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- ethereum foundation engagement began ~1yr pre-merge — antithesis.com (2024, primary). ethereum foundation engagement began ~1yr pre-merge; first crypto network tested this way
- current positioning (10x faster time-to-release) — antithesis.com (2026, primary). current positioning ("10x faster time-to-release"); bug bash copenhagen sept 30 2026; agent skills/hegel/bombadil links
- mongodb customer since 2021 — antithesis.com (2025, primary). mongodb customer since 2021; 100+ bugs; mttr −47%; 10x roi (self-reported)
- time-machine/multiverse debugging launch — antithesis.com (2024-09-10, primary). time-machine/multiverse debugging launch; snapshotting; alex pshenichkin talk ref
- nats/synadia raft data-loss bug hunt (marco primi) — antithesis.com (2025-03-18, primary). nats/synadia raft data-loss bug hunt (marco primi)
- systems distributed 2023 stealth talk — antithesis.com (2024-04-17, primary). systems distributed 2023 stealth talk; smb solved in ~45 min on 2018 cpu
- wilson essay when your customer leads your series a — antithesis.com (2025-12-03, primary). wilson essay "when your customer leads your series a"; "calf-path" culture note
- hypervisor = type-2 on freebsd — antithesis.com (2024-05-21, primary). hypervisor = type-2 on freebsd; ~1 crash / 2k machine-hours internal bug story
- sdk demo — antithesis.com (2025, primary). sdk demo; found real zelda glitches (block clipping, khananakey)
- complete 14-post essay list w/ dates — antithesis.com (2026, primary). complete 14-post essay list w/ dates; author bio
- washington business journal on feb 2025 round — bizjournals.com (2025-02-13, reporting). washington business journal on feb 2025 round
- lists scherer as antithesis cto (title drift noted) — bloomberg (2026, reference). lists scherer as antithesis cto (title drift noted)
- round history — caplight.com (2026, reference). round history; $182m total; potluck/bluewing investor names
- customer list incl — casestudies.com (2025, reference). customer list incl. ethereum (danny ryan), formance (clément salaün), mongodb, mysten labs (sam blackshear)
- $184 — cb insights (2026, reference). $184.3m total raised (divergent tally)
- revenue 12x over two years (self-reported) — citybiz.co (2025-12, reporting). "revenue 12x over two years" (self-reported); aws marketplace gtm
- series a — coindesk.com (2025-12-03, reporting). series a; ethereum/merge usage
- patio11 interview — complexsystemspodcast.com (2025, interview). patio11 interview; "fuzzing for the world"; aws parallel-invention concession; crowdstrike framing
- inaugural bug bash writeup — concerningquality.com (2025, community). inaugural bug bash writeup; wilson "pre-observability" keynote; etcd demo
- from unit tests to whole universe tests (kris jenkins) — youtube (2025-09-10, interview). "from unit tests to whole universe tests" (kris jenkins)
- collins bio: led the foundationdb team from acquisition to core cloud data store — people.equilar.com (2026, reference). collins bio: "led the foundationdb team from acquisition to core cloud data store"
- scherer bio: vpython, igf win, visual sciences 2000, fdb principal architect — people.equilar.com (2026, reference). scherer bio: vpython, igf win, visual sciences 2000, fdb principal architect
- first 18 months entirely in simulation — apple.github.io (undated, reference). first 18 months entirely in simulation; deterministic whole-cluster sim
- fdb simulation + flow — apple.github.io (undated, reference). fdb "simulation" + flow; ~1t cpu-hours claim; 10:1 time compression
- confirms feb 2025 round details — finsmes (2025-02-14, reporting). confirms feb 2025 round details
- ramp deal — fintechbusinessasia.com (2025-05-07, primary). ramp deal; formance/tigerbeetle; hedge fund + retail trading platform unnamed; koblov quote
- cofounder bios/ages — forbes (2026, reporting). cofounder bios/ages; scherer listed as cto
- term sheet profile — fortune (2026-03-23, reporting). term sheet profile; wilson quotes; ~40 clients; seed raised "while in stealth"
- category visionaries gtm interview — frontlines.io (2024, interview). category visionaries gtm interview
