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David Magerman of Differential Ventures On How To Effectively Leverage Data To Take Your Company To The Next Level

Be open with your employees about how data is being used. People don’t like to be manipulated by tools or management. A few years ago, we looked at a startup that was using data generated by work tools, like email, Slack, and other communication tools, to evaluate how employees were collaborating. They planned to deploy this tool to help managers and human resources departments identify employees that weren’t integrating with their teams, weren’t being managed well, and might be likely to want to leave their jobs.

 

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On the Record with Moshe Hecht Hatch.AI Founder & CEO
On the Record with Moshe Hecht Hatch.AI Founder & CEO

Differential goes on the record with Moshe Hecht, an award-winning philanthropic futurist and innovator, reshaping the world of giving through technology and data solutions. The founder and CEO of Hatch, he is a dedicated philanthropist and has been published in Forbes, Guidestar, and Nonprofit Pro.

Driving Sustainability through Employee Benefits with Scope Zero CEO Lizzy Kolar
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Driving Sustainability through Employee Benefits with Scope Zero CEO Lizzy Kolar
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The WorkplaceTech Spotlight host Hadeel Al-Tashi sits down with Lizzy Kolar, Co-Founder and CEO of Scope Zero to dive into how Scope Zero's Carbon Savings Account (CSA) empowers employees to make affordable home technology and transportation upgrades while aligning with corporate sustainability goals. They discuss how the CSA not only supports environmental and financial wellness for employees but also strengthens a company's commitment to sustainability. Don't miss this opportunity to learn how integrating green benefits can drive meaningful impact within your organization.

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Hatch. AI Closes a $3 Million Seed Round
Pienso
Hatch. AI Closes a $3 Million Seed Round
Pienso

Hatch AI, a groundbreaking intelligence platform for nonprofits, announced a $3 million raise in seed funding, led by Differential. Read the full press announcement at the link below.

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Pienso: Putting AI into the hands of people with problems to solve
Pienso
Pienso: Putting AI into the hands of people with problems to solve
Pienso

MIT News: Alumni-founded Pienso has developed a user-friendly AI builder so domain experts can build solutions without writing any code.

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On the Record with Nate Cavanaugh, CoFounder & Co-CEO of FlowFi
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On the Record with Nate Cavanaugh, CoFounder & Co-CEO of FlowFi
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On the Record with Nate Cavanaugh, CoFounder & Co-CEO of FlowFi.

In 2021, Nate co-founded of FlowFi, a SaaS-enabled marketplace that connects startups and SMBs with finance experts. FlowFi has raised $10M from top VC firms including Blumberg Capital, Differential Ventures, Clocktower Ventures and Precursor Ventures, and generated 7-figures of annual recurring revenue in its first year.

Nate was nominated to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Enterprise Technology.

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FlowFi Closes on $9M in Seed Funding
FlowFi
FlowFi Closes on $9M in Seed Funding
FlowFi

TECHCRUNCH: FlowFi, a startup creating a marketplace of finance experts for entrepreneurs, closed on $9 million in seed funding.

Blumberg Capital led the investment and was joined by a group of investors including Parade Ventures, Differential Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Special Ventures, 14 Peaks Capital and Cooley LLP.

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Cyolo’s Almog Apirion on Nasdaq TradeTalks
Cyolo
Cyolo’s Almog Apirion on Nasdaq TradeTalks
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NASDAQ: Nasdaq TradeTalks: 2024 Cybersecurity Budget Outlook with Almog Apirion, Cyolo.

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Retrocausal Raises $5.3M in Financing
Retrocausal
Retrocausal Raises $5.3M in Financing
Retrocausal

FINSMES: Retrocausal, a Seattle, WA-based platform provider for manufacturing process management, raised $5.3M in funding.

The round was led by Glasswing Ventures, One Way Ventures, and Indicator Ventures, with participation from existing investors Argon Ventures, Differential Ventures, Ascend Vietnam Ventures, Incubate Fund US, SaaS Ventures, Hypertherm Ventures, Stage Venture Partners, and Techstars.

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Nick Adams Discusses How To Get Your Generative AI Startup Funded
Differential Ventures
Nick Adams Discusses How To Get Your Generative AI Startup Funded
Differential Ventures

AI and the Future of Work Podcast: Entrepreneurs wonder what it’s like to be a VC. And VCs without an operating background often don’t understand the grit required to turn an idea into a successful business. The best investors have been successful operators first.

Today’s guest is one of those. Nick Adams founded Differential Ventures in 2017 to invest in B2B, data-first seed-stage companies. Since then, Nick and the team have invested in an impressive group of companies including Private AI, Ocrolus, and Agnostiq.

