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Decentralizing the Electric Grid

Andreessen Horowitz

Currently, we face a critical challenge: our electricity demands — expected to nearly double by 2040 due to factors like AI compute, reshoring , and “electrification” — are soaring, but our grid infrastructure and operations struggle to keep pace. Of course, such evolutions breed new challenges, and we need innovation to bridge the gap.

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How to get superior returns in VC

David Teten VC

Network. Social media tools like Linkedin and FullContact increases the value of network currency (reputation and access), because people with currency can spend their currency getting to a wider array of influencers. Our industry is highly noisy, and VCs use their networks to filter for signal amidst the noise.

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Newsletter: Medical selfies are the next big thing + Back on the road in Dubai

OurCrowd

It replaces penetration testing to uncover security risks on networks both onsite and on the cloud, Lisa Gann reports in the Times of Israel. Cymptom identifies gaps in a company’s network, or in its connections with other networks, without running any programs or planting code within the software. Introductions.

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Newsletter: OurCrowd Summit: Early bird offer ends Dec. 1

OurCrowd

Zeepay, a fast-growing Ghanian mobile financial services company, will deploy ThetaRay ’s SONAR platform to help detect and stop financial crime on its network. Morgan Stanley estimates the flying car market will reach $1.5T OurCrowd has an allocation in Air EV’s current funding round. Sign NDA to Learn More.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

Robotics and automation are not only important, but they are also likely the only way to address the challenge of delivering the built environment we need by 2040. Tech companies of the last few decades have largely focused on industries that can easily be networked and analyzed as a bit-stream (media, finance, etc).

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Request for Startups: Climate Tech

Y Combinator

Community coordination to encourage whole-block electrification. Smarter EV charging for charging networks, fleets, and residential use cases that is price, carbon intensity, and excess solar awareness. Alternative energy storage systems (e.g. thermal storage). battery discharge measured at the inverter) rather than counterfactuals.

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Newsletter: Securing water against cyberattack

OurCrowd

IXDen was chosen by Israel’s Mekorot water company to protect its network – perhaps the world’s most relentlessly attacked system. Its software-only technology predicts and rapidly detects cyberattacks and sensor problems, allowing network operators to take timely corrective action. Learn More. UAE: Gateway to half the world.