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Tired of running out of credits for EVERYTHING? Join Tulip x Accel AI Innovate Hackathon on September 23rd. Every builder gets the Builders Pack: •⁠ ⁠Anthropic: $100 credits per participant •⁠ ⁠ElevenLabs: 110k credits per participant  •⁠ ⁠OpenAI: $50 credits per participant •⁠ Lovable: Credits per participant •⁠ ⁠Supabase: $25 in credit per participant (1 month free of Pro plan) •⁠ ⁠Modal: $100 in credits per participant •⁠ ⁠Tavily: 8,000 Tavily Credits per participant •⁠ ⁠Vercel: $120 in AI Gateway credits per participant  •⁠ ⁠Nebius: Nebius Token Factory credits •⁠ ⁠n8n: Free month of n8n Cloud Pro (worth €60) per person •⁠ ⁠Swag: T-shirt, water bottle and more Build an AI product from scratch within a single day, complete freedom on how: join with a pre-made team or solo if you ship fast alone. No CV required, if you have what it takes, apply through the Luma link below. https://lnkd.in/eayMMasH

There has been a lot to celebrate at Decagon lately! We welcomed some huge logos to our customer family, including American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Deutsche Telekom, Snap Inc., and Ticketmaster, while continuing to expand our team and presence around the world with new offices in São Paulo and Sydney. That momentum is showing up in how customers use Decagon too. On average, customers build their first journey in just 4 days and launch 29 journeys in their first year. We also recently passed 600 employees! There is still so much left to build, but I feel very lucky to be doing it with a team that shows up for our customers and for each other every day. Yesterday, our NYC team gathered in Times Square to see Decagon Dialogues featured on the Nasdaq tower. This is our second annual flagship conference, and it’ll be our biggest event yet. Spots are filling up fast, but you can still request your seat in the comments.

Tulip promised BIG things.  And we like to deliver.  We present our biggest ever prize-pool for a hackathon: Accel AI Innovate: Amsterdam.  Over 1 million credits up for grabs from: Anthropic, ElevenLabs, Lovable, Modal, n8n, Nebius, OpenAI, Supabase, Tavily, Vercel. Apart from the prize pool, AI Innovate is where future founders can come together, share ideas, build and meet the people worth building with.  Build a working AI product for a real customer in just one day, powered by an approved open-weight model on Nebius. We partnered with Accel, Nebius, Tavily, Lovable, AI House Amsterdam, AISO, and Hackathon Hub to make this hackathon happen.  September 23rd at the AI House. Let’s make it BIG, register below. https://lnkd.in/eayMMasH

We’re announcing that Forus has raised a $150M Series C at a $3B valuation to build the AI network for medicine. Medicine will remain one of the world’s most important industries until humanity achieves immortality, and we are only at the beginning of a new era in what it can do. GLP-1s are changing obesity and cardiometabolic disease. Gene therapies can treat diseases at their genetic source. New cancer treatments are turning diagnoses that were once fatal into diseases people can live with. AI is enabling us to discover new drugs even faster. But discovery is only the beginning. It still takes more than a decade and billions of dollars to turn a new molecule into an approved medicine, and once it reaches market, more than a third of patients prescribed specialty treatments never receive their first dose. Forus is creating the AI network to accelerate the entire medicine pipeline, from development and launch through prescription and treatment. We connect the companies creating medicines with the doctors who prescribe them and the patients who need them. Today, Forus supports millions of people across all 50 states and is already used by providers to treat patients in 85% of U.S. residential ZIP codes. 9 of the top 15 global biopharma companies work with us, alongside many fast-growing biotechs. Our goal is to put Forus in every doctor’s office in the country and unlock an order of magnitude more medicine for society. There is a generational opportunity to rethink how new medicine reaches people. Forus is becoming how medicine moves from discovery to treatment in America, and as we scale, we’ll become the most important company in life sciences. Forus is not constrained by capital or customer demand; we are constrained by the talent and capacity of our team. To take on the opportunity in front of us, we need exceptional engineers and operators in New York who want to move fast and help us make something that matters. Come build with us. Our Series C was led by Bain Capital Ventures, with Thrive Capital, General Catalyst, Accel, Redpoint, BoxGroup, Pear VC, Avra, Human Capital, Neo, Vast Ventures, and SV Angel investing alongside them.