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We’re excited to announce applications for our first Victorian cohort are open! If you are a developer / entrepreneur / student / or AI enthusiast who wants to build an AI startup, we’d love for you to join us. Learning how to get users, ship products, and raise funds is overwhelming. There’s a million things you have to do, limited resources, and an infinite amount of paths you can take. It can be daunting when you are doing it alone. In this FREE course, you get hands-on experience on how to build your AI startup following a proven process, avoiding common first time founder pitfalls. Over the course of 8 weeks, you’ll recruit your first users, launch version 1 of your product, and pitch to investors at an exclusive demo day showcase.. You’ll walk away with an AI company that’s more than just an idea in your head. Best of all, you will have access to our private community of AI startup founders. What’s in the course: ✅7 interactive live workshops ✅Weekly office hours ✅A demo day investor showcase ✅Access to our private founder community Thanks to the support of LaunchVic this cohort is free to all Victorian based applicants! To review the detailed syllabus and schedule, please visit Generation AI (link in the comments). There are a limited number of seats available in this cohort. We recommend joining soon. Enrollments close on 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟯𝗿𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁. 

We are excited to announce the launch of The ORCA Network's AI fundraising co-pilot! Currently, ORCA proudly hosts 2,020+ startups and 450+ Investors while facilitating 2,230 startup<>investor introductions. The platform/network has generated over 50,000 unique data points, offering key insights into what it takes to successfully raise a round. This tool aims to make the process of identifying the most relevant investors, researching them, figuring out if you should get a warm intro or cold email, to then executing and managing the outreach 10x more efficiently.  The demo below shows how powerful it can be!   We have been in closed beta for the last month but are now excited to onboard more and more founders to utilize the fundraising co-pilot and achieve their own personal goals. This is just the first of what will be a suite of tools that enable founders to build startups more efficiently utilizing the power of AI agents on top of a network. Please share your thoughts/feedback so we can continuously improve the platform and product!

It all started this Tuesday morning during the Seattle Startups Open Coffee Hour, when David Busby wondered if AI could help sort through the Startup Pitches submitted for the Seattle Angel Conference. Maybe AI could save time reviewing 1-min Pitches and generate improved outcomes or at least save time. Personally, I wondered if some kind of linear decision model could be built that including group sentiment, along with quantitative factors that AI could use to pick winners. We contemplated if AI could extract specific cues from 1-min Pitches. Of course, AI can do that. There are plenty of tools already that perform analysis on semantics and match them to specific topics. Did you say your name, company clearly? Did you state why you are passionate about your product? Did you describe your niche? Did you explain your business model? To be honest, the moment I hear Startup Founders start with that exact sequence I turn off immediately. Next. Finally, David asked John Sechrest what his best piece of advice to Founders for a 1-min Pitch would be. It's simple, and uniquely challenging, and the secret is. "Be remarkable." AI can't touch that. 😎 *** Get VIP Tickets to see John Sechrest in person at the Seattle Startup Grind Monthly Fireside chat. *** DETAILS IN MY POST: https://lnkd.in/epSgydZG #startups #pitchdecks #money

The Journey of InnovateX: From Startup to Industry Leader In the heart of Silicon Valley, three college friends—Alex, Maria, and Raj—founded InnovateX in a small garage, aiming to revolutionize business analytics with AI. With limited resources, they developed their first product, an AI-driven analytics tool, and caught the attention of a venture capitalist who invested $1 million in seed funding. This capital allowed InnovateX to expand, refine their product, and hire top talent. Despite fierce competition, they differentiated themselves with a user-friendly interface and exceptional customer support, quickly gaining a reputation and a strong client base, including Fortune 500 companies. A strategic partnership with a major tech conglomerate marked a turning point, validating their technology and expanding their market reach. InnovateX's AI tool became a key component in the tech giant's solutions, leading to rapid growth and industry recognition. The founders established the InnovateX Foundation to support young entrepreneurs and promote STEM education, giving back to the community that supported their journey. Today, InnovateX is an industry leader, pushing the boundaries of AI while staying true to their core values of innovation and community support. From a modest garage to a recognized industry leader, InnovateX's story is a testament to the power of vision, perseverance, and strategic thinking. Their journey inspires aspiring entrepreneurs, proving that with dedication, anything is possible.

