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today, 02/04

• Open pitch night x Laconia Capital (NYC).

• Health Tech x AI (Boston).

wednesday, 02/05

• Space ships & chips x Empire Space (NYC).

• ML x BioTech meetup (NYC).

• VC Gathering x Flybridge x Lynx (NYC).

• Climate happy hour (NYC).

• Raising Preseed x Brex (SF).

• Pharma x Myriad Genetics meetup (SF).

thursday, 02/06

• Tech happy hour (LA).

friday, 02/07

• Surf & network (LA).

saturday, 02/08

• Female hackathon (NYC).

sunday, 02/09

• Intuitive Surgical Robotics hackathon (SF).

monday, 02/10

• Qualcomm GenAI meetup (LA).

upcoming

• Vinod Khosla fireside chat (SF).

• AWS x robotics (SF).

• AI in Government (NYC).

• Google Deepmind AI agent hackathon (SF).

space brew

// Fascinating topics to discuss this week

deal flow

• Airbus hires Goldman Sachs for M&A advisory to rival SpaceX (BNN).

• Planet announces $230M deal for high-res optical imaging satellites (BW).

• USAF AFWERX signs Knightscope to secure defense assets with autonomous robots (AT).

• Riot cybersecurity raises $30M Series B for employee Posture Management platform by Left Lane Capital, YC, Base10 & FundersClub (TC).

• Clutch cybersecurity raises $20M Series A by SignalFire, Lightspeed, Merlin Ventures on fears of U.S. Treasury non-human identity breach (TC).

• Sound Blade raises $16.5M Series A by Lumira Ventures for non-invasive liver tumour elimination (BK).

• Skyway leverages MatrixSpace’s AI radar system for drone detection & air traffic control (MS).

headlines

• Thales Alenia x Airbus launch via SpaceX for Spain’s defense Satcoms (TA).

• Inspire accelerates insight generation by 50% for life science organizations via Patient Voice AI (AR).

• Space industry lobbies Congress to rightsize regulations and boost commercial tech (PS).

• Boeing reports $2B loss on Starliner (SN).

• EPFL research may unlock smaller drones & enhance wind turbines & ocean current energy harvesters (AR).

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