Fri.Dec 13, 2024

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Big Names in Climate, Tech, and Investing Back Terradot’s Global Plan to Scale CO2 Removal

American Entrepreneurship

$58.2M in funding and carbon removal deals support pilot underway in Brazil Some of the biggest names in climate, technology, and investing are behind a bold plan to scale CO2 removal using an innovative technology called Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW). Terradot, a climate tech startup founded at Stanford, announced its launch with $58.2 million in funding and carbon removal deals. “ERW has the potential to remove billions of tons of CO this decade.

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SK Telecom Invests $3 Million in Twelve Labs to Advance Multimodal AI for Video Analysis

AsiaTechDaily

SK Telecom, South Koreas telecommunications provider, has announced a $3 million investment in Twelve Labs, an AI video analysis startup based in San Francisco.

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“Look, like, i don’t know if this company is going to be around in three to six months. But what i can tell you is it’s going to be the most memorable three to six months of your life”: Sequoia’s Roelof Botha with YouTube’s Steve Chen

Hunter Walk

I tend to advise folks that “anyone says you need to sacrifice *everything* for a startup is dangerous, but anyone who says you don’t need to sacrifice *anything* for a startup is naive.” And the early story of YouTube is about an amazing small team, coming together and throwing themselves into an incredible opportunity. Racking servers at midnight, working through complex negotiations with the music labels, trying to keep the site up as traffic spiked… In this conversati