Startups push back on new immigration barriers
Getting all your ducks in a row when moving can be stressful and expensive. Phil Salesses is working to ease moving-related tensions and lower costs through his company, MoveAI. We sat down with Phil to talk about his company, his ecosystem experience in D.C. compared to San Francisco, and the ambiguity that comes with the patchwork policy problem.
Broadly, there are three types of startup exits: going public, being acquired, or failing.
Julia Somerdin is the founder and inventor of Labby, a Rochester-based startup providing diagnostic hardware and software for dairy farmers to improve the quality of their herds’ milk. We sat down with Julia to talk about her company, how she has benefited from government grants supporting innovation, the impact of tariffs on American tech companies, and more.
Carl Peterson is developing a platform to tackle the shortage of graphics processing units (GPUs) in AI development. Thunder Compute rents out space on GPUs for cheap by using software to improve GPU utilization. We sat down with Carl to discuss his company, their experience in markets abroad, and the challenge of navigating varying state rules as a small startup.
If you wanted to haul large amounts of water from a well, you would (at one point in history) need a resource, like a horse, to pull the load. You would measure how much weight the horse can pull per minute in terms of “horsepower.” In the world of AI, the resource required to make models work is compute, and it’s measured in FLOPS.
Every March, we celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month as a global celebration of women’s achievements. And in the startup ecosystem, there’s a lot to celebrate—women are trailblazing and innovating at unprecedented rates.
Engine released the 2024 Startup Policy Agenda, highlighting for policymakers the issues impacting the startup ecosystem, including the startup companies, investors, and support organizations across the country. The Agenda features startup founders discussing in their own words the obstacles they’ve faced as they launch new and innovative businesses and the ways policies have helped and hurt them.
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