Mayfield's Cognitive Economy Investment Via AI, And Robotics Startups On The Rise

June 29, 2024 Chaddha From Mayfield Fund On The Cognitive Economy Mayfield Fund is among the firms investing in the rise of the cognitive workforce through AI-enabled tools for knowledge workers. We speak to Navin Chaddha, managing partner at the firm about what's ahead. The Cognitive Economy → Robotics Startups On The Rise In 2024 2024 is shaping up as a not-so-shabby year for robotics funding, with startups pulling in billions as investors back big deals at the intersection of AI and robotics. VCs Like Robotics → Metaverse And Augmented Reality Remain Unpopular With VCs The unsurprising finding from our latest data dive regarding investment in startups innovating around the metaverse, virtual reality and augmented reality is that the metaverse is not getting funded. Metaverse Loses Fans → Leaner Times Persist For Alt Protein Funding Lab-produced meat may be one of the weirder sectors for startup innovation, but like most startup sectors, the space isn’t attracting investors like it used to. Alt Protein Funding → Funding To Autonomous Driving Startups Surprisingly Starts To Move Again For the first four months of 2024, it seemed like funding to autonomous driving startups was slowly driving off a cliff. However, since then venture funding has kicked into another gear. Self-Driving Cars → Eye On AI: OpenAI Goes On A Buying Spree As AI Looks To Open Up M&A, IPO Markets To investors it’s the exit that actually matters, but those have been slow the last few years as the M&A and IPO markets have dried up. Some AI startups may be changing that. AI's Route To Exits → Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | View in Browser | Unsubscribe Crunchbase, Inc. 564 Market Street, Suite 700 San Francisco, CA 94104

[IMPORTANT] June 17 is the last day to access Threads

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[IMPORTANT] The Threads team is joining Shopify!

Hey Anak, Big news! Today we are announcing that Shopify is acquiring the Threads team. As such, we're reaching out to inform you that Threads (not affiliated with Instagram) will be shutting down on June 17, 2024. We can't say it enough, but we might as well one more time—thank you again for all of your support and motivation over the years. For more context on the acquisition, check out the announcement from our CEO or head to our website at www.threads.com/announcement. As for details to be aware of, please refer to the below for transition and export deadlines: Admins can run a full data export Org members can export individual threads as pdfs (if you need a more robust data export, please contact your org administrator) Developers can import data to Notion + Slack using these instructions Please note: all data will be deleted starting June 18, 2024. We wish you and your team the best of luck, and as always, please reach out to support@threads.com for any and all questions regarding the shutdown. Thank you, The Threads Team ​ Help center·Policies·Contact us Unsubscribe ·©2024 Threads Group, Inc.