@scottjp.bsky.social
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What if #VentureCapital was built for the 99%?
Sydney Thomas of #SymphonicCapital joins Live with Living Cities Ep. 9 to share how her team is investing in Fintech and Healthtech companies like Canopie, Scout, and Lōvu Health to connect profit with purpose.
#LivingCities #ImpactInvesting
Sydney Thomas of #SymphonicCapital joins Live with Living Cities Ep. 9 to share how her team is investing in Fintech and Healthtech companies like Canopie, Scout, and Lōvu Health to connect profit with purpose.
#LivingCities #ImpactInvesting
Episode 9: Capital with a Conscience: Sydney Thomas on Rethinking Venture for the 99%
livingcities.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM
What if #VentureCapital was built for the 99%?
Sydney Thomas of #SymphonicCapital joins Live with Living Cities Ep. 9 to share how her team is investing in Fintech and Healthtech companies like Canopie, Scout, and Lōvu Health to connect profit with purpose.
#LivingCities #ImpactInvesting
Sydney Thomas of #SymphonicCapital joins Live with Living Cities Ep. 9 to share how her team is investing in Fintech and Healthtech companies like Canopie, Scout, and Lōvu Health to connect profit with purpose.
#LivingCities #ImpactInvesting
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As AI agents evolve, one question keeps surfacing: Are we re-engineering our processes to make agents work better or to make humans work better?
Maybe, ultimately, those are the same thing.
At #ConnectedStack, @levie.bsky.social (CEO, Box) explored this with @puneetagarwal.bsky.social (True)
Maybe, ultimately, those are the same thing.
At #ConnectedStack, @levie.bsky.social (CEO, Box) explored this with @puneetagarwal.bsky.social (True)
November 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
As AI agents evolve, one question keeps surfacing: Are we re-engineering our processes to make agents work better or to make humans work better?
Maybe, ultimately, those are the same thing.
At #ConnectedStack, @levie.bsky.social (CEO, Box) explored this with @puneetagarwal.bsky.social (True)
Maybe, ultimately, those are the same thing.
At #ConnectedStack, @levie.bsky.social (CEO, Box) explored this with @puneetagarwal.bsky.social (True)
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Most businesses don't know who their real customers are.
Here's how to enhance what you know - and turn insight into intelligent growth.
#MarketingStrategy #BusinessGrowth #Customerlnsights #Entrepreneurship #datadrivenmarketing
Here's how to enhance what you know - and turn insight into intelligent growth.
#MarketingStrategy #BusinessGrowth #Customerlnsights #Entrepreneurship #datadrivenmarketing
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Most businesses don't know who their real customers are.
Here's how to enhance what you know - and turn insight into intelligent growth.
#MarketingStrategy #BusinessGrowth #Customerlnsights #Entrepreneurship #datadrivenmarketing
Here's how to enhance what you know - and turn insight into intelligent growth.
#MarketingStrategy #BusinessGrowth #Customerlnsights #Entrepreneurship #datadrivenmarketing
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Kaltura acquires eSelf, founded by creator of Snap’s AI, in $27M deal
Kaltura acquires eSelf, founded by creator of Snap’s AI, in $27M deal | TechCrunch
Kaltura acquires AI avatar startup eSelf to integrate generative AI into enterprise video and learning tools.
techcrunch.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Kaltura acquires eSelf, founded by creator of Snap’s AI, in $27M deal
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VC Jennifer Neundorfer explains how founders can stand out in a crowded AI market
VC Jennifer Neundorfer explains how founders can stand out in a crowded AI market | TechCrunch
January Ventures co-founder Jennifer Neundorfer discussed this AI-driven funding market on the Equity podcast during TechCrunch Disrupt.
techcrunch.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
VC Jennifer Neundorfer explains how founders can stand out in a crowded AI market
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🍔 Tycoon Flats is a San Antonio rite of passage and its specialty bites live up to the hype.
The burger joint serves up perfectly cooked classics that are never dry, plus specialties like MySA’s Zachary-Taylor Wright’s favorite, the Bacon Balsamic Blue.
🔗 Let's dig into it: bit.ly/3LtdRPN
The burger joint serves up perfectly cooked classics that are never dry, plus specialties like MySA’s Zachary-Taylor Wright’s favorite, the Bacon Balsamic Blue.
🔗 Let's dig into it: bit.ly/3LtdRPN
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
🍔 Tycoon Flats is a San Antonio rite of passage and its specialty bites live up to the hype.
The burger joint serves up perfectly cooked classics that are never dry, plus specialties like MySA’s Zachary-Taylor Wright’s favorite, the Bacon Balsamic Blue.
