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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”…

Finisar (FNSR) is Apple’s 3rd largest VCSEL array supplier, accounting for about 5% of iPhone X VCSEL arrays. Tonight the company reported earnings for the Apr-18 quarter. Finisar continues to expect a ramp in VCSEL demand in their Oct-18 quarter,…

Brave early adopters are the hallmark of an innovation set to create immense human value. In this story, the innovation is cutting-edge technology for interfacing with the nervous system, and the brave early adopter is Ian Burkhart. Ian, a young…

Neurotechnology has long been a passion for Loup Ventures because we think it represents a vast and open opportunity to improve human life via both restoration and augmentation. Brain-computer interfaces are one of the most compelling areas in the neurotech…

We hear a lot about the exploding budgets that tech giants are spending on original content as consumers continue to cut the cord. In the last few years, some of the same players have started to add live sports to…

Today, Apple said loudly and clearly that the customer is always right. There were more new features for users than there were new tools for developers: screen time limits, monitoring, and reports, grouped notifications, Do Not Disturb at bedtime, Siri…