🕶️ Can AI describe a disease — and cure it?

Eight bullets of updates

1. 📬 Yahoo turns 30, CEO Jim Lanzone bets on AI, news, and email to reclaim relevance in a post-portal world.

2. 🤖 Nvidia acquires Gretel, a synthetic data startup, doubling down on fueling AI models without real-world data.

3.  🚗 Tesla recalls Cybertrucks over faulty glue, adding a sticky new chapter to the vehicle’s rocky rollout.

4. 🦿 Norwegian startup 1X to test humanoid robots in hundreds of homes this year, bringing domestic AI one step closer.

5. 🪙 Elon Musk's right-hand man Steve Davis quietly built a Dogecoin empire, blending memes, tunnels, and millions.

6. 🧠 Wayve CEO reveals recipe for scaling autonomous driving: better data, smarter AI, and fewer hand-coded rules.

7. 💅 Gwyneth Paltrow says Goop is thriving, brushing off skepticism as the wellness brand keeps growing (crystals and all).

8. 💼 Munich Re acquires Next Insurance for $2.6B, making a big bet on digital insurance for small businesses.

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How to write a Killer Elevator Pitch - 2025

Let’s be real—most elevator pitches sound like bad “Shark Tank” auditions. They're awkward, overly scripted, and totally disconnected from how people actually talk.

But a great pitch? It’s smooth, natural, and built for real conversations—whether you're meeting someone at a coffee shop or hopping on a quick call with a potential investor. No buzzword overload. No chasing VCs around conferences. Just a clear, compelling one-liner that makes people say, “Oh, I get what you do—and it sounds cool.”

In this video, we’ll walk you through how to write exactly that. We’ll go over what not to do (because yes, most people get this wrong), how to find the right balance between clarity and intrigue, and we’ll even build a few real-world examples—like BeReal, ClickUp, and Swing Tennis—so you can see it all in action.

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🧬 NDA for your DNA?

Bryan Johnson, the millionaire biohacker behind Blueprint, is now asking romantic partners to sign NDAs before they date him. According to a New York Times report, these contracts ban women from speaking about him—or even revealing that they signed anything at all.

Johnson says it’s to protect his “mission”: a $2M-a-year anti-aging protocol where his body is the product. But critics say it’s a disturbing mix of control, image obsession, and founder ego.

It’s a wild glimpse into the world of “startup as identity”—where everything from your blood to your love life gets optimized, branded, and legally locked down.

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These companies just raised money

1. 📊 European startups pulled in $52B in 2024 VC funding, signaling steady growth despite global market jitters.

2. 📈 CoreWeave sets IPO to raise at least $2.2B, kicking off Wall Street’s next big AI infrastructure bet.

3. 💬 Perplexity AI eyes $1B raise at an $18B valuation, fueling the race to challenge Google with AI-powered search.

4. 🏗️ BuildOps raises $127M and hits unicorn status, bringing modern software to the unsexy world of commercial contractors.

5. 🇪🇺 Evroc raises $55M to build a sovereign European cloud, answering calls for an EU-grown alternative to Big Tech.

6. ☁️ Camber raises $16M to bring scientific computing to the cloud, aiming to be the AWS for researchers.

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🧪 AI, but make it pharma

Forget Big Pharma's decade-long R&D timelines. Ignota Labs, a stealthy biotech startup, just raised $19M to speed up drug discovery using generative AI.

Their tech is built on massive datasets of molecules, proteins, and scientific literature—but here’s the twist: once trained, their models can generate entirely new compounds from simple inputs like disease descriptions or treatment goals. In other words, you describe the problem, and the AI suggests what might fix it.

Backed by Lux Capital, Ignota’s pitch deck is part sci-fi zine, part startup manifesto, with lines like “The drug is the description.”

If it works, the pharma pipeline could someday look more like prompt engineering than lab work.

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Startup Events and Deadlines

1. TechWalk | March 23 | Bangalore

2. FounderConnect: Startup Resources & Networking Expo | March 25 | Boston

3. YC Rejection Party | March 29 | Gurugram

4. Techstars Columbus | Deadline: April 1 | USA

5. Startup Grind Conference 2025 | April 19-30 | USA

6. Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator | Deadline: April 28 | USA

7. Startup Battlefield 200 | Deadline: June 9 | Global

8. Entrepreneur First London - Summer | Deadline: July 1 | UK

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