Mo El-Bibany

Navigating Regulatory Challenges: Tesla's Autopilot Saga Tesla's recent lawsuit against the California DMV underscores the ongoing tension between innovation and regulation in the tech landscape. As venture investors, we at ElevenX Capital must closely monitor how regulatory frameworks adapt to disruptive technologies like autonomous vehicles. This situation presents critical insights into how emerging companies can prepare for and influence legislation. What strategies do you believe startups should adopt to engage with regulators effectively? #investing #innovation #venturecapital #entrepreneurship

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It was an honour to present at #FII9 in Riyadh last week. As AI models continue to scale and workload demands surge, datacenter networking must evolve. Optical technologies will play a defining role. At Salience Labs, we’re building on years of breakthrough research to develop advanced optical switching solutions that address this growing infrastructure bottleneck.

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Level Up Ventures is thrilled to support Tensor9 as they redefine how enterprise software gets deployed. 🚀 Led by Michael Ten-Pow, the Tensor9 team is solving one of the biggest challenges for SaaS and AI vendors: how to deliver products into highly secure, customer-owned environments without compromising data privacy. Their platform enables any-prem deployments, unlocking a whole new segment of enterprise customers. Proud to be in great company on this journey with Wing Venture Capital, NVA Angels, and an incredible group of co-investors! #Hearst #VentureCapital #EnterpriseAI

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I'm incredibly excited to share the news of our investment in SiC Systems, Inc., marking our first US based portfolio company announcement. 👉 Founded by Christopher Savoie, inventor of adaptive agent-oriented software engineering platform (together with Babak Hodjat and Makoto Amamiya) that underpinned the development of Apple’s Siri, and Soheil Mansouri, Professor of Process Systems Engineering at the DTU - Technical University of Denmark. 👉 SiC Systems brings a new generation of AI agents together with quantum computing and sensing technology to empower smarter, faster decision-making in high-stakes environments such as biomanufacturing, industrial automation, and defense operations. What a pleasure to work with Christopher, Soheil, Christopher and Eric. We have led SiC Systems' initial funding round, with participation from Propagator Ventures, Plug and Play Tech Center and Wavepeak Ventures. QDNL Participations, Kris, Cheryne, Chad, Nicola, Jaap, Charles, Nadia Onwards and upwards.

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#AmTech Weekly Roundup:    Varda Space Industries raised $187 million in Series C funding from Shrug Capital, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Caffeinated Capital, Lux Capital, and Also Capital (Mike Annunziata). Varda designs and operates spacecraft that can manufacture pharmaceuticals and advanced crystals in microgravity before returning them to Earth safely.  Will Bruey, Delian Asparouhov, Daniel Marshall    MaintainX raised $150 million in Series D funding at a $2.5 billion valuation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, The D. E. Shaw Group Ventures, and others. MaintainX is an AI-powered maintenance platform for manufacturers, schools, hospitality, and other industries with large physical footprints.   Chris Turlica, Hugo Dozois-Caouette Polimorphic raised $18.6 million in Series A funding from General Catalyst, M13, and Shine Capital. Polimorphic is building an AI-powered CRM for local governments to automate workflows and improve citizen experiences.  Parth Shah #VC #Startups #GovTech #Space #Unicorn

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"Build the event you wish existed" That's what we at Monadical did last week at #NYTW. We wanted an AI Engineers discussion for Engineers. There's always a lot of events out there for VCs to network, or for startups to learn about G2M, but very little on lessons learned from actual engineers in the field. So that's the event we hosted. Big thank yous to our awesome panel, Roy Pereira, Ben Cohen and Corey J. Gallon. Here's the key takeaways and the AI tools we're using. 🚀 All three panelists independently called AI Agents the most transformative LLM application they’ve used. They specifically called out Claude 3.5 Sonnet for its accuracy and reliability. 🪨 We dug into how LLMs are “jagged”, not general. They can be shockingly good at some tasks and completely fail at others. Everyone agreed: good evaluations are critical (and hard.) 🧪 Corey noted how public benchmarks and reality are two different things. Most public evals are saturated or gamed. ♊ Ben emphasized that AI projects are actually two projects: building the tool and building the evaluation process. 🧱 We explored how falling dev costs may impact startup defensibility and labor demand. Roy shared that founders are already shifting strategies in response. ⚒️ In a world of daily AI launches, the panel discussed how they decide what’s worth attention, and what’s just noise. They called out tools like Goose, Aider, Claude Code, and Monadical’s own Cubbi, which helps run agentic workflows safely in dev environments. (links in the comments). CTA: What would you want to hear in an AI Applied Engineering talk you attended?

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In 2025, the MENA venture ecosystem reached a pivotal milestone -secondaries transitioned from a “nice-to-have” concept to a core pillar of market infrastructure. By unlocking liquidity for founders, early investors, and teams, secondary transactions are helping recycle capital, strengthen retention, and support longer-term growth strategies across the region. This evolution is essential for building a deeper, more sustainable venture market that can fuel the next generation of innovators. Excited to see how this shift will reshape opportunity and capital flows within the ecosystem! Read more 👇

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Today marks a new milestone in Klaim's journey. Claritev a US Nasdaq listed and strategic investor has announced an investment in our US setup Klaim USA. This is a validation that the 2.5 trillion dollars claims US healthcare market face similar cashflow challenges than in the Middle East just at a much larger complexity and scale. We are now reorganizing ourselves to go global as part of a future Series B round. More exciting news to come... Soon.

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