aerospace applications.
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Jan 2026
Radiant is building the world’s first mass-produced portable nuclear microreactors. The company’s first reactor, Kaleidos, is a 1 MW failsafe microreactor that can be transported anywhere power is needed. Founded in 2020, Radiant plans to test its first reactor in 2026, with initial customer deployments beginning in 2028.
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Sep 2025
Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide and over 500,000 business users, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.
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Feb 2025
We are a vertically-integrated ocean exploration company developing proprietary robotics and software to quickly and cheaply explore the entirety of the Earth’s oceans on a scale not possible with today’s technology. We offer subsea survey services (Hydro, Geo, UXO, etc.) as well as paired cloud & local software to effectively store, process and make sense of your organizations subsea data.
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Dec 2024
Ayar Labs is transforming AI infrastructure by accelerating data movement. Recognizing that the complexity and size of AI models are increasing at a rate that traditional interconnect technology cannot handle, the company has developed the industry’s first co-packaged optics (CPO) solution that enables customers to maximize the compute efficiency and performance of growing AI infrastructure, while reducing costs, latency and power consumption. Based on open standards and optimized for both AI training and inference, Ayar Labs’ optical I/O solution is backed by a robust ecosystem that enables it to integrate smoothly into AI systems at scale.
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Oct 2024
Fluidstack accelerates the world’s most ambitious AI projects by removing the bottlenecks to compute. Partnering with leading AI labs, governments, and enterprises, we deploy scaled infrastructure at speed to unlock a future of abundant intelligence.
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Aug 2024
Skyryse is an aviation hardware and software company ushering in a new era in flight safety. Its proprietary technology, SkyOS™ is a universal operating system for flight – which powers their first aircraft, the Skyryse One™ – giving pilots greater control by simplifying the management of an aircraft during standard flight operations, inclement weather, and emergencies.
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May 2024
Understand the Universe. We are a team of AI technologists and business leaders on a mission to build AI systems that can help humanity understand the world better. https://x.ai/careers
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2026
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May 2026
Mach Industries is a defense manufacturing company that develops and produces unmanned aerospace and defense systems, along with the infrastructure required to manufacture them at scale. Its product portfolio includes strike aircraft, long-range munitions, high-altitude platforms, counter-drone systems, and propulsion technologies designed for military applications. The company follows a vertically integrated approach, designing and manufacturing key components and systems in-house to support production, testing, and deployment. Mach Industries also operates a decentralized manufacturing network that supports the production of defense hardware and related components. In addition to developing operational systems, the company provides capabilities in propulsion, energetics, testing, and advanced manufacturing for defense and aerospace applications.
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Jan 2026
Radiant is building the world’s first mass-produced portable nuclear microreactors. The company’s first reactor, Kaleidos, is a 1 MW failsafe microreactor that can be transported anywhere power is needed. Founded in 2020, Radiant plans to test its first reactor in 2026, with initial customer deployments beginning in 2028.
2025
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Sep 2025
Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide and over 500,000 business users, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.
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Feb 2025
We are a vertically-integrated ocean exploration company developing proprietary robotics and software to quickly and cheaply explore the entirety of the Earth’s oceans on a scale not possible with today’s technology. We offer subsea survey services (Hydro, Geo, UXO, etc.) as well as paired cloud & local software to effectively store, process and make sense of your organizations subsea data.
2024
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Dec 2024
Ayar Labs is transforming AI infrastructure by accelerating data movement. Recognizing that the complexity and size of AI models are increasing at a rate that traditional interconnect technology cannot handle, the company has developed the industry’s first co-packaged optics (CPO) solution that enables customers to maximize the compute efficiency and performance of growing AI infrastructure, while reducing costs, latency and power consumption. Based on open standards and optimized for both AI training and inference, Ayar Labs’ optical I/O solution is backed by a robust ecosystem that enables it to integrate smoothly into AI systems at scale.
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