Stephen Ango and Jesse Genet of Lumi open up about the liberation and terror of acquisition.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Investing at the stage of company formation is its own special beast.

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.

Raul Gutierrez speaks about his journey from AI skeptic to evangelist, and the surprisingly emotional experience of generating imagery with AI.

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.