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Excited to announce Lagrange Labs' $13.2M seed round, led by Founders Fund, with support from Archetype, 1kx, Maven 11, Fenbushi Capital, Volt Capital, CMT Digital, Mantle Network Ecosystem Fund, and various angels. Read More: https://lnkd.in/gvxFPH_B Lagrange was founded almost two years ago with the vision of using zero-knowledge proofs to expand the design space of applications that could be built onchain. We saw a simple problem: Developers could not securely use historical or cross-chain state. The name “Lagrange” was inspired by mathematician Joseph-Louis Lagrange, who discovered Lagrange Points, positions of equilibrium in space between two celestial body systems. These points of equilibrium were the perfect analogy for trustless interoperability in crypto. While Lagrange has moved away from being a purely cross-chain focused company, the name remains, as does our goal of bringing equilibrium and stability to onchain applications. The original vision of secure interoperability still lives on within our State Committee protocol. As we’ve progressed, we have crystallized our mission: to unlock new types of data-intensive and cross-chain applications by enabling verifiable computation over blockchain data at a ‘big data’ scale. The way we achieve this is through our hyper-parallel ZK Coprocessor. Over the past few months we’ve hit a number of major milestones as a company: • Launching Lagrange State Committees as the first ZK AVS on @eigenlayer mainnet. Hitting over $5 billion in restaked ETH after only 3 weeks. • The Lagrange State Committees have generated over 30,000 state proofs and have finalized 2,000,000 blocks. • Launching our first ZK Coprocessor testnet, ‘Euclid’. We’ve currently generated over 400,000 proofs at a growing rate of 127,000 proofs per week. • Launching our infrastructure as a decentralized network with 40+ node operators. • Our first paper, Reckle Trees, authored by Charalampos Papamanthou, Shravan Srinivasan, Nicolas Gailly and Andrus S. from our team was accepted into both CCS’2024 and SBC’2023. More to come soon 🤫 None of our progress would be possible if it wasn’t for the team behind Lagrange. A special thank you to the whole Lagrange family whose tireless work brought us to this point. Thank you to all of our friends, partners and investors who have supported Lagrange in getting here. We have an ambitious roadmap ahead of us this year and we look forward to achieving it all of you on our team.

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Create Health Ventures Launches Inaugural $21M Fund for Early-Stage Digital Health Startups  Create Health Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage digital health companies, has closed its debut fund, raising $21 million, surpassing its initial target. Launched in 2024, Create Health Ventures is based in Austin, TX, and Chicago, IL. The firm focuses on technologies that enhance healthcare access, improve patient experiences, and deliver value across payers, providers, and pharmaceutical companies. *Its primary focus includes:   1. Payer-Facing Technologies: Solutions that improve member experiences, enable seamless data and workflow integration, and scale technology across geographies.   2. Clinical Trial Enablement: Tools to help pharmaceutical companies recruit and retain participants for late-stage clinical trials as demand increases. *Founders and Approach:   Create Health Ventures was co-founded by Emma Cartmell and Amit Aysola, healthcare veterans with over 45 years of combined experience. They bring operational expertise, regulatory insight, and an extensive network to portfolio companies. The firm exclusively invests in startups led by healthcare industry founders, leveraging its unique value-added platform for scaling businesses.  *The platform includes: - Business development support   - Access to executive coaches   - Connections to healthcare leaders   - Cross-selling opportunities among portfolio companies  *Key Quotes by GPs:  - Emma Cartmell: “Founders from the healthcare industry understand the challenges and opportunities to improve patient outcomes. Supporting them is the most impactful way we can positively transform healthcare.”   - Amit Aysola: “Payers and pharmaceutical companies are driving demand for connected, scalable solutions, and we are investing in companies to meet these needs.”  *Investments and Impact:  The firm has made five investments so far and partners with foundations, impact investors, and strategic healthcare veterans to mentor portfolio companies.  *Portfolio CEO Feedback:   - Dr. Chip Grant (Watershed Health): “Create Health Ventures has been invaluable in scaling operations and fundraising.”   - Shara Cohen (Carallel): “They are the most collaborative and active investor team I’ve worked with.”   - Neil Batlivala (Pair Team): “They’ve helped us manage growth and reach underserved communities.” If you are experiencing difficulties in raising fresh capital and would require warm introductions to new LPs, contact G+QUANT     ▶ Please use G+QUANT's link for inquiries and fund decks, or send your inquiry directly to [email protected] #VentureCapital #DigitalHealth #HealthcareInnovation #Startups #ClinicalTrials #PatientCare #HealthTech #HealthEquity #CreateHealthVentures

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Alexey's growth eng class is an awesome and refreshingly different approach to accelerating growth teams. I spoke last year and cohort had incredible talent, and Alexey really brought out what problems growth teams concretely face when getting wins. Take Alexey's class!

