Drone couriers and virtual faces among Alchemist Accelerator's demo day highlights
Summary
Ive written those up over the years and the concept is pretty high-touch but has genuine promise for improving times for getting labs done, transporting organs and blood, and so on, instead of using ground couriers.Of course in a Swiss city studded with medical centers you can get away with a quadcopter. Avol has staked out an interesting middle ground: a small VTOL craft that transitions to winged flight after takeoff. Theyre raising a seed round now and hoping to work with hospitals around the country.Syntonym is taking the tech behind vtubers and applying it in everyday video calls, replacing your face in real time to preserve your privacy. So its not surprising that folks from Astra were frustrated enough with what they were using to split off and build their own.Redshift is their solution, a new ERP-type thing that integrates with modern services everyone uses and doesnt cost a quarter of a million dollars. It could help connect the vast amounts of talent and capital that dont have convenient access to Silicon Valley which is itself notoriously inward-looking.