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We are featured on the cover of Dagens Næringsliv discussing how we utilize AI in our daily work to explore more opportunities in VC. Check out the interview with our own Senior Partner, Sagar Chandna, and Investment Manager, Peder Hjermann 👇 Tor Bækkelund Hanna Selvaag Wangsmo Anders W. Botten Mari Wachelke Thomasine Jean Chadaré Karen Elisabeth Ohm Heskja Ekaterina Yurchenko Jacob Thaulow Ulrichsen #vc #ai #investment #entrepreneurship #startup

Still a very long way to go with utilizing AI in our early-stage VC, but happy to share some insight in the coverage by DN.no via the article below.

Everyone's crying about the tech slowdown, but they're missing the real story. This chart shows acquiring startups is harder than ever - even for the big dogs. Pre-seed and seed acquisitions are holding steady while later-stage deals plummet. Why? Because the smart money knows early-stage innovation is where the next trillion-dollar companies are hiding. The VCs and corporate development teams drowning in their later-stage portfolios? They're dinosaurs. The future belongs to those hunting for diamonds in the rough. My prediction: We'll see a surge of acqui-hires and talent grabs disguised as early-stage acquisitions. The giants are desperate for fresh blood and ideas. Time to flip the script. Stop chasing unicorns and start building foundations. The real opportunity is in cultivating a garden of seedlings, not trying to prop up wilting trees. Who's ready to get their hands dirty?

Zipper Tool is becoming one of the most popular tools on Scribble Maps. I wish I could say this about every tool I build but goes to show you, never stop building. I built it originally just to fix boundary issues but it turned out it is also really good for rapidly creating aligned polygons as well. It's currently totally free if you need to align some edges, you can right click on any adjusted polygon and export it as high resolution geoJSON. #GIS #mapping #startups

#fundingalert 💼Company: Insamo 💰Funding: $12Million ⚡Round: Seed 👥Investors: Playground Global, MRL Ventures Fund LLC , Sahsen Ventures, LLC, BEVC, Civilization Ventures, Axial Ventures Insamo is to #revolutionise the process of finding medications for some of the most difficult illnesses. Their platform’s ability to develop, #synthesise, and test at a never-before-seen scale is what makes it so innovative. They think that their technique sets a new benchmark for the use of scalable machine learning to drug discovery, allowing them to repeat their design cycle using billions of #proprietary #experimental data points throughout an astronomical drug-like #chemical space. Toby Passioura Read more - https://lnkd.in/gMB_pSjs To share your startup story write us on - [email protected] #insamo #medication #machinelearning #funding #startup 

#California-based #OurSky Secures $9.5M in Seed #Funding. Together with Oceans Ventures, Marlinspike Partners, and Embedded Ventures, Upfront Ventures and Venrex Investment Management led the round. The funds will be utilised by the business for both its #operations and #growth initiatives. co-founded by Alex Hawkinson, the previous founder of SmartThings, and CEO Dan Roelker, the former vice #president of software engineering at SpaceX. OurSky’s software platform and #worldwide collection of telescopes enable real-time observational data and analysis of objects and activities in #space. A contemporary and open development #platform for space data applications is called #OurSky. OurSky’s open APIs and platform bring up new possibilities for easy access to space #observational information, real-time tracking of objects in orbit, and faster application #development. OurSky Marlinspike Embedded Ventures Upfront Ventures Alex Hawkinson Daniel Roelker #oursky #funding #startup

📉Does geography still play a huge role in the fortunes of founders? “Our data shows that a tech business of roughly the same size and revenue in London and the South East as one in the North of England would value their business very differently... So much R&D development happens outside of London. Our fundamental hypothesis of shipshape.vc is that investors want to help companies in a specific area, such as curing cancer or Alzheimer’s, and are much more likely to back businesses aligned with a specific problem rather than a startup’s location,” says Daniel Sawko, a founder of shipshape.vc (VC search engine for founders).  https://lnkd.in/eTzVDrDV 325/365

#Colorado-based #TrueAnomaly secures $100 million in Series B #Funding. Riot Ventures led the round, with participation from Champion Hill Ventures, Eclipse, ACME Capital, Menlo Ventures, Narya, 645 Ventures, and FiveNine Ventures. The funds will be utilised by the #business to keep #investing in people, goods, and services. Under the #leadership of CEO Even Rogers, True Anomaly creates #technology that combines software, #hardware, and artificial intelligence to offer solutions for accessibility, #sustainability, and space security. The company develops solutions for addressing #security, #preparedness, and space domain #awareness issues. This incorporates non-Earth imaging (NEI) and rendezvous and #proximity operations (RPO) carried out by on-orbit spacecraft in alongside a unique #combination of #dynamic software applications. For #humanity to continue to develop, space must be used safely for everything from finance and #communications to #logistics and #navigation. To improve the #capabilities of the United States, its allies, and business partners. True Anomaly Riot Ventures ACME Capital Menlo Ventures Narya 645 Ventures FiveNine Ventures Even Rogers Champion Hill Ventures Eclipse #trueanomaly #funding #startup

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