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Creative Technology at the Timescale of Civilization
May 24th, 2023
At the Interval in San Francisco, Baukunst GP Tyler Mincey spoke with Nick Brysiewicz, Director of Strategy at the Long Now Foundation, about how and why we need to think on a 10,000 year timescale. Their discussion ranged from the need for social constructs that pass knowledge down generation-to-generation to curating ‘breadcrumb record trails’ that collect the most important digital ephemera currently being lost to the abyss of time.
Design for Circularity
April 19th, 2023
We invited three award winning industrial design and engineering studios to discuss the emerging, and at times divisive, trend toward designing products and packaging for circularity. Nichole Rouillac of level, Bret Recor of Box Clever, and Dan Kennedy of Ronin Product Development Labs each shared a dispatch from the frontiers of product and packaging design.
Automated Agriculture for the New Climate Era
April 4th, 2023
At FYTO, Dr. Jason Prapas and his team are blending agriculture, robotics, and biology to grow nutrient-dense, non-GMO aquatic crops using automated cultivation, and harvesting systems. These crops empower farmers to feed their animals with improved nutrition, better price stability, and a drastically lower environmental footprint than ever before.
Meet Baukunst’s New Associate, Chelsea Goddard
February 24th, 2023
We saw over 500 candidates for our Associate role at Baukunst. It was an exceptional group of people. Chelsea stood head and shoulders above the rest. We love working with interdisciplinary experts, and she’s no exception.
Raising Capital at Pre-seed with Kate McAndrew and Sydney Thomas
January 17th, 2023
Investing at the stage of company formation is its own special beast.
Helium & the Future of Incentivized Networks
January 12th, 2023
Baukunst partner & GP Tyler Mincey spoke with Mark Phillips, VP of Business Development at Nova Labs about what the future looks like for the Helium network.
Ancestry, La Lucha Libre & AI: Digressions on Intentional Image Making
January 5th, 2023
Raul Gutierrez speaks about his journey from AI skeptic to evangelist, and the surprisingly emotional experience of generating imagery with AI.
The Art of Building: Foundation
December 19th, 2022
Today, Foundation announces its $7M seed round. We took the occasion to sit down with Zach Herbert, Founder and CEO, to get his perspective on how the crypto landscape is changing in the wake of the FTX crack-up, the relationship of regulatory agencies to the industry, and what future optimism looks like.
Not Your Computer, Not Your Keys: Crypto Devices and Supply Chains
November 30th, 2022
Tyler Mincey, Co-founder and General Partner at Baukunst, shares his perspective on how crypto technologies are transforming connected devices and our relationship to them.