Sunday night is a school night and I'm giving/commenting in 5 talks this week (plus normal teaching load). Here we gooooo

Who in tech is interested in conversations about tech's role in supporting new models for organized labor? Putting some heads (and hearts) together....

I've been nerding out a lot on the #futureofwork - where I plan to do more of angel investing, startup advising, & exploration. This is an overview of what I've seen in the last couple of months. I'd love to chat if you're also excited about this stuff! allenkramer.substack.com/p/the-future-o…

can't wait to chat later with Siena Chiang Sarah Drinkwater 🔮 Scott Heiferman and Roy E. Bahat on the intersection of labor and tech - should be fun and super interesting :)

📣 Today we're thrilled to announce the 10 game-changing companies selected for our 2022 Accelerator. Learn all about them: highergroundlabs.com/cohort5-announ… Let us introduce you to #HGL5 🧵

📣 We're thrilled to release our 2021 #PoliticalTechLandscape Report! We cover the developments & innovations from the 2021 off-cycle. This is a key resource for progressive campaigners & technologists as we head into midterms. Read the report ➡️ highergroundlabs.com/political-tech… 1/🧵

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It’s a funny thing how exciting it can be to… stay the same. Today we’re announcing our next fund, our fourth (!) since we started Bloomberg Beta almost a decade ago (!?). We’re grateful to all the founders who invited us to back them all this way. And wait there’s more ⤵️

This is how techno is made if you didn’t already know

Since the 2020 elections, we've seen 1.5 million *new* people sign up for a shift on Mobilize. That's nearly a third of total Mobilize volunteers. Be sure to thank a volunteer today, and keep them in the game for the fights to come.

Thrilled to share that my chapter for the #AIGovernanceHandbook has been finally published! I present a political economy approach to smart city technologies and apply it to the diffusion of #surveillancetech in cities! Check it out! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

🌍 Excited to introduce Crux to make sustainable finance more efficient & interconnected! Grateful to collaborate w Allen Kramer once more 🔥 Just closed our 1st funding round led by Lowercarbon Capital. Read more from Catherine Clifford in @cnbc 👇 cnbc.com/2023/04/13/cru…

Excited to be back at it with Alfred Johnson !!!

Today, Crux announced we have raised another $4.25 million in a seed extension — bringing total capital raised to $8.85 million and giving us even more firepower to accelerate the energy transition. @Axios has the story 👇🏼 (1/6)

1/5 We're investing in Crux, a purpose-built software ecosystem aimed at optimizing the market for transferable energy transition tax credits. #EnergyTransition cruxclimate.com/insights/seed-…

We are excited to announced a16z will lead an $18.2 million Series A in Crux. Axios has the story. With this new capital, we will expand the team, grow annual volumes of transferable credits to the billions, and begin to add other complementary products. Allen Kramer

Excited to have received my copy of the *The Oxford Handbook of AI Governance*, where I contributed with a Chapter on *The Political Economy of Smart City Tech* Congrats and thank you to Justin Bullock and all the editors. (You can read my chapter here papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…)

Happy to share my article "#AILiability in Europe: How does it complement risk regulation and deal with the problem of human oversight" in the Computer Law & Security Review papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… A short 🧵

I’ve always believed that opportunities live between fields of expertise. If something fits neatly in a bucket, it’s probably already priced in. This has been my investment philosophy, a metaphor for my career and where I like to invest. Am I Silicon Valley or Wall Street, a