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MassRobotics signature series event: Robotics in Defense Date & Time: Tuesday, September 17 · 3 - 6 PM EDT Location: MassRobotics Registration: https://lnkd.in/gsb9ZYAB Join us for a session where the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and NSIN - National Security Innovation Network will share their programs, technology challenges, and ways to engage. U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory will highlight their robotics areas of interest, and J2 Ventures will offer an investor's perspective. Plus, you'll get to see demos from non-traditional robotics startups with potential solutions for the DoD during our networking session. *If you're interested in attending the Robotics in Defense event, please contact us at [email protected] to receive the access code. Mary Kate Bell, NSIN - National Security Innovation Network | John Griffin, Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) | Russ Graves, MITRE | Matt Goldman, J2 Ventures | Shawn Coleman, U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory Tom Ryden, Joyce Sidopoulos, Colleen Cronin Anderson #Robotics #defense #startup

🥳 Congratulations to our amazing athletes Sarai Gascon moreno & Lizzi Smith on qualifying for the Paralympic 2024!👏🏼🥳🤩 Your dedication and hard work have brought you this far. We’re incredibly proud of you and wish you great success in your journey!💙🦾 #Paralympics2024 #athlete #paralympics #zeus #zeushand #amputee #worldchampion #amputeestrong #swimmer #aetherbiomedical

🌟 Excited to represent J2 Ventures at Innovative Capital Summit, hosted by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Special Competitive Studies Project - SCSP, in partnership with the U.S. Economic Development Administration, the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Milken Institute! 🌟 I spoke on the capital required for place-based innovation, with fellow investors Emily Knight, Jim Shelton, Damien Dwin, and Karen Kornbluh. This topic is near and dear to my heart. I grew up near NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory - I spent my childhood taking free physics classes at Caltech and working in the family restaurant. I'm fortunate to have grown up in an innovation ecosystem that supported small businesses and catalyzed young people to work in technical industries. #InnovativeCapital #EDATechHubs #CHIPSAct #Innovation #EconomicDevelopment #VentureCapital

We’ve raised $16.45M in funding for revolutionizing software development at the edge. There is nothing stronger than the right people working together on a common mission. We’ve gathered a world-class, multi-disciplinary team hellbent on making development at the edge as efficient and fast as prototyping in Python. And we’ve already been delivering for market leaders in the logistics, defense, and edge hardware space, where we've slashed development times from months to days. Finally, Alex Showalter-Bucher and I could not be prouder to be working with the people we have at Code Metal: Octavian Udrea Niranjan Hasabnis Ellie Kitanidis Samson Melamed Sanjna Ravichandar Tzofi Klinghoffer Zander Brumbaugh Armand Mousavi Hayley Antczak and to be supported by an amazing group of investors and partners, including: Michael A. Brown and Maggie G. at Shield Capital Alexander Harstrick and Jonathan Bronson at J2 Ventures Andrew Bartholomew at Fulcrum Venture Group Alex Chang and David Hehman at Underdog Labs And Chris Hartnoll at Hico Ventures and many others Also thanks to our fantastic advisors and strategic partners:  Omer A. Yeri Lopez Geoff Orazem Todd Hooper Will Meris Edward Loew Brian Peterson Matthew Larson, CFA #EdgeDevelopment #AI #CodeGeneration #FormalVerification #DualUse #DefenseTech I enjoyed speaking with Eli Chavez at Boston Business Journal, keep an eye out for some exciting coverage coming in today.

We are pleased to announce the release of our newest product, the AI-ADAM100, in collaboration with ABOV Semiconductor Co., Ltd. The combination of our sparse processing unit and ABOV's low-power MCU will help bring affordable, noise-robust, always-on voice interfaces to a wide range of home appliances, consumer electronics, and other #IoT endpoints. https://lnkd.in/g-2m29FR

It was wonderful to host Margaret O'Mara with our J2 Ventures limited partners last week to discuss her book, The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America, a book every #dualuse and really #venturecapital investor should have on their reading list. In almost every great American tech business from Google to Microsoft to Cisco the United States Department of Defense has played a role in bringing that business to life. Most importantly, it does so outside of any political party agenda, as we discuss in this short clip below (the whole interview we'll have on the new J2 site shortly). Professor O'Mara is one of the definitive experts on the subject, a chaired professor at the University of Washington and extremely generous friend of ours. We learn something every time we get the chance to speak with her. I hope you enjoy this snippet as much as our team enjoyed being a part of it and if you have not read The Code yet, I highly encourage you do. https://lnkd.in/eZwJx25z

We are excited to share that Nature Biotechnology highlighted Empress Therapeutics as a top startup! We were recognized for the breakthrough principle of using co-evolution to guide the discovery of drugs by finding biologically active small molecules encoded in human metagenomic data. Empress scientists estimate that 10^24 possible chemical compounds have been made and tested inside the bodies of humans by co-evolved microbial chemists – greater than any in silico or physical library, and with the added advantages of built-in human relevance and compatibility. We analyze genes encoding biosynthetic pathways that make these compounds to draw associations with health or disease, then use AI and synthetic biology to generate drug leads from gene data. The impact? Predictability and speed in small molecule drug discovery. Read the article to learn more: https://lnkd.in/gsZ-kPqc #FlagshipFounded #Chemilogics #smallmolecule #drugdiscovery #AI #synbio

Thank you to The The Wall Street Journal for the phenomenal coverage of our latest fundraise, #Argonne. We could not be more excited to hit our #hardcap and continue our mission of growing the next generation of world changing companies alongside the U.S. Government and its allies. We could not have done this without our incredible team, founders and limited partners. It is a privilege to do this job. May the #4thofJuly continue to be the best news day in America! 🗽 🎇 #dualuse #venturecapital #fundraising #nationalsecurity U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs United States Department of Defense US Army United States Air Force United States Space Force US Navy United States Marine Corps https://lnkd.in/e7AhRW6m