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Trends – Artificial Intelligence (AI) – May 2025 – BOND
The document analyzes rapid growth and transformative trends in artificial intelligence, highlighting unprecedented user adoption, technological advances, global competition, enterprise AI integration, and associated benefits and risks shaping the future.
bondcap.comSolid foundation for startups:
📦 @Supabase (DB, Auth, Storage, Vector)
🌐 @vercel - Hosting
📧 @resend - Emails
🔔 @novuhq - Notifications
📱 @expo - Mobile apps
⚙️ @triggerdotdev - Background jobs
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Pontus Abrahamsson — oss/accx.com
.@bchesky on how fast-growing companies become slow bureaucracies https://t.co/CyIPqOTPph
Lenny Rachitskyx.comStockline (@StocklineAI) replaces the 90s-era ERPs still powering the $990B food supply chain.
Built for wholesalers, their AI captures orders from WhatsApp, email, and calls — no more manual entry.
Congrats on the launch, @MariemOi & @Moncef_djf!
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Y Combinatorx.com
More firms are incubating companies as early-stage valuations rise.
A few successes:
• Snowflake ($49B mrkt cap) by Sutter Hill Ventures
• Affirm ($6B mrkt cap) by HVF Labs
• Hims & Hers ($1.3B mrkt cap) by Atomic
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Modern "Silicon Valley Creator" Playbook:
• 100% software-driven
• Targets a hyper-specific niche
• Creates content to acquire users
• Self-funded with zero outside capital
• Calm Company
• $1-$10M+ in revenue
A new path f... See more
Michael Karnjanaprakornx.comThe CrunchBase Daily e-mail, Fortune Magazine’s Term Sheet and the StrictlyVC blog are great sources for information on daily deals.
Bradley Miles • #BreakIntoVC: How to Break Into Venture Capital And Think Like an Investor Whether You're a Student, Entrepreneur or Working Professional (Venture Capital Guidebook Book 1)
But with a free tier to push the business, perhaps too many users were free and not enough were in the paying category. It seems that the writing might have been on the wall last June when the company announced it was laying off 14% of its workforce.