Altera’s Post

Last Monday our SPEEDRUN002 founders presented to >400 investors. They were there to see the amazing progress made in ~10 weeks. Just a few examples: 🍟 Travis Chen + Eric Berman built + launched Lil Snack, and landed partnerships with BuzzFeed & Amazon Prime Gaming. ⛏️ Nico Christie + Robert Yang + Shuying Luo from Altera went viral on Reddit with a video of their Minecraft bot, then built a model that outperformed Voyager - the model made by the researchers running NVIDIA's autonomous agents lab. 🧒 Jeff Wu + Kieran Donovan + Julian Corbett and the k-ID team were profiled in TechCrunch for their innovative solutions in the identity space. ... there were 34 more teams, so I can't profile them all here - suffice to say it's been inspiring to watch these teams in action. 💰 𝗚𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗦 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 - 𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗𝟬𝟬𝟯 𝗜𝗦 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗚 💰 Applications open for SPEEDRUN003 next week. This time we're upping the ante to $750k, and we intend to fund another ~40 teams. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: - The timing is perfect for founding - There's more talent available to teams - Incumbents are struggling and restructuring - And broad market changes in gaming mean opportunity for upstarts So if you want to... --> Make the game of your dreams --> Build tech or tools for studios, engineers, artists --> Design "out-of-game" experiences for gamers --> And do it all in your own vision... Then you should apply to SPEEDRUN when applications open next Monday: 🔗 https://bit.ly/48vRa36 🔗