Massive day. Announced our $35m #SeriesB round to accelerate our #RASTRUM #3Dcellculture platform + $3.6m from NSW Health for skin regeneration. Super proud of the Inventia Life Science team and thankful for Blackbird and Skip Capital! The Wall Street Journal article: on.wsj.com/3255tzz

Oh! Michael Tolo and I are in Cosmos today, talking about Blackbird's vibes on #research, #science, and #commercialisation. Lovely job by Lauren Fuge, and many thanks to Gail McCallum and Will Berryman (riaus) for coming up with this! cosmosmagazine.com/people/culture…

There’s under one week left to apply for Wild Futures. We’ve aimed WF at researchers and their students, so I want to clarify my current position on research commercialisation, fundamental research, and demands on academics. It may not be what you think! 🧵

Today a Stanford PhD told me that the school takes 10-15% equity in any company founded with IP developed on campus... ...which is why there are so many dropouts + why so many entrepreneurial PhDs build companies that have nothing to do with their research. WHAT!?

Absolutely 💜 what I do at Carted as an MLE. 1 day it's about studying the nitty-gritty of quantization. Another day it's about configuring k8s deployments. 1 day it's about training LMs at a medium scale. Another day it's about writing Beam jobs. Together w/ Nilabhra Roy Chowdhury

Proud of the team is an understatement! 🙏 carted.com 👀

Massive milestone 👏

How will work/life change over next ~3-5 years? As we synthesize the latest tech + trends in culture, what are the implications? In an attempt to connect dots, get your input, and prompt conversation… 🥁🔮 9 forecasts that made the cut:

I spoke to 20+ digital media companies within the last month, and they all told me affiliate theft is a real big issue:

While much of 2022 saw a drop-off in capital raises, we did see the market rally in the last quarter of the year. But what does that mean for 2023? Tegan Jones speaks to Airtree partner Jax Vullinghs and Blackbird principal Michael Tolo to find out. smartcompany.com.au/startupsmart/v…

So how does Carted actually enable embedded commerce? 🤔 Glad you asked! This video is a great demonstration of how quick and easy it is to add products to your website. If you're a digital publisher redirecting via affiliate links, it's time to switch to onsite checkout 😉

Welcome to Twitter, @Opto_bio. I'm very excited by the neural interface technology you're developing!

If you’re an AI company and your proprietary dataset is available on the web your product will become commoditised. See OpenAI whisper + GPT for all medical transcription companies. GG open.substack.com/pub/tomkeykong…

Australia has been a powerhouse in quantum computing for decades, home to one of the world's largest and most talented workforces in the field. We are excited to announce a new partnership with five Queensland universities to further strengthen Australia's quantum computing

Introducing Omega, the first manufacturable chipset for photonic quantum computing. Designed by PsiQuantum and manufactured at GlobalFoundries, this chipset contains all the advanced photonic components required for million-qubit-scale quantum computers. psiquantum.com/featured-news/…

Some members of our engineering team were (understandably) outraged when we laid out these ridiculous targets a few years ago. Privileged to work alongside brave and brilliant people who simply get on with the task at hand and execute

There's a lot of noise out there.

Look, Enhance is for everyone, but founders get the real cheat code: more hours in the day. If you’re still digging through emails, shuffling calendars, and dumping notes into Notion before your first coffee, you’re bleeding time. Let Enhance chew through the boring stuff so

yoooo that’s us baby Enhance Labs

There's a bunch of chatter about the importance of context. Almost all useful context isn't in your companies docs. It's in your employees heads. No, Notion and Slack do not approximate a humans head