Monday, May 27

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🌟 What’s New This Week 🌟 

👩‍⚖️ Lawsuits from copyright holders and licensing companies continue to rock AI startups.

🏚️ Smart home startups are having a rough go of it, facing decade-low deal counts and annual investments this year.

🏛️ Ticketing startups, your time may be near: the DOJ brought an antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation and Ticketmaster.

🧬 Amid generative AI mania, six of the ten largest Series A rounds in 2024 belong to biotech and health startups.

🔋 NYC EV infrastructure startup Gravity announced a rollout of charger “trees” on city sidewalks.

📚 Dive A Little Bit Deeper 📚

↔️ DECIDEDLY NOT MID — Not excitingly green like early-stage startups nor flashy like unicorns, the oft-overlooked mid-sized startup is more disruptive than many think. Consider: scalability and enticing risk-reward tradeoffs. 

🎧 LISTEN: THE FBI’s FORAY INTO SMALL BUSINESS — So, who was going to tell us the FBI operated a secure phone/surveillance startup to catch criminals? Cybersecurity expert Joseph Cox is, apparently, in this episode of Decoder.

🌾 CLIMATE ADAPTATION’S CHAMPIONS — Startups focused on climate adaptation remain a difficult funding area despite substantial long-term benefits. Meet the major funding players who are championing them.

🤑 SMART SPENDING? — “Dumb money” is the culprit behind why startups with impractical products and suspect business practices reach alphabetical rounds over those who are bootstrapping with life-changing products. It’s not fair, but it can be avoided.

⚡️ Question for the Community ⚡️

Results from last week’s poll: