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DePIN & RWAs dominance isn't as far off as most people think. Across every innovative cycle, three fundamental pillars emerge: foundational technology development, proliferation of infrastructure, and a surge in application development. As we venture into the third cycle, DePIN and RWA protocols are poised to become market leaders paralleling the dominance witnessed by infrastructure projects from 2015 to 2024.

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Goldcast's startup journey has perfectly mapped the last 4 crazy years of SaaS. Palash Soni and his cofounders first started the company in 2021 to build great, customizable virtual event solutions for enterprise marketers. While their business kept growing past the pandemic, it was clear that overall spend was shifting back to IRL events fast. However, video consumption continued to rise and quickly became the best way to build your brand and an audience in software - if you knew how to operationalize video marketing. Goldcast's product evolution from a virtual events platform to an AI-native video marketing solution has been incredible to watch. The company had its best quarter yet, adding customers like OpenAI and Coupa Software and I couldn't be more proud. Here's Palash talking about their product evolution and the future of video marketing in an AI-native world.

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In an era where innovation outpaces regulation, how can entrepreneurs embed social responsibility into the DNA of their startups? 🌐💡 Recent conversations and insightful pieces, particularly one by Lyel Resner and Dr. Wilneida Negrón, have sparked a profound consideration in my thinking: the imperative for responsible innovation in tech ventures. They posit a tantalizing question - what if the tech giants of tomorrow were built on the foundations of public interest and social responsibility today? Diving into this thought experiment reveals more than just an ethical proposition; it opens up a paradigm where businesses can be both profitable and purposeful. Embedding social responsibility from the outset could guide ventures to prioritize long-term societal well-being over short-term gains. Imagine a future where companies are not just evaluated by their financial performance but also by their contribution to solving societal issues. The notion is ambitious but certainly not unattainable. This approach challenges us as entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators to rethink our roles in shaping the future of technology. It's a call to action to pioneer a new wave of responsible businesses that are equipped to address, rather than exacerbate, global challenges. Let’s discuss: How can we as part of the startup ecosystem integrate these principles into our work from day zero? Your thoughts could light up paths not yet traveled. 🚀🌍

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We are excited to back Morphing Machines. As Dr. Ranjani, CTO and co-founder says: “For the first time in India and globally, we have a processor that is truly runtime reconfigurable, catering to emerging workloads.” While Nvidia’s growth and high valuation are driven by robust demand for “infra-compute” in high-performance GPUs, spurred by Gen AI, there is a distinct need for innovative solutions tailored to a new wave of reactive applications. Enter Morphing Machines. It addresses this demand with its unique product designed for next-gen telecom, autonomous vehicles, collaborative robots, avionics, and online data analytics. This product is specifically engineered to handle heterogeneous workloads and diverse tasks with varying performance demands simultaneously, ensuring a high level of scalability. As we move from an institutionally-backed research team at IISC to productization, Golden Sparrow is collaborating with Speciale Invest and others to support Deepak Shapeti, who joined as CEO three years ago after earning his Masters at Stanford. He brings not only technical expertise but also the business acumen necessary to guide the product to commercial success. Venkat Raju Afreed Faizan Anand Rao Ritik Singh Michael Marmor

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Glean believes that every employee, in every role, in every company, can leverage AI daily to exponentially increase their impact. It’s the key to enabling them to focus on their most meaningful work that will ultimately drive the best outcomes for employees and businesses alike. Our team at Sapphire Ventures is proud to back Glean, the ultimate Work AI platform, on its journey to redefine the future of work with AI. You can read more about the news below👇 👇 👇 👇 #companiesofconsequence #workai #genai

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Fantastic panel on GTM for Enterprise AI. Thanks to fellow panelists for a sharp discussion and to Emergent Ventures for hosting. Anupam Rastogi Ankur Jain Preethy Padmanabhan Chandini M Ammineni Jason Griggs Deb Bardhan #GTM #EnterpriseAI

