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Announcing our investment in EnPowered, a payment platform to increase the rate of cleantech adoption

Version One Ventures

These projects require an upfront investment and it can be difficult to secure financing for energy projects, even when the risk is low and the ROI is strong. Their new payment platform allows companies to pay for these capital-intensive cleantech projects as operating expenses. That’s where EnPowered comes in.

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Demo day arrives for Springboard’s Internet of Things accelerator

The Next Web

The eighth is currently operating in stealth mode (yes, even on demo day) but we’re digging to find out more about them. The company said it also has other products in the pipeline that “do the same magic” for other verticals, including using crowd-sourced data and environmental protection. Playground Energy .

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

military, the CIA and the National Security Agency. Next, Terman used his military contacts to secure funding for the Lab from the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force and the Army Signal Corps. Have they moved to their forward operating bases in the Artic?) How many did they have? How would they reach the U.S.?

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta.

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Austin: Airbnb “Super City” and Hotspot For Emerging Boutique STR Purveyors

Austin Startup

A relative newcomer, Locale (based in Austin as well), also recently announced it had secured $2.5 Some of the parts of the city that qualify as such are downtown and most arterial roads that were rezoned as “vertical mixed-use” (VMU) over a decade ago, including South Lamar, East Riverside and Burnet Rd.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

For the last 75 years computers (we’ll call these classic computers) have both shrunk to pocket size (iPhones) and grown to the size of warehouses (cloud data centers), yet they all continued to operate essentially the same way. It has uses in threat detection – airport security, banks, and sporting events. Hang on to your seat.