It’s going to be a big week! The tech profits are coming, the electric vehicle wars are on (and how!), and it seems like venture capital has its head in the clouds. This all adds up to a jam-packed episode of Equity!
Today we looked at the latest market news, including upcoming earnings, IPOs, and what impact, if any, the bitcoin halving will have on the cryptocurrency’s value.
We also had two new venture capital funds to discuss: a new space-focused vehicle from Seraphim and TLcom Capital’s new Africa-focused fund. From there, it was time to discuss electric vehicles and the impact of recent price drops on the value of electric vehicle companies.
To conclude, we explored the emerging startup cluster in vector databases and search. In short, normal databases are hot garbage when it comes to the kind of queries we need for AI, but vector search is pretty good at this. Enter startups, venture capital, and the biggest tech companies. Let the startups win.
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