🔗 Let's dig into it: bit.ly/3LtdRPN
The burger joint serves up perfectly cooked classics that are never dry, plus specialties like MySA’s Zachary-Taylor Wright’s favorite, the Bacon Balsamic Blue.
🔗 Let's dig into it: bit.ly/3LtdRPN
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15 years ago, I said every social media founder should be forced to use and live with the default settings of their platforms. Now I would say that the AI founders should have their tools pointed at their families for a year before they can deploy them elsewhere.
I seem to remember whole congressional hearings about the terrible destructive force that is violence in video games and yet, there is a very strange quiet about an unregulated technology that coaches people to suicide.
There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
15 years ago, I said every social media founder should be forced to use and live with the default settings of their platforms. Now I would say that the AI founders should have their tools pointed at their families for a year before they can deploy them elsewhere.
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Funding for European AI-native companies has nearly doubled to €8.9bn this year.
Can Europe build AI champions?
sifted.eu
November 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Funding for European AI-native companies has nearly doubled to €8.9bn this year.
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Pivotal Ventures backs #startups delivering market-based solutions across caregiving, health, and financial access to address systemic barriers that hold women back.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/geristengel/2025/11/04/inside-pivotal-ventures-5-billion-bet-on-womens-futures/
#impinv #socent
https://www.forbes.com/sites/geristengel/2025/11/04/inside-pivotal-ventures-5-billion-bet-on-womens-futures/
#impinv #socent
How Pivotal Ventures Is Investing in Women’s Futures
Pivotal Ventures is investing in caregiving, women’s health, and financial access to expand women’s power and redefine what returns can mean.
www.forbes.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Pivotal Ventures backs #startups delivering market-based solutions across caregiving, health, and financial access to address systemic barriers that hold women back.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/geristengel/2025/11/04/inside-pivotal-ventures-5-billion-bet-on-womens-futures/
#impinv #socent
https://www.forbes.com/sites/geristengel/2025/11/04/inside-pivotal-ventures-5-billion-bet-on-womens-futures/
#impinv #socent
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Protecting public lands is about more than outdoor recreation. Patagonia ambassador and activist Caroline Gleich joined a panel at our Upper West Side store in NYC during Climate Week to talk about how protecting public lands is climate action.
Watch the full video at pat.ag/B/ClimateWee...
Watch the full video at pat.ag/B/ClimateWee...
November 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Protecting public lands is about more than outdoor recreation. Patagonia ambassador and activist Caroline Gleich joined a panel at our Upper West Side store in NYC during Climate Week to talk about how protecting public lands is climate action.
Watch the full video at pat.ag/B/ClimateWee...
Watch the full video at pat.ag/B/ClimateWee...
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Instead of one or two companies with 10x returns that can subsidize losses on the rest of the portfolio – the classic profile of many VC funds – Eva Yazhari is looking for 3-8x returns across the portfolio which translates into positive impact on millions of lives.
impactalpha.com/at-beyond-ca...
impactalpha.com/at-beyond-ca...
November 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Instead of one or two companies with 10x returns that can subsidize losses on the rest of the portfolio – the classic profile of many VC funds – Eva Yazhari is looking for 3-8x returns across the portfolio which translates into positive impact on millions of lives.
impactalpha.com/at-beyond-ca...
impactalpha.com/at-beyond-ca...
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“Focus on doing one thing for the customer really, really well — and build out from there.”
In this clip from CEO Insights, Alumni Ventures CEO Mike Collins explains why great founders stay focused before scaling.
#AlumniVentures #CEOInsights #Leadership #StartupGrowth
In this clip from CEO Insights, Alumni Ventures CEO Mike Collins explains why great founders stay focused before scaling.
#AlumniVentures #CEOInsights #Leadership #StartupGrowth
November 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
“Focus on doing one thing for the customer really, really well — and build out from there.”
In this clip from CEO Insights, Alumni Ventures CEO Mike Collins explains why great founders stay focused before scaling.
#AlumniVentures #CEOInsights #Leadership #StartupGrowth
In this clip from CEO Insights, Alumni Ventures CEO Mike Collins explains why great founders stay focused before scaling.
#AlumniVentures #CEOInsights #Leadership #StartupGrowth
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Built to ride. And ride. And ride.
MTB gear for the unreasonably ambitious... because there’s always time for another lap.
pat.ag/B/MTB/F25
MTB gear for the unreasonably ambitious... because there’s always time for another lap.
pat.ag/B/MTB/F25
November 4, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Built to ride. And ride. And ride.
