🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2024-12-10
Two hot takes on investments in the $40M range!
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Two hot takes on two stories that caught my eye on Tuesday.
💰 + 🇫🇷 Again, if you aren’t investing in France then you aren’t taking advantage of unique IP protections — and this time, $48M worth of reasons to consider quantum computing has entered the chat.
Techmeme: Paris-based Aqemia, which aims to scale drug discovery using quantum algorithms and AI, raised $38M led by Cathay Innovation, after raising €30M in January 2024 (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
By Paul Sawers / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
💰 + 💁 If you had told me there would be $40M seed round for detecting sassy responses… I’d assume you were funding a dystopian trope.
Techmeme: WaveForms, which aims to create AI assistants that pick up on emotional cues from verbal interactions, raised a $40M seed from a16z at a $200M valuation (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
By Rachel Metz / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
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