Awesomeness 🙌

🪩The State of AI 2022 is live!🪩 In its 5th year, the #stateofai report condenses what you *need* to know in AI research, industry, safety, and politics. This open-access report is our contribution to the AI ecosystem. Here's my director's cut 🧵: stateof.ai

"If you can’t solve for the hardest part, the part with the most uncertainty, there’s no point in doing anything else. " review.firstround.com/grit-or-quit-t… Library

Good to know! ⚽️ 🏆 sifted.eu/articles/footb…

"Get your company valued — M&A banks can help with this — and organise your data room with all of your financial, legal and personnel information". 👇 How to get your company acquisition ready via @siftedeu sifted.eu/articles/selli…

Mega congrats to Julia Somerdin and Labby - a Techstars Semapa Next invested company who was selected for this year's TechCrunch Battlefield 🐄 🐄 🙌💪🏆 techcrunch.com/2022/10/18/ann…

"... your access to talent is way better. It was so hard to get, but now it’s a lot cheaper than it was. There are layoffs happening. And then hybrid has opened up the people you can get." in McKinsey Quarterly mck.co/3BQ3OMp via McKinsey & Company

“The median forward multiple for SaaS companies has fallen from about 16x forward revenues to roughly 6x today,” Battery general partner Dharmesh Thakker told us. tcrn.ch/3ft9dS7 via @techcrunch

We’re thrilled to share we’ve raised $5.2M in funding to support our fight against the #climatecrisis. Led by Convective Capital, this round helps us expand our vegetation intelligence platform, mitigating wildfire risk and preventing power outages. overstory.com/blog/announcin…

We’re thrilled to lead this $5m round and double down on our investment in Overstory! Indra den Bakker and the team have identified a huge need (utilities needing visibility into vegetation around their lines) and built an amazing product and business around it #firetech

At Semapa Next we are thrilled to be partnering with Airly which is now scaling to realize the potential of its complete air quality monitoring platform and supporting local governments determined to fight for clean air with an end-to-end solution techcrunch.com/2022/11/09/air…

Congratulations Indra den Bakker and Anniek Schouten for the impact you and Overstory's team have been making to prevent wildfires and power outages 🙌 lnkd.in/dv9PDAQw

To kick-start the weekend the right way, we would like to remember Semapa Next Investor’s Breakfast where we gathered ±50 investors from across Europe creating an opportunity for fruitful and engaging interactions. We had excellent time and thank you all. See you next year!

"Teams need context to contribute to the annual plan. They need to know what the company absolutely needs to nail over the next year." review.firstround.com/annual-plannin… Library

Best of luck to everyone out there 💪 Side note: We are hiring 👇 lnkd.in/dZrNHS3U

We are still #hiring! Know anyone who might be interested? lnkd.in/dBVw2nt2

"And what’s happened is optimism after the seed stage, so crucial in many ways, has given way to pragmatism" saastr.com/its-now-year-2…

"It does not mean we are doomed" 👉 "“We actually have all the knowledge we need. All the tools we need. We just need to implement it." washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

We are still #hiring! Know anyone who might be interested? lnkd.in/dAvpg66R

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