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3 Startups To Watch Out For In 2018

YoungUpstarts

BRAVA Investment Launches Stealth Female Project. Fertility is a major issue and so Stealth Female Project is a startup that advertises innovative approaches to women’s fertility issues. Here, we have another fertility-related startup, with two innovative entrepreneurs, both women, operating out of Silicon Valley in California.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. congrats to Fortress IQ on its $12mm Series A led by Lightspeed and a stealth co on their $13.5mm Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Smallstep , Clay , Dark , and Windmill emerged out of stealth. First check to Series B?—?congrats First check to Series A?—?congrats

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

The Army offered Fred Terman, the Dean of Engineering at Stanford, a $5M contract to build an electronics countermeasures lab. When Terman said no, Sylvania, a tube company which built proximity fuse tubes in WWII, won the contract and set up its Electronic Defense Lab (EDL) in Mountain View California in the middle of an orchard.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

I know you are still in stealth, but what can you tell us. In addition, I do a few consulting projects on the side, in the areas of product strategy, search engine optimization, and intellectual property. And what do you think about the controversy about stealth vs. not for startups? What are you working on now?

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Where are the opportunities for machine learning startups? [guest post]

VC Cafe

So-called after the California Gold Rush where the purveyors of picks and shovels made a killing (whereas the outcome for prospectors was mixed), the picks and shovels of machine intelligence are hardware, data feeds, and (arguably) the algorithms themselves. It’s not uncharted territory?—?if Pick and Shovel’ plays.

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Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

In a major break from the past, where the military designed all its own weapons, 10,000 scientists and engineers from academia worked in civilian-run weapons labs (most headquartered in universities) in an organization called the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD). In World War II the U.S. After the war the U.S.

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SXSW Startups: AirPop Makes Healthy Air

Austin Startup

We’re also keen to network with investors and engineers in environmental and health technology. Essentially, living in California and staying up to date with our China team 15 hours ahead means I’m always sort of in two time zones. Has AirPop been involved with other tech conferences before? How long has the AirPop team been together?