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Oh heeeeeee. We’re back with another crunchy version of our daily Tuesday Crunch.
With us lagging behind in the early stages, we set our sights on the Disrupt event we’ve been waiting for – and Alex Just shared the builders stage agenda. Come check it out – and get Disrupt tickets sooner rather than later!
Our favorite story this morning was Rebecca Admitting that she actually had fun at Fatboy Slim’s rave, we’re now sorry we missed out on that.
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- This is just a checkYesterday, Elon Musk tweeted a picture of his Twitter account, which appears to show that Musk has also logged into another @ErmnMusk-like account named “Elon Test”. Is this a burner account? we do not know. Amanda he has more.
- Another car bites the dust: Where other automakers say “the more the merrier” when it comes to building electric cars, General Motors is “slamming” the door on a few of its models. Kirsten Reports that GM is killing off both the Chevy Bolt and Bolt EUV in favor of other EVs.
- Fly me to the moon: the song And Devine was watching the Japanese ispace company that attempted to land on the moon for the first time. Unfortunately, ispace lost contact with the lunar lander just moments before it was due to touch down.
Startups and VC
Data has become as precious as water to precision agriculture, and Hydrosat aims to help provide a new set of Earth observation satellites, Stephanie reports. The company raised $20 million in the first round, including $5 million in undiluted funding, which should put the first two infrared thermal satellites into orbit.
Scan a lot of industrial warehouses and you will see a lot of cages. It’s safe – an effective way to ensure that humans don’t accidentally infect bots. It’s big, fast, and made of metal. We’re small, squishy and don’t always look where we should, Brian Explain. It’s not a perfect solution, but it’s the best we’ve had in a long time — until botnet security company Veo raised $29 million, with Amazon’s help, that is.
Heavy on AI news today. Here are a handful of delicious snacks for you:
How to Promote Me: 5 Investors Discuss What They’re Looking For in April 2023
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Walter Thompson asked five investors to share some candid advice for the first time and found that most aspiring founders probably aren’t ready for the investor pitch yet.
If you haven’t talked to dozens of clients, or created a contact spreadsheet of at least 25 investors who have backed companies like yours, for example, it’s too early.
And if your team adds “AI” to your presentation platform to make it more engaging, here’s some bad news: FOMO is obsolete, and due diligence is the new black.
Here’s who participated in this month’s Investor Q&A:
- Rudina Seseri, Founder and Managing Partner, Glasswing Ventures
- Patrick Salere, Partner, Mayfield Trust
- Josh Constine, Partner, SignalFire Project
- Alexa von Tobel, Managing Partner, Inspired Capital
- Oren Younger, Partner, GGV Capital
Three more from the TC+ team:
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BigTech Inc.
Mark Zuckerberg announced that WhatsApp is rolling out multi-device support, users can sign in to the same WhatsApp account on up to four phones, Ivan reports. Meta has been testing this feature since 2021.
while, Kyle He writes that in pursuit of “safer” script generation models, Nvidia has released a toolkit called NeMo Guardrails to make AI-powered applications “more accurate, relevant, topical, and secure”.
And we have five more for you: