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Palmer Luckey tried to crush aeronautics startup Salient Motion. But Anduril backer a16z invested.

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Two years ago, Vishaal Mali, Kai Yin and Aiden Jenkins left their engineering jobs at Anduril’s futuristic, high-ceiling office to spend their days in a two-car garage building defense tech startup Salient Motion. For 15 hours a day, the three men soldered airplane parts together, huddled around a propane tank heater (the only source of […]

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Shinkei’s humane, quality-preserving fish-harvesting tech could upend the seafood industry

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Harvesting fish is an inherently messy business, what with being at sea, the slippery creatures wriggling around and everything else. Shinkei is working to improve it with an automated system that more humanely and reliably dispatches the fish, resulting in what could be a totally different seafood economy. On many fishing vessels, fish are left

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