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Due to advancements in technology, as well as consumers’ growing appetite for locally grown leafy greens and vegetables that are both high in nutritional value and come with improved taste, an evolution is underway in the agriculture space. This is…

Apple’s key iPhone X augmented reality component supplier, Lumentum (LITE), reported better than expected Jun-18 quarter results ($301M vs expected $287M). Upside in the quarter was driven by sooner than anticipated ramp in the AR/3D sensing business. The company continues…

Today Apple became the first U.S. company in history to reach a $1 trillion market cap. What it tells us: In the long run doing the right thing is rewarded. Focus on one product, perfect it, protect user privacy, practice supplier…

We are positive on the Tesla story given the company’s well-positioned product roadmap around EV, autonomy, solar, and storage. Tesla shares are up ~9% after hours as the company made progress on key pieces to the long-term sustainability of the…

Once every four years, the Loup Ventures team turns into big soccer fans. We’re attracted to the spirit of the World Cup, a truly global tournament, but the purity of the game and the tournament is often diluted by “The…

We asked Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa, and Cortana 800 questions each. This time, Google Assistant was able to answer 86% of them correctly vs. Siri at 79%, Alexa at 61%, and Cortana at 52%. As part of our ongoing effort…

iRobot reported a phenomenal Jun-18 quarter with results exceeding Street expectations across the board. The stock is currently up 15% on the results. These results further demonstrate iRobot’s dominance in the home robotics space. Following another quarter of higher than…

AMS AG, a 3D sensor provider to Apple, issued guidance ~9% higher than the Street for the Sep-18 quarter. This is further evidence that advanced 3D sensing and AR will be key features in the new iPhones coming this fall,…

Shares of GOOGL are trading up ~3.5% after hours as the company is defying the law of large numbers, growing revenue by 26% y/y vs. 26% in Mar-18, 23% in FY17, and 20% in FY16. AI, for the first time,…

At Loup Ventures, research is in our blood. The spirit of our team has always lived on the curiosity to discover new insights that yield investment opportunities. For years we did this on Wall Street, focused on public tech companies.…

A year ago, we published AI Portfolio: Non-Tech Companies Making AI Investments. We’re following up to see how the portfolio performed over the last year. As a quick refresher, to build our portfolio we scraped the text of the most recent…

Dr. Matt Angle is the CEO and founder of Paradromics, a brain-computer interface company developing high-bandwidth implantable neural interfaces. Matt completed his B.S. in Biology at Carnegie Melon University and his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the Max Planck Institute. Top…