E103: Revolutionizing Home-Building, AI Search Disruptor, and Autonomous Drones

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And now for this week’s prescription:

On this week’s dose, (2:00) we start with a breakdown on Agorus, a startup that’s looking to automate the homebuilding process to significantly reduce the time it takes to build high quality homes, hot off a $20M Series A. Then (9:57), we cover Perplexity, an AI search platform that is poised to disrupt the search engine space, hot off a $73.6M funding round. Lastly (16:16), we wrap up this week’s dose with a discussion on Shield AI, a startup that makes hardware and software to transform aircraft and drones into autonomous systems capable of executing complex missions in contested environments, and their massive $500M Series F.

Sources:

https://agorus.com/our-story/

https://www.perplexity.ai/

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/04/ai-powered-search-engine-perplexity-ai-now-valued-at-520m-raises-70m/

https://shield.ai/

https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/29/shield-ai-expands-massive-series-f-with-another-300m-in-equity-debt-scaling-valuation-to-2-8b/

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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