🚀 $100M+ Valuation. $10M+ Raised. 3 Acquisitions. All in 18 Months! 🚀 AI Entrepreneurs at Berkeley Fall '24 application is now open! If you are building or preparing to fundraise within the AI space, come join our community at University of California, Berkeley. Why us? - Our leadership team has founded, scaled, and successfully exited multiple 7-figure companies—so we understand the journey you're on. - Personalized mentorship from experienced advisors. - Direct access to capital from prominent VCs such as Y Combinator, Pear VC, Antler, and more. - Weekly hacking sessions complemented by instructional seminars. - Exclusive speaker sessions with leading founders and industry disruptors. - Resources at your disposal through partnerships with OpenAI, AWS, and others. - Opportunities to pitch to top investors at our celebrated Demo Day (our previous Demo Day raised $150k). Apply at aientrepreneurs.org/apply! #AI #UCBerkeley #Startup #BayArea

🚨The full TURING x SYSTM Growth Summit speaker Lineup is here! 🚨 Some of the world’s sharpest minds in startup growth will brave our famous November weather to share their stories, teach you where the pitfalls are likely to be found, hoist you out of the information rut you find yourself in and help you connect the dots between where you are and where you need to be. 🚀 To celebrate, we’re launching a 2-FOR-1 ticket flash sale!💸 Split the cost and bring a colleague along—grab 2 tickets for the price of 1.🎟 And if that wasn’t enough, this lineup is Please join us in welcoming: 🎙April Dunford, Author 'Obviously Awesome', and Positioning Expert, Ambient Strategy who will concentrate on 🎯Positioning for Startups: Stand Out and Win Business With Strategic Positioning 🎙Sean Ellis, Author and OG Growth who will be lasered focused on 🎯 Hacking Growth in the Age of AI: Four Ways to Leverage AI to Accelerate Your Growth Today 🎙Matt Lerner, Co-Founder, SYSTM who will share 🎯How to Focus Your Team on the Most Impactful Work 🎙Alexandra Depledge, MBE, CEO at Resi who will be focusing on 🎯Resilience: What Could Have Killed Us Made Us Stronger 🎙Joanna Wiebe, Founder, Copyhackers who will be presenting 🎯AI Copywriting Frameworks for Startups: How to Use Chat-GPT to Write High-converting Copy 🎙Hannah Parvaz, award-winning Head of Growth, and Founder, Aperture who will be diving 🎯Exploiting Meta’s AI: How to Use Meta’s AI to Find Product/market Fit and Grow Profitably 🎙Andrew Davies, CMO, Paddle who will be bringing marketing into the spotlight with 🎯 Building a Winning Founder-marketer Relationship We are stoked to have them all in London! Don’t forget to nab a 2 for 1 ticket to the TURING x SYSTM Growth Summit (King’s Place, November 6th) 👉This offer ends next Thursday, 10th October. Just 5 weeks to go! 👉 https://hubs.ly/Q02R-M-m0 #Growth #London #founder #startup

Join 25m Evolve and Tabs for a happy hour and fireside chat on the latest finance and AI trends, along with tips for getting your startup funded. Space is limited, so make sure to register soon!

Meet Mary Technology, an AI startup disrupting the legal industry. This week we are deep diving into the commercial problem Mary are solving and their view on how AI is affecting the sector. Daniel Lord-Doyle is the co-founder of Mary Technology alongside Rowan McNamee (a lawyer turned entrepreneur and Techstars alumni) and Harry Raworth (ex-Virtually Human Studios, backed by a16z and TCG for $25M+). Today, lawyers today are overwhelmed with admin and manual review of huge volumes of documents 📑. Mary Technology targets chronologies, reducing the time spent on this task by 90-95%, allowing you to focus on the strategic legal work that truly matters. By working with this highly structured, grounded data, Mary can explore and address critical AI challenges, such as hallucination and accuracy. The team is growing fast and gaining great signs of ROI with their Alpha testers. If you are a lawyer interested in learning more or if you want to join a top tier AI team building at the bleeding edge then please reach out. Daniel Lord-Doyle is always up and down for a good chat! Link below 👇 --- Want your startup to be featured next? Reach out to Daniel Malkinson or Annie Liao 🇦🇺 #startups #ai

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