Startup of the Week: Loops.so Loops.so Sector: Software Development / Marketing Location: Washington, DC, USA Founded: 2022 Stage: Seed Round Investors: Craft Ventures, Altman Capital, SV Angel, Liquid2, Soma, Box Group, Twenty-Two Ventures, Y Combinator Team:

Startup of the week Reflex Robotics Reflex Robotics reflexrobotics.com Sector: Robotics Location: San Francisco Founded: 2021 Stage: Seed ~ 7 million Investors: Julian Capital, Khosla Ventures Team: Founders Mateo Mariscal, Ritesh Ragavender, MIT graduates, and there team have

Who knew LinkedIn could become the worst side of the Internet?

How do founders feel about the portfolio sales clause becoming more common. On the VC side I find it makes a lot of sense. For founders side it looks more double sided. It could be an easy way to clean your cap table. But, shares could be sold to a direct competitor.

What kind of content do you guys want to see related to VC or Startups? Is there any gaps from your feed you wish you were seeing?

SVB agrees to sell venture capital arm for $340 million axios.com/2024/05/03/svb…

Thinking of hitting a more niche set of startups. 1. Euro Fintech / web 3 2. Euro medtech / devices let me know what you think! Or any other recommendation? I'll link a poll below!

“Who the f*ck is Roaring Kitty?”

LinkedIn is out of control

I’m building an investment thesis around at home testing in the medical field. Anyone know any startups or current companies I should take a look at?

How important is no code AI solutions to founders.

Companies should do NBA style trade deals. I want to see OpenAI trade its COO and CFO to Anthropic in exchange for their CMO, a cracked PM, and a couple of Waterloo Class of 2026 new grads.

me when I have to admit my SpaceX investment is actually in someone else’s SPV

Heard from VC LPs this week - all about endowments (a long post 👇🏻) For so long, university endowments have been a backbone of VC funds (higher historically, today they represent ~15-20% of VC $ raised, most coming from the 30 largest). There is real stress on this channel that

Bet on people who have a motor. If someone is constantly in motion, there's a good chance they're going to find the heat eventually.

Great VC investors should think like founders never the other way around. The job is to go in early and supply patient capital. The job goes way further than just writing checks.

Every builder's first duty is philosophical: to decide what they should build for. AI is beginning to decide what ideas reach your mind—your next action, your next job, your next relationship. It will tempt you to outsource your thinking in ways you’ve never been tempted before.

And Lina Khan is best equipped to decide this better than founders, employees and investors? Colossal stupidity to not understand retrospective predictability!

Talk about perfect timing!🧞🧞‍♀️ Check out what we have been cooking for the last few weeks - Jasmine is a production-ready JAX-based codebase for world modeling from unlabeled videos