Kicked off our Wednesday morning having breakfast with folks at the 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo - the world’s leading robotics development event. 🦾

We talked robotics, AI, starting companies, and more - thanks to everyone who attended!

The national Robotics Summit & Expo is next week in Boston MA. I'm thrilled to pick the brains of the people who are putting robotics into the real world- may that real world be a warehouse, a factory, your front lawn, or DisneyWorld.

We're hosting a Robotics Breakfast on…

🌟 Founder Spotlight 🌟

Bill Brady, co-Founder and CEO of KulaBio, champions sustainable, biological solutions for modern agriculture.

Learn more in this interview by Agri Business Review

agribusinessreview.com/kula-bio

Resilience. Self-awareness. Passion.

3 qualities that we look for in Founders. Sarah Hodges dives into each in this video from our Founder Playlist!

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Insane. Not a gamer but it doesn't take much imagination to connect the dots between this and every other facet of design and architecture.

The main difference is that games are a uniquely digital dataset on which to train generative models and use the things you create. Most…

Are you interested in taking an inside look at the startup fundraising process?

Join the Pillar VC team for another session of our two-part workshop series, Navigating VC.

In-person & virtual sessions available, running April 23rd & May 6th. RSVP here!

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12 hours left to apply for Build @ Pillar VC!

Join us this summer for free workspace, expert workshops, and more - apply now at: pillar.vc/build/

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Congrats to Abridge on being named to the Forbes AI 50 for their game changing generative AI healthcare technology 🌟 #ForbesAI50

Our latest essay:

Kat Baney writes about DNA synthesis, a technology that can be used to do good or bad. Such dual-use tools require a new type of archetype, Kat writes; not 'wizards' or 'prophets,' but something in-between.

Read it online:
ideasmatter.co/2024/04/04/the…

Are you looking for a summer workspace?

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Deadline is April 15th: pillar.vc/build/

🌟Founder Spotlight🌟

Congrats to Chris Wang | ADHD Founder ✨ on being named to Inc. Magazine's 2024 Female Founders 250!

Her company Shimmer: ADHD Coaching offers online 1:1 ADHD coaching, providing affordable access to quality care for 13M adults in the US living with ADHD.
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Announcing our Final Line-Up & Reduced Prices: Spring Summit on Fundamental Challenges for AI!

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We discuss core challenges & promising avenues in a day of high-profile keynotes & panels. Lunch & Reception included.

Come & join us!

April 15th,…

Join me & an incredible lineup on May 21st in Boston, MA at Pillar VC for 'Sickle Cell Dialogue: From Science to Society - Navigating Research, Treatment, and Trust' a fundraising event for Luke Timmerman Timmerman's Traverse in support of Sickle Forward. givebutter.com/sickleforward

“What questions should I be ready to answer in a pitch meeting?”

Russ Wilcox walks through some questions to expect when meeting with an investor and the importance of giving a strong introduction to yourself and your company 👇

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Thinking about the evolution of robotics companies:

First there was hardware, the robotic arms - ABB Robotics , KUKA, etc. These arm companies would use their own limited software and ROS to integrate these robots into manufacturing centers. Really these companies were…

Congratulations to BoolSi and CEO Mihailo Isakov on their $1.6M raise!

BoolSi generates custom chip designs from codebases written in any programming language. BoolSi's tools offer software teams a 10x improvement in latency, energy efficiency or throughput 🔥

Join a community that inspires ambition. Spend your Summer building alongside a community of founders @ Pillar VC HQ.

🖥️ Free workspace
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💸 Fundraising advice

Build @ Pillar VC applications now open. Apply by April 15th: pillar.vc/build/

Live from Times Square with Christopher Savoie 佐保井 久理須:
$ZPTA is now trading on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange.

Join us in the #IndustrialGenerativeAI Revolution.

For AI Researchers, Thinkers, Founders, and VCs:

Announcing our Spring Summit on Fundamental Challenges for AI!

bit.ly/springsummitai…

We discuss core challenges & promising avenues in a day of high-profile keynotes & panels. Lunch & Reception included.

April 15th, Bay Area,…