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Conor McLaughlin reposted thisConor McLaughlin reposted thisEfforts to establish the death toll in the Iranian protests are confounded by the regime’s internet blockade, but even the most conservative estimates take the tally way beyond some of the most brutal political crackdowns in modern history. https://on.wsj.com/4bAjiHA A week after Iran’s authoritarian leaders moved to crush the antigovernment protests, human-rights groups say they are piecing together evidence of what looks set to be the deadliest episode of political repression in the country since the 1980s, when the Iranian government executed thousands of political prisoners as it consolidated power in the wake of the 1979 revolution. Death counts vary widely, but consensus is building that thousands of people have been killed. Even the lowest estimates—between 2,000 and 3,000—have surged past the death tolls in unrest during protests in 2019 and 2022. If the figures emerging from the current violence are roughly accurate, they exceed crackdowns including Egypt’s mass killing of demonstrators in Cairo following a military coup in 2013, and China’s Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. Upper estimates of death tolls in those cases reached just over 1,000, though those figures are also contested. 🔗 Read more: https://on.wsj.com/4bAjiHA
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Conor McLaughlin reposted thisConor McLaughlin reposted this‼️ Clearpol Clinical AI In Action ‼️ Significant weight loss documented. Care plan goal: maintain weight. Gap identified: no escalation or intervention adjustment despite the trend. 🌟Clearpol's Clinical AI caught the pattern before it progressed to malnutrition. The regulatory risk: F692 — Nutrition-Hydration Status Maintenance. This is cited when facilities fail to maintain nutritional status or don't adjust interventions when decline is evident. Weight loss >5% in 30 days triggers immediate survey scrutiny. What the AI identified: ✅ Substantial weight loss over a short period ✅ Care plan goal of weight maintenance being missed ✅ No documented reassessment or intervention changes ✅ Classic "monitoring without acting" pattern What happened next: • Immediate re-weigh to confirm accuracy • Focused assessment for underlying causes • Physician and dietitian notified STAT • Labs ordered and nutritional supplements initiated This is exactly what F692 citations target: the gap between recognizing decline and responding to it. Weight loss trends are easy to miss across multiple shifts, but devastating when they escalate. 💡 The difference between compliant care and citations often comes down to connecting the dots between documented observations and timely interventions. How does your facility ensure nutritional decline triggers immediate action? Schedule a demo here to learn more: https://lnkd.in/g2eG9YNp #F692 #LongTermCare #PostAcuteCare #SkilledNursing #ClinicalCompliance #NursingHomeRegulations #QualityOfCare #PatientSafety #clearpol
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Conor McLaughlin reposted thisConor McLaughlin reposted thisPointClickCare and clearpol Inc. go together like 🍩 + ☕️. We are proud to partner with PointClickCare, and it was a joy meeting more of the knowledgeable PCC team members working hard to help #healthcare providers and plans improve quality and affordability with their incredibly powerful #CareCoordination platform at CA Association of Health Plans 24 🙌❤️
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Conor McLaughlin reposted thisConor McLaughlin reposted this🏥 How AI is Changing Healthcare compliance 🏥 In a world where healthcare is one of the most heavily regulated industries, the stakes are high for healthcare providers. Fines, loss of government reimbursement and license revocation are some of the penalities for non-compliance. In an interview with Arash Hosseini Jafari M.S. and Faddy Sunna of clearpol Inc., the Co-Founders shed light on the challenge for US healthcare administrators in meeting the ever-complex compliance landscape at both the state and federal level, only to be made worse by the ongoing shortage of healthcare staff. Thankfully with AI, Clearpol is revolutionizing healthcare compliance. With their innovative platform, Clearpol is not only helping facilities understand the complex web of regulations but also in automating the implementation process to ensure that it is in line with best practices. Imagine having a second pair of eyes on your compliance operations, ensuring that everything from patient admission to discharge is in line with federal, state, and local guidelines. By integrating with internal systems, Clearpol empowers clinicians to focus more on what truly matters—patient care. With AI as a co-pilot, healthcare practitioners can navigate the regulatory landscape with confidence, enhancing quality and safety in care delivery. Watch the full interview to learn how Clearpol is making a difference in the healthcare industry! clearpol Inc. is a portfolio company of Vertex Ventures US #Healthcare #AIinHealthcare #Clearpol #PatientCare #Compliance #AI
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Conor McLaughlin shared thisConor McLaughlin shared thisThe The New York Times had a great podcast two weeks ago highlighting how much SF has changed since COVID started. All over the Bay Area, many people are still working from home. What happens if you're a new startup founder? What does this mean for you and how can you combat the challenges of a distributed workforce. Check out my advice for founders in my latest blog: https://lnkd.in/gnYjhefe Also, startup founders looking for an accelerator to take your startup to the next level - don't miss your chance to apply to Berkeley SkyDeck's Batch 16. Deadline is Feb 24th!!! Chon Tang Caroline Winnett Jun Jiang Ekin Günaysu Brian Bordley Riddhi Khanna Capucine du Besset Linda K. Alan Leong Jeep Kline Karén Gyulbudaghyan Ciaran Quinn Marc Meyer Darren CookeNYT says San Francisco is dead. What does that mean for new startup founders?NYT says San Francisco is dead. What does that mean for new startup founders?
