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Celus, which uses AI to automate circuit board design, raises $25.6M

TechCrunch

Just about every electronic contraption you care to think of contains at least one printed circuit board (PCB), which serves to house and connect the various components that allow the device to function as a whole. Engineers save a massive amount of time through this, meaning they can experiment, try different things, and be creative.”

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How to Think of R&D Spend

Andreessen Horowitz

Capital allocation is a core part of any CEO’s job, and it’s particularly critical for growth-stage CEOs. Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D).

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Never Raising, Always Raising

Tomasz Tunguz

Startups used to raise once every 18 months. The implication is the most sought after companies often receive offers, whether they are in market raising capital or not. Venture capitalists and boards used to value a company every 18 months. We, as an industry, are marking-to-market much more frequently than we used to.

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Influence Meets Innovation: How Founders and Cultural Leaders Can Work Together

Andreessen Horowitz

For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment. Founders seeking to tap into this rare mix of reach, influence, and capital must navigate this terrain with an immense amount of intention and foresight. Remember that actors, artists, athletes, and executives work in cycles.

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WaitWhat raises $12M to double down on what comes after podcasts

TechCrunch

Its solution, in part, may be based on creative ways of presenting content to users, but also keeping a focus on strong material to use in those channels. In part this is about hiring people from a mix of backgrounds but also about how it approaches management and how it endorses those with whom it works.

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Deepdub raises $20M for AI-powered dubbing that uses actors’ original voices

TechCrunch

Now, a startup called Deepdub is capitalizing on the growing demand for localized content by automating parts of the dubbing process using AI technology. What’s more, it does this by using just a few minutes of the actors’ voices — so the dubbed version sounds more like the original.

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Sanity, a platform to build and manage content flows on sites, raises $9.3M from Ev Williams, Threshold and more

TechCrunch

They do include e-commerce experiences, but also companies building interactive tools for customers to look at, mix, and match various light fixtures from a lighting consultancy; more standard publishing services; and for helping tailor materials for emergency medical training services. million last year, also participated. .”

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