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More fun with RLM! I've been setting up a proof of concept. To get the most basic use out of RLM, you have to set up things call Context Definitions, Pricing Procedures, and a Discovery Procedure. The nomenclature they use as you do this is wildly confusing: for the Product Discovery Pricing Procedure, you have to select a template for “Product Discovery Pricing Procedure.” But for the default Discovery Procedure (a different thing, for a different purpose, on a different object), you select a template for “Default Pricing Discovery Procedure.” Got that? As you figure all this out, document what you're doing. You need to refer to the steps you took a multitude of times as you iron out the kinks. Once that's all set up, then extending the functionality introduces new complexities. You can edit your Pricing Procedure to customize the price waterfall, which is pretty cool, because you can set up decision nodes like you do in flow. I did this and it miraculously worked on the first try. The support engineer I've been working with has been superb. Do open cases and rely on them. They're learning along with you, but they know more than you do, and really help. Change page layouts with the Lightning Page Layout Editor; no use messing with the layout in Classic. If you want my documentation, let me know. You won't find the steps explained well in SF's help site.

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📚 Blueprint Podcast is now available: On the Blueprint podcast, Tia & Max (AI Host) break down research that have been done on small business and entrepreneurship, making it simple and digestible in a form of podcast format. You can find links to the original research articles in the show notes for each episode. Build on top of Convex and Google Gemini #SmallBusiness #Entrepreneurship #Research #BlueprintPodcast #AI

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Thank you Ricardo Pascual for hosting Brendan and I on your innovation podcast! It was a pleasure speaking with you. https://lnkd.in/eiwnyCUj "Summary: Julia and Brendan O'Toole from MyCena Security Solutions discuss their innovative cybersecurity solution that eliminates the need for employees to create, type, remember, forget, or reset passwords. They explain the layered security system, the impact on IT help desk costs, and the relevance of MyCena to all sectors and enterprises. Takeaways: 📣 MyCena's innovative cybersecurity solution eliminates the need for employees to create, type, remember, forget, or reset passwords. 📣 The impact on IT help desk costs can be significant, with potential savings of up to 50%. 📣 MyCena's solution is relevant to all sectors and enterprises, offering a comprehensive and industry-agnostic approach to cybersecurity." #cybersecurity #passwordmanagement #encryptedaccess #IThelpdesk #enterprisesecurity #cybersecuritysolution

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Anthropic's Claude can now use computers like we do - clicking, typing, and working with actual software. Not through APIs. Through the actual interface. For our manufacturing & retail clients asking about AI automation - this is HUGE. AI that can actually help with any existing software stack, not just integrate through complex APIs. • Uses standard software like a human (still learning but improving fast) • Crushing it at coding tasks 93.7% 0-shot (This is fantastic) • Faster, cheaper version (Haiku) coming this month While everyone's hyped about the tech, we're already mapping out practical applications for our clients. Real automation. #AI #Innovation #Manufacturing #Retail #DigitalTransformation https://lnkd.in/geFkjfr6

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Building a company is just about the most stressful thing you can do. If you work in #proptech and know someone who's struggling with mental health, share this with them. If you're struggling, talk to Matt and get some free help.