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Conor McLaughlin shared thisConor McLaughlin shared thisCheck out Berkeley SkyDeck's latest video showcasing alumni founders talking about their experience and journey in fundraising. The video just went live! Fundraising can be a long and challenging journey, but with the help of an accelerator like SkyDeck, it does not have to be that way. If you're a startup founder looking for a home to help take your startup to the next level, check out this video and be sure to apply to SkyDeck's Batch 15 cohort before Mon, Sept 5th via our website. https://lnkd.in/eS4Ff3Fq Jonathan Tan Raj Bains Iris Wedeking Lindsey Hoell David K. Iyamah Chon Tang Brian Bordley Riddhi Khanna Capucine du Besset Caroline Winnett Rich Lyons Darren Cooke Marc Meyer Ursheet P.The Berkeley SkyDeck Fund: A Startup’s Gateway to InvestmentThe Berkeley SkyDeck Fund: A Startup’s Gateway to Investment
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Conor McLaughlin shared thisCouldn't be more proud of Darius Mahtani Cheung, Yan Phun, Ming Hwee Chong, Nhat Quang Nguyen and the many others in 99 for continuing to carry the torch forward to elevate the real estate industry of Southeast Asia. Please help the team in their efforts to bring ever more transparency and reliability to the ecosystem by following the 99 Group!Conor McLaughlin shared this99 Group, which operates the fastest growing online property platform in Southeast Asia, raises US$52m in a Series C round, with US$37 million completed at the first close and a further US$15 million to be raised over coming months, of which majority has already been committed. This more than doubles the total capital raised of 99 Group to over US$80 million. CEO and Founder of 99 Group, Darius Cheung, said “We see tremendous opportunities in these uncertain global markets and our conviction in Southeast Asia’s growth remains steadfast. This is the perfect timing to raise capital as we have established leadership in core markets and are ready to expand to new markets with all the technology, experience and operational capabilities we have built. Having a strong balance sheet will also allow us to react with agility and decisiveness to potential M&A opportunities, which we predict are going to come in abundance.” 99 Group operates four major property platforms across Singapore and Indonesia, including 99.co, Rumah123.com, srx.com.sg and iproperty.com.sg. It has seen over eight times growth in sales from Q1 2019 to Q1 2022, and over four times growth in traffic to 30 million per month over the same period. 99 Group doubled its agent subscriber base in Singapore since the acquisition of SRX and established itself as a clear leader in the market, and is the number one dominant marketplace in Indonesia with over 70% audience market share. READ MORE English Version: https://bit.ly/3bdN6gB Indonesian Version: https://bit.ly/3oBt6HR —------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are very grateful for the immense support from our team at 99 Group, developers, real estate agents, homeowners, partners, and of course, our beloved consumers. The future is bright and we will continue our strive to be the simplest and most trusted property marketplace in South East Asia. #99Group #Lifeat99Group
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Conor McLaughlin shared thisConor McLaughlin shared this99 Group, which operates the fastest growing online property platform in Southeast Asia, raises US$52m in a Series C round, with US$37 million completed at the first close and a further US$15 million to be raised over coming months, of which majority has already been committed. This more than doubles the total capital raised of 99 Group to over US$80 million. CEO and Founder of 99 Group, Darius Cheung, said “We see tremendous opportunities in these uncertain global markets and our conviction in Southeast Asia’s growth remains steadfast. This is the perfect timing to raise capital as we have established leadership in core markets and are ready to expand to new markets with all the technology, experience and operational capabilities we have built. Having a strong balance sheet will also allow us to react with agility and decisiveness to potential M&A opportunities, which we predict are going to come in abundance.” 99 Group operates four major property platforms across Singapore and Indonesia, including 99.co, Rumah123.com, srx.com.sg and iproperty.com.sg. It has seen over eight times growth in sales from Q1 2019 to Q1 2022, and over four times growth in traffic to 30 million per month over the same period. 99 Group doubled its agent subscriber base in Singapore since the acquisition of SRX and established itself as a clear leader in the market, and is the number one dominant marketplace in Indonesia with over 70% audience market share. READ MORE English Version: https://bit.ly/3bdN6gB Indonesian Version: https://bit.ly/3oBt6HR —------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are very grateful for the immense support from our team at 99 Group, developers, real estate agents, homeowners, partners, and of course, our beloved consumers. The future is bright and we will continue our strive to be the simplest and most trusted property marketplace in South East Asia. #99Group #Lifeat99Group
