Funding News About AMINO Portfolio Companies

Anthro, which is an advanced materials company developing a scalable technology that solves the tradeoff between energy density and safety in today's batteries, has closed $20M Series A Financing and Completes UN 38.3 Battery Certification. Collaborative Fund led the financing, with significant participation from existing investors including Union Square Ventures, Emerson Collective, and Voyager Ventures. The funds will be used to build a Bay Area-based pilot production facility to commercialize and scale Anthro's advanced battery technologies. Read more here.

News About AMINO Portfolio Companies’ Growth

Software Engineering

• Turing is an information technology company that enables start-ups, businesses, and organizations to hire software engineers. Turing AGI Icons is dedicated to spotlighting the influential figures propelling the rapid advancement of artificial general intelligence. The first event in the Turing AGI Icons series featured a conversation between Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Read more here.
• Sunshine, a startup that helps users automate mundane tasks, is launching a new AI product, Shine. The product offers a photo-sharing app and an events website that can be used together or individually. Marissa Mayer, CEO and co-founder of Sunshine and former Yahoo CEO, speaks with Ed Ludlow on Bloomberg Technology about the new product and her outlook on AI. Read more here.
  

Ecommerce

• Weee, the largest and fastest-growing ethnic e-grocer in North America. Founder Larry Liu is a guest on the blog "How I Built This with Guy Raz". If you told 19-year-old Larry Liu that his hobby re-selling used electronics “for fun” would someday help him build a multi-billion-dollar company, he probably would have laughed. Read more here.