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Collaborative Disruption at the DoD with Kathleen Hicks and Sharon Weinberger

Andreessen Horowitz

Is this an area where there are lessons to be learned from that and ways to accelerate technologies to the battlefield? It sounds like you’re committed to the August 2025 timeline for it. Is that, I realize it’s still early days in terms of what happened, but counter-UAS, counter-drone systems have been a big topic.

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India’s HealthPlix raises $22M to accelerate growth and enhance healthcare delivery

TechCrunch

It aims to serve over 25,000 doctors by 2024 and reach 50,000 by 2025 to treat nearly 15% of the Indian population. Moreover, it plans to explore a couple of models to explore how it can disrupt the insurance and the payer side, Gudibanda said. Founded in 2017, the startup has already empowered more than 10,000 doctors who treat 2.5%

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AI chip startup Sima.ai bags another $30M ahead of growth

TechCrunch

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.” billion by 2025. “Sima.ai

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These 5 investors are betting on helping you live longer and better

TechCrunch

Analysts estimate that the market for “delaying human death” could be worth $610 billion by 2025. “It’s completely disruptive to careers, and it’s disproportionately so to women,” said Camhi. “The U.S.’s

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NXgenPort aims to detect early signs of infection in cancer patients before symptoms arise

TechCrunch

NXgenPort, which presented today at TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield, is building an implantable chemo port that features added sensors and remote connectivity functions. Skinner says the startup anticipates human testing to begin toward the end of 2025.

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Kaiyo gets $36M Series B for its secondhand furniture marketplace

TechCrunch

Kaiyo said Tuesday it has raised a $36 million Series B in equity and debt financing to reinforce growing consumer demand for secondhand furniture and accelerate growth and market expansion across the country, starting from California. billion in sales by 2025 , from 9.9 The furniture resale industry is projected to reach $16.6

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Insurtech giant Equisoft lands $125M investment, eyes acquisitions

TechCrunch

” “The funding will strengthen our balance sheet and accelerate further development of our integrated life insurance software platform and wealth products to better serve our global customer base,” Romero told TechCrunch via email. We then evolved to focus on a core set of solutions where we knew we could be the best.”