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Excited to announce the launch of Bracket by BoldCap 🚀 India's first Go-To-Market platform for entrepreneurs building global AI companies. For the past year, Bracket has been exclusively supporting our portfolio founders to tackle the complexities of scaling AI-native products in the global market, especially North America. Today, I am excited to launch Bracket; to provide all AI builders with the same GTM accessibility.. 🎯 The new landscape shift has made it absolutely clear that traditional SaaS playbooks no longer fit the bill for AI-native products. We are redefining this through Bracket – our closely curated community of 50+ GTM operators across North America and Europe who offer the resources, networks, and the new-age playbooks that founders need in their $0-$1M journey of building an AI company from India to the world. 🌍 We work with some of the smartest minds in GTM globally– from the Revenue director at Clari, Pricing leader at DocuSign, GTM leader at Databricks, Sales leader at Outreach to Growth Leader at Snowflake and many more– all exceptionally talented operators who have built multiple GTM motions from scratch and are now committed to support the upcoming generation of entrepreneurs along with us. We deeply believe this is what our ecosystem needs: accessibility to the right leaders in the global market, and we aim to bridge this for Indian founders. Thanks to our early GTM partners Jyoti Swarnkar Samuel Sunderaraj Kiran Surapaneni Merritt Baer Murali K Atul Sahai Ramana Narayanam Sara Archer Sara Jones Shiv Sundar Stan Rymkiewicz Andreas Drakos Andres Lozano Sanudo Ashwath M. Brant W. Cody Harris Connor Williams Daniil Krets Jake Haselden Jeff de Ruyter Karthik Ramamoorthy Kevin Flitcroft Laura Handy LeeRon Yahalomi Paul McGhee Shane O'Neill (and the list goes on.... unfortunately not able to tag more) who shaped Bracket into a powerful community along with us. Big shout out to Aditi Gera for all her effort on putting this together and to the rest of the BoldCap team Shiv Tayal Pratham Chadha Kevin D'Souza. Thank you Bhuvana Kamath and YourStory Media for this exclusive coverage - https://lnkd.in/gZBXTsmv If you're founder in the AI software space, we are excited to work with you! BoldCap

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Three years ago, Stage Venture Partners backed Ariyan Kabir, Brual Shah , and Satyandra K. (SK) Gupta's startup, GrayMatter Robotics. Today, GrayMatter revealed their $45 million Series B, led by Wellington. In the past three years, GrayMatter's robots have handled 7.5 million square feet of products, streamlining tasks such as sanding, grinding, and finishing high-performance surfaces. This innovative automation addresses urgent labor shortages, enabling U.S. manufacturers to meet demand efficiently. Technology like GrayMatter's is crucial for American factories, and the company is just scratching the surface in revolutionizing high-tech production processes. https://lnkd.in/gJaUfDZq

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To all the new or #expecting #parents, Ubenwa Health has developed a unique #AI-powered app designed for those who are still learning how to intuit their infant’s emotions. Through listening/studying to various different baby cries, #NanniAI is here to help you distinguish between their wants and needs, and which decisions is the most likely to soothing them in the meantime. Yes, it is named "Nanni," and yes it is AI powered — however it’s not intended to replace parents, it’s more of a #supplement to help support and encourage good #parenting skills. Nanni AI is the culmination of years of research and data collection in Nigeria, Montreal, Canada and Brazil, which was used to train an algorithm that sorts "thousands and thousands" of cries and tries to categorize your baby's needs accurately. The developer mentioned earlier, Ubenwa Health raised a $2.5 million pre seed financing round led by AI-focused funds. What do you think of this app? If you are a parent, would you consider using Nanni AI?

