On this week’s dose, (2:00) we start with a breakdown on Agorus, a startup that’s looking to automate the homebuilding process to significantly reduce the time it takes to build high quality homes, hot off a $20M Series A. Then (9:57), we cover Perplexity, an AI search platform that is poised to disrupt the search engine space, hot off a $73.6M funding round. Lastly (16:16), we wrap up this week’s dose with a discussion on Shield AI, a startup that makes hardware and software to transform aircraft and drones into autonomous systems capable of executing complex missions in contested environments, and their massive $500M Series F.