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Investing in Generative AI tools

VC Cafe

trillion to the global economy, with $6.6 The global generative AI market was valued at USD 8.12 I believe there are a lot more coming (some currently choose to be in stealth) and that we will be seeing tools for automation enter every role in the company (coding, sales, marketing, design, etc) across many verticals.

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

Steve Blank

It involved building stealth aircraft to deliver these precision weapons unseen by any enemy radar, and designing intelligence and reconnaissance systems that would target for them. Smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth. But this new strategy was more than making the bombs smarter.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: PurePlus

Austin Startup

In fact, the food we waste is responsible for roughly 8% of global emissions, so wasting less food presents a key opportunity to address climate change. PurePlus is disrupting candy with stealth nutrition. Global social impact campaigns focused on the environment. In a new category called Earth Functional Food?—?food

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V1’s latest investment: Booster Fuels – on-demand delivery of gas for vehicles

Version One Ventures

Last year, we quietly invested in the seed round of Booster Fuels, a then-stealth on-demand gas delivery service. Last May, Boris said that we shouldn’t expect an Uber in every vertical. Ultimately, we love the end vision in terms of how energy moves globally. So why did we invest?

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SXSW Startups: AirPop Makes Healthy Air

Austin Startup

We’re at a strategic point where our core business is experiencing solid growth and we’re ready to invest in significantly more advanced breathomics sensing and analytics into our roadmap, so we can begin to focus on the specific disease verticals that our data, reach and technology can have the greatest impact for. I attended in 2007.

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

Austin Startup

While it may come as a surprise to locals and visitors alike, the short-term-rental (STR) unicorn considers Austin to be one of its 24 global “super cities” : destinations that routinely generate the company’s largest revenues, and are viewed as having the strongest prospects for future growth.

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