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Nicola Sinclair really hits the nail on the head here. This quote is worth reading twice in my opinion: "I don’t want to be in a boardroom hoping that one of my companies will land another arms contract. I want to be in a boardroom knowing my companies play a role in deterring conflict. In supporting stability, so that companies funded by other VCs have the space to be amazing engines of change in sectors like climate, health and education. Maybe this conversation shouldn’t be about more VCs funding more weapons. Frankly many investors don’t have the experience or the network to understand which technologies will really move the needle." As someone on the "other side" of these deals as a co-founder at CulturePulse we're not just worried about fundraising and revenue, we also lay awake at night with ethical questions, and we should. I try and stay in my lane. I don't know enough about weapons, I know human psychology and how people act and react at scale in high risk environments. The AI that we've built has that knowledge built into its core. Having a board that pushes our core use and value, which goes to serve a variety of communities (and can include defense/security) is important. I'm happy to help where there is mission alignment with an MoD/DoD. I'm also happy to help where there is mission alignment with a Fortune 500. CulturePulse tech, particularly its ARES platform, is focused on conflict because we can lessen conflict, and if you EVER talk to a uniformed person, they will almost surely tell you with more emotion than anyone that they'd love more peace-tech, because uniformed people and their families are the ones who are most effected by war. So if my tech can help bring them home and help to end a conflict, and if the end of that conflict positively impacts the bottom line of our clients with complex supply chains or insurance risks, this is the kind of win I need to sleep well at night. For me, the fact that the same algorithm can help both, with very different industries, but similar missions, is where #dualuse meets the #deeptech #ai that we have.

🚀 A Proud Moment for the CyberFuture Investors Alliance! 🚀 We're thrilled to celebrate the incredible milestone recently achieved by Prompt Security, one of the shining stars in our portfolio! $18M in Series A funding secured! 🎉 This groundbreaking round was led by Jump Capital, with strong backing from Hetz Ventures (doubling down on their initial support), Ridge Ventures, and industry leaders Okta and F5. Since emerging from stealth just 10 months ago, Prompt Security has: ✅ Quadrupled its revenue ✅ Expanded its customer base fivefold ✅ Earned the trust of Fortune 500 companies Their mission to make Generative AI safe and secure for enterprises is resonating across industries, and this is just the beginning of their journey! To Itamar Golan, Lior Drihem, and the entire Prompt Security team: congratulations on this outstanding achievement. We’re honored to be part of your journey, empowering innovation and ensuring safety in the AI-driven world. 💡 Follow the link in the first comment to read the full announcement #CyberFuture #GenerativeAI #Innovation #ProudInvestor #PromptSecurity

Who dives deep into deep tech? Our members, Iron Wolf Capital and WALLESS are the experts! 🧠 The newly released Baltic Deeptech Report is now live. 📊 Baltic VC investments in deep tech are on the rise, growing the fastest among all European markets. 🚀 Big thanks to Dealroom.co, Startup Estonia and Commercialization Reactor for putting this report together. 👉 Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dMHeREUG

New in Newcomer: The investor behind our current defense tech moment. Founders Fund General Partner Trae Stephens has had a hand in many of the venture world’s most important defense tech deals. A veteran of an unnamed three-letter intelligence agency who says he’s always been motivated by public service, he left the government first to join Palantir Technologies, and then Founders Fund. Stephens has climbed to what is effectively the number two spot there by doing exactly what Founders Fund partners dream of doing — bucking the conventional wisdom and defying political pieties. Stephens co-founded the iconic defense tech company — Anduril Industries — with Palmer Luckey, back when the tech world was not as friendly to defense. Now, in a moment of increasing geopolitical tensions, Stephens is tasked with bringing both Founders Fund and Anduril through to the next chapter.  https://lnkd.in/e5_Yx63A

Are you curious to learn more about the VC behind investments like Commonwealth Fusion Systems - Form Energy - Boston Metal - Lilac Solutions - Sublime Systems - AtmosZero - Syzygy Plasmonics, and others? (psst. pick up your jaw) We spoke with Michael Kearney from Engine Ventures, perhaps one of the best climate Funds. They have a really cool founding story since they were spun out of MIT. Being connected with MIT + being based in Boston gives them great proximity to some of the coolest startups in the world of hardware climate tech. Check out today's episode - it's FULL of great stuff! #climatetech #hardware #deeptech #venturecapital #MIT #bostonclimate