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On the Record with Elissa Ross, CoFounder & CEO of Metafold
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On the Record with Elissa Ross, CoFounder & CEO of Metafold
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On the Record with Elissa Ross, CoFounder & CEO of Metafold. Elissa Ross is a mathematician and the CEO of Toronto-based startup Metafold 3D. Metafold makes an engineering design platform for additive manufacturing, with an emphasis on supporting engineers using metamaterials, lattices and microstructures at industrial scales. Elissa holds a PhD in discrete geometry (2011), and worked as an industrial geometry consultant for the 8 years prior to cofounding Metafold. Metafold is the result of observations made in the consulting context about the challenges and opportunities of 3D printing.

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Nick Adams: What Regulations Need to Be Put in Place to Ensure the Safe Use of AI in the U.S.?
Differential Ventures
Nick Adams: What Regulations Need to Be Put in Place to Ensure the Safe Use of AI in the U.S.?
Differential Ventures

Nick Adams on PM360: To get a better grasp on what eventual AI regulations could and should look like, PM360 spoke with Nick Adams, Founding Partner at Differential Ventures. In addition to starting the venture capital firm focused on AI/machine learning in 2018, Adams is also a member of the cybersecurity and national security subcommittee for the National Venture Capital Association and recently briefed members of Congress on AI policy and potential regulation.

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Metafold 3D Closes $2.35 Million CAD To Fuel Industrial Adoption of 3D Printing
Metafold
Metafold 3D Closes $2.35 Million CAD To Fuel Industrial Adoption of 3D Printing
Metafold

BETAKIT: Metafold 3D, which wants to make it easier for manufacturers to design and 3D print complex parts, has secured $2.35 million CAD ($1.78 million USD) in seed funding.

Toronto-based Metafold was founded in 2020 by a group of math, geometry, and architecture experts in CEO Elissa Ross, CTO Daniel Hambleton, and COO Tom Reslinski. Born out of Hambleton’s geometry-focused consulting agency, Mesh Consultants, Metafold sells design for additive-manufacturing software to sportswear and biopharmaceutical companies.

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Nick Adams: Where’s AI headed in the workplace? VCs weigh in
Differential Ventures
Nick Adams: Where’s AI headed in the workplace? VCs weigh in
Differential Ventures

Nick Adams on TECHBREW: For all the pixels spilled about the promises of generative AI, it’s starting to feel like we’re telling the same story over and over again. AI is serviceable at document summarization and shows promise in customer service applications. But it generates fictions (the industry prefers the euphemistic and anthropomorphizing term “hallucinates”) and is limited by the data on which it’s trained.

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Mona Introduces Free, Self-Service Monitoring for GPT Applications
Mona
Mona Introduces Free, Self-Service Monitoring for GPT Applications
Mona

ATLANTA and TEL AVIV, Israel, June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Mona, the leading intelligent monitoring platform, unveils a new monitoring solution for GPT-based applications. The free, self-service offering provides businesses with granular visibility into GPT-based products and valuable insights into costs, performance, and quality.

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David Magerman: Artificial Intelligence’s Glass Ceiling
Differential Ventures
David Magerman: Artificial Intelligence’s Glass Ceiling
Differential Ventures

David Magerman on THEINFORMATION: OpenAI’s stated goal is to develop and promote a software system capable of artificial general intelligence. Toward that end, the company has released systems based on large-language models, which can respond to prompts with fluent conversation on many subjects. ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Bing chatbot and other new systems based on OpenAI’s GPT-3 and GPT-4 models are truly incredible and perform far beyond previous attempts at achieving AGI.

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Morgan Stanley at Work Launches Carver Edison’s Cashless Participation®
Carver Edison
Morgan Stanley at Work Launches Carver Edison’s Cashless Participation®
Carver Edison

BUSINESSWIRE: Morgan Stanley at Work and Carver Edison, a financial technology company, announced today that Shareworks has joined Equity Edge Online® in offering Cashless Participation® to U.S.-based corporate clients. Since the initial launch of Cashless Participation® on Equity Edge Online®, stock plan participants have purchased more than one million shares1 with Cashless Participation®. Now that Shareworks has also launched the tool, a wider cohort of Morgan Stanley at Work corporate clients will have access.

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Nick Adams on Fox5: Artificial Intelligence Pros and Cons
Differential Ventures
Nick Adams on Fox5: Artificial Intelligence Pros and Cons
Differential Ventures

FOX5 WASHINGTON DC: Nick Adams discusses the pros and cons of Artificial intelligence.

Differential Ventures
Differential Ventures Specializes In Being Advisors For AI Companies
Differential Ventures
Differential Ventures Specializes In Being Advisors For AI Companies
Differential Ventures

PULSE 2.0: Differential Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital fund that was founded by data scientists and entrepreneurs for data-focused entrepreneurs. To learn more about the firm, Pulse 2.0 interviewed Differential Ventures’ managing partner and co-founder Nick Adams.

