Venture Pill | E101: Early Childhood Reading, AI for Affordable Housing, and Elon’s Neuralink Growing

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And now for this week’s prescription:

On this week’s dose, (1:55) we start things off with a breakdown on Sharpen, an early childhood education company with a mission to help parents affordably get their children on the right reading path early in development, fresh off an $11M funding round. Then (7:00), we cover Simply Homes, a company that’s leveraging AI to address the affordable housing crisis, hot off a $22M funding round. Lastly (14:04), we close out this week’s dose with a discussion on Elon Musk’s Neuralink, which just raised an additional $43m in funding as they continue to push new limits in the brain-computer interface space.

Sources:

https://www.sharpen.com/about

https://www.finsmes.com/2023/12/sharpen-raises-11m-in-funding.html

https://www.simplyhomes.com/en/about-us

https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/07/simply-homes-nabs-22m-leverages-ai-to-tackle-affordable-housing-crisis/

https://neuralink.com/

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/25/neuralink-elon-musks-brain-implant-startup-quietly-raises-an-additional-43m/

Music Credit: Chapter One by Cole Bauer and Dean Keeton

https://www.colebauer.com/

https://www.instagram.com/deankeeton/?hl=en

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