In this episode of the Superconnector podcast, Matt Joseph covers 8 large venture capital deals announced in the last week, focusing on startups in AI, cybersecurity, electric vehicles, real estate, media, and fintech.

AI: Augment, a coding assistant startup backed by Eric Schmidt and rival to GitHub Copilot

CYBERSECURITY: Rubrik, a newly publicly-traded platform focused on disaster recovery and ThreatLocker, a zero trust security platform for MSPs

ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Chemix, an AI-powered EV battery maker

REAL ESTATE: Inhabitr, a commercial real estate furnishing platform, and Backflip, a service to help real estate investors flip houses

MEDIA: Beehiiv, a newsletter publishing platform

FINTECH: QI Tech, a banking as a service platform for midsized companies in Brazil

Chapters

00:00 Welcome

00:22 Augment: $252m for AI Coding

04:17 Beehiiv: $33m for Newsletter Publishing

06:45 Inhabitr: $27m for CRE Furnishing

09:10 Backflip: $15m for House Flipping

11:05 Chemix: $20m for EV Batteries

14:21 ThreatLocker: $115m for MSP Cybersecurity

16:11 Rubrik: $752m for Data Recovery

18:27 QI Tech: $50m for Banking in Brazil

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