MTB gear for the unreasonably ambitious... because there’s always time for another lap.
pat.ag/B/MTB/F25
MTB gear for the unreasonably ambitious... because there’s always time for another lap.
pat.ag/B/MTB/F25
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In the spirit of using Capitalism for Good (get it??), 50% of all November Capitalism for Good Patreon membership dollars will be split between donations to Feeding America & a charity of choice of those in the Patreon community: Patreon.com/CapitalismforGood
Together we can build better community!
Together we can build better community!
Get more from Capitalism for Good on Patreon
Building Better Community
Patreon.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
In the spirit of using Capitalism for Good (get it??), 50% of all November Capitalism for Good Patreon membership dollars will be split between donations to Feeding America & a charity of choice of those in the Patreon community: Patreon.com/CapitalismforGood
Together we can build better community!
Together we can build better community!
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Scientists at the Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Programmable Materials have developed a new 3D printed finger joint made from a programmable metamaterial, paving the way for cheaper, more intuitive prosthetics and robotic hands 🤖 interestingengineering.com/innovation/m... #Robots #Robotics
Programmable materials create multistable motor-less finger for robotics
A programmable metamaterial finger can lock into four positions without electronics. A simpler, more functional future for prosthetic hands.
interestingengineering.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Scientists at the Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Programmable Materials have developed a new 3D printed finger joint made from a programmable metamaterial, paving the way for cheaper, more intuitive prosthetics and robotic hands 🤖 interestingengineering.com/innovation/m... #Robots #Robotics
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📢 New Episode Alert!
This week, I chatted to Edith-Clare Hall from @bristoluni.bsky.social and the Advanced Research and Invention Agency about accelerating scientific and technological breakthroughs. 🤖
Listen now: www.robottalk.org/2025/10/31/e... #Robots #Robotics
This week, I chatted to Edith-Clare Hall from @bristoluni.bsky.social and the Advanced Research and Invention Agency about accelerating scientific and technological breakthroughs. 🤖
Listen now: www.robottalk.org/2025/10/31/e... #Robots #Robotics
October 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
📢 New Episode Alert!
This week, I chatted to Edith-Clare Hall from @bristoluni.bsky.social and the Advanced Research and Invention Agency about accelerating scientific and technological breakthroughs. 🤖
Listen now: www.robottalk.org/2025/10/31/e... #Robots #Robotics
This week, I chatted to Edith-Clare Hall from @bristoluni.bsky.social and the Advanced Research and Invention Agency about accelerating scientific and technological breakthroughs. 🤖
Listen now: www.robottalk.org/2025/10/31/e... #Robots #Robotics
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Ashley Maryn cracking on a first female ascent in the Grand Canyon.
Photo: John Burcham
Photo: John Burcham
October 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Ashley Maryn cracking on a first female ascent in the Grand Canyon.
Photo: John Burcham
Photo: John Burcham
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“Agents are tapping into spend that software never could.”
At #ConnectedStack, @puneetagarwal.bsky.social + @levie.bsky.social unpack why AI shifts the economics of labor — and why the old “per seat” model doesn’t fit anymore. connectedstack.ai
At #ConnectedStack, @puneetagarwal.bsky.social + @levie.bsky.social unpack why AI shifts the economics of labor — and why the old “per seat” model doesn’t fit anymore. connectedstack.ai
October 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“Agents are tapping into spend that software never could.”
At #ConnectedStack, @puneetagarwal.bsky.social + @levie.bsky.social unpack why AI shifts the economics of labor — and why the old “per seat” model doesn’t fit anymore. connectedstack.ai
At #ConnectedStack, @puneetagarwal.bsky.social + @levie.bsky.social unpack why AI shifts the economics of labor — and why the old “per seat” model doesn’t fit anymore. connectedstack.ai
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Seed rounds are going up.
Median valuation: $20M post-money
95th percentile: $80M post-money
And not only that the upper end of seed valuations have risen faster than the median.
Data from Peter Walker #carta
#startups #seedround #venturecapital #angelinvestor
Median valuation: $20M post-money
95th percentile: $80M post-money
And not only that the upper end of seed valuations have risen faster than the median.
Data from Peter Walker #carta
#startups #seedround #venturecapital #angelinvestor
October 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Seed rounds are going up.
Median valuation: $20M post-money
95th percentile: $80M post-money
And not only that the upper end of seed valuations have risen faster than the median.
Data from Peter Walker #carta
#startups #seedround #venturecapital #angelinvestor
Median valuation: $20M post-money
95th percentile: $80M post-money
And not only that the upper end of seed valuations have risen faster than the median.