- 74–99 employees sep 2025 — divergent third-party estimate — getlatka (2025-09, reference). 74–99 employees sep 2025 — divergent third-party estimate
- web summit interview — highagencypodcast.com (2025, interview). web summit interview; stealth team in dc
- linkedin — linkedin (2026, primary). ben collins: fdb first hire, flow/simulation work, apple fdb lead, facebook, antithesis cto
- ~231 employees (+138% yoy) — linkedin (2026, reference). ~231 employees (+138% yoy); 6 countries — third-party estimate
- wilsons own cv: computational biodynamics, fdb document layer, apple/google — linkedin (2026, primary). wilson's own cv: computational biodynamics, fdb document layer, apple/google; "front page of hn for three days"
- s&t transcript summary: math background, hypervisor-level determinism rationale — newsfilter.io (2025, interview). s&t transcript summary: math background, hypervisor-level determinism rationale
- deep technical account of fdb simulation/buggify mechanics — pierrezemb.fr (2023, community). deep technical account of fdb simulation/buggify mechanics
- 91 employees as of 2025 (divergent headcount) — pitchbook (2026, reference). 91 employees as of 2025 (divergent headcount)
- ashlee vance interview — podscan.fm (2025, interview). ashlee vance interview; "five and a half years" stealth
- $30m amplify+spark — prnewswire (2025-02-13, primary). $30m amplify+spark; pruss board; +50% headcount; verticals incl. data streaming
- $105m series a — prnewswire (2025-12-03, primary). $105m series a; jane street lead; full syndicate incl. collison/patel/douglas; doug patti quote; tysons corner dateline
- $215m valuation at seed — reuters (2024-02-13, reporting). $215m valuation at seed
- i was actually a testing skeptic when i joined foundationdb — rootly.com (2025, interview). "i was actually a testing skeptic when i joined foundationdb"; post-apple path verbatim
- se radio 685 — se-radio.net (2025-09, interview). se radio 685; scherer/visual sciences model-based simulation origin story
- jane street podcast w/ ron minsky — signalsandthreads.com (2025, interview). jane street podcast w/ ron minsky
- seed led by amplify/tamarack/first in — siliconangle.com (2024-02-13, reporting). seed led by amplify/tamarack/first in; legal name antithesis operations llc
- third-party amplification of the launch-post quote — simonwillison.net (2024-02-13, community). third-party amplification of the launch-post quote
- carl sverre (graft) customer account — sqlsync.dev (2025-04, community). carl sverre (graft) customer account; scherer visual sciences simulation prehistory; customer advisory board existence
- so podcast — the-stack-overflow-podcast.simplecast.com (2025, interview). so podcast; "as far as we know, invented at foundationdb"
- lavezzo profile — startupgrind.com (2013, interview). lavezzo profile; scherer childhood friendship; visual sciences → omniture → adobe chain
- wilsons canonical dst talk + his fdb-era bio (biotech start, yale math/philosophy) — thestrangeloop.com (2014-09, primary). wilson's canonical dst talk + his fdb-era bio (biotech start, yale math/philosophy)
- streamnative.io — streamnative.io (2025, primary). antithesis (connor mckee) on testing kafka/kraft guarantees — streaming-vertical activity, not a confluent customer claim
- series a analysis — techcompanynews.com (2025-12, reporting). series a analysis; "valuation under wraps"; speculative >$500m post-money (unverified)
- launch coverage — techcrunch (2024-02-13, reporting). launch coverage; "existing investors… friendly terms" quote; product mechanics
- apple acquisition — techcrunch (2015-03-24, reporting). apple acquisition; fdb founders rosenthal/lavezzo/scherer; $22.7m raised
- seed syndicate confirmation — vcnewsdaily.com (2024-02-13, reporting). seed syndicate confirmation
- warpstream customer-authored dst writeup — warpstream.com (2024, primary). warpstream customer-authored dst writeup
- autonomous testing and the future of software development talk — youtube (2025, primary). "autonomous testing and the future of software development" talk
- youtube — youtube (2024-04, primary). "testing a single-node, single threaded, distributed system written in 1985" — full stealth talk
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Original source occurrences
