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Our portfolio company Helm.ai has yet again demonstrated it’s one of the strongest teams in the autonomous driving space - last month, #Honda announced that Helm.ai’s tech will be used in the new #EV “Honda 0 Series,” to be launched globally in 2026. Honda will integrate Helm.ai's unsupervised learning tech to its #AI technology, combining it with the behavior models of experienced drivers to provide accurate driver assistance. 🚘 Helm.ai is building AI solutions for autonomous driving development. They’ve raised $102M so far, including from strategic investors Honda and #Goodyear Ventures. 🏁 It was also great to see Helm.ai at TechCrunch’s flagship event Disrupt earlier this year, when CEO and founder Vladislav Voroninski got on stage with Connie Loizos. They spoke about AI-based simulation for training autonomous driving models -vs- fleet-based training. Helm.ai’s #genAI model generates realistic driving videos to accelerate training + lower costs. Their tech can support advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), autonomous driving, and robotic automation. If you’re interested, find them at CES 2025 in January! Honda’s announcement 👉 https://lnkd.in/etJcmiMP Recent TechCrunch coverage 👉 https://lnkd.in/gBWZHwSD #selfdriving #autonomousdriving #robotics

The The Immigrant Learning Center, Inc just honored our portfolio founder Krenar Komoni with the 2024 Barry M. Portnoy Immigrant Entrepreneur Award! 🎖️ His company Tive Inc has grown significantly over the last few years, becoming a global leader in supply chain and #logistics visibility technology. Krenar was born in Kosovo and came to the US alone as a high school exchange student at the age of 17. After meeting his wife, he decided to build a tool to help his father-in-law’s trucking company better track their vehicles. Krenar locked himself in his basement for months and started testing a device with his father-in-law’s trucks, eventually quitting his job and founding Tive - a real-time location and condition tracker for shipments. The ILC put together this video on Tive’s journey, also featuring our Semyon Dukach. https://lnkd.in/dVUAspAv 🌟 Reach out if you want to hear more about our work supporting immigrant founders. #supplychain #logisticstech

At SIERRA Ventures, we invest in Seed & Series A. This quarter we hosted our Annual Emerging VC Summit with some incredible pre seed investors. Founders - here are some early-stage (often first check) firms that might not be on your radar and are definitely worth following: 10vc, San Francisco, CA 8-Bit Capital, San Francisco, CA Abstraction Capital, San Francisco, CA Array Ventures, San Francisco, CA Ascend Ventures, Seattle, WA Atria Ventures, San Francisco, CA Beat Ventures, San Francisco, CA Bowery Capital, San Francisco & New York Bridge Venture Fund, Chicago, IL Cofounders Capital, Cary, NC Dispersion Capital, San Francisco, CA E14 Fund, Cambridge, MA eGateway Capital, Columbus, OH Foster Ventures, San Francisco, CA GTM Fund, SF AZ Garuda Ventures, San Francisco, CA Hannah Grey VC, New York & Denver Inner Loop Capital, Baltimore, MD Leadout Capital, Portola Valley, CA Looking Glass Capital, New York, NY Matchstick Ventures, Minneapolis MN & Boulder CO Motivate Venture Capital, Chicago, IL Necessary Ventures, San Francisco, CA NewBuild Venture Capital VC, San Francisco, CA One Way Ventures, Boston, MA Pack Ventures, San Francisco, CA Position Ventures, San Francisco, CA Rackhouse Venture Capital, San Francisco, CA Range Ventures, Denver, CO Recall Capital, San Francisco, CA Redbud VC, Columbia, MO Refinery Ventures, Cincinnati, OH Schematic Ventures, San Francisco, CA Service Provider Capital, Denver, CO Sure Ventures, San Francisco, CA Surface Ventures, New York, NY Tau Ventures, Palo Alto, CA Tech Square Ventures, ATL Tokyo Black, San Francisco Twin Ventures, San Francisco, CA Vela Partners, San Francisco, CA Zelda Ventures, San Francisco, CA Added: HCVC, Redwood City, CA, Nomad Ventures, SF/LA mu ventures, NYC  Ripple Ventures, Toronto Enigma Venture Partners, Toronto Fairbridge, NYC Beyond Genius Ventures AZ-VC Ag Startup Engine, Chicago IL Drive Capital, Columbus, OH Bee Partners, SF ResilienceVC Champion Venture Partners, LA Reach Capital, SF Coyote Capital, SF Lombard Street Ventures, Menlo Park Convoi Ventures, SLC UT focal, SF CA Park Rangers Capital Meridian Ventures LOI Venture Tundra Ventures ATX Venture Partners Enigma Venture Partners Tenzing.vc Northside Ventures VC 414, Milwaukee, WI Antler, NYC & Austin Xcellerant Ventures, AZ Cerulean Ventures (climate fund) Companyon Ventures in Boston & NY Avalanche, Austin What did I miss or get wrong 🙃?

