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today is bittersweet -- betaworks AI Camp: Interfaces comes to a close today, officially. it's our 13th camp (my sixth!!) and 106 companies have gone through the program. that might sound like a small number, but it's by design. camp isn't a factory that pumps out startups. it's a highly selective, curated program where we, the partners, apply our time and energy to these founders in a bespoke way, rather than running them through some static curriculum. so now, after three months in the next, the winged things are taking flight. if you were at demo day, you saw how incredible and unique each of these companies are. if you weren't, today is your lucky day. you can find our post announcing the companies in the comments, as well as Dominic-Madori Davis coverage for TechCrunch cc Sean Raspet Laura Sisson Priyanka Jain Ingo Marquardt ShaoBo Zhang Kasey Klimes Conor Sanchez-O'Shea Gabriel Duemichen Adam S. Stephen Hood Josh Whiting Rupert Manfredi Helen Huang 🥕Sid Banothu

We didn't IPO yet. But we did demo Sandbar Stream Ring at NYSE! Learn more at the link in comments 📈

Side projects, new ventures, hobbies, and curiosities flourished at our first interface.click event last week! We had mind-reading computers (nubrain blew us away with their bci that turned brain waves into images, thanks Ingo Marquardt!), temperamental ai lamps (Elizabeth Dorman, aka Lampy's mom), human mood rings (cc: Kaixi Yang), magic paper (Eddie Jiao's wizardry) fashion tech, infinite canvases, projection of the future, & so much more. Let's do it again?? Soon?? We'd love to see you at the next one! Join us at: https://lnkd.in/eM7hAVmw 👏 Many thanks to betaworks for hosting. 👏

If your cofounder wouldn't carry a 3D printer on the subway to help another founder, you're not gonna make it Yesterday another founder at betaworks mentioned needing to prototype a headset Most people would've said "oh cool, good luck with that" Xiang (C0dez) Li said "I'll bring my 3D printer from home tomorrow" And he did, and soon they were jamming on it together. This is the same curiosity that makes building Superposition with him so much fun. He doesn't just ask what you're building - he actively helps you build it. This kind of spontaneous collaboration only happens when you're actually in the same room. You can't carry a 3D printer through Zoom. betaworks is an actual place where builders can accidentally jam together. I knew about the funding and the network when we joined. What I didn't realize was how much the physical space matters. Sometimes the best startup moments aren't planned. They happen when someone says "I need to prototype this" and your cofounder shows up the next day with a 3D printer. That's the kind of person you want to build with. #startup #cofounder #betaworks

🔥 Ignite Talks in NYC! We're back at betaworks on 7/31 with a dozen amazing speakers. Adam Aleksic (Etymology Nerd & AlgoSpeak author) - What exactly is being contained? De Kai- Raising AI Dennis Crowley - Bringing AI out into the streets Elizabeth Swaney OLY (Olympian) - Trusting the Process: What Self-Driving Cars Teach Us About Believing in Ourselves Alisha Outridge - What Comedy Taught Me About Leading in Tech (That AI Never Could) Adam Goldstein (SoftMax)- AI Alignment as Symbiosis Rosie von Lila - "I did not use AI to write this title. #HumanFlourishing" Nili Metuki - From Cool Tech to Real Impact: Building AI products people actually love Diana Enriquez, PhD Enriquez - Designing for human-AI partnerships Raza Habib - AI Scaling Laws James Del - <Stealth> Special thanks to Betaworks Ventures & John Borthwick, Microsoft & Lili Cheng and GenLab Venture Studio for your support. https://lu.ma/kyehbc65

betaworks Camp still holds the #1 spot in my opinion. When Marieliesse Gouilliard and I joined (this time last year), we didn’t just get investment; we got space to think, pressure-test our vision, and build the foundation for Autoplay with people who truly get what it means to build at the edge. Betaworks taught us that velocity and direction matters as much as speed. They didn’t tell us what to build - they taught us how to think, asked the right questions, and gave us the room to find the side roads that would actually get us to our vision. If you’re an early-stage founder building the next generation of human-computer interaction - voice-native, agents, UI-less UIs, multimodal magic, weird new input layers - you should apply. And for what it’s like building inside Betaworks, we wrote about our experience here: https://linkly.link/2BEJh 👉 Applications are open now:  https://lnkd.in/e3umsGhf If you’re building in this space, connect with Jordan Crook. And if you know someone who is, pass it on.