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A new fund focused on preventing extinction? Music to my ears. 🇺🇸 Superorganism closes $25.9M Fund I for biodiversity startups This San Francisco VC closed its first fund from Cisco Foundation, AMB Holdings, Builders Vision, a16z partner Jeff Jordan, and others. Managing Directors Tom Quigley & Kevin Webb are backing startups working on extinction prevention and conservation technology —a thesis that's been underinvested despite the urgency. The firm writes checks of $250k - $500k for pre-seed and seed companies and donate, with portfolio including Spoor (computer vision for bird tracking around wind farms) + They commit 10% of profits to future conservationist efforts. Biodiversity isn't just environmental—it's infrastructure for planetary resilience. Learn about the moves shaping deep tech in this week's Conscious Tech intel linked below. Congrats to the team! 👏 _____ Hi, I'm Sera Tajima, angel investing alongside EQT Foundation & Hoxton Ventures. 🤙

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Most startups die trying to get what an existing business already has — Customers Cash flow Systems Brand trust Why start from zero when you can buy from momentum? Buy a business doing $500K–$2M in revenue. Leverage seller financing, SBA, or private capital. Keep the team, fix the margins, and scale. It’s not about being an entrepreneur anymore. It’s about being an acquirer. Startups are hope. Acquisitions are math. And math wins. 🦈

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Delighted OpenSolar has raised US$20M including from new investors like Google. This follows its recent release of its AI powered end to end solution for electrification. “OpenSolar technology has facilitated 6,000,000 solar system designs resulting in $10bn worth of solar sales, since inception. With the next generation of AI tools, we can take solar growth to the next level, reduce the cost of delivery and help take solar to 50% of energy globally by 2035.”

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Vision without values fails to launch. Strategy without belief buckles under pressure. Missions without systems perish. What works? Conviction. And conviction can be engineered. At Decasonic, we believe conviction is engineered through top execution, AI-native talent, and system-level thinking across the key technologies of today: Web3 and AI. Blessed to be working with some great people across our ecosystem who engineer with sustainable conviction. Sustainable conviction encompasses: 1- Alignment that endures and flourishes with stress testing. 2- Execution that cuts through noise to build for signal. 3- Systems thinking that compounds with AI building AI. In markets defined by uncertainty and unknowns, conviction comes from disciplined design of humans and AI working together in systems that drive outcomes. "Full Speed Ahead" reflects these conversations around conviction. Excited to showcase this theme next week at our Fourth Annual Web3 Investor Day.

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So many founders in my network are trying to decide whether they should continue bootstrapping or start raising . This has a an amazing guide to help with that journey

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AI in Startup GTM Strategy Report Part 1 of our 3-part report series: Benchmark your startup's AI strategy against 500 peers. See how the funding stage impacts AI investment, team structure, and GTM performance. Data-driven insights for scaling smarter. I. Executive summary: The revolution in scaling smarter with AI When Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, he forever changed not just global literacy, but how humanity distributes and shares information. Fast-forward a few centuries, and the rise of AI has ushered in a change just as transformational: The ability to scale businesses efficiently. It’s no secret that scale is hard. Whether it’s headcount, budget, or expertise, constraints are inevitable and can stop a business in its tracks. AI will change has changed that. Marketing is now personalization, at scale. AI tailors every message to every buyer, based on their behavior, intent, and timing. Sales is now reached, at scale. AI listens, writes, prioritizes, and books meetings—so reps can spend more time selling. Support is now proactivity, at scale. AI predicts issues, deflects tickets, and solves problems before they escalate. https://lnkd.in/dvkx_XgU Credit : http://www.hubspot.com Repost by : Salem Bagami

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Is AI the problem or the solution? Yes, AI contributes to the climate challenge — its energy demand is enormous and growing fast. But it’s also part of the solution: enabling entirely new technologies and processes that can tackle some of the world’s toughest sustainability problems at scale 🌱. Seeing is believing: Last week in Turkey 🇹🇷— the world’s 4th largest fruit producer — I saw firsthand how FreshSens.ai applies AI and IoT to double the lifespan of perishable fruits and vegetables, dramatically reducing food waste and unnecessary CO₂ emissions. Thanks for the eye-opening visit Baran Baykurt Emiroğlu and Cem Ayyildiz.

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🦄 Unicorns… Or reversed engineered and stated slightly differently: Which VCs have the most to lose in the event of a prolonged blocked exit window? More than 1200 unicorns… 🦄 - many of which haven’t raised funds since 2021. Don’t get me wrong - achieving unicorn status is a recognition of a significant milestone… you garnered a high valuation based on your future prospects. But it doesn’t mean much if you don’t deliver! Unicorns are fragile - if you don’t build a sustainable, durable infrastructure and a differentiated, competitive product, you’ll either run out of money or be merged into another portfolio company … In an increasingly narrowing group of professional investment leaders, you need to build camels 🐪 able to trek through the inevitable sandstorm. #Unicorns #BusinessStrategy #VC #VentureCapital #CapitalMarkets #IPO #Exit #Startups

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