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August 05, 2025
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Summer Accelerator Cohort Event (this Thurs, 8/7) Featuring Investor Reverse Pitches & Demo Day Graduation Party!
Step SF 2025 (August 21): Limited “Master Pass” 50% off (full price) with code “Aiify50”
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Meet our Summer Accelerator Cohort!
Investors Pitch You at our Reverse Pitch & Demo Day Graduation Event: This Thurs. (8/7)
YSK Partners, Founders Space, and Aiify.io Present a "Reverse Investor Pitch" & Accelerator Demo Day / Graduation Party
Join as investors pitch their funds (before our Accelerator Cohort pitch their companies) at our "Reverse Pitch" & Accelerator Demo Day Graduation Event!
Register here to attend: https://lu.ma/YSKDemoDay
Reverse Pitch Investors / Firms:
More Investors TBA (Investors, apply here to reverse pitch)
Jay Eum
Managing Partner; GFT Ventures
Radu Skutaru
Venture Partner; VU Venture Partners
Introducing our Cohort Companies:
Aidall: Robotic Seeing Eye Dogs (aidall.ai)
Intellectus: Edge AI Computing for Reduced Latency & Better Security (intellectus.co.kr)
mAy-I: AI-Computer Vision for Retail & Public Space Behavior Analysis (en.may-i.io)
Neubility: Delivery and Surveillance Robots. Robotics-as-a-Service (neubility.co.kr)
Neurabody: - Physician-backed smart devices and AI app for personalized pain care (neurabody.ai)
Second Team: HR - AI powered Talent Vetting & Recruitment SaaS (supercoder.co)
SolverX: AI Enabled Materials Simulation for Computer-Aided Engineering [CAE] (solverx.ai)
Stelland: AI Video Content Creation & Distribution Platform (stelland.io / toonyz.com)
Agenda:
2:00p: Doors Open / Light Bites
3:00p: Investor "Reverse Pitch" Presentations
3:30p: Introductions by YSK Partners & Founders Space
3:45p: Accelerator Cohort Company Presentations
4:30–6:00p: Graduation Party: Networking with Companies & Investors.
RSVP here: https://lu.ma/YSKDemoDay
We’re getting close and prices are going up.
It’s almost time for Step SF 2025!
This year Step SF hosts a Startup Pitch Competition on Weds. 8/20, followed by our hugely popular Step SF 2025 event on Thurs. 8/21.
See More at: StepSF.com
Last chance for our 50% off “Mater Pass” (full price) with code “Aiify50”: lu.ma/StepSF25?coupon=aiify50
Once these codes run out, use “Aiify20” for 20% off lowest available Master Pass pricing. Click here to apply discount: https://lu.ma/StepSF25?coupon=AIIFY20
(Discounts and unlocks available at checkout)
Recent Industry News
Apple reportedly working on new AI initiative: The newly-formed "Answers, Knowledge, and Information" team is developing an AI search experience. The team is building a service that crawls the web and responds directly user requests instead of search results. The team is hiring engineers to build an app and its backend infrastructure. TechCrunch
Google releases Gemini 2.5 Deep Think: An advanced "parallel thinking" model that analyses multiple ideas simultaneously. This version reportedly outperforms OpenAI’s o3 and Grok 4. It’s available now vias Google’s AI Ultra plan. X/Twitter
OpenAI Raises $8.3B: Raising at a $300B valuation, OpenAI is now generating $13B in annual revenue. Investors in this round include: Blackstone, TPG, and T. Rowe Price, with leader, Dragoneer, contributing $2.8B. This may be the largest venture investment ever. New York Times
Mistral Funding: French startup Mistral is targeting a $10B valuation in its latest funding round. Financial Times
ByteDance as Math Genius: ByteDance says it has achieved “significant advancement in automated mathematical reasoning“ and claims it solves 5/6 problems on the 2025 International Math Olympiad. X/Twitter
Anthropic cuts off OpenAI’s access to Claude: Anthropic disconnects OpenAI’s API access after claiming OpenAI violation of its terms of service. Allegedly OpenAI was using Claude to train OpenAI’s next GPT-5 model. WIRED
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