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Big congratulations to Usman Saleem and the team at Oro Labs on their $1.5 million pre-seed funding round!   Gold is at all-time highs amid global uncertainty, reinforcing its role as the ultimate store of value. Yet, accessing and utilizing physical gold remains cumbersome, with outdated systems for buying, storing, and earning yield.   Oro is redefining gold ownership by leveraging blockchain technology to tokenize physical gold, unlocking new financial possibilities. Through Oro’s protocol, gold can be seamlessly traded, borrowed against, and used to generate yield effectively bridging traditional gold markets with decentralized finance. Their approach also paves the way for gold pegged stablecoins, offering a more resilient alternative to fiat-backed digital assets.   We’re proud to have led this round and excited to support Oro in building the next generation of financial infrastructure. Link to article in comments.

Congratulations to Edoardo Dellepiane, Raffaele Sertorio and the Niko Energy team on their recent $23M funding round. Mexico-based Niko helps residents and businesses transition to renewable energy, financing and facilitating the installation of solar panels. We’re proud to have led Niko’s seed round and continue to back the team on their journey to build Mexico’s largest decentralized energy network.

Congrats to Parthi Duraisamy, Karun Kurien and the team at Alaan on their launch in Saudi Arabia. Alaan is simplifying spend management with a streamlined solution already adopted by 1000 businesses in the UAE. We’re excited to be supporting Alaan as they take this next huge step on their journey.

🚀 We’re Hiring: (Junior) Finance Manager Are you passionate about numbers, detail-oriented and have a hands-on mentality? Our team is looking for a (Junior) Finance Manager to join us and play a key role in shaping our financial operations. 📍 Location: Berlin 💼 Employment Type: Full-time This is an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic environment where you’ll: ✅ Manage payment transactions and expenses. ✅ Contribute to optimizing payment processes. ✅ Monitor cash flows and liquidity planning.   If you or someone in your network is ready for a new challenge, we’d love to hear from you!   Feel free to tag or share with anyone who might be interested!  #VC #Hiring #Finance #Accounting #FinanceManager #JoinOurTeam

Congrats to Michael Kissner, Leonardo Del Bino and the whole team at Akhetonics on raising €6 million in seed funding. Akhetonics is pioneering the world's first true all-optical digital processor which offers much faster processing speed and greater energy efficiency compared to traditional electronic processors. We’re excited to support the Akhetonics team on their journey, along with Matterwave Ventures, Bayern Kapital, Interface Capital, Runa Capital and Rheingau Founders, among others.

🔥 Today’s the day!— Superchat is LIVE on Product Hunt. Search Superchat on Product Hunt, check it out, and if it sparks your excitement like it did ours, hit that upvote button! Let’s spread the word about Superchat. cc: Yilmaz Köknar, Mika Hally and the entire Superchat team.

Congratulations to Harm-Julian Schumacher, Tommy Campos, Subramaniam Srinivasan and the entire team at OneLot on raising $4 million in pre-seed funding. We led the round with participation from Kaya Founders and Crestone Venture Capital among others. The Philippines-based lending fintech company specializes in offering financing to used car dealers and provides a comprehensive digital platform for selling cars. We were impressed by the team’s in-depth industry knowledge and experience building digital products – step on the gas for the next leg of the journey, guys!

Congratulations to Pete Clifford and the whole KARRI team! We are impressed by their great progress over the past months and excited to be part of KARRI´s upcoming achievements!

Congratulations to Matthew Gialich, Jose Acain and the entire AstroForge team on raising a $40 million Series A round led by Nova Threshold with participation from Seven Seven Six 7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣, Initialized Capital, 468 Capital, Y Combinator, Uncorrelated Ventures and Jed McCaleb. This new capital will propel AstroForge toward its next major milestone, Mission 3: Vestri. With a focus on developing a cost-effective and sustainable space mining solution to replenish Earth's resources and protect the planet's future, AstroForge is leveraging insights from its earlier missions to build the Vestri spacecraft entirely in-house. Scheduled to launch in 2025 via Intuitive Machines' third lunar mission rideshare, this mission marks another crucial step in the company's journey. Read more from Eric Berger here: https://lnkd.in/d_zfcKR9 We are excited to see them continue pushing boundaries and making history as the first private mission to land on a body beyond the Earth-Moon system.

The DVC team is excited to release DataChain today! DataChain is an open-source Python library for processing and curating unstructured data at scale. 🤖 AI-Driven Data Curation: Use local ML models, LLM APIs calls to enrich your data. 🚀 GenAI Dataset scale: Handle 10s of millions of files or file snippets. 🐍 Python-friendly: Python objects instead of JSON to represent annotations DataChain enables the parallel processing of multiple data files or samples. It can chain different operations such as filtering, aggregation, and merging datasets. The resulting datasets can be saved, versioned, and extracted as files or converted to a PyTorch data loader. DataChain can serialize Python objects (via Pydantic) to an embedded SQLite database. It efficiently deserializes Python objects or runs vectorized analytical queries in the DB without deserialization. The typical use cases are: ◆ LLM judging LLMs dialogues (see code in image) ◆ Auto-deserializing LLM responses to Pydantic. ◆ Vectorized analytics over Python objects ◆ Annotating cloud images with a local model. ◆ Dataset curation using AI annotations. DataChain excels at optimizing batch operations, such as parallelizing synchronous API calls or leveraging heavy batch processing tasks. We believe that DataChain will serve as a solid foundation for new and upcoming unstructured data-wrangling libraries, as well as custom AI-driven curation solutions. ⭐️ Give DataChain a try for your Generative AI data management, give it a star, and as always, your feedback is welcome! Link to repo to get started in the comments! #Generativeai #AI #computervision #LLM