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azuro, the leading liquidity layer for on-chain predictions, announced the successful closure of its pre-launch funding round, increasing the total capital raised to $11 million. This round was championed by an impressive lineup of investors including SevenX Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, Arrington Capital, Polymorphic Capital, Red Beard Ventures, Dewhales Capital, and G1 Ventures. Over 20 apps are already operational and employing Azuro's infrastructure to run their businesses. Factacy.ai Congratulates and wishes them well as they'll use this funding to boost ecosystem growth and ramp up marketing, reinforcing Azuro's leadership in decentralized prediction markets. Fenbushi Capital, SevenX Ventures, Arrington Capital, Polymorphic Capital, Red Beard Ventures, Dewhales Capital, G1 Ventures, Altaf Ahmad, Ayush Agrawal, Sudhanshu Mishra #funding #fundraising #deeptech

A big part of making AI usable is enabling testing to provide the necessary assurance that outputs make sense. Distributional is leading this capability.

🚀✨ 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝟏𝟎 𝐦𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫 𝐕𝐂 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 The future of SpaceTech is brighter than ever! Venture capitalists are playing a crucial role in advancing space technology, driving innovation, and funding startups that aim to revolutionize our understanding of space. These VC firms are not only providing the necessary capital but also strategic guidance, networking opportunities, and industry expertise. Swipe through to learn more about top major 10 VC funds leading the charge in space innovation! 🌌🌠 Sequoia Capital Global Equities Andreessen Horowitz Bessemer Venture Partners HTGF | High-Tech Gründerfonds Promus Ventures Starburst Ventures Karista DN Capital

In the #privateequity world, Mathew Cyric needs no introduction. After quitting Blackstone in 2017 to launch his own private investment firm Florintree Advisors, he is back with his new venture – a venture capital fund to invest in promising homegrown deeptech startups. Deep dive into what he is up to with his new venture with #VCCircle #Exclusive: https://lnkd.in/gKeiCx6R

3️⃣ Early stage rounds to pay attention to this short week 🐣👇 (and a lot more detail in the link in the comments) 1️⃣ Belong 🇬🇧 (Fintech) - Revolutionizing long-term investment for the younger generation with 'Boost loans'. 💰 Secures €3.4 million in pre-seed funding from Octopus Ventures, Viola FinTech, Connect Ventures, Portage , January Ventures, and notable fintech angels like Ricky Knox and Gautham R.. 2️⃣ Buddywise 🇸🇪 (AI/Workplace Safety) - Proactively building safer workplaces with AI-driven real-time risk detection. 💰 Raises €3.5 million led by J12, Kvanted Ventures, Aligned Ventures, and Antler. 3️⃣ Picogrid 🇺🇸/🇪🇺 (Tech/Defense) - Enhancing military connectivity and system integration at a global scale. 💰 Attracts $12 million seed investment from Initialized Capital, Starburst Ventures, Credo Ventures, Giant Step Capital, DOMiNO Ventures, and Alumni Ventures.

🚀 We are very excited to announce that Moffin has successfully secured a seed round led by Accion Venture Lab! 🚀 This investment marks a significant milestone in our journey and we are more equipped than ever to bring innovative solutions to our clients and drive growth. #Startup #Funding #VentureCapital #Innovation #Tech #Growth #Moffin #AccionVentureLab

How was your summer, busy on the beach?! It was busy at Portfolio Ventures with 40% of our existing portfolio recently closing follow-on rounds. Here are the ones that we can share. Congrats to all the founders! - Tilt closed their $18m Series A led by Balderton Capital with co-investment from Earlybird Venture Capital, Seedcamp and sequel. - Passionfruit's closed their $9m Series A round, led by Seaya with follow-on from firstminute capital, Playfair , FJ Labs and Cornerstone VC. - Supercede | The Reinsurance Platform closed their $15m Series A led by Alven and Mundi Ventures. - LoopFX closed their seed round led by Augmentum Fintech. - Visibly raised a $7.5m Series A led by Creandum with participation from Seedcamp, Brighteye Ventures and Triple Point. Interested in receiving our dealflow? DM or email me at wb@portfolio.ventures and we can chat further. - Don't invest unless you are prepared to lose all the money you invest. These are high-risk investments and you are unlikely to be protected if something goes wrong. Take 2 mins to learn more-https://lnkd.in/e5G5K5bV

In case you missed it, watch a recent episode of VC Unfiltered by Pegasus Angel Accelerator, and hear from JLL Spark Partner Laurent Grill and other VC experts talk venture capital and early-stage startup investing. Watch now ⬇️ #VC #PropTech

Yep, Ideogram's gen AI does a good job of generating images. But, while "help people become more creative" is a great tagline, a more accurate way to describe the product is "turn text into images — really well". The underlying user need is clear: "I need an image that suits my vision, but I don't want to have to learn how to draw or paint, or operate a drawing program". Think of the art directors and assistants in the TV show "Mad men". They were fulfilling the same job to be done then as now: "make me an image that suits my vision". And Ideogram etc will, most definitely, do a great job of that. What's missing? Internal discourse among practitioners. Oh, sure, you can re-train image genereators to get different styles going. Someone will figure out a way to turn typographic principles into prescriptive and probabillistic models that this and other tools can use. Still, what we'll be missing is internal discourse, i.e. looking at what we make and asking … "IS IT THIS?" … and then figuring out what it is we want from that which we make. We currently have a magic spraycan. An incredibly awesome, and somewhat unpredictable, magic spraycan. What we don't have is reflective practice (google Donald Schön if you're not familiar with the term), a way to stay close to the problem as we work. There is a terrible possibility that generative AI will give us — no, not civilization-ending technology as elucidated in Westworld and Terminator — but a surfeit of "goods of efficiency" (see Alasdair MacIntyre) that would make the digital part of civilization mostly pointness, because its semantic and semiotic content would be largely scrubbed free of meaning. And no, AI isn't causing that on its own. AI didn't magically burrow into Spotify and inject "songs" into my playlist. People did that. People, largely scrubbed free of semantic content.

𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗹 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 🚀 In this episode of VC Unfiltered, Parisa Khosropour, president of TCA Los Angeles, leads a panel discussion with John Tabis of M13, Laurent Grill of JLL Spark, Howard Ko of Morpheus Ventures, and Rick Smith of Crosscut Ventures. Listen to find out more about venture capital and early-stage startup investing! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gui5xXMy