Data from Peter Walker #carta
#startups #seedround #venturecapital #angelinvestor
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The glaring security risks with AI browser agents
The glaring security risks with AI browser agents | TechCrunch
New AI browsers from OpenAI and Perplexity promise to increase user productivity, but they also come with increased security risks.
techcrunch.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The glaring security risks with AI browser agents
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Get ready for #SOCAP25 (next week!) with these top sessions.
#impinv #socent SOCAP Global Sorenson Impact
https://socapglobal.com/2025/10/what-not-to-miss-at-socap25/
#impinv #socent SOCAP Global Sorenson Impact
https://socapglobal.com/2025/10/what-not-to-miss-at-socap25/
What Not to Miss at SOCAP25: Capital Flow for Impact - SOCAP Global
SOCAP25 introduces new opportunities for partnership — learn what’s new and how connection is taking center stage.
socapglobal.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Get ready for #SOCAP25 (next week!) with these top sessions.
#impinv #socent SOCAP Global Sorenson Impact
https://socapglobal.com/2025/10/what-not-to-miss-at-socap25/
#impinv #socent SOCAP Global Sorenson Impact
https://socapglobal.com/2025/10/what-not-to-miss-at-socap25/
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The esteemed MIT professor H. Harry Asada gave a talk titled “Human-Inspired Robotics and Robotics-Informed Human Studies: From SuperLimbs to Koopman Operator Theory.”
We extend a deep thank you to Prof. Asada for his visit, which was recorded and can be viewed here: youtu.be/EuHFHtLbC24
We extend a deep thank you to Prof. Asada for his visit, which was recorded and can be viewed here: youtu.be/EuHFHtLbC24
October 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
The esteemed MIT professor H. Harry Asada gave a talk titled “Human-Inspired Robotics and Robotics-Informed Human Studies: From SuperLimbs to Koopman Operator Theory.”
We extend a deep thank you to Prof. Asada for his visit, which was recorded and can be viewed here: youtu.be/EuHFHtLbC24
We extend a deep thank you to Prof. Asada for his visit, which was recorded and can be viewed here: youtu.be/EuHFHtLbC24
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In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I sit down with Dr. Brent Ridge and Josh Kilmer-Purcell, co-founders of Beekman 1802, to explore how a small act of compassion grew into a multimillion-dollar skincare brand rooted in community and purpose.
October 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I sit down with Dr. Brent Ridge and Josh Kilmer-Purcell, co-founders of Beekman 1802, to explore how a small act of compassion grew into a multimillion-dollar skincare brand rooted in community and purpose.
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In a world flooded with AI hype, trust might be the real moat.
At #ConnectedStack, Paul Smith (@anthropic.com) and Garrett Lord (@joinhandshake.bsky.social) unpacked why finance, healthcare, and other regulated sectors are leading enterprise adoption of Claude.
“We can’t ever, ever let them down.”
At #ConnectedStack, Paul Smith (@anthropic.com) and Garrett Lord (@joinhandshake.bsky.social) unpacked why finance, healthcare, and other regulated sectors are leading enterprise adoption of Claude.
“We can’t ever, ever let them down.”
October 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
In a world flooded with AI hype, trust might be the real moat.
At #ConnectedStack, Paul Smith (@anthropic.com) and Garrett Lord (@joinhandshake.bsky.social) unpacked why finance, healthcare, and other regulated sectors are leading enterprise adoption of Claude.
“We can’t ever, ever let them down.”
At #ConnectedStack, Paul Smith (@anthropic.com) and Garrett Lord (@joinhandshake.bsky.social) unpacked why finance, healthcare, and other regulated sectors are leading enterprise adoption of Claude.
“We can’t ever, ever let them down.”
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🌍 Grow your investments and make a difference!
ESG investing lets you invest in companies doing good for people & the planet. 🌱
#ESG #SustainableInvesting #ImpactInvesting #Renewables #EGEASRI #ClimateAction
ESG investing lets you invest in companies doing good for people & the planet. 🌱
#ESG #SustainableInvesting #ImpactInvesting #Renewables #EGEASRI #ClimateAction
October 24, 2025 at 12:42 AM
🌍 Grow your investments and make a difference!
ESG investing lets you invest in companies doing good for people & the planet. 🌱
#ESG #SustainableInvesting #ImpactInvesting #Renewables #EGEASRI #ClimateAction
ESG investing lets you invest in companies doing good for people & the planet. 🌱
#ESG #SustainableInvesting #ImpactInvesting #Renewables #EGEASRI #ClimateAction