Fontinalis is a venture capital firm investing on the new frontiers of efficient movement, industrial innovation, and sustainability. https://nitter.cf/t.co/2O1ECMQwdX
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Calling all students, researchers, meteorologists, and data scientists! 🌡️🌤️☂️
We want YOU!
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With Build, you'll work with the latest and greatest space-based weather data to deploy models that make a difference in keeping people safe, protecting infrastructure, and providing early warnings.
Challenge 1 starts soon!
Participants will build models that solve for hurricane identification. 🌀
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SO excited to have shipped this - full circle from helping launch Wallet back in 2018 :)
The Apple tax is DEAD!
Devs are already ditching 30% fees with crypto payments.
@blockparty_game now uses Commerce for payments – saving up to 30% and bypassing Apple’s slow review process.
Updates ship faster, pricing tests are instant, and margins are way up. Learn more 👇
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consumer AI interfaces will be frictionless and ~*fun*~
😻 @br0hith @stephensilber
At Block Party, we’re pushing the boundaries of Human-Model Interaction (HMI) by turning generative AI into an intuitive, engaging game mechanic.
Rather than text prompting or endless tweaking of AI parameters, we’ve built a simple loop:
Collect → Create → Compete → Repeat
This is gamified generation—AI becomes an accessible tool for creative expression, seamlessly integrated into play.
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If you were on X this past week or two, your timeline was flooded with Ghiblified photos. And if you haven’t been under a rock, you’re probably vibe-coding games or still trying to wrap your head around MCP.
But for ME, this whole timeline feels like a FEVER DREAM—because for the past 6 months, we’ve quietly been building an AI-native game that’s already found real traction and aligns exactly with where culture and tech are headed.
Sorry, not sorry—here comes a thread 👇👇👇
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🎙 Latest pod w/supply chain VC pals @ty_findley (@ironspringVC), @NYCounihan (@SchematicVC), @ctstallman (@fontinalis), and @santoshsankar (@ThisIsDynamo) on how 2025 is shaping up for the supply chain ecosystem and more!
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This Startup Can't Replace The National Weather Service. But It Might Have To
on.forbes.com/60170Hc4v (Illustration By Emily Scherer For Forbes; Images Via Getty Images)
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When I first started FreightWaves, so many logistics veterans had their doubts.
Here were some of the comments:
- a founder that had bootstrapped and sold a $600M broker said to me “brokers don’t care about economics or the news. They just want to book freight.” He was wrong, they care deeply about their market, just no one ever served this info and news to them in an interesting, high energy/high frequency way.
- an editor at a major business media outlet that has covered freight for over two decades. “Trucking rates aren’t volatile.” Was in disbelief. Still am. Think about this often.
- an editor at a major trucking publication. “Anytime we cover stories about freight rates or the economy, no one reads them.” They were just publishing someone else’s report, with no original analysis.
- pretty much everyone else “freight is boring, people do the same things they’ve always done. How can you write enough stories to keep it interesting?”. Just go to FreightWaves and see that it’s far from boring, we can’t keep up with all that’s happening and we are the best at it.
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Meet startup CEO @BryantSkarda and CTO Nathan Clevenger of @Drivly from our Workers Launchpad Funding Program Cohort #1
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Today, we crossed the 10,000 member mark at LOOP.
Still blows my mind to think — we started an INSURANCE CO!
Purpose-built for our community; in pricing / product / care / brand.
That is powerful. And proof that we CAN build and change our systems for the better.
#thankyou
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I started a company with @jimkxa so we could have fun and make fabs
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6 years ago, FreightWaves launched. Today, it is the leading source of pricing data and intelligence for logistics markets.
It almost wasn't.
It was originally started inside a struggling business, focused on creating "trucking futures". 1/
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We love seeing our clients in the press! Read on to see how the Verity system is automating inventory tracking in this facility in Ghent.
#clientsuccess #inthenews #warehouse #automation #drones
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SmartKargo, a global leader in providing technology and logistics solutions to airlines, announced today a partnership with Shipium, the preferred shipping platform for e-commerce, to make the 2-day delivery of small packages more accessible to retailers:prn.to/3ZcV25G
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Carputty Wins Investor Millions To Dull Auto Financing Pain Points forbes.com/sites/edgarsten/2…
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Today, we’re excited to reveal the first cohort of Launchpad Startups as well as 14 additional VC partners, bringing the Launchpad to $2 billion in potential funding from 40 VC firms in total. cfl.re/3gh23B6 #DeveloperWeek
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We're growing! We’re excited to welcome three seasoned industry executives to our leadership team: Brian McDevitt as Chief Revenue Officer, Eric Swanson as Chief Commercial Officer and Bimal Patel as SVP, Supply Chain. 🎉
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Excited to announce that Hgen has been selected to join @Breakthrough Energy's Fellows, part of the BE network founded by @BillGates. The funding & support will help us continue our work to decarbonize industry through cheap, clean hydrogen.
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Join us in giving our Chief Engineer and Co-founder @kumavat_apeksha a huge round of applause for being named one of @Inc Magazine's 2022 #FemaleFounders 100, a list of the most creative and inspiring female leaders in America. Read more: inc.com/female-founders
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We now have a real-time view on the economic health of the US physical economy. SONAR’s high frequency freight tender data has been signaling a sharp contraction in economic activity since March. google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.co…