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Carbon Tech Industry Poised for Transformative Growth
Generative AI: Nearing the Ultimate Promise of AI
Digital Payments: Huge Untapped Market in B2B Payments
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Initiation Report: Glean Technologies - Disrupting Enterprise Knowledge Management with AI
Initiation Report: Huntress – A Premier Go-to Cybersecurity Platform for SMBs
Initiation Report: Generate:Biomedicines – Pioneering AI-Powered Drug Discovery
Initiation Report: KoBold Metals A Leading Player at the Intersection of AI and Climate Tech
Initiation Report: Anyscale - Pioneering Scalable Deployment in Generative AI
Initiation Report: Runway - Reshaping Multimedia Production with Generative AI
Initiation Report: Relativity Space
Initiation Report: Carbon Health
Initiation Report: Aurora Solar
Initiation Report: Nuro
Initiation Report: Wiz Inc
Harvey
Harvey offers generative AI-powered solutions for the legal sector.
Cerebras Systems
A platform for fast and effortless AI training and inference.
Applied Intuition
Advanced simulation and validation tools for autonomous mobility.
Form Energy
Developing iron-air batteries, an alternative to lithium-ion batteries for grid-scale energy storage.
Glean
Transforming the legacy enterprise software market with AI-powered solutions for all internal queries.
Perplexity AI
AI-powered answer engine providing conversational search capabilities.
Monte Carlo
A data observability startup to detect and resolve data issues.
Huntress
A managed cybersecurity platform.
Generate Biomedicine
A new therapeutics company that intersection of biology, machine learning, and biological engineering.
Fundguard
FundGuard is transforming legacy operating models with a front-to-back, AI-powered, cloud-native and multi-asset class investment accounting platforms.
Coro
Simple, Powerful, Modular — Protect critical areas of your business with modules for endpoints, email, and cloud apps.
Cyera AI
Data security company specializing in data security posture management (DSPM) within the cybersecurity industry.
Together AI
Services for building, training, and running AI models, including private data and dedicated GPU clusters for large-scale training.
Pinecone
Vector database start-up, offering vector databases that act as the memory for artificial intelligence (AI) models and infrastructure components for AI-powered applications.
KoBold Metals
KoBold Metals discovers the battery minerals containing Ni, Cu, Co, and Li critical for the electric vehicle revolution.
Xpansiv
Market Infrastructure for an Evolving World
Celestial AI
Develops audacious AI computing platforms that elevate performance, energy and economic efficiencies, enabling our customers to rapidly deploy innovations
Lambda Labs
An enterprise-grade cloud GPU provider for AI development. Offers the largest cluster of NVIDIA H100 chips, exceeding Google and Oracle. It is the most cost-effective cloud GPU provider and is well-positioned to benefit from the scarcity of GPU compute. Customers include Intel, Microsoft, Amazon Research, Kaiser Permanente, Stanford, Harvard, Caltech, and the Department of Defense, among others.
Abridge
An AI-powered electronic medical record platform. Adoption by around 5,000 doctors attests to the efficacy of the platform. Physicians claiming timesaving of 12-16 hours a week, underscores the platform's credibility. Marquee investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, CVS Health Ventures, and Spark Capital, among others.
Anyscale
Offers a platform to scale compute-intensive AI & ML workloads. It holds the first-mover advantage in the Python-native distributed computing framework. Its solutions offer 23x higher throughput and a 75% reduction in cost compared to conventional solutions. Key investors include Addition, Andreessen Horowitz, and Intel Capital, among others.
Reddit is a network of more than 100,000 communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies and passions.
Climeworks
Climeworks is a climate technology startup, that operates the world's first and largest direct air capture and storage facility.
Beta Technologies: eVTOL & eCTOL Aircraft Manufacturer
Beta Technologies, an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) and electric conventional take-off and landing (eCTOL) aircraft manufacturer.
Runway: A Generative AI Platform
Runway, a generative AI platform focused on multimedia creation and editing, is positioned to disrupt various markets including VFX, animation, and video editing, among others.
Relativity Space: Reshaping Rocket Manufacturing with 3D Printing
Driven by exploration missions, satellite constellation deployments, and satellite and space station maintenance, space tech industry is experiencing remarkable growth.
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Groq: Delivering Ultra-low Latency AI Inference
Sudden proliferation of LLMs and the growing need for high computing power has led to a supply and demand mismatch for AI chips. Software-defined hardware approach of Groq involves building chips ground up from an end-user perspective.
