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M13 partner and The Bouqs Company founder John Tabis talks about mental health and the founder journey, going from side hustle to industry disruptor with Bouqs, and helping others bring big ideas to life on the LA Venture podcast with Minnie Ingersoll. Sneak a peek below and check out the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/gfKiwbRG And read 4 lessons on mental wellness from John, Andy Dunn, Golbie Kamarei, W. Christine Choi, and Matt Hoffman: https://lnkd.in/e6XcfWAY #Founders #MentalWellness

There's a glaring blind spot threatening to undermine companies' diversity and inclusion efforts, say Jessica Chang and the Upwards team: the childcare diversity gap. Inadequate childcare support is an oversight that’s particularly damaging in frontline industries, where shift work and irregular hours exacerbate the challenge of finding reliable, affordable childcare. Learn more in the graphic below, and read the full article to learn how companies can rethink their approach to childcare support, to move the needle on diversity and inclusion as well as get better business results: https://lnkd.in/egUcMGY8 #childcarecrisis #DEIB #diversityandinclusion

"A pair of sandals is highly relevant in July, but only 60 days later, they are out of season and considered excess inventory," Max Retail CEO & co-founder Melodie van der Baan told Jul Domingo at The Ecomm Manager. Max Retail promotes retailers and brands' unsold goods to a vast network of online and offline retailers across eighteen North American, Latin American, and Asian markets. Read more about how to manage extra stock in your ecommerce business: https://lnkd.in/gUS4N_5c #ecommerce #inventorymanagement

NYC founders: How can the NYC tech ecosystem better support you? The M13 team is partnering with Tech:NYC on a survey to help us gain deeper insight into the NYC tech ecosystem and how it can better meet founders’ needs. If you're a founder whose company fully or partly operates in NYC, we want to hear from you! Learn more and participate: https://lnkd.in/e7zcuV5f Tech:NYC sits at the intersection of the tech sector and civic space. As the landscape shifts and technology becomes the largest sector in New York, Tech:NYC works to make sure the tech industry is supporting the city, and vice versa. Meet President Julie Samuels, who spoke about her organization's work at our annual Future Perfect Event: https://lnkd.in/emqk96dC  #NYCFounders #NYCStartups

Exciting to see Maven AGI's AI co-pilot becoming an extension of the Rho customer service team, enriching their capacity to engage with customers and solve problems effectively. "Our goal is to optimize our team's focus on high-complexity tasks, where their expertise can truly shine, by minimizing time spent on mundane activities. Leveraging technology to achieve this efficiency not only reduces costs but also enhances customer satisfaction through quicker service," said Rho's SVP of Client Experience Stas Johnson-Chyzhykov. We love when our portfolio companies collaborate! Check out the impact of the partnership below ⬇ #Fintech #AIagents #AIcopilot

“What’s happening behind the scenes is a continually advancing set of AI tools combined with talented clinicians. What that means is not only do members get 30–45 minutes with their provider, but each of those minutes is more impactful," says Lifeforce co-founder and president Joel Jackson. In a recent interview, he shares why tech is the future of preventive healthcare, what his biomarkers tell him as a performance-driven dad, how Lifeforce is putting those life-changing tools in your hands right now, and more. Some of our favorite takeaways: 💪 The biggest opportunity to improve health is to take what we already know and make it easy for doctors to use this information with their patients. 📈 Having AI tools do continual analysis in the background allows doctors to focus on what they do best: work with patients to understand their health and identify the most important areas for improvement. 🪄 Making longevity tangible—with questions like, “what is the likelihood I’ll be at my daughter’s high school graduation?”—has changed his perspective. When you think about health this way, most of what you need to do is well within the current reach of science and doesn’t take any “magic.” Read more at https://lnkd.in/e9swpNdk  #digitalhealth #preventativehealthcare #longevity

M13 portfolio company Rho is partnering with Fondo to help busy founders streamline their bookkeeping. Their mission is to simplify finances, so founders can focus on what they do best and create long-term financial success. This new partnership will help eliminate more pain points around financial management 👏 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eyvTNRck #founders

M13 Partner Karl Alomar shares insight on how M13 works with founders during Collision Conference 2024. We believe the future of venture is to partner with founders, identify challenges, help them overcome those challenges, and do everything we can to allow them to be as successful as possible. Read more about our Propulsion model that helps founders execute faster towards better outcomes: https://lnkd.in/eZp_-pNR 

Excited to see M13 portfolio company Maven AGI included in CB Insights’ “Future of the Workforce” report! The report dives into what AI agents are, how they will transform enterprise workflows, what their limitations are, and implications for the future of work. Check out the full report here: https://lnkd.in/g4kKMyeb, and learn how Maven AGI’s AI agents are transforming enterprise customer service by autonomously handling 90% of queries, allowing support agents to do what they do best – focus on strategic initiatives: https://www.mavenagi.com/ #futureofwork

This week, we were delighted to host 70+ #AI founders, researchers, engineers, investors, and enthusiasts in our NYC offices in SoHo for The GenAI Collective’s Research Roundtable. Programming included: Jacob Portes (Databricks): LoRA learns less and forgets less Jacob Jackson (Supermaven, ex- OpenAI): Challenges in adapting LLM tokenizers for code completion Daniel Kang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): LLM agents can autonomously exploit real-world cybersecurity vulnerabilities Thank you Prithvi Raj and Samantha Hughes for bringing such a brilliant group together! Are you an early-stage AI founder interested in working with M13? Reach out to our investors Morgan Blumberg and Anna Barber — they’d love to talk! Read more about our strategy in our AI content hub: https://lnkd.in/eMab5rtU