Life runs on energy.
So does intelligence.
Every leap, in biology and in civilization, was a leap in energy. On the Kardashev scale, humanity is at 0.73 and climbing. We back the founders accelerating the next leap.
founder@14kx ~ % k
K = 0.7285 # (log10 P - 6) / 10, P ~ 19 TW, +2% a year
founder@14kx ~ % plot
Humanity uses about 10 to the 13.3 watts, on a scale from 1 watt to 10 to the 27.
# you are here, K = 0.72855
=== the next decimal, K 0.7 to 0.8
founder@14kx ~ % help
Commands:
k the Kardashev index, live
plot humanity on a log scale
portfolio [--sector s] companies we back: energy, compute, kinetic
notes what we write
next-decimal [--rate r] when K = 0.8 arrives, e.g. next-decimal --rate 5
git log the fund, one commit at a time
contact how to reach us
clear clear the screen
Portfolio
founder@14kx ~ % portfolio# selected companies
| Company | What they build | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Whop | Distribution infrastructure for AI-native businesses | 2026 |
| Erebor Bank | Defense-friendly banking | 2026 |
| Firestorm Labs | Distributed manufacturing for autonomous systems | 2026 |
| Atomarine | Nuclear datacenters at sea | 2026 |
| Valar Atomics | Nuclear microreactors for AI datacenters | 2025 |
| Pearl Research | Proof-of-useful-work for AI compute | 2025 |
| PsiQuantum | Fault-tolerant quantum computing | 2025 |
| Cormint | Datacenter infrastructure for stranded energy | 2024 |
| Sphere | Stablecoin settlement infrastructure | 2023 |
Notes
- 14kx (2026). Matter and medicine have an oracle problem. 14kx Notes, 12 October.
- 14kx (2026). The hardware supercycle. 14kx Notes, 31 July.
- 14kx (2026). The one-person company is a compute story. 14kx Notes, 16 February.
- 14kx (2026). AI solving theoretical physics is not a demo. It's a paradigm shift. 14kx Notes, 15 February.