Rafiq Ahmet of Dipalo Ventures – 361Firm’s Newport Conference - July 2025 SUMMARY KEYWORDS Dipalo Ventures, early stage investor, hard tech, seed and a, AI panels, manufacturing, predictive analysis, innovation, job challenges, emerging market, Midwest, portfolio companies, data inference, 361Firm, Newport Conference. SPEAKERS Rafiq Ahmed I'm Rafiq Ahmed with Dipalo Ventures out of Chicago. We're an early stage hard tech investor in seed and a and this was an amazing place for the 361 gathering in Newport. Loved it and takeaways today. So a month ago, maybe a month and a half ago, I couldn't spell AI. Now I'm on all of Mark's AI panels speaking about manufacturing, the good and bad and the stuff that nobody wants to talk about. So yeah, that's us at Dipalo. And love this platform. I think that the depth of people is always interesting, because we have genuine allocators. We have people doing important projects, whether they're direct investments or funds. So just the tapestry, I ...