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📣 Pitching opportunity for AI startup founders 📣 Practice your sales pitch, get exposure for your AI startup, and gain valuable feedback from investors who know the current climate! We are giving three AI startups a chance to present a three- to four-minute pitch at the TechDay AI Founders Day on November 21 at 7 Times Square in NYC. Who qualifies: - Founders must be building AI-enabled products and/or services. Startups in all market verticals qualify - Applicants must have three years of experience in business - Startups must not have raised more than $3 million in funding If you meet all the criteria, fill out this application to be considered: https://lnkd.in/eM6FW29u This is a FREE application opportunity until this Friday, November 1 at 11:59 PM ET. After this date, there will be a $50 application fee. 🔁 Share to spread the word about this opportunity 🔁 #PitchEvent #NYC #Founder #Startup #AI #VentureCapital

🫧+🚀: The AI bubble of (made up) market valuations will most certainly burst. But, that doesn't mean that AI will go away. Yesterday at the Toronto CIX Summit, Vinod Khosla shared his insight that the same happened with the internet and the dot-com implosion. Just as internet participation grew regardless of dot-com market valuations, the impact of AI will continue to grow across all industry sectors. For the kids out there, the massive investments during the dot-com boom laid the foundation for high speed global communications, and the internet grew from there. All valuations are ephemeral. The AI genie is out of the bottle. #ai #aimarketvaluationsbubble

AI startups are booming globally! 🚀🌎 From 2013-2023, over 10,000 AI startups received major funding across the world. The US leads with a staggering 5,509 funded startups, followed by China at 1,446. Europe's not far behind: - UK: 727 - France: 391 - Germany: 319 Surprising contenders: - Israel: 442 - Canada: 397 What does this mean for the future of tech and innovation? How will this reshape our industries and job markets? Comment down! What are your thoughts on this AI startup boom? #AIStartups #TechInnovation #GlobalTrends #FutureOfWork

600+ AI Startups 👇 I've spent the last few months curating a list of the hottest 600+ AI startups. Included in the dataset, you will find: 1. Company 2. Website 3. Category they are building in 4. Location 5. Startup One Liner 6. Date Founded 7. Founders 8. Last Funding Date 9. Last Funding Amount 10. Last Funding Type 11. Total Funding Amount 12. Top 5 Investors The startups are building across: AI Agents, Generative AI Enterprise and Vertical Platforms, ConsumerTech & The Startup Tech Stack. You can access the startups here: https://lnkd.in/eScKu7E9

🚀 An all-time high for AI Funding! 28% of all VC dollars in Q2 went to AI startups. That's the highest quarterly share on record. AI startups drew $18.3B in Q2’24 — up 32% QoQ — driven by huge $1B+ deals to Elon Musk’s xAI as well as Scale, CoreWeave, and others. 📖 Get the full report from CB Insights, link in the comments

#100Days100Startups We're showcasing the most groundbreaking AI startups, one day at a time. Today is Day 15, and We are going to learn about Beatoven.ai If you'd like to feature your AI Startup or want to recommend another AI Startup, please feel free to comment below. We will feature them in the upcoming posts. #ai #aistartup Mansoor Rahimat Khan Siddharth Bhardwaj

#100Days100Startups We're showcasing the most groundbreaking AI startups, one day at a time. Today is Day 23, and We are going to learn about AKOOL If you'd like to feature your AI Startup or want to recommend another AI Startup, please feel free to comment below. We will feature them in the upcoming posts. #ai #aistartup Jeff (Jiajun) Lu

#100Days100Startups We're showcasing the most groundbreaking AI startups, one day at a time. Today is Day 4, and We are going to learn about GoZen If you'd like to feature your AI Startup or want to recommend another AI Startup, please feel free to comment below. We will feature them in the upcoming posts. #ai #aistartup Ambi Moorthy

What makes a good Ai startup investment? A lot of LPs on the show voice concerns about where VCs are investing when it comes to Ai startups. Citing high valuations. And Big Tech's moats. We asked Ai Whisper Nick Talwar (VCs hire Nick to work with their founders who launched pre December 2022 aka GPT-3.5 and now need technical Ai expertise to stay competitive) what to look for in Ai deals. Any criteria you'd add for Ai startups? Would love your thoughts too Earnest Sweat, Matthew Hartman, Lisa Yu, Luigi Congedo 💻

#100Days100Startups We're showcasing the most groundbreaking AI startups, one day at a time. Today is Day 58, and We are going to learn about Simplified If you'd like to feature your AI Startup or want to recommend another AI Startup, please feel free to comment below. We will feature them in the upcoming posts. #ai #aistartup Ajay Y. KD DESHPANDE