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Sanjay Jha is moderating an intriguing panel discussion at GSA (Global Semiconductor Alliance ) executive forum now Rene Haas : insatiable demand driven by AI speed up our roadmap. Software does not die, AI is an additional demands for hardware. Life science and drug development will be the next big thing. Anirudh Devgan : AI is in the phase 1 of infrastructure and phase 2 of AI in existing application, 3rd phase is AI new application. Cadence is engaging phase 1 by enabling AI Chips, and phase 2 which drive design automation. 3DIC is natural extension of Moore's law. Optimistic about power, as new Innovation along the way will bend the straight line projection usually seen in the early inning of technology like AI. Real value realization will mostly be vertical based, not the horizontal LLM. AI will move from infrastructure AI, physical AI(automotive, robotics) to the horizon 3, that is likely AI biggest apps such as AI for science, particularly life science Sandra Rivera : AI impact is multi facets. First it is a TAM expansion for FPGA, which is needed as co-accelerator. AI is also embedded in placement tool and in even in basic fabrics, which will be making FPGA better. Power is the single Largest limiter for AI deployment. Also, Should AI be better regulated than what happened in social media, leading to the data security and privacy. Tien Wu : AI has driven ASE to increase capex to 4B This year from 2B last year due to systematic complexity, not just technology but the more players in ecosystem, which breaks the traditional pricing. AI has made us seeing the first time that Hardware is the bottleneck in term of improvement and return in profit. US has the data and economic scale to deploy AI across all sectors in term of efficiency improvement, given US also has been a highly "wasteful" nation.

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I’m thrilled to be announcing that Notion Capital is leading the $15m Series A investment in Cogna today. In the industry, we like to think that software has been eating the world. But when you look at the data a better description would be more of a nibble. Depending on what source you look at the software industry represents between 5-8% of global GDP. Contrast that with the services industry that represents between 60-70% of GDP and worth around $25 trillion on a global basis. Most services have been out of reach for the software industry. They have either been too complex or too specialized for off the shelf software to access in any economically viable way. But that’s beginnning to change with GenAI leading to the emergence of ‘service as a software.’ Cogna is at the forefront of this opportunity - building precision software at scale and delivering huge productivity gains for traditional industries. We know Ben Peters & Lars Mennen well having backed their previous company Five AI that was acquired by Bosch in 2022. And we’re very excited to be backing them again together with Hoxton Ventures & Chalfen Ventures Read my full blog post on why we invested here. Radu Bozga Ben Peters Lars Mennen Bryan G. Mike Chalfen Hussein Kanji Kirsten Connell https://lnkd.in/eh8mhcJb

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🚀 Exciting News! Medial Raises $500K in Pre-Series A Funding 🎉 We’re thrilled to announce that Medial has successfully raised $500,000 in our Pre-Series A funding round, led by Ortella Global Capital - OG Capital, India's only fund that co-builds companies, co-founded by Rajvardhan Mohite and Sayan Ghosh - OG Capital. At Medial, our mission is to create an integrated professional ecosystem for the startup and tech community. Over the past few months, we’ve built a tight-knit and highly engaged community of 100,000 users, with 10,000+ Daily Active Users, all working together to share ideas, gain insights, and drive innovation. 🌟 Why Medial? The internet lacks a dedicated space for startups and tech professionals to grow and collaborate without toggling between multiple platforms. That’s the gap we’re solving—by offering: Real-time curated updates on the startup ecosystem. A social feed for deep, meaningful discussions. Startup Showcase to pitch, validate ideas, and gather feedback. With an early focus on monetization and profitability, we’re proud to share that Medial is on track to achieve profitability within the next two quarters. A huge thank you to our users, team, and investors for believing in our vision and helping us scale a platform that prioritizes meaningful connections, growth, and innovation for professionals worldwide. This won’t have been possible without my co-founders Prateek Kaien, Aishwarya Raj Pandey and Harsh Dwivedi and their deep obsession about Medial and its users. Our team which is probably the most hardworking and passionate set of youngsters who deeply care about the mission - Aditi Rajesh, Vaibhav Jaiswal, Sumanta Sarkar, Shivadharsinii S, Harsh Pardikar, Ayush Tripathi, Varun B., Tanvi Bharti, Anurag Prasoon. This wouldn’t have been possible without the early backing of Prateek Agarwal (Pre-seed investor) who led our pre-seed round when we just had a plan on paper. His immense early faith in us and our mission has taken us a long way. Our product is sticky and our users love because of the constant mentorship and advice from my favourite mentor Ranjeet Pratap Singh. Thank you so much for your valuable insights and teaching us so much about consumer internet and UGC. Also, cheers to the new partnership with Sayan Ghosh - OG Capital and Rajvardhan Mohite. Hoping to skyrocket from here. 🚀 This is just the beginning. Together, let’s redefine how the startup and tech ecosystem connects, builds, and thrives. 🌐 👉 Learn more about Medial: https://medial.app #Medial #StartupFunding #TechEcosystem #Startups #Innovation #Networking #SeriesA Press Release- https://lnkd.in/gmDd_n5n

