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Insights from Fabrica Ventures Team.

May 15, 2026

Cerebras Monster IPO

If there was any doubt that public market investors were desperate for AI exposure, Cerebras’ IPO answered it. Earlier this week, Cerebras increased both the price […]
May 14, 2026

Forward-Deployed Engineers: The Palantir Playbook Exported to AI

When Fabrica Ventures invested in Palantir Technologies in 2020, one characteristic initially bothered us: its gross margins hovered around ~60%, well below the ~75% benchmark of […]
May 1, 2026

Ignore the Earnings Beat — Watch the Hyperscalers

(From São Paulo — arguably the best restaurant city in the world) Last week, the tech giants Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft reported Q1 earnings. All three […]
April 22, 2026

Excited to share an announcement from Fabrica Ventures that their Fund III will be powered by Sacra.

Sacra was built on a simple premise: private markets deserve the analytical rigor public markets take for granted. This means institutional-grade depth on fundamentals, with modeling […]
April 20, 2026

Alexandre Villela Joins Fabrica Ventures — Leaning Into InfraTech

I first met Alexandre Villela about five years ago at a small get-together at a friend’s house in San Jose — an early Tesla investor and […]
April 16, 2026

Fund III’s Analytical Edge: Fabrica Ventures and Sacra

We’ve known the core Sacra team — Marcelo Ballve, Jan-Erik Asplund, and Walter Chen — for many years. Sacra is a venture research powerhouse — one […]
April 10, 2026

Three Sequential Shocks Hitting Tech

2026 began with high expectations for a reopening of the IPO window — “IPO markets look primed to accelerate in 2026,” PwC, Dec 12, 2025 … […]
April 6, 2026

Defense, Rewritten by AI: Shield AI’s Software-Defined Platform

Defense tech has been on a tear lately, emerging as one of the clearest beneficiaries of a rapidly shifting geopolitical landscape. Venture capital deployment into the […]
March 27, 2026

Orgs in the Age of Agents

In his 1983 classic High Output Management, Andrew Grove (Intel co-founder and third CEO) explores how to optimize information flow and managerial leverage. He argues that […]