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The Bearhug Experience(Funding Recap #13) Bearhug Recruiting's Early & Growth Stage Tech Startup Funding Recap! 7/8/24Here’s this week’s startup funding recap:
1. Uncaged Innovations, led by Stephanie Downs, has raised a $5.6 million Seed funding round. Uncaged Innovations creates sustainable, animal-free leather from grains using its BioFuze technology, emitting less greenhouse gas and conserving water and energy.
2. Phaidra, led by Jim Gao, has raised a $12 million funding round. Phaidra provides an AI-powered plant operator that helps facilities improve energy efficiency and sustainability using real-time, reinforcement learning-based controls.
3. Pieces, led by Tsavo Knott, has raised a $13.5 million Series A funding round. Pieces offers a developer productivity tool that helps deve...2024-10-2414 min
That WorkedTsavo Knott - Co-Founder and CEO of Pieces: Building a Community, Trusting your Gut, and Company EventsTsavo is the CEO and Co-Founder of Pieces, a suite of on-device developer tools that boost productivity by helping you solve complex development tasks through a contextual understanding of your entire workflow.Tsavo was an entrepreneur from the jump, founding his first company, accent.ai, straight out of high school. In this episode, you’ll learn: How to balance gut instinct with market feedbackThe importance of elevating your EQ to put together top-tier teamsHow to reach developers in the sales process through building communityHow to transform organic adoption and...2024-10-0334 min
AI Engineering PodcastBuild Your Second Brain One Piece At A TimeSummaryGenerative AI promises to accelerate the productivity of human collaborators. Currently the primary way of working with these tools is through a conversational prompt, which is often cumbersome and unwieldy. In order to simplify the integration of AI capabilities into developer workflows Tsavo Knott helped create Pieces, a powerful collection of tools that complements the tools that developers already use. In this episode he explains the data collection and preparation process, the collection of model types and sizes that work together to power the experience, and how to incorporate it into your workflow to act as a second...2024-07-2848 min