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Join me at Effortless 2024, where we explore how AI and thoughtful design transform customer experience, support, and product development. Event Details: 🗓 Date: October 17, 2024 ⏰ Time: 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM PDT (reception to follow) 📍 Location: Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara 🔗 Register Here: https://dvrv.ai/3XjyMbs Why Attend: Learn, share, and connect with industry leaders. Speakers Include: Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures): AI's business impact Dr. Harrick Vin (Tata Consultancy Services): Enterprise AI applications Abhay Parasnis (Typeface, ex-Adobe): AI for customer experience Ethan Mollick (The Wharton School): AI in product development Anja Manuel (Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel): Global tech trends Dheeraj Pandey (DevRev, ex-Nutanix): AI and SaaS 2.0 Shilpa Kolhatkar (NVIDIA): AI in software ecosystems Sessions to Look Forward To: 🔷 AI-Powered Customer Support: Balancing Automation and Human Touch 🔶 From Support Tickets to Product Improvements: Closing the Feedback Loop 🔷 Designing Intuitive Products and Self-Service Experiences with AI 🔶 AI Analytics: Measuring Customer Satisfaction to Guide Product Evolution Join us to discover how AI and thoughtful design can create seamless, customer-centric products and experiences. Let's shape the future together! #AI #CustomerSupport #CX #ProductDevelopment #CSS #DevRev #SuccessLab

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When the theme's a delight, we double our insight! We covered a lot of topics on creating a differentiated and winning GTM strategy for AI companies in this conversation with Poorvi Vijay. - Positioning and differentiation - Building a brand beyond the product - Focusing on ICP - Marketing channels - Hiring the right talent - Pricing to balance value and cost - How to get POCs going - and more.. :)

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* Taming the Data Duplication Monster: Deduplication Hacks! Duplicate data is a real pain point for many of us (including us at Kriyam.ai!). Imagine you have a customer record, but their name, address, and contact details appear slightly differently across various systems. For us, that means the system sees them as 4 different people, not 1! The challenge for the engineering team - Detecting these duplicates in massive datasets. Manually comparing every record would take forever, so we rely on clever deduplication techniques. Have you tackled large-scale deduplication projects? What tips or tricks did you find most helpful? **Bonus points for: 🔸 Sharing your experience with content-aware or context-aware approaches. 🔸 Discussing pre-processing techniques to streamline the search. **Inspired by: Aadhaar, India's massive biometric ID system, which runs the world's largest deduplication check (seriously impressive!). Also suggest to check out the documentary "12 Digit Masterstroke: The Untold Story of Aadhaar" on Prime Video. Mind blowing story of vision, grit, teamwork that made governance possible irrespective of the Government !! #datachallenges #deduplication #machinelearning Ajai Prabhu Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)

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Andrej Karthpathy, one of the world's foremost AI researchers announced his new AI ed-tech company, Eureka Labs. "This Teacher + AI symbiosis could run an entire curriculum of courses on a common platform. If we are successful, it will be easy for anyone to learn anything, expanding education in both reach (a large number of people learning something) and extent (any one person learning a large amount of subjects, beyond what may be possible today unassisted)." #edtech #frontiertechnology #startups https://lnkd.in/gSwGaBUB

