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🚀 1849 bio launched! Microbes for miners "Optimizing microbes for mining" 💡 🌐 www.1849.bio 💰 Bioleaching solutions that work on difficult-to-process ores, like chalcopyrite, unlocking billions of dollars of value currently trapped in uneconomical materials. ⛏️ Faster metal extraction timelines, getting miners their cash faster. ♻️ Low CapEx, sustainable metal extraction. Solutions that fit into existing mine infrastructure and processes. Congrats, Jai Padmakumar & Yongjin Park!! https://lnkd.in/gYzCswXp

"The fear of mistakes is the fast track to irrelevance." — Joe G., Co-founder of Airbnb

One of the best ways to acquire customers early on? Talk to your current ones. Don't wait for perfection; it's okay to show your products early, even if they're not "fully baked" Aaron Lee, Founder & CEO of Smith.ai, on iterating products through customer feedback ⤵️

🚀 Undermind launched! Elevate your research with a radically thorough AI research assistant 🔎 "𝐴 𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑥 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠" 💡 🌐 www.undermind.ai 📚 Started by two quantum physics PhDs from MIT, with decades of experience in deep research, it's like "Google for scientific research" 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝? ⤵ ▶ ❌ 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦: 50 million researchers searching for scientific literature on PubMed and Google Scholar every month, and these tools are insufficient for complex research queries, often requiring hours to sift through mostly irrelevant results. ▶ ✅ 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Undermind has rebuilt search from the ground up, mimicking how a human researcher carefully discovers information. Their AI agent adapts based on what it finds, providing results that are 10-50x better than traditional keyword search engines. 🧠 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝: Undermind's AI research assistant finds exactly what you need, no matter how complex. It carefully reads through hundreds of papers for you, identifying the very best resources, driving crucial insights. ⏱ 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐮𝐧𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲: Radically better research, radically faster. ⚡ ⚙️ 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐭 ▶ Just write down your complex research topic, describing exactly what you want, as if to a colleague. After 2-3 minutes, Undermind will give you the precisely relevant articles you need. 🎯 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐬: Geared toward experts like research scientists and doctors, who need to find very specific resources to solve high-stakes problems. The Undermind team aims to expand their technology into law, consulting, and other areas requiring focused research solutions. ⭐️ 𝐓𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞: https://lnkd.in/dxvHgzes Congrats on the launch Joshua Ramette & Thomas Hartke!! https://lnkd.in/d5N-TZc4

"I like to say that the one thing that all people who succeed in changing the world have in common is that they at least tried." — Kevin Systrom

We are excited to share that we've secured $5 million in seed funding from 40 top-tier venture capital firms and tech executives. This milestone will enable us to enhance our parsing and enrichment features for brokerage and estate documents and drive innovation across various wealth advisor workflows. Most recently, we launched an interactive AI chatbot designed to deliver instant, intelligent assistance and extract key insights from files. We are actively hiring for Engineering and Sales roles. If you're passionate about building innovative solutions, we want to hear from you! Y Combinator, General Catalyst, FundersClub, Elefund, Litquidity, Script Capital, Jon Xu (FutureAdvisor), Bryant Chou (Webflow) https://lnkd.in/gqgwaUVQ

The #1 challenge for most companies? Aligning people. "If you can be very authentic with your ideas, philosophies, values—repel the people that don't agree with them, and attract the people who do—you are going to have a much, much easier time building your company." Emery Wells, Founder of Frame.io, on authenticity in leadership ⤵️

🚀 Gauge (YC S24) launched! Solving the microservices/monolith dilemma "The Modular Monolith." ⚙️ 🌐 www.gauge.sh 🛠️ Gauge is building open source tools to solve the microservices/monolith dilemma. They're doing this by enabling teams to build a modular monolith. 💯 With their first tool, Tach, you get the benefits of microservices without the extra complexity Tach lets you define and enforce module boundaries across your project. Preserve a clean architecture automatically with one line in your CI pipeline ⤵️ ✅ Easy Setup: Define boundaries interactively, right in your terminal ⏲️ Fast: Built with Rust for blazing fast static analysis 📊 Open Source: Tach is entirely open source and permissively licensed (MIT) 🛡️ Powerful: Enforce a public interface for each module with strict mode 🌟 They’re currently live in production with a number of companies, have over 100k downloads, and over 500 stars on GitHub 💥 In the short term, Gauge is building tools to help you scale a modular monolith. Long term, Gauge is building a way to deploy a single codebase as a set of independent services, giving you the scalability of microservices with the simplicity of a monolith - allowing you to maintain velocity as your team scales. ❓ Are you undergoing a microservices <> monolith migration? They’d love to learn from your experience! ❓ Are you scaling a Python monorepo? Give Tach a try (and a ⭐)! It’s open source and free: https://lnkd.in/g68FM4AM 🗓️ If any of the above resonates with you, grab a time with the founders here!: https://cal.com/caelean/30 Congrats on the launch Caelean Barnes & Evan Doyle!! https://lnkd.in/gCauNgv8

"I mentor a lot of CEOs and entrepreneurs, and when I see that product is the number-one thing, the only thing that matters, that's a real red flag." — Marc Benioff

This is one of our most requested features at Fondo Now you can 👍review and 📫send custom 📊financial reports to your team and investors in just a few clicks Very excited about this launch & making our customers’ lives just a little bit easier— incredible work by the Fondolorians!