Fri.Jun 13, 2025

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Seven Stars Launches $40M Fund Backing Founders Shaping the Future of AI Applications

American Entrepreneurship

The newly launched fund will focus on pre-seed and seed stage startups developing AI applications. In a major boost for the artificial intelligence startup ecosystem, Seven Stars, a new venture capital firm founded by former SV Angel Partner Steven Lee, has officially launched its $40 million inaugural fund to support early-stage AI startups. The fund, which was oversubscribed in just five weeks, will focus on pre-seed and seed-stage investments in AI application companies across both the consum

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How I Got 300,000 LinkedIn Followers — And the Secrets Every Founder Should Steal

StartupNation

When I entered the workforce, I didn’t expect tech to be an industry that would value my journalism background. But I quickly realized that many tech companies were hungry for great content—it was becoming a powerful way to build thought leadership and brand awareness. A few years out of school, I landed my dream role at LinkedIn, where I spent six years as a founding editor on the LinkedIn News team.

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US VC Firm Eight Roads to Sell Stakes in 40 Chinese Tech Firms

AsiaTechDaily

Eight Roads, a US venture capital firm backed by Fidelity Investments, is preparing to sell its stakes in around 40 Chinese tech startups, according to a Bloomberg report.

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[Scale AI in AP News] Meta invests $14.3B in AI firm Scale and recruits its CEO for ‘superintelligence’ team

OurCrowd

The post [Scale AI in AP News] Meta invests $14.3B in AI firm Scale and recruits its CEO for ‘superintelligence’ team appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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$CHYM TIME: The Three Boxes Chime’s IPO Checked for Me

Hunter Walk

Whoa, it’s been a minute. Somehow went almost two months without a post. Bad blogger! Yesterday Satya and I had the chance to celebrate Chime going public on NASDAQ. There are many ways to ‘grade’ an IPO from a punditry perspective ( here’s my own framework which I think still holds ), so I’m not going chime in with my own speculation (see what i did there), but on the other side of it, did want to recognize why this one felt special.