Itamar Bitan

Introducing @dognosis, founded by @akadogluk and @Itamar_Bitan • The Leap: Early-stage cancer detection from breath. • The Mission: Dognosis digitizes and scales canine olfaction using a fusion of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), AI, and robotics. Their at-home breath test, BreathEasy, can detect multiple cancers with accuracies rivalling full-body MRIs, all from breathing into a simple face mask for 10 minutes.

@furst_fly This is obviously a terrible VC and unfortunately there's a lot of those here. What I'm really confused with is why. What is a VC benefiting from asking these silly things at a pre seed? the downside is obvious and it's losing good deals, strong founders will raise elsewhere..

My Co founder reached out to a couple of "pre-seed" VCs in India. This was the response. and people wonder why India doesn't have a good startup ecosystem lol!

@zaidmukaddam PeakXV is closer to being a PE rather than a VC

@raymondopolis I'm convinced there's one sadistic bureaucrat behind this 😂 Unbelievably bad

(1) I love India (2) Anybody who applies for an e-visa to India knows the website is always comically, profoundly, embarrassingly broken It looks like it was written in 2003, kicks you out randomly without saving your work, won't charge your credit card until your nineteenth attempt But this is a new one—halfway through the business visa application, it displays a list of the tallest peaks in each Indian state?? Come on folks, I'm just trying to invest in your country!

realizing that my childhood trait of relishing being the underdog is one of my biggest strengths leading dognosis. guzzling the general lack of serious belief at a big academic conf on cancer rn like rocket fuel

@TheRealNamzoo @lachygroom @lpolovets @humbavc @MohapatraHemant @LightspeedIndia Wonder kid 🦄

It’s happened. We’ve just closed our seed round of $8.65 million. Led by @lachygroom, with participation from @lpolovets at @humbavc & @MohapatraHemant from @LightspeedIndia doubling down. This round has been more than a validation of our vision, it’s on the back of making it a reality. Airbound never began as a grand vision to make 1 cent deliveries a reality. It began as the story of an engineer who questioned everything. Why can’t this be better? Why does there need to be so much infrastructure? Why should deliveries be so inefficient? The nice thing about engineering is that there is an objectively right and an objectively wrong answer. The nice thing about physics is that there is an optimum. It physically hurts to know what optimal looks like and go for something suboptimal. Most engineers outgrow that feeling. The benefit of starting young is that once you get a taste for the optimum, you can’t go back. Airbound simply started as a quest to build the best drone possible. It was a project - a love letter to engineering. We’re now a team of 50. We’ve scaled production to one drone a day, flown 10,000+ km, and improved reliability by 35x. And this was only in the past 3 months. We’re so much more than a project now. We’ve built the best drone in the world. Now it's time for us to scale this impact and enable trillions of flights annually, and build a world where roads are optional. Excited to have some amazing angels @balajis, @AbhayVenkatesh1, @tarunsmehta, @mohith_dzn, @dhaval_shroff, @jaredrosnerd and so many more amazing supporters of this journey. The future is going to be in the sky!

while i wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world, being a founder is hard af

@vitrupo @akadogluk

Terence Tao says today's AIs pass the eye test -- but fail miserably on the smell test. They generate proofs that look flawless. But the mistakes are subtle, and strangely inhuman. “There's a metaphorical mathematical smell.. it's not clear how to get AI to duplicate that.” Intelligence isn't what looks correct. It's what smells true.

The real divide isn’t between people who support Israel and people who support Iran or the Palestinians. The real divide is between people who think that the way to achieve peace is to let Iran build nuclear weapons and people who aren't retarded.

@airindia Sent a DM

@airindia What about flights on June ? (4th) I got a message similar to your tweet but nothing regarding my specific flight.

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@nikillinit Just say "it's a platform"

If someone ever put a gun to my head and told me to explain what any healthcare startup does that’s raised more than $200M Tell my family love them

@anothercohen Where are you handling company wikis ? Saw your post yesterday about clickup and after a similar experience with it we're looking into other options. Not a fan of Notion either

Here are my not banned apps