- ethereum foundation engagement began ~1yr pre-merge · antithesis.com · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-hp-antithesis-ethereum · Other public citations of this URL
ethereum foundation engagement began ~1yr pre-merge; first crypto network tested this way
- current positioning (10x faster time-to-release) · antithesis.com · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-hp-antithesis-home · Other public citations of this URL
current positioning ("10x faster time-to-release"); bug bash copenhagen sept 30 2026; agent skills/hegel/bombadil links
- mongodb customer since 2021 · antithesis.com · 2025 (year) · original ID: src-hp-antithesis-mongodb · Other public citations of this URL
mongodb customer since 2021; 100+ bugs; mttr −47%; 10x roi (self-reported)
- time-machine/multiverse debugging launch · antithesis.com · 2024-09-10 (day) · original ID: src-hp-antithesis-multiverse · Other public citations of this URL
time-machine/multiverse debugging launch; snapshotting; alex pshenichkin talk ref
- nats/synadia raft data-loss bug hunt (marco primi) · antithesis.com · 2025-03-18 (day) · original ID: src-hp-antithesis-nats · Other public citations of this URL
nats/synadia raft data-loss bug hunt (marco primi)
- systems distributed 2023 stealth talk · antithesis.com · 2024-04-17 (day) · original ID: src-hp-antithesis-sdtalk · Other public citations of this URL
systems distributed 2023 stealth talk; smb solved in ~45 min on 2018 cpu
- wilson essay when your customer leads your series a · antithesis.com · 2025-12-03 (day) · original ID: src-hp-antithesis-seriesa · Other public citations of this URL
wilson essay "when your customer leads your series a"; "calf-path" culture note
- hypervisor = type-2 on freebsd · antithesis.com · 2024-05-21 (day) · original ID: src-hp-antithesis-worstbug · Other public citations of this URL
hypervisor = type-2 on freebsd; ~1 crash / 2k machine-hours internal bug story
- sdk demo · antithesis.com · 2025 (year) · original ID: src-hp-antithesis-zelda · Other public citations of this URL
sdk demo; found real zelda glitches (block clipping, khananakey)
- complete 14-post essay list w/ dates · antithesis.com · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-hp-author-wilson · Other public citations of this URL
complete 14-post essay list w/ dates; author bio
- washington business journal on feb 2025 round · bizjournals.com · 2025-02-13 (day) · original ID: src-hp-bizjournal-30m · Other public citations of this URL
washington business journal on feb 2025 round
- lists scherer as antithesis cto (title drift noted) · bloomberg · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-hp-bloomberg-scherer · Other public citations of this URL
lists scherer as antithesis cto (title drift noted)
- round history · caplight.com · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-hp-caplight · Other public citations of this URL
round history; $182m total; potluck/bluewing investor names
- customer list incl · casestudies.com · 2025 (year) · original ID: src-hp-casestudies-list · Other public citations of this URL
customer list incl. ethereum (danny ryan), formance (clément salaün), mongodb, mysten labs (sam blackshear)
- $184 · cb insights · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-hp-cbinsights · Other public citations of this URL
$184.3m total raised (divergent tally)
- revenue 12x over two years (self-reported) · citybiz.co · 2025-12 (month) · original ID: src-hp-citybiz-seriesa · Other public citations of this URL
"revenue 12x over two years" (self-reported); aws marketplace gtm
- series a · coindesk.com · 2025-12-03 (day) · original ID: src-hp-coindesk-seriesa · Other public citations of this URL
series a; ethereum/merge usage
- patio11 interview · complexsystemspodcast.com · 2025 (year) · original ID: src-hp-complex-systems-pod · Other public citations of this URL
patio11 interview; "fuzzing for the world"; aws parallel-invention concession; crowdstrike framing
- inaugural bug bash writeup · concerningquality.com · 2025 (year) · original ID: src-hp-concerningquality-bugbash · Other public citations of this URL
inaugural bug bash writeup; wilson "pre-observability" keynote; etcd demo
