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Amazon Prime Day — one of Amazon’s greatest inventions — starts on Monday, June 16th at 12 PM PT. Prime Day 2018 will last 36 hours (+6 hours y/y) and will be available in 17 countries (4 more than last…

Yesterday, Techcrunch reported that Apple’s head of AI, John Giannandrea, will take responsibility of Siri from Craig Federighi. This formalizes our April expectation that Apple’s voice program should be moved into its AI group. Voice is currently one of the…

We’re investing in Bumblebee Spaces as a play on AI and robotics helping to solve the problem of escalating housing costs. The company has a modular ceiling system to address storage needs. Bumblebee users can store a desk, bed, closet,…

Bioelectronic medicine is like a medical supplies aircraft flying close to the surface of the sea: significant promise, and under the radar. As a field, bioelectronic medicine (BEM) is a paradigm shift from existing medicine: instead of treating patients by…

Security tokens will enhance the liquidity of private security offerings, provided there is sufficient on-going information about those companies available to investors, but this liquidity will also have another effect: real-time mark to market. In today’s private securities markets, mark…

Today, Reuters reported that Tesla nearly hit its goal of producing 5,000 Model 3s in the final week of the June quarter. Tesla reportedly hit the 5,000 per week mark at 5 AM today (7/1/18), just hours after the deadline.…

As we hit the halfway point of 2018, we wanted to check in on one of our boldest predictions for the year: Amazon will acquire Target in 2018. So far, we’ve been wrong. Getting the timing correct is difficult, and every…

Security tokens provide many benefits to underlying assets, the most important of which is liquidity. However, liquidity doesn’t just happen because you build the technology to tokenize assets and the exchanges to trade them. There are other important parts to…

Last Friday, Dave & Busters rolled out Jurassic World VR Expedition (JWVRE) at 114 locations, making it the most widely available location-based VR experience. We gave it a try and loved it. What’s unique is the combination of experience, duration,…

Bloomberg reported on April 23rd that Amazon was working on a home robot, but specific use cases of the robot were unclear. Based on what we know about Amazon’s commerce strategy, filed patents, product speculation, and competitive landscape we believe…

Dr. Ramses Alcaide is the CEO and Founder of Neurable, a Loup Ventures portfolio company focused on non-invasive BCI. Ramses earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Washington in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the…

As part of our work on security tokens, we did an analysis to see how major companies are investing in the general blockchain space. The analysis consisted of a search on LinkedIn for how many individuals had listed “Blockchain” or “Cryptocurrency”…