AI Startup Jacobi Robotics Launches with $5 Million Seed Round and Motion Planning Breakthroughs
In an exciting development for the robotics industry, Jacobi Robotics has announced its launch alongside securing a $5 million seed funding round. This funding will propel the company's innovative advancements in motion planning technology, promising to program robots up to 20 times faster than current standards. A New Era in Robotics Jacobi Robotics is poised to revolutionize how robots are programmed. With a mission to streamline and accelerate robotic motion planning, the company's breakthrough technology significantly reduces the time required for robots to learn and execute complex movements. This leap in efficiency opens the door for more dynamic and versatile robotic applications across various industries. The Technology Behind the Speed At the heart of Jacobi Robotics' innovation is their advanced AI-driven motion planning system. Traditional robot programming can be labor-intensive and time-consuming, often requiring extensive manual input and fine-tuning. Jacobi's solution leverages cutting-edge algorithms and machine learning to automate [...]
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Navigating the Venture Landscape: Q2 2023 Insights for Early-Stage Investors
The venture capital landscape continues to evolve in 2023 against a backdrop of macroeconomic uncertainty. For investors focused on the earliest stages of the startup lifecycle, the PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor Q2 2023 report provides several insights to guide investment strategy. Seed Stage Challenges One major trend is the ongoing slowdown in seed stage deal activity. As this chart shows, quarterly deal value at the combined angel and seed stages declined 27.5% from Q1 2023. Likewise, the median seed deal size has climbed to $2.9 million, indicating investors are writing larger checks but overall dealmaking is decreasing. The report suggests this results from investors advising startups to cut burn rates and extend runway, as well as focusing more on supporting existing portfolio companies. However, for high-quality teams, seed funding can still be secured. First Round Gender Gap Despite the challenges, seed investors have opportunities to drive positive change. As this [...]
May 2023
New Fund Investment We're excited to add Jacobi Robotics to the Frontures portfolio! Simplifying robotic arm programming Mostly robotic arm automation has been implemented only on repetitive tasks because non-repetitive tasks are difficult. Jacobi simplifies and opens an enormous market for non-repetitive task automation. Portfolio Decentralized manufacturing Website Reducing logistics operation costs Website NFTs made easy Website Faster sales for custom manufacturers Website | News Sell more with AI powered eCommerce product insights Website Operational efficiency for global omnichannel retailers Website | News Miniaturizing gas sensors Website Operating system for GTM teams Website Overdraft and late fee protection Website Optimizing manual manufacturing Website Preventing cloud data breaches Website [...]
Chat GPT’s Tech Predictions for 2023
Chat GPT is all the talk...Here's its tech predictions for 2023 Me: "What are the biggest technology trend predictions for 2023?" ChatGPT: "Some technology trend predictions for 2023 include: Advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) will continue to drive innovation across a wide range of industries. The continued growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) will lead to the development of new products and services that make use of connected devices. 5G networks will become more widely available, enabling faster internet speeds and lower latency, which will enable new use cases such as autonomous vehicles and virtual reality. Cloud computing will continue to gain traction as more companies move their data and services to the cloud. Quantum computing will become more powerful, which will enable new possibilities in areas such as cybersecurity, drug discovery, and financial modeling. Blockchain technology will become more widely adopted, particularly in [...]
July 2022
New Fund Investments We're excited to add 3DOS to the Frontures portfolio! Decentralized manufacturing Increased demand for specialized manufacturing + Disrupted, evolving supply chains + Expanding additive manufacturing capabilities and machine network + Democratized design with IP protection = Future of manufacturing. Portfolio Decentralized manufacturing Website Reducing logistics operation costs Website NFTs made easy Website Faster sales for custom manufacturers Website | News Sell more with AI powered eCommerce product insights Website Operational efficiency for global omnichannel retailers Website | News Miniaturizing gas sensors Website Operating system for GTM teams Website Overdraft and late fee protection Website Optimizing manual manufacturing Website Preventing cloud data breaches Pioneering dialectal speech technologies [...]
April 2022
New Fund Investments We're excited to add FaradaIC to the Frontures portfolio! Miniaturizing gas sensors Consider all the amazing unforeseen applications enabled by the miniaturization of previous sensors - e.g., camera, microphone, speakers, accelerometer. Enabling gas detection in mobile and IoT devices will open the doors for unimaginable uses from fitness to industrial safety. Portfolio Reducing logistics operation costs Website NFTs made easy Website Faster sales for custom manufacturers Website | News Sell more with AI powered eCommerce product insights Website Operational efficiency for global omnichannel retailers Website | News Miniaturizing gas sensors Website Operating system for GTM teams Website Overdraft and late fee protection Website Optimizing manual manufacturing Website Preventing cloud data breaches [...]
March 2022
New Fund Investments We're excited to add RED Atlas and InstaSecure to the Frontures portfolio! Real estate data for the rest of the world Accurate, dependable real estate data is foundational to strong economies. Democratized asset building, government taxation, urban planning, etc. all depend on accurate real estate data. Much of the world does not have this data. RED Atlas is fixing this. Preventing cloud data breaches 99% of cloud data breaches were due to preventable misconfigurations. InstaSecure automatically finds and fixes these issues. Portfolio Reducing logistics operation costs Website NFTs made easy Website Faster sales for custom manufacturers Website | News Sell more with AI powered eCommerce product insights Website Operational efficiency for global omnichannel retailers Website | News Operating system for [...]