Business Video: The New Investment Community Visibility   In 1992, small and micro cap securities had trading volumes, which often grew quarter on quarter after their public debut. They grew their institutional sponsorship and were able to uplist their security to a larger exchange without difficulty. Their market capitalizations expanded with fundamental progress.   They spent money on investment community visibility. Traveled to conduct road shows (deal and non-deal), physically met with investors, some of the CEO's would even "camp out" at broker dealers' offices during non-reporting periods and get to know the traders and brokers. They made for certain that they were contacting S&P, Factset Data Systems (we sold Revere Data to them in 2013), Bloomberg, Reuters, Thomson and other data/tracking/analytics, feed services and trading platforms, so that their company and security were always included and therefore easily discoverable.  This made them visible to the investors of the world. They attended and presented at every conference available, for years.   In today's largely virtual world, very little of the above is done. As a result, most have low trading volumes, do not gain sponsorship in a reasonable period of time (if ever), their market capitalizations do not grow much (if at all) with fundamental progress. Why?  Because nobody knows about them.  Worse even, most of these companies that trade on NASDAQ or OTC markets, do not even take the time to complete their corporate profiles on the very markets’ websites where they trade. These sites receive 5+ million visitors per month!  Incredulous.   In today's video-centric world, most of these emerging growth companies, who desperately need visibility and distribution to build markets in their security and to Sell Their Products, don't utilize their business video. Video is worth one million words (Forrester Research). It is the most powerful electronic communication medium. The only thing more valuable than video is business video. Because it makes you money! In 2023, a venture backed private company named #Rewind raised $64 million at $350 million valuation, from a 7 minute intro. video posted to Twitter (now #X).  That's the power of Business Video. #Knightscope and CEO Bill LI understand the power of business video: https://lnkd.in/eGgrusbh Every private, emerging growth and small cap/micro cap public company in the world should be maximizing the utility of their business video/audio. Find a pure business media platform like #VideoXRM, that actually indexes your business media, so you can be found. Distribute, Syndicate and Promote it On and Off platform to gain visibility and distribution. Use the business intelligence provided about your media, to inform the world about your company.  Gain customers and investors. Change the topography of your business by utilizing your business media as a call to action. Only on #VideoXRM.

#fundingalert 💼Company: Anvilogic 💰Funding: $45Million ⚡Round: Series C 👥Investors: Evolution Equity Partners, Foundation Capital, Cervin, Myriad, Point72 Ventures, Outpost and G Squared. Anvilogic breaks the SIEM lock-in that drives detection gaps and high costs for enterprise SOCs. It enables detection engineers and threat hunters to keep using their existing SIEM while seamlessly adopting a scalable and cost-effective data lake for high-volume data sources and advanced analytics use cases. Anvilogic will use the funding to expand its generative AI features for additional use cases across the entire Security Operations Center (SOC) lifecycle and scale up its go-to-market efforts. Karthik Subramanian, Karthik Kannan, Deb Banerjee, Mackenzie Kyle, Omer Singer, Shekar Kesarimanglam, Chas Larios, James Hill, Kevin Gonzalez, Michael Monte Read more - https://lnkd.in/gF7RquUn To share your startup story write us on - contact@startuprise.io #Anvilogic #analytics #generativeAI #SecurityOperationsCenter #SIEM #funding #fundingnews #news #startupnews #startuprise

Welcome to the party, pal. SpaceNews published an article about the SPAC craze and discussed how some of those companies ended up. (Spoiler alert: not so hot). You may or may not have read someone (I won’t say who) discuss SPACs a time or two… or ten… Of course, Michael Sheetz has been on top of this since Day 1 and had the handiest chart of value at time of IPO and current (at the time) value (link below). Once upon a time you could say “big data” to a VC and they’d cut a check like it was a magical incantation. It was that way with “fintech”, “crypto” and even “space”. Right now, AI is the magic word that makes VC’s go “shut up and take my money”. If history holds, we are fast approaching the “find out” stage. Lots of these fads investors put their trust in turned dangerously rotten, like a gas station seafood sandwich left in a port-o-potty at a Motörhead concert kind of rotten. I happen to think space is by and large a solid investment. But people are drawn to the smooth talkers over proven track records, proven science and space proven technology. “Sic semper tyrannous” (that means always thus to those who choose style over substance, especially T-rexes). Anyway here’s an article or something. It’s not like the film-flamers made the world a worse place by building wealth bonfires and scaring investors and gov agencies away from other space companies… oh wait… https://lnkd.in/e25RidS5 Reality Bites: https://lnkd.in/e9NmP2jX

📶 The new leaders of defense tech investing a16z, 8VC, and others are the new leads of defense tech investing, VC has a distribution problem, and Bolt is close to raising a massive round of funding Full story ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eYzFuPzU

Today we make a #TBT to the Demo Stage from #SouthSummitBrazil24, where Sergio Bandinelli from OCTANTIS - Tecnalia Ventures, Margaux Miller from Toptal, and Paola Santana from GLASS come together for the panel "Synergies for Ecosystem Resilience." 💼   Diving deep into the transformative power of collaboration, these experts explored how diverse entities can synergize, unlocking new pathways for growth, adaptability, and shared success in today's dynamic business landscape.   We had the opportunity to uncover the secrets to building resilient ecosystems and harnessing collective strength for a brighter, more sustainable future! 💡 https://lnkd.in/dV8q83NV