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Collaborative Disruption at the DoD with Kathleen Hicks and Sharon Weinberger

Andreessen Horowitz

It sounds like you’re committed to the August 2025 timeline for it. Sharon: Another thing you talked about is just this tremendous amount of private investment venture capital going into defense. But there are, just frankly, limits to not having the government functioning as it should, and we need that 2024 budget.

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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. According to JME Ventures partner Samuel Gil, the opportunities in longevity are “endless.” “It’s completely disruptive to careers, and it’s disproportionately so to women,” said Camhi.

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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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AI-powered supply chain startup Pando lands $30M investment

TechCrunch

Iron Pillar and Uncorrelated Ventures led the round, with participation from existing investors Nexus Venture Partners, Chiratae Ventures and Next47. The result of those major disruptions? billion by 2025, per Markets and Markets — up from $17.4 Pando isn’t the only vendor doing this.

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Aerospace primes Northrop, Lockheed join in Orbit Fab’s over $10M funding round

TechCrunch

The round was led by Asymmetry Ventures, with participation from existing investor SpaceFund and new investors Marubeni Ventures and Audacious Venture Partners. By 2025, Schiel said he hopes every spacecraft will have a RAFTI on it.

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

TechCrunch

A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars. He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.”

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Sweden’s Volta raises $260M at a $490M valuation to get its all-electric trucks into production by the end of this year

TechCrunch

Startups, tapping into new manufacturing techniques, new batter technology, and new energy infrastructure, see a ripe opportunity to build new vehicles to disrupt the current status quo with safer and cleaner alternatives. Initially, what they will not have, it seems, are self-driving capabilities.