Venture Pill | E66: Newtropics, ChatGPT for Enterprise, Democratizing Music, and Catching Kidney Disease

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On this week’s dose, (2:27) we start things off with a discussion on Thesis, a startup that offers personalized nootropic formulas to enhance performance based on brain chemistry, and its recent $13.5M funding round. (8:03) Next, we talk about Cohere, an AI company that’s creating a ChatGPT-type product geared toward privacy-prioritizing enterprises, and its massive $250M raise. (14:05) From there, we breakdown Duetti’s $32M raise, and how the startup is getting in on the music catalog sales market by providing funding to independent, rising artists in exchange for their music. (19:27) Lastly, we wrap up this week’s dose with a discourse on Healthy.io, a startup that’s developing game-changing technology that will help millions of people detect Chronic Kidney Disease using a smartphone, fresh off its $50M Series D.

Sources:

https://www.finsmes.com/2023/05/thesis-raises-13-5m-in-funding.html

https://takethesis.com/

https://cohere.com/about

https://www.ft.com/content/84bfc44e-d1f3-4b83-9986-ed0d958b5f4c

https://duetti.co/

https://www.billboard.com/pro/tidal-apple-execs-music-financing-firm-indie-artists/

https://healthy.io/about-us/

https://www.investorsobserver.com/news/qm-pr/7668628238261655

https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2023/05/03/healthyio-raises-50-m-series-d-smartphone-testing-kidney-disease-ckd-wounds

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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