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Check out the latest piece by LSI’s Henry Peck, where he delves into the thought process behind medtech and healthtech industry investors who sometimes must prioritize between the quality of a founding team and the size of the market potential. Within the article, our own Kevin Chu, a Principal on our team focused on healthcare investments within the therapeutics, medical devices, and life science sectors, provided his industry insights. Kevin shares his own philosophy when it comes to venture investing, emphasizing that while sheer market potential is important, maximizing clinical benefit is the most critical, even if that means prioritizing a narrower indication, and that, more often than not, high quality teams are most adept at quickly finding this balance. See the link in comments to learn more. #healthcare #medtech #healthtech #venturecapital

Congratulations to Dr. Juergen Horn and the Invetx team on your acquisition by Dechra Pharmaceuticals. The combination of Invetx’s treatments for canine and feline chronic disease and Dechra’s specialty animal therapeutics business will help to improve the health and well-being of many animals in veterinary care. “We are thrilled to be joining forces with Dechra Pharmaceuticals, a global leader in animal health. Our pipeline of monoclonal antibody therapeutics for chronic, serious diseases in cats and dogs is highly complementary to Dechra’s broad portfolio of specialty therapeutics for companion animals and accelerates Dechra’s differentiated position in the veterinary health industry,” said Juergen Horn, Dr.med.vet., Ph.D., CEO and Founder of Invetx. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/egbhshV8 Anterra Capital │ Casdin Capital, LLC │ Eight Roads │ GV (Google Ventures) │ Novo Growth Partners, Inc. │ Tekla Capital Management Ketan Patel, M.D. │ Jessica Alston, Ph.D. │ Nikhil Ananth #veterinary #veterinarymedicine

Travel tech investment has been through a roller coaster of late. And while the market has cooled over the last couple of years, that isn't necessarily a bad thing. "We’ve only reverted to the levels we were at before a massive run up in the market," Gaurav recently told PhocusWire's Morgan Hines in an interview alongside Anna Schneider. "We're seeing great companies actually get funded now, and we're starting to wash through a lot of the noise and aftermath of the last two years." Check out the full interview and Phocuswire's summary via the links below👇

There's a lot of talk about AI's potential in financial services, but how are things actually playing out? John Lin and Zoey Tang found that predictive AI is already in wide use throughout the industry, but generative AI will become more popular over the next five years. As AI cuts the cost of financial services and wealth management by automating repetitive tasks, new entrants will need to differentiate themselves with unique offerings like access to alternative assets, lower prices and better customer service. At the same time, these new lower costs will allow new users with lower balances and spending potential to access new kinds of financial services for the first time. Read the full piece, including a bunch of examples, in the The Financial Revolutionist here:

Congratulations Canoe Intelligence! Excited to partner with Goldman Sachs and Eight Roads on the Series C. And if you have a subscription, check out Allie Garfinkle's coverage (complete with a Zoolander reference) in Fortune here: https://lnkd.in/gUCctedJ

Check out this episode of Travel Tech Insider, hosted by our friends Cara Whitehill and Gilad Berenstein and featuring Gaurav Tuli alongside Suzanna Chiu and Katelyn Foley. In it, the team breaks down the many paths available to travel tech entrepreneurs and operators within the current market: - What, if anything, has changed for the ecosystem in the past year? - Are we bullish or bearish on where the innovation market is heading for travel, hospitality and mobility? - If you’re a startup in this space, how should you be thinking about fundraising now? - And if you’re heading up innovation within a corporate enterprise, how can you best capitalize on the new ideas coming to market so you don’t get left behind?

We had way too much fun at our annual Summer Soiree with New York-based founders, investors, and operators last week! Did we miss you this time? Join our events list here: https://lnkd.in/e5PPSQh7

Congratulations to Waabi, Bright Machines, GrayMatter Robotics, Vecna Robotics , Formic, Kinetic, Planted Solar, coboworx, ARX Robotics, Eyebot, and MORFO on raising new funding last month. Check out all the details on the robotics industry's most important funding rounds for June via our Robotics Roundup newsletter — link in the usual spot 👇 Questions? Get in touch with Sanjay Aggarwal and Betsy Mulé