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Thrilled to see Levur featured in The Sydney Morning Herald among a group of innovative Aussie technologies tackling environmental and climate challenges. Inspired by the effect of palm oil plantations on natural ecosystems, Levur is leveraging precision fermentation to create sustainable alternatives to commonly used oils in cosmetics and food products. Discover more about Levur and other inspiring home-grown innovations in the full article. ???? https://lnkd.in/gbA8-Zed #agritech #foodtech #sustainability #innovation Tom Collier | Joanne Barber | Aprile Wenke | Caitlin Fitzsimmons

We’re thrilled to announce that Aroom has successfully raised $1.2M in funding, totaling $1.8M, in a round led by Springcamp! Construction is one of the least digitized industries, and SMB construction faces persistent inefficiencies in last-mile logistics and procurement. More than 99% of projects experience delays—with last-minute orchestration often leading to costly overruns. From renting trucks to picking up materials daily during our prefab construction days, we experienced this pain firsthand. Today, Aroom is tackling this head-on, streamlining last-mile logistics for construction industry to save time, reduce costs, and keep projects on track. This is just the beginning—we’re excited to continue building solutions for the SMB construction industry to make it more efficient, reliable, and innovative. A huge thanks to our incredible team, especially my co-founder SUNGJIN KIM, and our investors, mentors, and advisors: SparkLabs Group, A16Z scout fund, Translink Investment, Hashed, Ahileas Philipp Tsahiridis-Krausser, S. Y. (Seung Yoon) Lee., Chang Kim, Duncan Clark, Jangwon Lee, Edward Jiwoo Chung, and Minshik( Michael) Cho. If you know any contractors or wholesalers in the construction industry within the DC metro region, we’d love to connect with them and help streamline their last-mile processes. *Aways open to new introductions in other regions as well! :)

??【SparkLabs Taiwan Will Be Joining 2024 Meet Taipei】 Asia's largest annual startup event is here! SparkLabs Taiwan will meet face-to-face with the most promising startup, industry leaders, and investors, providing unlimited possibilities for your entrepreneurial journey. ▋Visit the SparkLabs Taiwan Booth, and you will have the chance to: Discover how we help entrepreneurs secure funding and scale globally Get personalized insights on our latest Accelerator Program Explore our extensive international market network ▋Don’t miss this opportunity! Join us at 2024 Meet Taipei and visit the SparkLabs Taiwan booth to accelerate your entrepreneurial journey! We look forward to meeting you in person and hearing your startup ideas or questions. - Event Dates: November 21 (Thu) - November 23 (Sat), 2024 - Venue: Taipei Expo Park - Booth Number: E2-01 - SparkLabs Taiwan #SparkLabsTaiwan #MeetTaipei2024 #GlobalStartup #TaiwanStartups #accelerator #acceleratorprogram

Congratulations to Anthropic, one of our investments! #AI #startups #amazon #venturecapital

We’re expanding our collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop and deploy next-generation AI systems. This includes a new $4 billion investment from Amazon and establishes AWS as our primary cloud and training partner. This brings Amazon's total investment in Anthropic to $8 billion. Working closely with AWS, we're developing future generations of Trainium chips. Designing both hardware and software together lets us optimize every aspect of model training. Our engineers work with the AWS chip design team to maximize computational efficiency, writing low-level kernels to directly interface with Trainium silicon and contributing to the AWS Neuron software stack. Through Amazon Bedrock, Claude has become core infrastructure for tens of thousands of companies seeking reliable and practical AI at scale. Together, we're laying a new technological foundation—from silicon to software—to train and power our most advanced AI models. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gfbKewvz

After the last five years of dedicated focus, we are proud to unveil Parties—the culmination of a vision we’ve been building since 2019. ??2019: We placed a bold bet on our core technology and avatar framework, driven by the belief that AI, gaming, and XR would converge to form the next layer of the internet, with avatars at its core. ?? 2022: We raised our Series C and announced “Farewell”—our goodbye to the outside world–to focus entirely on building the interoperable, UGC-fueled tech stack we always dreamt of without any outside distractions. ??2024: Today, we are excited to announce our full technology stack: our avatar framework, developer platform, and AI avatar systems—all powering Parties. Parties are customizable gaming platforms powered by our advanced tech stack, merging Smart Avatars, personalized gameplay, and user-generated content (UGC) to create highly engaging and collaborative experiences. Designed around specific IP, Parties allow brands, developers, and users to build dynamic digital ecosystems where creativity thrives. Through AI-powered avatars with unique personalities and real-time adaptability, seamless interoperability across environments, and intuitive UGC tools, Parties redefine how people create, socialize, and play. Whether it’s crafting games, fashion, digital goods, or building entire worlds, Parties empower users to unlock a new era of co-creation and meaningful digital engagement. We’ve already started rolling out our Party tech to IP partners (big announcements about their Parties coming soon???), and in the coming months, indie developers—and eventually everyone—will have access to create their own ??? Check out our official announcement with VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi for more info: https://lnkd.in/gYeTt-T4 ???? ??????'???? ???? ???? ?????????? ???? ??????????, ????'?? ???????? ???? ???????? ???????? ?????? - https://genies.com/

?? Exciting news from the K-pop world! TAEYANG of BIGBANG has officially joined b.stage! ? As a legendary member of BIGBANG, one of K-pop's most influential groups, and a consistently active solo artist, TAEYANG continues to push boundaries in the industry. It's thrilling to see him embrace this new platform to connect more intimately with fans worldwide through b.stage. ?? Looking forward to witnessing this new chapter in TAEYANG's illustrious career! ?? Taeyang is on b.stage, Daesung is on b.stage. Who will be next? ?? #TAEYANG #BIGBANG #Kpop #WeverseCommunity #MusicIndustry #KoreanEntertainment #GlobalMusic

?? Did you know? Fall protection, hazard communication, respiratory protection, and machine guarding are among the top 10 most frequently cited workplace safety violations by OSHA in FY2023. ???? But with viAct’s Smart Site Safety System, these risks across industries are covered through 8 game-changing features: ?? Centralized Management Platform for streamlined efficient project handling ??? Digitized Permit-to-Work (PTW) for seamless electronic processing of critical documents ?? Digitized Tracking System for up-to-the-second updates on safety conditions ?? PPE Detection powered by Computer Vision ??♀? Danger Zone Intrusion Alerts to prevent accidents in restricted areas ? ?? Confined Space Monitoring designed for extreme conditions and maximum safety ??? Instant Recognition of Unsafe Acts to quickly mitigate potential hazards ?? Safety Training Modules in Virtual Reality for immersive, hands-on learning With viAct, addressing these common safety violations is easier than ever!??? Know more now: https://lnkd.in/dfqy2uU4 #viAct #4S #SmartSiteSafetySystem #WorkplaceSafety #PPEDetection #ConfinedSpaceMonitoring

We’ve added a new prompt improver to the Anthropic Console. Take an existing prompt and Claude will automatically refine it with prompt engineering techniques like chain-of-thought reasoning. The prompt improver also makes it easy to adapt prompts originally written for other AI models to work better with Claude. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dx-5sp5P.