Interview with Alan Yu from Space Capital & Hacking a $2M Crypto Wallet

January 25, 2022 No. 15

Highlights this week: 🎤 interview with Alan Yu from Space Capital, 🧑‍💻 hacking a $2M crypto wallet, ☢️ and the cost of nuclear

🔗 Last week’s most-clicked link: Amazing video zooming into a microchip down to 20nm transistors.

⚡️ Analog Interviews: Alan Yu from Space Capital 🛰

“Space Capital brings the ecosystem together in a way that accelerates market growth and invests in founders leveraging space technologies to solve global challenges. We are deeply embedded in the Space community and have a strong technical understanding, which supports our sourcing, diligence, and ultimately operational support in our portfolio companies.” - Alan Yu, Associate @ Space Capital

Read the entire interview here

Startup News 🚀💰:

Parallel Systems, a company that builds autonomous battery-electric rail vehicles, raised $49.55 million in a Series A led by Anthos Capital and includes investments from Congruent Ventures, Riot Ventures, Embark Ventures, and others.
Wandercraft, a company that builds robotic exoskeletons, raised $45 million in a Series C, led by Quadrant Management, a U.S.-based firm, along with existing investor Bpifrance.
Exergyn a company replacing refrigerants with solid materials reducing the output of greenhouse gases, has raised a $35 million Series A led by Mercuria, Lacerta Partners, and McWin.
Bert Thin Films, a startup that is using copper paste instead of silver for solar panels, secured $2 million in seed funding led by the U.S. Department of Energy and $1 million in angel investment.
eFishery the aquaculture tech startup raised a $90 million Series C co-led by Temasek, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and Sequoia Capital India, along with returning investors; Northstar Group, Go-Ventures, Aqua-Spark, and Wavemaker Partners.
Bolt — the on-demand ride-hailing restaurant and grocery delivery startup raised $709 million in a Series F led by Sequoia Capital, Fidelity Management and Research Company LLC. Whale Rock, Owl Rock, D1, G Squared, Tekne, and Ghisallo also participated.
StoreDot, next-gen battery technology startup raised $80 million in a Series D led by VinFast.
Fertilis the “stress-free” in vitro fertilization (IVF) tech startup raised $1.98 million in a Seed round, led by Horizons Ventures.
MycoWorks, a company that created a fungal-based biomaterial much like leather raised $125 million in Series C, led by Prime Movers Lab, with participation from Mirabaud Lifestyle Impact, SK Networks, and Innovation Fund.
Lohum Cleantech, the battery pack manufacturer and recycler is looking at raising $100 million in Series B funds.
EVage, the all-electric commercial vehicle startup, raised $28 million in a Seed Round led by RedBlue Capital.

Interesting Links 🔗:

Mesmerizing video of a Southwest Boeing 737 being painted into an… unexpected pattern. Here’s the background on the video and particular plane.
Joe Grand hacks a $2M trezor wallet – incredibly well-made video, suspense, and just such a heartfelt video of a true hacker and electrical engineer doing what he does best to recover someone’s fortune. Lots of detail on the hardware and software, along with a live view of Joe debugging and working out the solution in real-time. + pizza.
Dylan Patel dives deep into advanced semiconductor packaging with a multi-part writeup that goes into the design, manufacturing, and economics of the subject. In Dylan’s view, only packaging with bump size less than 100-micron should be called ‘advanced’. 2.5D and 3D packaging is pretty incredible, involving 50-micron pitches.
A paper looked at construction costs for hundreds of nuclear reactors built in the US, France, Canada, Japan, German, India, and South Korea between 1960 and 2010. The paper’s findings suggest that there is no inherent cost escalation trend associated with nuclear technology, despite costs in the US spiraling out of control since the 80s. South Korea actually drove nuclear costs down, at a rate similar to that of solar.
Meta unveils the fastest AI supercomputer in the world. As it’s still being built, it will house over 16,000 GPU’s by mid-summer, trained on datasets exabytes large (>36,000 years of hd video, for reference). Get ready for the metaverse.
Andreesen Horowitz, the venture capital firm behind some of today’s most successful companies (airbnb, slack, instagram, etc.), published a great paper on American Dynamism and startup problems worth solving in America.
Heat Pipes are pretty incredible. Even more incredible is embedding heat pipes in PCB’s during manufacturing.