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Golioth Secures $4.6M Seed Funding to Accelerate Time-to-Market for IoT
Golioth
Golioth Secures $4.6M Seed Funding to Accelerate Time-to-Market for IoT
Golioth

IoTForAll: Golioth, a leading developer platform for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), announced open access to a library of new reference designs for embedded engineers to accelerate their time to market, the launch of a Select Partner Program for energy and construction developers, and the completion of a $4.6M round of seed funding led by Blackhorn Ventures and Differential Ventures with participation from existing investors, Zetta Venture Partners, MongoDB Ventures and Lorimer Ventures.

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PrivateAI’s PrivateGPT aims to combat ChatGPT privacy concerns
Private AI
PrivateAI’s PrivateGPT aims to combat ChatGPT privacy concerns
Private AI

VENTURE BEAT: Data privacy provider Private AI, announced the launch of PrivateGPT, a “privacy layer” for large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The new tool is designed to automatically redact sensitive information and personally identifiable information (PII) from user prompts.

Private AI
Quantum commercialization: softly, softly towards the inevitable future
Differential Ventures
Quantum commercialization: softly, softly towards the inevitable future
Differential Ventures

DIGINOMICA: What can an early-stage investor tell enterprises about the nascent quantum market?

The quantum tipping point – that fabled moment when quantum technologies break through to commercial adoption at scale – has been questioned in a previous diginomica report…

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Why Investors Bank on Quantum Commercialization
Differential Ventures
Why Investors Bank on Quantum Commercialization
Differential Ventures

ENTER QUANTUM: Experts agree that commercial quantum computing at scale could be as much as 10 years away, but this hasn’t stopped investors from betting on it turning a profit in the near future. U.S. tech venture capital company Differential Ventures led the recent $6 million seed extension round for quantum software company Agnostiq which it will use to accelerate further development and commercialization of its enterprise-grade quantum and high-performance computing platform Covalent.

In this Q&A, Differential founding partner David Magerman explains why investors are throwing their weight behind commercial quantum now.

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Banking in Venture Capital & the Tech Industry
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Banking in Venture Capital & the Tech Industry
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On Tuesday, April 25th, 2023, Differential Ventures hosted a webinar on “Banking in Venture Capital & the Tech Industry”. The panel was moderated by David Magerman, Managing Partner of Differential Ventures, and joined by guest speakers Michael Crook (Chief Investment Officer, Mill Creek Capital Advisers), Samir Kaji (CEO & Cofounder, Allocate), and Matt Streisfeld (General Partner, Oak HC/FT).

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Differential Ventures partners with Betaworks for AICamp: Augment
Differential Ventures
Differential Ventures partners with Betaworks for AICamp: Augment
Differential Ventures

AICamp: Augment is a 3 month long accelerator program run by Betaworks, aimed at bringing together the most creative pre-seed & seed stage companies building software powered by AI to augment human activity.

Differential Ventures
Agnostiq Closes $6.1M Seed Extension Round
Agnostiq
Agnostiq Closes $6.1M Seed Extension Round
Agnostiq

Quantum computing startup Agnostiq Inc. said today, April 5, 2023, it has closed on a seed funding round worth $6.1 million to help accelerate the development of its enterprise-grade quantum and high-performance computing platform.

Agnostiq
Nick Adams: What to Do When Your Balance Sheet Doesn’t
Differential Ventures
Nick Adams: What to Do When Your Balance Sheet Doesn’t
Differential Ventures

Sand Hill Road Podcast: Nick Adams joined the Sand Hill Road podcast to discuss the way startups can survive a downturn.

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David Magerman: Why Sophistication Will Win Out In The Machine Learning Ops Sector
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David Magerman: Why Sophistication Will Win Out In The Machine Learning Ops Sector
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UniteAI: There’s no question that machine learning operations (MLOps) is a burgeoning sector. The market is projected to reach $700 million by 2025 – almost four times what it was in 2020.

Still, while technically sound and powerful, these solutions haven’t generated the expected revenue, which has raised concerns about future growth.

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The Implications of Generative AI in Different Parts of Industry & Society
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The Implications of Generative AI in Different Parts of Industry & Society
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On Thursday, March 16th, Differential Ventures hosted our first webinar entitled Implications of Generative AI in Different Parts of Industry + Society. The panel was moderated by David Magerman, Managing Partner of Differential Ventures, and joined by guest speakers Sharon Zhang (Cofounder & CTO, Personal.ai), Erik Bernhardsson (Founder, Modal Labs), and Adam Oliner (Founder & CEO, Graft).

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The Seed of Success
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The Seed of Success
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Welcome to the "Private Placement Perspective," a new pod storm series hosted by Matt Brown. In this first series of 2023, Matt dives deep into the world of venture capital and investing, speaking with investors and CEOs who have successfully helped scale start-ups.

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How to Pitch Me
Differential Ventures, All
How to Pitch Me
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TECHCRUNCH: How to pitch me—7 investors discuss what they’re looking for in March 2023

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