- from unit tests to whole universe tests (kris jenkins) · youtube · 2025-09-10 (day) · original ID: src-hp-developer-voices · Other public citations of this URL
"from unit tests to whole universe tests" (kris jenkins)
- collins bio: led the foundationdb team from acquisition to core cloud data store · people.equilar.com · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-hp-equilar-collins · Other public citations of this URL
collins bio: "led the foundationdb team from acquisition to core cloud data store"
- scherer bio: vpython, igf win, visual sciences 2000, fdb principal architect · people.equilar.com · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-hp-equilar-scherer · Other public citations of this URL
scherer bio: vpython, igf win, visual sciences 2000, fdb principal architect
- first 18 months entirely in simulation · apple.github.io · undated (unknown) · original ID: src-hp-fdb-docs-engineering · Other public citations of this URL
first 18 months entirely in simulation; deterministic whole-cluster sim
- fdb simulation + flow · apple.github.io · undated (unknown) · original ID: src-hp-fdb-docs-testing · Other public citations of this URL
fdb "simulation" + flow; ~1t cpu-hours claim; 10:1 time compression
- confirms feb 2025 round details · finsmes · 2025-02-14 (day) · original ID: src-hp-finsmes-30m · Other public citations of this URL
confirms feb 2025 round details
- ramp deal · fintechbusinessasia.com · 2025-05-07 (day) · original ID: src-hp-fintechasia-ramp · Other public citations of this URL
ramp deal; formance/tigerbeetle; hedge fund + retail trading platform unnamed; koblov quote
- cofounder bios/ages · forbes · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-hp-forbes-profile · Other public citations of this URL
cofounder bios/ages; scherer listed as cto
- term sheet profile · fortune · 2026-03-23 (day) · original ID: src-hp-fortune-2026 · Other public citations of this URL
term sheet profile; wilson quotes; ~40 clients; seed raised "while in stealth"
- category visionaries gtm interview · frontlines.io · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-hp-frontlines · Other public citations of this URL
category visionaries gtm interview
- 74–99 employees sep 2025 — divergent third-party estimate · getlatka · 2025-09 (month) · original ID: src-hp-getlatka · Other public citations of this URL
74–99 employees sep 2025 — divergent third-party estimate
- web summit interview · highagencypodcast.com · 2025 (year) · original ID: src-hp-highagency · Other public citations of this URL
web summit interview; stealth team in dc
- linkedin · linkedin · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-hp-linkedin-collins · Other public citations of this URL
ben collins: fdb first hire, flow/simulation work, apple fdb lead, facebook, antithesis cto
- ~231 employees (+138% yoy) · linkedin · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-hp-linkedin-company · Other public citations of this URL
~231 employees (+138% yoy); 6 countries — third-party estimate
- wilsons own cv: computational biodynamics, fdb document layer, apple/google · linkedin · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-hp-linkedin-wilson · Other public citations of this URL
wilson's own cv: computational biodynamics, fdb document layer, apple/google; "front page of hn for three days"
- s&t transcript summary: math background, hypervisor-level determinism rationale · newsfilter.io · 2025 (year) · original ID: src-hp-newsfilter-snt · Other public citations of this URL
s&t transcript summary: math background, hypervisor-level determinism rationale
- deep technical account of fdb simulation/buggify mechanics · pierrezemb.fr · 2023 (year) · original ID: src-hp-pierrezemb-fdb · Other public citations of this URL
deep technical account of fdb simulation/buggify mechanics
- 91 employees as of 2025 (divergent headcount) · pitchbook · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-hp-pitchbook · Other public citations of this URL
91 employees as of 2025 (divergent headcount)
- ashlee vance interview · podscan.fm · 2025 (year) · original ID: src-hp-podscan-corememory · Other public citations of this URL
ashlee vance interview; "five and a half years" stealth
- $30m amplify+spark · prnewswire · 2025-02-13 (day) · original ID: src-hp-prnewswire-30m · Other public citations of this URL
