$275M Just Went Into an AI That Never Stops Watching.

Short issue this week, lads and gals. Wall Street is bleeding out like a bad leverage trade, crypto’s on life support, and the only thing getting money? AI startups.

VCs are throwing hundreds of millions at AI surveillance this, AI supply chains that, AI my dog that. Heck, at this rate, they’re even going to fund an AI that decides which AI gets funding!

Let’s get into it.

Flock Safety: AI Surveillance for Every Street 🚔 ($275M Raised)

Y Combinator-backed Flock Safety just secured $275M at a $7.5B valuation to scale its AI-powered license plate tracking. This startup is turning entire neighborhoods into real-time surveillance grids.

💡 Why It Matters:

• Every car. Every street. Zero privacy.

• Neighborhood watch? More like AI watch.

• Governments love this. Regular people? Not so much.

• AI doesn’t forget. Once you’re flagged, expect to be pulled over for “suspicious activity” while grabbing a midnight snack.

🎓 What You Can Learn From This:

• AI + government contracts = infinite funding.

• Regulation always lags behind innovation. Until it doesn’t.

• Privacy is dead, and VCs are selling tickets to the funeral.

🔮 Prediction: AI won’t just issue tickets. It’ll auto-deduct the fine from your bank account and text your insurance to raise your rates.

Scimplify: AI Takes Over Industrial Supply Chains 🏭 ($40M Raised)

Scimplify just landed $40M to shake up the specialty chemicals industry. They’re using AI to match manufacturers with the right chemicals. A process that’s been painfully slow, inefficient, and dominated by 65-year-old men who still use fax machines.

💡 Why It Matters:

• AI is quietly taking over trillion-dollar industries.

• Supply chain inefficiencies are money pits. Startups fixing them get paid.

• AI is now optimizing chemicals. Next up: figuring out why your Amazon package takes five weeks to arrive despite being “out for delivery.”

🎓 What You Can Learn From This:

• The most profitable startups fix the most boring problems.

• If your industry still relies on spreadsheets, AI is coming for it.

• Forget consumer apps. B2B is where the real cash is.

🔮 Prediction: Factories won’t just run on AI. They’ll only accept AI-generated orders. If you try to place an order manually, you’ll be redirected to “speak with our AI representative” and be put on hold for 6 hours.

🔥 MEME BREAK 🔥

🔥 Business Idea: AI for Anti-Surveillance

Privacy is dead. But fighting back? That’s a billion-dollar opportunity.

• VPNs, encrypted messaging, and privacy tools are booming. But where’s AI in this?

• What about AI-powered tools that scramble facial recognition? (deepfake distortions, real-time image masking, digital noise generators)

• Or software that alerts you when you’re being recorded? (detects AI cameras and notifies you instantly)

If AI is being used to watch people, there’s $$$ in helping people disappear.

Big Brother is watching. But that doesn’t mean you can’t make a bag off it.

Final Thoughts

If you made it this far, respect. You’re one of the real ones.

See you next week. Same day, same time. Same place.

-The FOMO Report Team

Disclaimer: This newsletter runs on caffeine, late-night rabbit holes, and way too many Red Bulls.