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Conor McLaughlin liked thisConor McLaughlin liked thisSora shutting down doesn’t surprise me. The problem was never video generation. It was what came after the generation. When your “product” is a 10-second clip with no story, users watch once… then leave. There’s nothing to come back for. You can’t build a durable content platform on isolated clips. Here’s the part most people miss: IP isn’t a character design. You could license every Disney / Warner property on the planet and still fail, because story is a system: structure, character arcs, pacing, cinematography, composition, performance, production design, editing, sound. Without that full stack, you’re just making a very expensive filter. Foundation models will keep getting better at pixels. But the companies that win in AI video won’t be the ones with the best model. They’ll be the ones building the story layer—the part that makes narrative quality repeatable, not accidental. That’s what we’ve been building at Storyverse AI from day one: a Director-level AI “movie-crew” system that turns ideas into cinematic narrative video, beyond “slop clips.” We're not building a better filter. We're building the system that turns great stories into cinematic worlds. #AIVideo #Storytelling #Creators #Microdrama #GenerativeAI #MediaTech #Startups #siliconvalley
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Conor McLaughlin liked thisConor McLaughlin liked thisI haven't touched Drupal in over 15 years... But I thought I'd try and deploy it with devpu.sh. And somehow, it worked (after a bit of wrangling and some drush magic). I'm sure there are some rough edges, but good enough to show that you can deploy pretty much anything on /dev/push. Let me know if you have comments on making PHP or Drupal support better. GitHub repo I deployed in the demo: https://lnkd.in/gXacCAN2
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Conor McLaughlin liked thisConor McLaughlin liked thisThis happened because three forces converged - AI collapses build time (Afternoon vs. two weeks) - Distribution mature (Ship Monday, users Wednesday) - Long Tail Addressable (Niches too small for enterprises, big enough for one creator) As once mobile engineer, I am interested what my fellow engineers are building. If I were building for mobile, I would focus on mastering local inference/edge on mobile. Reasons: - get ahead of the curve who are doing cloud inference - reduce inference cost & keep your user data & behaviours as a moat - can put premium price tag on data privacy & safety
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Conor McLaughlin liked thisWe're launching NyanTrace—a middleware that sits between your agents and the real world. So when compliance asks "what happened," you have an answer.Conor McLaughlin liked thisLet's talk about the Rise of Autonomous AI Agents 🤖 The deployment of autonomous AI agents is shifting business strategies from passive, generative AI chatbots to active, goal-oriented systems capable of independently executing complex, multi-step workflows. While these agents offer significant productivity gains—often estimated at 40-60% for specific, standardized processes—their deployment presents substantial hurdles, including high implementation costs, technical complexity, and data security risk. By 2028, it is projected that 15% of work decisions will be made autonomously by agentic AI, compared to nearly 0% in 2024. The focus is shifting toward multi-agent orchestration, in which specialized agents collaborate to solve complex, cross-functional problems. Autonomous AI agents are increasingly deployed in a wide range of high-impact domains, where their ability to perceive, reason, act, and adapt brings measurable improvements in efficiency, accuracy, and scalability. Key areas of application: 1. Healthcare: Clinical Assistants, Surgical Robots, Virtual Therapists. 2. Finance: Trading Agents, Robo-Advisors, Fraud Detection. 3. Manufacturing and Industry 4.0: Smart Factory Bots, Predictive Maintenance. 4. Logistics and Transportation: Autonomous Vehicles, AI Dispatch Systems. 5. Cybersecurity: Network Defense Agents, Adversarial Agents. 6. Scientific Discovery: Autonomous Laboratory Agents, Applications. 7. Education and Learning: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, AI Mentors. However, delegating decisions to non-human entities raises critical concerns, mainly about the regulatory, technical, and governance frameworks required to manage the deployment and observability of such intelligent systems. Nyantrace was born to enable companies to confidently scale AI deployments by providing real-time visibility into coordination between autonomous agents. We don't want more enterprises to abandon AI deployments, we want to provide a trust layer.