Anduril: Enhancing Autonomy in Defense Tech
Well-positioned to benefit from the evolving nature of warfare, which is becoming increasingly autonomous. Ongoing geopolitical conflicts such as Russia-Ukraine, China-Taiwan, and US-China call for deeper integration of technology into defense.
Ramp: FinTech
Ramp uses automation and machine learning to help customers with expense management, payments, reporting, and more.
Aurora Solar: Cloud-based solar software solutions
Aurora Solar develops cloud-based software, that enables solar PV engineering design.
Carbon Health: Hybrid-care tech startup
Carbon Health is a modern health chain that provides urgent and primary care for easier everyday health.
Lacework: Automated cloud security
Lacework is the data-driven security platform for the cloud.
Chime: FinTech
Chime is a financial technology company that offers mobile banking services.
Brex: Spend platform
Brex is a unified spend platform for corporate cards, expense management, reimbursements, travel, business accounts, and bill pay.
OpenSea: Peer-to-peer NFT marketplace
Non-fungible token marketplace offered online allows for NFTs to be sold directly at a fixed price, or through an auction.
Nuro: Robotics company developing autonomous delivery vehicles
Robotics company developing autonomous delivery vehicles
Flexport: Supply chain management and logistics
Supply chain management and logistics, including order management, trade financing, insurance, freight forwarding, and customs brokerage.
Kong: Go-to API Management and Microservice Platform for Businesses
Founded in 2007, Kong Inc is a leading cloud-native API management platform providing an open-source API marketplace for developers and engineers.
Docker: A Pioneer in Collaborative Application Development
Founded in 2010, Docker Inc is a leading provider of cloudnative application development tools, content, and services for developers.
Bolt: Bridging Browsing-Buying Gap With One-click Checkout Technology
Founded in 2014, Bolt Financial Inc operates as a payment platform offering online checkout technology to retailers.
Venture Bytes #81—Russia-Ukraine Crisis and Future of Food Security
The Russia-Ukraine crisis has led to a tense geopolitical conflict in Eastern Europe and a military stalemate that shows no signs of ending. Apart from causing economic turmoil, the conflict has also raised questions about the resilience of agriculture supply chains that crisscross the region. In view of this, farmers and exporters in both countries are feeling the pinch, but it is only a matter of time before the effects of this fallout cut across their borders. Colloquially referred to as Europe’s breadbasket, Ukraine has the largest area of arable land in Europe. According to Bloomberg, when considering the exports of Ukraine and Russia combined, they account for more than 25% of the global wheat and 20% of the corn trade.
Venture Bytes #80—Supply Chain Inefficiencies Attract Innovative Startups
As the pandemic brought to light the loopholes in the supply chain industry, the spotlight on innovation in the space, which has historically relied on manual and legacy processes, is more than ever. While the disruption caused by the pandemic has led to supply and demand mismatch leading to shortages and higher prices, it has also created. significant opportunities for innovators to fill the gaps in the industry. Accordingly, a whole new breed of innovative-tech-focused companies has come to the fore to align with the needs of the sector. Understandably, VCs are enamored with these new-age supply chain tech companies, which have the potential to modernize as well as disrupt supply chain management.
Venture Bytes #79—Game On, Says Microsoft
While it is difficult to get an idea of how Activision Blizzard will be managed once inside Microsoft’s fold, there is a great possibility of Microsoft moving Activision Blizzard to its Azure platform considering the surge in cloud gaming. Apart from reducing cost, such transition is also expected to improve the gaming experience by bringing down latency as Activision games will be played on Xbox servers. Once the deal is through, Microsoft is also expected to rework Activision’s cloud deal it signed with Google in 2020.
Venture Bytes #78—Spotlight Turns to 2022
2021 has been a strong year for private companies in the US, powered by strong demand and a brisk economic recovery. Record capital inflows were complemented by an equally strong IPO activity. While $240 billion went to a flourishing ecosystem of start-ups and late-stage private companies, public market exits surpassed the IPO deals in 2020, registering a growth of 86.3%, per PitchBook and FactSet data. Accordingly, public listings in the US including IPOs, direct listing, and SPACs surged past a record $1 trillion in 2021. Companies that went public benefitted from positive market sentiments due to federal support, which helped mitigate the pandemic-
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