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Visualizing the system's architecture Brett Banfe and Rory Zimmerman discuss how principles of #mandalaart are at the heart of the #smallworldnetwork proof-of-work system that is the #bitcoin #blockchain economy. #Bitcoin #BSVBlockchain

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2025 will be all about Physical AI. BrightAI is putting it to work to fix America’s pipes, power poles, and sewer drains, which are crumbling under the pressure of climate change. With 250,000 sensors deployed on infrastructure across the company, they are collecting data from the physical world to help blue-collar industries be proactive and spot infrastructure flaws before they become disasters. After bootstrapping to $80M in revenue, the company is just now taking on VC dollars to grow its Stateful OS platform. Full story on the platform launch https://lnkd.in/dccWfh7x CC: Alex Hawkinson Nancy Li Smith Erin Dudley Nick Kim

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Let's talk for a minute about how Harbor compares to Nanit on pricing. Ultimately, Harbor comes with a 10" tablet and beats every other product on functionality many times over... but here are a few points on pricing. Nanit offers two tiers (as of spring 2024) at $120 or $300 per year PER CHILD. If you have two children in their premium tier you're looking at nearly TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS across two years! Harbor has one flat membership per household. For just one child, Harbor is just $33 more across two years than Nanit's camera, floor stand, and Memories plan. It comes with a dedicated 10" tablet and a level of reliability, security, and quality that no WiFi camera app based system can match.

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🌟 Excited to announce that AuditDeploy will be attending the "2Gather Atlanta: AI Optimized Infrastructure" event on May 9, 2024, in Atlanta, GA! As proud partners of Google, we are thrilled to be part of this impactful gathering. 🚀 Join us from 2:00 PM to 6:30 PM at Google #Atlanta for an engaging afternoon exploring the foundations of AI-powered infrastructure. This event is a must-attend for startups and established enterprises alike, focusing on accelerating innovation through AI-integrated infrastructure and data platforms. 🌐 📢 Hear from top leaders from google cloud and industry experts, including: Youngjun Choi, PhD of UPS and Windy Nicholson of Salesforce, as they share their strategies and insights on building secure, scalable AI-driven systems. Plus, enjoy refreshments and networking opportunities with peers and Google specialists. Don't miss out on this opportunity to enhance your understanding and implementation of AI technologies. 🌟 👉 Register by May 3rd to secure your spot. See you there! #2GatherAtlanta #AIInfrastructure #GoogleCloud #Networking #Innovation #TechEvent #googlecloud #gcp #AutonomousInfrastructure #intelligentinfrastructure #auditdeploy

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What is cap table debt & how does it hurt startup founders? Cap tables need to reflect all current and potential shareholders (which includes investors who signed a SAFE or convertible note). Because of the complexity of vesting schedules, repurchase rights, options vs. shares, the variable nature of ownership calculations with convertible instruments, etc., the simple spreadsheets used by most founders are woefully inadequate. We dive deep into the topic of cap table debt and show why founders need to stop using spreadsheets to track your startup cap table in our webinar on "Best Practices with Founder Equity and Cap Tables". You can watch a replay of this webinar here: https://lnkd.in/giHWZkWS

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Community-based health is transforming...learn about the strategic shift from grant-based to sustainable Medicaid funding models for community organizations in our latest blog. A vital shift for long-term success!

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Here’s the problem: if you don’t know how to design optimal HUMAN interactions (I’m looking at you Instacart - honestly the worst example of outsourcing I’ve ever encountered), then you shouldn’t be designing AI interactions. Hiscox USA is another example of an incredibly poorly designed bot. The technology can only do what you tell it to do, and if you designed wrong, I’ll be super curious to see if the technology can fix itself despite the humans’ errors in design.

There's a growing narrative that advanced startups should cozy up to accelerators, but let’s get real about this. If you're doing well with validation, revenue, and team, why surrender control to a program that demands your loyalty? Flexibility is key. Some accelerators now recognize that limiting engagement to part-time arrangements, while still reaping the benefits of mentorship and networking, is the future. Sure, they may offer funding and resources to scale, but is it truly worth the costs? Founders need to ask themselves: Are we really gaining traction or just going through the motions to please investors? Startups shouldn't feel like they need validation from an accelerator; they should demand respect for their achievements and authority over their visions. What do you all think? Let's debate this respectfully. Also, if you want to unpack the essentials of scaling without burning out, check out my newsletter, 5 Minute Founders - it distills business wisdom into digestible nuggets. https://lnkd.in/dY__2pZQ

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This is an exceptional episode. Worth every minute, twice. https://lnkd.in/gVeCxUuN

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Deciding whether to develop your own #GenAI technology or invest in existing solutions? Our Head of Field Engineering Justin Hayes breaks down the pros and cons of each option. Check out our blog for a build vs buy guide ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gZfn-Q3m?

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