Star Simpson

Why does this single company's funding round imply a bubble?

And I expect it’s based on some expectation of rapid acquisition by a large automotive company, so hypey.

Ok but a bubble would be industry-wide and I would not believe this was typical.

I do think the vision/ML/self driving space is increasingly bubbly. Not all are getting ridiculous investments like this, but hype for sure

I've no idea what JingChi is actually doing but if they're, say, spinning up a chip fab.. how much seed should they raise?

Their website claims all their technology is software. Plus, the sheer number of LIDAR/self driving rounds in that Robot Report writeup...

Diffusion of Schumpeterian rents has to happen somehow :)

I'm mostly poking at the assertion that there's a correct or standard seed size. Yea it's a pile - and I hope they use it well.