The DV Monthly ?? - #77

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It's a curation of content from that month we found most interesting.?Along with books we are reading and emerging trends we are watching. To get The DV Monthly????directly in your inbox, sign up?here.

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Be on the look out for a brand new name and look!?We are constantly evolving, growing and building towards our mission of being a founders first choice for their first investor.?

Here's a little teaser ???? as we gear up to launch. Coming into focus real soon!

???Reads this month:

1.?Podcast:?Knowledge Creation And The Human Race ( Naval )

Interview with Prof David Deutsch, Visiting professor at University of Oxford, Department of Physics , whose?scientific and philosophical?theories makes him one of the most original and thought provoking thinkers of our time. Topics?from knowledge creation to space, quantum computers and our children.

2.?Apple Makes Major Progress On No-Prick Blood Glucose Tracking For Its Watch ( Mark Gurman )

苹果 has long stated its legacy will be in health. Remarkable (unconfirmed) strides towards enabling it to triage our health with?continuous blood monitoring via just the sensors in our watch.

3.?Planning For AGI And Beyond

Interesting lens into the tech world's quest towards Artificial General Intelligence, as OpenAI publishes its?updated thinking and policies towards its goal of developing AGI safely.

4.?Post Post Corona

Scott Galloway takes a look at what endured?and what was a flash in the pan three years post the COVID-19 pandemic began.

?? Portfolio In The Press

1. Kyndi Introduces Kyndi Clarity

ChatGPT is powerful yet underserves the enterprise. Kyndi?Clarity brings natural language search results derived from your enterprise data so you can trust the results. From an AI that can explain its answers transparently.

2. Gridium Strengthens Balance Sheet With $14M In Funding To Accelerate Growth

Gridium powers up to help decarbonize commercial buildings with an infusion of capital. Congrats Tom Arnold and Adam Stein !

?????Shout Out

To Bridgefy and Jorge Ribs for helping those effected by earthquakes in Turkey and Syria communicate without any phone connectivity.?Bridgefy is enabling?hundreds of thousands to communicate and navigate offline, becoming the?#1 communications app in the region.?

???Books on our nightstand:

1. Empire of Pain?by? Patrick Keefe

Hard hitting recount of the Sackler family's role in pharmaceuticals, opioids and the crisis caused within?a corruptible?healthcare system. (Thanks Hamish!)

2.?Samsung Rising by Geoffrey Cain

From phones to TVs to semiconductors, Samsung is a global technology juggernaut. On the ground reporting shines a deserving spotlight on this key world player.

?? What caught your eye this month? We’d love to find out!

Quick reminder:?We,?Darling Ventures, are a pre-seed firm 
investing up to $750K into software startups across North America.