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EnCharge AI Raises $100M for Development of First-of-its-kind Analog In-memory-computing AI Chips

American Entrepreneurship

Verma, a Princeton University professor since 2009, has conducted pioneering research in next-generation computing technologies. Founded in 2022, Encharge AI is led by CEO Naveen Verma, CTO Kailash Gopalakrishnan, and COO Echere Iroaga, all veteran technologists with semiconductor design and AI systems backgrounds.

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Launching Orange Collective: Exclusively Investing in Y Combinator Companies

David Teten VC

The team has founded 5 companies which participated in 5 graduating batches spanning from 2009 to 2017. Im happy to share that Ive started working (part-time) with Orange Collective. Orange Collective exclusively invests in Y Combinator companies before Demo Day.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

Come 2009 we felt really bullish about the future for startups because the froth was gone and so, too, were wantrapreneurs. The people left standing had a compelling vision to build companies and we backed many in 2009. When this period was fresh, in Sept 2009, I wrote a very detailed assessment of what I thought had just happened.

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10 Questions for Brooklyn's Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

From 2005 to 2009, I was fortunate enough to be part of a small group of New York City innovation community leaders that sowed some of the seeds of the thriving tech hub we have today. At the time, though, we didn't know what we know now.

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Regenerative Finance (ReFi)

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Our investment in Kickstarter back in 2009 is an excellent example of that. I’ve always been interested in tapping into the “crowd” to fund things that need to happen and that our current institutions can’t figure out how to support.

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Instead of sticking a fork in the venture market, realize. there is no fork

This is going to be BIG.

The last closed market we had was from about September 2008 until June 2009--10 months. A small percentage of the time, there's a rush to fund things and about an equal amount of time, the market is closed while it figures out what a mess it made out of itself while it was rushing.

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The Glue that Makes a Community Stick

This is going to be BIG.

It was a happy accident when I got back into NYC VC in 2009 that I just happened to find the Ace Hotel--a space that was really conducive to meetings and founders working on projects. What conferences are going to be here that will attach outsiders and give us a national brand? How can they be helped?