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Conor McLaughlin liked thisCongrats! But don’t get too comfortable - have a feeling this won’t be the last expansion.Conor McLaughlin liked thisWe are excited to announce our new 24,000sq foot GLP compliant, highly automated, bioanalysis lab in Waltham MA! The facility expansion means we can help more biotech companies stop waiting months for data that should take days. Same transparent pricing, same automation-first approach, bigger scale. Most CROs take 4-6 weeks for bioanalysis. We're still delivering in days - now with over 5x the capacity. We already running projects in the new facility and can take on new work as soon as you need it, no long wait times with Dash. If you're tired of traditional CRO bottlenecks slowing down your development timelines, let's talk. https://lnkd.in/gTXZh5YXDash Bio Expands Operations with 24,000 Square Foot GLP-Compliant Facility in Waltham, MA. February 3, 2026Dash Bio Expands Operations with 24,000 Square Foot GLP-Compliant Facility in Waltham, MA. February 3, 2026
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Conor McLaughlin liked thisConor McLaughlin liked thisPeople who are running Clawdbot, make sure that your agents are following Agents Rule of Two to stay safe and not get pwned. What is Agents Rule of Two? At a high level, the Agents Rule of Two states that until robustness research allows us to reliably detect and refuse prompt injection, agents must satisfy no more than two of the following three properties within a session to avoid the highest impact consequences of prompt injection. [A] An agent can process untrustworthy inputs [B] An agent can have access to sensitive systems or private data [C] An agent can change state or communicate externally Read more here from Meta: https://lnkd.in/gz93rbZe
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Conor McLaughlin liked thisConor McLaughlin liked thisOnly in 2026 can you wake up, do your normal little routine, coffee brewed, emails mentally drafted, laptop halfway open and then boom 💥 “Surprise All Hands” on the calendar. By 9:07 AM you’re disabled from everything. Slack? Gone. Email? Gone. Badge access? A distant memory. Layoff season has arrived. #Layoffs #Generations #CorporateHumor #Relateable
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Amit Sharma
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⚡️ We've been sitting on this news for a while. Lotus Health AI was our first investment from Fund II and so aligned with with our mission and investing approach that we simply had to say yes (and I'm so glad we did). 💡 The US spends $5T/yr on healthcare yet 100M Americans don’t have a primary care doctor and our health outcomes trail almost all industrialized nations. Physician supply and affordability are the two main barriers to universal care. Technology is the only way we can expand care access. Lotus Health AI is the first AI doctor, powered by real doctors who review and oversee care. It’s a real medical provider able to diagnose, prescribe, and refer. Built on millions of peer-reviewed studies and major clinical guidelines, it collapses the cost of care, make doctors 10x more productive, and provides world-class primary care for free. 🙏🏽 Honored to be a part of this journey with KJ Dhaliwal and the rest of the incredible team at Lotus Health AI alongside world class investors Mamoon Hamid, Annie Case, Saar Gur, and others. cc: Black Jays Ventures, Jay H. Kim, Brian Muller, Tim Thimmaiah
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Arjun Malhotra
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Jose Adrian Luna Maya
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Josh Xie
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"Delusional." Been hearing that word a lot recently. Every founder in SF has it. Every great company was built on it. You'll sit in a coffee shop on Valencia Street and the person next to you is building the next Google with "higher search semantics powered through agentic workflows". You grab dinner in SoMa and someone's explaining why their pre-revenue vibe-coded startup is going to be bigger than Salesforce. "This guy is delusional". Is what I thought when I first encountered scenarios like these, before realizing that I sounded the exact same way to people I tried to sell my idea to. After two weeks, this is what I've learned being out here: The line between delusion and vision is just execution. Every billion-dollar company started as a delusional idea pitched by someone who had no business pitching it. Airbnb was "strangers sleeping in your house." Uber was "get in a random person's car." Stripe was "two 19-year-olds are going to fix payments." Delusional. All of it. Until it wasn't. SF literally runs on delusion. The energy here is different because everyone around you has decided to bet on themselves despite the odds. It's simply the entrance fee — whether or not you make it depends on how hard you're willing to work afterwards. The people who worry about sounding delusional are the ones who never build anything. The people who lean into it — those who are a little too confident, a little too ambitious, and/or a little too early are the ones who end up changing things. That being said, how will you feed into your delusions this week? #startup #founder #sf p.s. this is a video of chinatown where we got cream buns that were quite mid
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Shyan Koul
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Enterprise integrations have long been a tar pit for great software, where months of costly manual work eats margin and kills momentum. Refold (formerly Cobalt)’s agents flip that script, automating the heavy lifting so that tool implementations plug in and deliver value in a fraction of the time. Incredibly excited to see Jugal Anchalia and Abhishek Kumar demolish the most stubborn bottleneck in enterprise software!