February 2022
New Fund Investment We're excited to add Kanari AI to the Frontures portfolio! Pioneering dialectal speech technologies The need for speech recognition is global, but much of the world is underserved because their languages pose accuracy problems like accents, dialects, code switching, where multiple languages are intermixed in the same speech. Portfolio Reducing logistics operation costs Website NFTs made easy Website Faster sales for custom manufacturers Website | News Sell more with AI powered eCommerce product insights Website Operational efficiency for global omnichannel retailers Website | News Operating system for GTM teams Website Overdraft and late fee protection Website Optimizing manual manufacturing Website Pioneering dialectal speech technologies Website Faster, cheaper global consumer money [...]
December 2021
New Fund Investments We're excited to add Sahara Cloud and eCommerceInsights to the Frontures family! The future of IoT hardware development Designers and manufacturers of IoT hardware have different needs than chip designers. Saraha Cloud provides software for virtualized IoT hardware development. Sell more with AI powered eCommerce product insights McKinsey research has shown that changes in product ratings can have huge impact on revenue. eCommerceInsights delivers product level customer insights. Portfolio Reducing logistics operation costs Website NFTs made easy Website Faster sales for custom manufacturers Website | News Sell more with AI powered eCommerce product insights Website Operational efficiency for global omnichannel retailers Website | News Operating system for GTM teams Website Overdraft and late fee protection [...]
October 2021
New Fund Investments We're excited to add Paidiem to the Frontures family in September. The OS for contingent staffing growth The percentage of contingent workers is growing from 37% to 50% of the workforce, and 80% is hired via staffing companies. Paidiem enables staffing company growth via unique low-risk financing and increased operating efficiencies via their SaaS platform. The State of U.S. Early Stage Venture: 2Q21 Portfolio It's worth a special note that Volansi hired Will Roper as new CEO. I've corresponded with Hannan Parvizian (Founder & previous CEO) and Will Roper, who both expressed this is as a welcome and positive move for the company. Hannan is CTO and Product Architect moving forward. Reducing logistics operation costs Website NFTs made easy Website Faster sales for custom manufacturers [...]
August 2021 update
New Fund Investments We're excited to add one new portfolio company to the Frontures family last month. NFTs made easy I met the CEO and co-founder, Michael Krilivsky, at his previous company RageOn when he was going through Alchemist Accelerator in 2017. Mike grew RageOn's celebrity-content market to 100 million products. Mike brings entrepreneurial and industry experience, plus strong connections and passion to this explosive new space of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Creatify is building the platform to enable NFT marketplaces, and will be leveraging their celebrity connections and RageOn assets as the start to a celebrity focused NFT marketplace with two celebrities already on board. Book Recommendation If you have kids, want a glimpse into your future life, or could just use a bit of optimism, Peter Diamandis and Steve Kotler have written a fantastic Sci-NonFi by culling together a dizzying [...]
July 2021 update
New Fund Investments We're excited to add one new portfolio company to the Frontures family. Software-defined Last Mile Wireless Like other industries, the wireless industry is shifting to software-based infrastructure for speed and flexibility, required for example, for deployment of 5G. Seashore Networks is capitalizing on this trend by providing software for last mile service. They already have a multi-$M contract in Asia and are expanding into US. Frontures Portfolio Quick recap of Frontures' current portfolio Reducing logistics operation costs Website Faster sales for custom manufacturers Website | News Operational efficiency for global omnichannel retailers Website | News Operating system for GTM teams Website Overdraft and late fee protection Website Optimizing manual manufacturing Website Faster, cheaper global consumer money [...]
The Future is Faster Than You Think
Every industry is going to change not in 100 years, 50 years, this decade - Peter H. Diamandis (on Chase Jarvis) Connecting our brains to the cloud. Longevity - when will technology breakthroughs increase lifespans by more than 1 year within each year? ... https://youtu.be/cRvzrg02gmc
June 2021 Update
New Fund Investments We're excited to add two new portfolio companies to the Frontures family. Optimizing computer vision As we continue to automate, computer vision is being used everywhere to emulate human eyesight - from autonomous driving (Tesla even recently dropped radar for camera-only autonomy) to medical image analysis. Neuronix's proprietary chip algorithms is expected to reduce computer vision power consumption and improve performance by 20x! Faster, cheaper global consumer money transfer Worldwide payments are currently slow, expensive, unreliable, and inaccessible. Crypto infrastructures and technologies are opening the doors to revolutionary possibilities. New entrants like Ripple and Facebook Diem are well capitalized but have limitations with their respective approaches. Lastbit has a talented team taking a unique approach to carve out opportunity in a massive market and has early traction. Frontures Portfolio Quick recap of Frontures' current [...]
May 2021 update
New Fund Investments We're excited to add two new portfolio companies to the Frontures family. With the increasing globalization, supply chain and e-commerce tool complexities, Eunimart is providing an integrated omni-channel SaaS suite for smaller e-tailers. They have traction in India and EMEA and are expanding west. The Eunimart team continues to amaze us with their output and quality. Bridging the gap between sales and marketing has been an age-old challenge. The recent trend to anointing CRO (Chief Revenue Officer) roles attempts to create accountability but without the necessary tools to measure the processes and systems across marketing, sales, and customer service...until Funnel IQ. Portfolio News Click on company logo to see recent news for that company. Not Displayed
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