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Attendees can expect to be inspired by Oliver Palnau’s entrepreneurial journey, which began at the age of 23 with his venture into the real estate market.
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Attendees will leave the session empowered and equipped with practical advice to embark on their own entrepreneurial journeys with confidence and determination.
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Just last year, Klaviyo went public, adding to the parade of startup success stories.
But they all showed what’s possible for the many people who dream of building a successful business in the Boston area.
When you put it all together, Lyman says, you get some of the primary building blocks for a successful startup ecosystem.
And what Boston may lack in nightlife, it surely makes up for in brain power and long history of startup success.
As Seseri says, success begets success.
Varda Space Industries has closed a massive tranche of funding just weeks after its first drug manufacturing capsule returned from orbit.
The pair had an audacious goal to commercialize what until very recently was promising but ultimately small-scale research into the effects of microgravity on pharmaceutical crystals.
Indeed, Varda’s first mission, which returned to Earth in February after 10-months in orbit, does not mark the first time a drug has been crystallized in microgravity.
Astronauts have been conducting protein crystallization experiments in space for decades on the International Space Station and before that, the Space Shuttle.
The startup’s next manufacturing mission will launch later this year, and the team plans to land that spacecraft in Australia.
The current AI wave is a never-ending barrage of news items.
To understand what I mean, ask yourself how long you spent considering the fact that Amazon put another $2.75 billion into Anthropic AI last week.
We’ve become inured to the capital influx that is now common in AI, even as the headline numbers get even bigger.
Sure, Amazon is slinging cash at Anthropic, but single-digit billions are chump change compared to what some companies have planned.
Hell, even smaller tech companies — compared to the true giants — are spending to stay on the cutting edge.
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This week in web3Crunching numbersThis week the crypto market prices were lower, but still relatively strong compared to previous months.
Bitcoin was down 6.5% on the week at $67,300 and 32% higher on the month, at the time of publication.
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How crypto exchange Backpack climbed its way to success after its major investor FTX died Backpack hit $27.5 billion in total trading volume during its beta phaseBackpack’s founders, who are building a crypto exchange and wallet, have experienced strong growth since launching in 2022.
There’s a bunch of lessons to learn from FTX, Ferrante said.
This is done in hopes that there’s no single point of failure and that the operations of the Backpack crypto exchange can be split up across multiple entities.
At the end of February, Backpack raised $17 million at a $120 million valuation in a Series A round led by Placeholder VC.
But product distribution is top of mind for the exchange as it hopes to get into every country around the world.
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.
This is our Monday show, in which we take a look back at the weekend and what’s ahead in the week.
We’re coming to the end of earnings season, which means that there are just a few weeks left in the first quarter.
With spring in the air, here’s what we got into this morning:
Locus Robotics’ success is a tale of focusing on what works CEO Rick Faulk discusses the company’s new software, the state of the industry and the future of humanoids“We’re fundamentally a software company,” Locus CEO Rick Faulk says with a laugh.
We look like a robot company, but we’re actually a software company.”It’s a familiar refrain from companies whose most public-facing products are hardware.
That’s certainly the case with Locus, which produces the best-known AMRs (autonomous mobile robots) not made by Amazon.
Former executives from the robotics startup launched their own Locus competitor, 6 River Systems.
Asked whether Locus will be the company to bring that technology to the warehouse, Faulk responds, “We will.
The long-running dearth of IPOs could be coming to a close, partly due to Reddit’s upcoming public debut.
Expected to list this month, Reddit saw its valuation soar during the pandemic.
If Reddit’s IPO does well, it could wiggle open the public-offering window just a little bit wider than we’ve seen in quarters and quarters.
Of course, the public offering could also fizzle out like an unpopular opinion downvoted to hell on the site.
But with an AI-friendly growth story to tell, Reddit may have timed its ramp towards the public markets just right.
We had the idea of developing a device — a physical thing — that helps by breathing with you.
The device is designed to activate the parasympathetic nervous system, promoting relaxation without continuous app connectivity.
The device works without an app, so even if the Moonbird company were to disappear, the product itself will continue to work.
By focusing on activating the parasympathetic nervous system, the theory is that the device will help users achieve a state of relaxation and calm.
“The lack of subscription also means that you can share your device with other people if you want.”
