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Excited to share that LB Investment joined Whizzo’s USD 15M Series A round. This marks another step in LB’s active expansion into India, and we’re proud to support Whizzo as a long-term partner from Korea https://lnkd.in/gQgydHzm #Whizzo #LBInvestment #Korea #India #Beenext #Lightspeed #VentureCapital

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We’re excited to announce that KUnicorn Investment has signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with TEDCO (Maryland Technology Development Corporation), a leading US-based innovation investment organization. Under this partnership, we will jointly: -Identify and evaluate technology-based startups -Pursue co-investment and fund linkage opportunities -Review technology valuation and commercialization feasibility -Collaborate on government/public R&D programmes -Support the global market entry of tech companies from Korea and the U.S. This collaboration opens up a bridge between Korea’s dynamic tech-startup ecosystem and the U.S. innovation infrastructure, providing a platform for accelerated growth and global expansion. We look forward to working with TEDCO and our portfolio companies to create transnational value and unleash innovation without borders. https://lnkd.in/gPDpmDtV https://lnkd.in/guXKbANS https://lnkd.in/g7_UMaPC https://lnkd.in/gtPwC3Zu

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We are excited to partner with Nareit to announce the launch of the Fall 2025 Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) Bridge Program. Nareit serves as the worldwide representative voice for REITs and real estate companies with an interest in U.S. real estate. The Bridge Program powered by Nareit and Project Destined (see video below) will provide students with the opportunity to explore various sectors within the REIT industry including offices, apartment buildings, warehouses, retail centers, medical facilities, data centers, telecommunication towers, infrastructure, and hotels, among others. Through this live, multi-week program, students will attend interactive speaker sessions with leaders from various REITs, join sector specific technical training, and a site visit, providing participants with exposure to early career opportunities at REITs. Click here to apply: https://lnkd.in/g8uisUY2 Special thanks to Nareit, Ayris T. Scales, MPA, Jade Turpin, MPS, John Worth and John H. Jones for their partnership in building this program. #ProjectDestined #Nareit #EarlyCareerOpportunities #FutureLeaders #CRE #PDCommunity

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"Build the event you wish existed" That's what we at Monadical did last week at #NYTW. We wanted an AI Engineers discussion for Engineers. There's always a lot of events out there for VCs to network, or for startups to learn about G2M, but very little on lessons learned from actual engineers in the field. So that's the event we hosted. Big thank yous to our awesome panel, Roy Pereira, Ben Cohen and Corey J. Gallon. Here's the key takeaways and the AI tools we're using. 🚀 All three panelists independently called AI Agents the most transformative LLM application they’ve used. They specifically called out Claude 3.5 Sonnet for its accuracy and reliability. 🪨 We dug into how LLMs are “jagged”, not general. They can be shockingly good at some tasks and completely fail at others. Everyone agreed: good evaluations are critical (and hard.) 🧪 Corey noted how public benchmarks and reality are two different things. Most public evals are saturated or gamed. ♊ Ben emphasized that AI projects are actually two projects: building the tool and building the evaluation process. 🧱 We explored how falling dev costs may impact startup defensibility and labor demand. Roy shared that founders are already shifting strategies in response. ⚒️ In a world of daily AI launches, the panel discussed how they decide what’s worth attention, and what’s just noise. They called out tools like Goose, Aider, Claude Code, and Monadical’s own Cubbi, which helps run agentic workflows safely in dev environments. (links in the comments). CTA: What would you want to hear in an AI Applied Engineering talk you attended?

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Honored and excited to partner with Drew Baglino and the incredible team at Heron Power as they re-imagine the electric grid for the modern world. Power in America is not zero sum. We deserve access to cheap and abundant electricity and we should win the AI race. And we must build the capacity to manufacture critical technology here at home. When faced with existential challenges, we deploy technology against them. And we win.

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With RL techniques like GRPO, it’s become easy to fine-tune small models to outperform foundation models on vertical tasks. We’re open sourcing Osmosis-Apply-1.7B: a small model that merges code (similar to Cursor’s instant apply) better than foundation models. Links in comments! Using foundation models for high specificity, low complexity tasks like code merging can be overkill - instead, it’s better to use a specialized model instead for higher performance and latency. We fine-tuned the model on 100K real-world code commits where the model needs to merge a code edit snippet into an original code snippet. On the test dataset (subset of CommitPackFT), foundation model performance ranged between 0.77-0.93 reward score. In comparison, Osmosis-Apply-1.7B achieved a 0.98 reward score - while also being 3X-5X more affordable than the next cheaper model AND ~10X faster! Why this matters: the best AI agents use multiple models to ensure task specialization and reliability at scale - on top of cost and latency benefits as well. Links to the model and full write-up (with reward function, hyperparameters, etc.) are in the comments - reach out if you’re interested in using reinforcement learning!

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Access to global markets is one of the strongest growth levers for any ambitious company. The SelectUSA Investment Summit, taking place on 3–6 May 2026, is one of the key gateways for startups and scaleups looking toward the U.S. market. Together with the U.S. Department of Commerce – U.S. Commercial Service, The Edge will co-organize the official Bulgarian delegation, offering structured access, priority opportunities, and guidance throughout the process - so that companies can enter the U.S. ecosystem prepared and positioned for impact. For founders and innovators aiming to expand internationally, this is a unique opportunity to connect, learn, and unlock new pathways for growth. 💸 Super Early Bird rates available until 30 December 2025 >>> https://lnkd.in/duwNHePS #SelectUSA #Innovation #Entrepreneurship #GlobalExpansion #TheEdge #StartupEcosystem #TransatlanticInnovation #BusinessGrowth

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#AmTech Weekly Roundup:    Elion raised $9.3 million in seed funding from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Max Ventures, TMV , Cedars-Sinai Technology Ventures, AlleyCorp, and Floating Point. Elion is building a marketplace of healthcare technology solutions for health systems and providers, along with tools to help them diligence prospective vendors. ~60% of US health systems are using the platform.      Lyric raised $43.5 million in Series B funding from Insight Partners, Primary Venture Partners, and VMG Partners. Lyric is building an AI-powered supply chain design platform, with forecasting, inventory, and logistics optimization tools for large enterprises.     Blue J raised $122 million in Series D funding from Sapphire Ventures and Oak HC/FT. Blue J offers a generative-AI tax research platform, with a constantly updating database of tax law and case law citations for tax professionals to converse with. #VC #Startups #SupplyChain #Healthcare #HealthTech #AI

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