Neo & Noteworthy: Remora achieves 90% carbon capture, the origins of written language, & more

Enjoy our monthly recap! For a daily dose, follow @Neo on Twitter, where we retweet our community’s voices each day.

In April, Neo portfolio companies shared exciting updates,

Remora raised $117M, achieved 90% CO₂ capture, and partnered with Union Pacific & Norfolk Southern to capture CO2 from locomotives.

Spur publicly launched their AI QA platform that simulates thousands of users in minutes.

Actively AI raised $22.5M for their GTM superintelligence tool that maximizes revenue through custom AI models for each team.

Cognition rolled out Devin 2.0, an agent-native IDE experience which allows users to wield a team of Devins, handling 80% of each task in parallel.

and community members shared news and original content.

Lucas Gelfond (Neo Scholar) co-authored a paper on multi-agent RL simulations of language development that explored how humans’ first scratches and symbols turned into language.

Lillie Sun and Conner Chyung (Ditto Co-founders) created a mini-documentary on the 0→1 process of building Ditto.

Gashon Hussein (Neo Scholar) published a paper with NVIDIA on 1-minute video generation with test-time training.

Tarek Mansour (Kalshi Co-founder) appeared on TechCrunch’s Strictly VC to discuss his favorite Kalshi markets.

We can’t wait to see what you all learn, accomplish, and share in May 🎉