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AI Scenarios - 3 Positive Futures + 12 Predictions from legendary VC, Vinod Khosla. Scenario ➊ Equitable & Advanced Healthcare and Education With AI enabling free access to expertise (#1), healthcare and education become universally accessible. AI-driven primary care ensures early diagnosis and proactive health management (#6), reducing disease incidence and increasing life expectancy. Free, high-quality education democratizes learning opportunities, fostering a more knowledgeable and skilled global population. This results in a healthier, more educated society capable of addressing complex global challenges. Scenario ➋ A Greener & More Meaningful Future Robots performing most labor (#2) and AI-driven automation reduce human drudgery, allowing people to engage in more meaningful and creative pursuits (#4). Advances in protein production and environmentally friendly fertilizers (#7) lead to sustainable agriculture, reducing the ecological footprint and ensuring food security. Clean energy solutions like fusion power and advanced geothermal (#10) drastically cut carbon emissions, addressing climate change and ensuring a sustainable future. Scenario ➌ Enhanced Mobility & Resource Efficiency Advanced public transit systems replace private cars in cities (#8), reducing traffic congestion, pollution, and urban sprawl. High-speed travel innovations (#9) make global travel more efficient, fostering international collaboration and cultural exchange. New technologies for resource extraction (#11) ensure efficient utilization of critical materials like lithium and copper, supporting sustainable technological advancements. Vinod’s 12 Predictions: #1 Most expertise enabled by AI will be free #2 Most labor will become free with robots performing more work than the entire human labor force #3 Programming will be near free, and computing will become as ubiquitous and invisible as electricity #4 The level of creativity in music, entertainment, and design will dramatically increase with the help of AI #5 Internet access will mostly be by intelligent agents performing tasks for humans #6 Medicine will shift from reactive sick care to proactive healthcare, with early detection and prevention of diseases becoming standard practice. #7 We will have new food and fertilizer.  #8 Cars could be displaced in cities. #9 Flying will be faster.  #10 There will be clean, dispatchable electric power. Fusion power and advanced geothermal energy will replace coal and natural gas plants, providing clean and sustainable energy solutions. #11 New technologies will allow us to access and utilize resources like lithium and copper more efficiently, mitigating concerns about resource scarcity. #12 Entrepreneurs will develop carbon solutions for all major emitter categories, significantly advancing efforts to combat climate change. https://lnkd.in/gphmDnH3 #AIFuture #TechOptimism #AIForGood

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🚀 Excited to delve into the "NEXT 100" report by Antler, showcasing 100 groundbreaking ideas from India's top investors, operators, and founders on areas of Deep-Tech, D2C, Health etc. A standout for me was the Quantum use case in the Deep Tech section, highlighted by Ranjeet S., focusing on Security and Data Privacy using Quantum technology. India's vast landscape presents unique challenges, providing immense opportunities for businesses and startups to harness Quantum technology across various domains. Areas like last-mile delivery, security, drug discovery, clean energy, simulation, logistics optimization, and finance are ripe for Quantum innovation. Each of these sectors holds potential for new startups or solutions that could significantly reduce expenses for existing companies. It's inspiring to see India advancing in Quantum technology alongside global leaders. The Indian Cabinet's India DST approval of the National Quantum Mission (NQM) with a Rs. 6003.65 crore budget is a monumental step towards propelling India's leadership in this field. This initiative will undoubtedly provide a substantial boost to the ecosystem. I am hopeful that companies, investors will explore these Deep-Tech solutions to drive their growth and contribute to India's burgeoning tech landscape. At Artificial Brain we are already working on some of the use cases. 😉 You can read the Antler report here : https://lnkd.in/gpUk2cwv #QuantumTechnology #DeepTech #Innovation #Startups #India #NQM #Technology #Growth #BusinessOpportunities #Quantum

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