$30m amplify+spark; pruss board; +50% headcount; verticals incl. data streaming
- $105m series a · prnewswire · 2025-12-03 (day) · original ID: src-hp-prnewswire-seriesa · Other public citations of this URL
$105m series a; jane street lead; full syndicate incl. collison/patel/douglas; doug patti quote; tysons corner dateline
- $215m valuation at seed · reuters · 2024-02-13 (day) · original ID: src-hp-reuters-seed · Other public citations of this URL
$215m valuation at seed
- i was actually a testing skeptic when i joined foundationdb · rootly.com · 2025 (year) · original ID: src-hp-rootly-wilson · Other public citations of this URL
"i was actually a testing skeptic when i joined foundationdb"; post-apple path verbatim
- se radio 685 · se-radio.net · 2025-09 (month) · original ID: src-hp-seradio-685 · Other public citations of this URL
se radio 685; scherer/visual sciences model-based simulation origin story
- jane street podcast w/ ron minsky · signalsandthreads.com · 2025 (year) · original ID: src-hp-signals-threads · Other public citations of this URL
jane street podcast w/ ron minsky
- seed led by amplify/tamarack/first in · siliconangle.com · 2024-02-13 (day) · original ID: src-hp-siliconangle-47m · Other public citations of this URL
seed led by amplify/tamarack/first in; legal name antithesis operations llc
- third-party amplification of the launch-post quote · simonwillison.net · 2024-02-13 (day) · original ID: src-hp-simonwillison-quote · Other public citations of this URL
third-party amplification of the launch-post quote
- carl sverre (graft) customer account · sqlsync.dev · 2025-04 (month) · original ID: src-hp-sqlsync-adt · Other public citations of this URL
carl sverre (graft) customer account; scherer visual sciences simulation prehistory; customer advisory board existence
- so podcast · the-stack-overflow-podcast.simplecast.com · 2025 (year) · original ID: src-hp-stackoverflow-pod · Other public citations of this URL
so podcast; "as far as we know, invented at foundationdb"
- lavezzo profile · startupgrind.com · 2013 (year) · original ID: src-hp-startupgrind-lavezzo · Other public citations of this URL
lavezzo profile; scherer childhood friendship; visual sciences → omniture → adobe chain
- wilsons canonical dst talk + his fdb-era bio (biotech start, yale math/philosophy) · thestrangeloop.com · 2014-09 (month) · original ID: src-hp-strangeloop-2014 · Other public citations of this URL
wilson's canonical dst talk + his fdb-era bio (biotech start, yale math/philosophy)
- streamnative.io · streamnative.io · 2025 (year) · original ID: src-hp-streamnative-kafka · Other public citations of this URL
antithesis (connor mckee) on testing kafka/kraft guarantees — streaming-vertical activity, not a confluent customer claim
- series a analysis · techcompanynews.com · 2025-12 (month) · original ID: src-hp-techcompanynews · Other public citations of this URL
series a analysis; "valuation under wraps"; speculative >$500m post-money (unverified)
- launch coverage · techcrunch · 2024-02-13 (day) · original ID: src-hp-techcrunch-47m · Other public citations of this URL
launch coverage; "existing investors… friendly terms" quote; product mechanics
- apple acquisition · techcrunch · 2015-03-24 (day) · original ID: src-hp-techcrunch-apple-fdb · Other public citations of this URL
apple acquisition; fdb founders rosenthal/lavezzo/scherer; $22.7m raised
- seed syndicate confirmation · vcnewsdaily.com · 2024-02-13 (day) · original ID: src-hp-vcnewsdaily · Other public citations of this URL
seed syndicate confirmation
- warpstream customer-authored dst writeup · warpstream.com · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-hp-warpstream-dst · Other public citations of this URL
warpstream customer-authored dst writeup
- autonomous testing and the future of software development talk · youtube · 2025 (year) · original ID: src-hp-youtube-autonomous · Other public citations of this URL
"autonomous testing and the future of software development" talk
- youtube · youtube · 2024-04 (month) · original ID: src-hp-youtube-mario · Other public citations of this URL
"testing a single-node, single threaded, distributed system written in 1985" — full stealth talk