Giving the lay of the entrepreneurship landscape on College Hill and beyond (Brown and RISD)
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In this week's bulletin — Apple's Tim Cook announces his resignation after 15 years, Amazon makes a $5B investment in Anthropic, Jersey Mike's files for an IPO, and a dive into Tony's Chocolonely 🪩
Artificial intelligence has quickly become one of, if not the most important topics in the financial markets.
In this week's bulletin - OpenAI raises a $122B funding round, Anthropic pushes internal Claude Code docs, and Amazon acquires humanoid startup Fauna Robotics.
In this week's bulletin - Sycamore raises a $65 million seed round, Jensen Huang's NVIDIA releases its parody of OpenClaw, and Kleiner Perkins raises a $3.5 billion round.
In this week's bulletin - Uber announces its autonomous vehicles, Sunday raises a $165M round for it's household robot, Chowbus raises $81M to expand its POS sysem, and a dive into Oatly! 🐬
In this week's bulletin - the former head of Meta AI research raises $1B to move beyond LLMs, the case for scaling venture, and a mass exodus from ChatGPT
In this week's bulletin - Private Credit gets a lot more ambiguous, Claude (maybe) takes some early steps against Cybersecurity, and physical startups gain some new ways to find money! 💰
Van Wickle Ventures is proud to announce our investment in Lexi, the AI-powered medical interpretation platform bringing language access to every point of care.
In this week's bulletin - Waymo raises $16 billion, prediction markets continue to rise, an update on the fight for Warner Bros., and an overview on Raising Cane’s success! 🐔
In this week's bulletin - We discuss recent economic events, more about OpenAI raise, Elon Musk's plans for his trillion dollar companies, and F&B Exploration 3: Blue Bottle Coffee! 👓