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Matt Rappaport
Future Frontier Capital • 8K followers
Don't Build a Better Wheat Farm" - Why Defensibility Stakes Are Higher in Deep Tech Just published a new piece on my "Ignore the Confusion" blog, building on thoughtful insights from Eric Ver Ploeg at Tunitas Ventures about startup defensibility. Eric's core thesis: Too many startups pitch like wheat farmers - "huge TAM, slow incumbents, growing market, domain expertise" - but fail to think through long-term defensibility until it's too late. From a deep tech perspective, the stakes are even higher: ** Unlike software, deep tech founders must commit to defensibility strategies from day one - their funding depends on it ** Patent vs. trade secret decisions are often difficult to reverse and shape your entire competitive strategy ** Even "picks and shovels" providers (the tools that make industries more efficient) become commodities without proper moats The key insight that resonates: Defensibility can't be retrofitted. Whether you're building software or deep tech, your moat must be architected into the business model from the start. Thanks to Eric Ver Ploeg for sharing these insights on startup strategy and letting me build on his framework from a deep tech lens. Read the full post: https://lnkd.in/dEj_iF-Q #DeepTech #StartupStrategy #Defensibility #VentureCapital #Innovation
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Vishal Singh
Columbia University in the… • 3K followers
Decision modeling is key. Intent + decision traces created by agents need to be modeled to create self learning or ever improving decision quality ( measured via outcomes), while the criteria is non stop shifting. Process modeling - aka crud on system of records will also get eroded and merged with decisions models being stored. This is where Agebt plane and human plane converge.
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Dave Lambert
Right Side Capital Management • 5K followers
We invest at Pre-VC and Pre-Seed, and then help our founders find a Seed round when they're ready. Here are 27 Seed investors that we *know* are active right now. Blue Moon Bonfire Ventures Chingona Ventures Flying Fish Partners Foothill Ventures Great North Ventures ground game HealthX Ventures InsurTech Venture Partners KCRise Fund Las Olas Venture Capital Leva Capital Maven Ventures Monte Carlo Capital Moonshots Capital OneSixOne Ventures Oval Park Capital Pixel Perfect Ventures Range Ventures Revolution SNAK Venture Partners Startup Capital Ventures Supernode Global Susa Ventures Trilogy Equity Partners True Ventures True Wealth Ventures
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Ketan U.
Engineer, husband and father.… • 13K followers
What does it take to build AI that accelerates biotech breakthroughs? I chatted with our friends at ArteraAI about how we’re building AI development infrastructure. Immensely proud that Union.ai can play a role in powering that progress.
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Andrew Kintum
Rubyk • 4K followers
Building a startup is hard. It is especially hard in a country like Nigeria, where the ecosystem is yet to mature, and there are still many challenges to navigate. It is confusing, lonely, and full of uncertain decisions. Founders, especially early-stage founders, need as much support as they can get. Not “inspire to perspire” posts, but practical support on hiring, operations, funding, customer research, and navigating the regulatory landscape. Too many founders are surrounded by noise, surface-level advice, and generic content that does not reflect their current realities. What they need is a community that understands exactly what they are going through and can offer context that is immediately useful. Sierra Collective exists to be that community. A space where founders learn from one another’s live experiences and shorten the painful trial and error that usually defines the early stages of building. At Sierra, we believe that the most valuable support comes from those who are active in the trenches, navigating the same obstacles. If you are an early-stage founder, you should join the Sierra Collective. You do not have to figure everything out alone. As the African proverb says, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Join Sierra: https://lnkd.in/d-Nzmtkq
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