💬 Our partner Eugene Malobrodsky will be on a virtual panel tomorrow to talk about *Where the Money’s Going in 2025: Founders’ Guide to VC* ✅ Join the meetup for frank insights on the 2025 #fundraising landscape, strategies for #founders to build visibility among VCs, and a live Q&A. 👉 Sign-up link here! https://lu.ma/8hstkmee One Way Ventures will be at the meetup alongside Raisable Founders Hub, Stanford University, Newline Ventures, LLC, Unshackled Ventures and U First Capital. #VC #2025 #funding #entrepreneurs #startup

My first time in #Helsinki - wow, real winter here! Came here for Slush and excited about the program and about the event we’re cohosting tonight with Flyer One Ventures, Inovo.vc, SID Venture Partners, Snap Inc., TRMNL4, and Solidgate! November 20 at 6:30p we're mingling with 40+ VCs and 100+ seed-stage startups. At the beginning of the night, One Way Ventures and our partners will be on the jury panel for a Demo Day of consumer tech startups graduating from the Traction Builder Program by TRMNL4 and Snap. Then we’ll have a DJ, live graffiti performance and party networking zones (ever heard of that?) Do send me a note if you’re at Slush today/tomorrow and want to catch up or talk immigrant entrepreneurship! https://lu.ma/7gd3zis2 #slush #entrepreneurship #techinvesting #helsinki2024

👏 Huge thanks to everyone who made the Uncharted Summit in Palacio during Web Summit an unforgettable event! The party was a runaway success, with over 500 attendees + a long waiting list. Our partners Flyer One Ventures and One Way's Eugene Malobrodsky brought together a fantastic group of #entrepreneurs and investors for a night of music, entertainment and frank conversations. This was a testament to the strength of One Way Ventures’ community, and our meaningful partnerships with VCs like Flyer One Ventures. We can’t wait to co-host our next side event at the hotly anticipated #Slush Helsinki! (Sign up here 👉 https://lu.ma/7gd3zis2) Thanks of course to our sponsors Snap Inc., Solidgate and Zendesk for Startups. #websummit #Lisbon #VC #startups

🎉 Congratulations Impilo on an impressive $11.5M Series A fundraise! We’ve reinvested in Impilo after first backing their Seed raise in 2023. ❤️🩹 Impilo’s infrastructure for remote #healthcare can help transform access to healthcare, and is already being deployed by over 50 customers. Their platform enables healthcare companies to improve patient care via remote monitoring devices. The platform helps buy, distribute and support the use of connected devices, such as glucose monitors and pulse oximeters. One Way Ventures participated in the round alongside Construct Capital, GC1 Ventures and 2048 Ventures. Josh Stein, we look forward to seeing you and the team reach your next milestone! https://lnkd.in/eNsk44bX #SeriesA #fundraise #startups #digitalhealth #remotehealthcare #remotehealth #telehealth

Slush is back! And this year One Way Ventures is co-hosting a special side event for 40+ VCs and 100+ seed-stage startups on *November 20*. 💃 Come join us if you’re an old friend, new friend, portfolio company, LP, an investor with an eye out for your next venture, or if you just haven’t had the chance to meet us yet. 🏅 We’ll also be on the jury at an exciting Demo Day for the Traction Builder Program run by TRMNL4 and Snap Inc. for #B2C seed+ startups. Our fab Entrepreneur-in-residence Masha Levin will be in Helsinki in person, so definitely reach out if you’re around. Happy to be partnering up with Flyer One Ventures, Inovo.vc, SID Venture Partners, TRMNL4 and Snap Inc. for the event. // 6:30pm - November 20 - Helsinki // Sign up here! https://lu.ma/7gd3zis2 #VC #startups #investors #funding #onewayventures #entrepreneurs #founders

🚀 We’re excited to see our portfolio company Dasera get acquired by global leader in data protection Netskope! Dasera enables businesses to secure their data across #cloud and on-premise environments. It secured this acquisition only 5 years after launching. Dasera will now become foundational to Netskope’s new Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) offering. Dasera’s solution protects sensitive #data throughout its lifecycle, enabling greater employee access while reducing risks. It allows teams to find and protect data across structured and unstructured data sets in cloud, PaaS repositories, and on-prem. Congrats to co-founders Ani Chaudhuri and Noah Johnson! #dataprotection #datasecurity #DSPM #cloudsecurity #Acquisition #SASE #SSE

🎤 In a new podcast, Semyon Dukach talks about his fascinating life journey - from fleeing the Soviet Union to blackjack, spacetech, and why his #VC firm is driven by a greater mission - supporting immigrants. Give it a listen if you want to hear about: 🌾 How Semyon’s family was allowed to flee the USSR in the 1970s, in exchange for wheat 🌎 Embarking on a one-way journey with $100 and getting asylum in the US ♠️ How his first “startup” was an MIT blackjack team, counting cards to win millions from casinos 🛑 Launching One Way Ventures after his indignation at Donald Trump's treatment of #immigrants 🦄 How the firm is uniting #immigrant unicorn founders to support early-stage entrepreneurs 💸 Why One Way Ventures' aims to generate global impact in how immigrants are perceived, through their own success Thanks Jennifer Schretter and Thanasis "Thani" Delistathis at PROOF for the engrossing interview! https://lnkd.in/d-HZCWjs #USimmigrants #immigration #USimmigration