👋 Good morning. While you’re just trying to make it through all five days of the workweek, 84-year-old Tom Henschel is gearing up to attend his 60th Super Bowl. He’s part of the exclusive “Never Miss a Super Bowl” club, which includes fellow devoted fans Don Crisman and Gregory Eaton. When Henschel attended the first-ever Super Bowl to watch the Green Bay Packers play the Kansas City Chiefs, tickets were $12 and fans wore suits and ties. His seat this year? $2.7k.
STARTING UP
This startup wants to mind your beeswax
❌ The problem: A large share of global food crops depend on pollination, but it’s often an afterthought in agricultural planning — rarely measured or optimized.
💡 The pitch: France-based UBEES equips beehives with sensors to monitor pollination health and track environmental conditions. A connected hive lets users monitor productivity, biodiversity, and crop quality to increase yields and power more regenerative farms.
🚀 The outlook: UBEES already operates in 15+ countries and plans to expand into Latin America and Africa — key regions for crops like coffee, cocoa, and avocados.
NEWS FLASH
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Knock, knock: Kindred, a home swap platform, scored 150k new members in 2025 and is anticipating higher demand this year as budget-conscious travelers look beyond pricey hotels and home rentals. It recently raised $125m and plans to scale beyond the 150+ cities it currently supports.
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Dr. Bot: Lotus Health AI’s LLM acts like a primary care doctor and can offer diagnoses, prescriptions, and referrals, which are then reviewed by human doctors. Lotus, which just raised a $35m Series A, claims its AI can see 10x as many patients as a traditional doctor’s office.
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Clocking into reality: DeepSight is a startup that helps industrial companies, predominantly in food manufacturing, create trainings in VR and AR. Experienced employees put on smart glasses and perform their daily tasks while explaining how they're done. Then, DeepSight’s AI returns with step-by-step work instructions.
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Demon what now? The finalists of Georgia Tech’s annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition include the “Gajveena,” a combination of the very low-pitched double bass and rudra veena; the “Demon Box,” which amplifies the frequencies of nearby electronic devices; and “Fiddle Henge.” That’s four violins on a motorized bass drum, apparently.
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AI gets practical in the lab
Designing new materials is easy for AI. Making them a reality in the lab is not.
Researchers at MIT developed an AI model that bridges the gap between design and production, with practical synthesis recipes that scientists can use to create real materials.
THE BIG IDEA
Caviar taste meets the coworking era
For as hard as CEOs have tried to get workers back in the office, remote work is still alive and well, with ~70% of Fortune 500 companies having adopted hybrid models.
As such, demand for coworking spaces is once again booming.
- Coworking space in the US totaled 159m square feet by the end of 2025, according to Coworking Cafe, up 17% YoY and ~38% over the past three years.
- While it accounts for just 2.2% of total US office inventory, analysts expect that figure could eventually grow to 10%.
But this time around, a growing share of that floorspace is being taken up by coworking companies that are elevating what labor looks like…
Enter: The era of luxury coworking
For remote workers who can afford it and companies that want offices without a long-term lease, these next-gen spaces offer premium amenities and stunning interiors — divided into shared spaces, meeting rooms, and private offices — that turn work into a lifestyle.
- At Arc Beverly, a newly launched workspace-focused social club in Los Angeles, members (i.e., influencers, business leaders, entire companies) can network across its rooftop, lounges, theater, wellness programs, and upscale, all-day restaurant and bar.
- The Malin — one of America’s fastest-growing companies, where “the most ambitious go to work beautifully” — offers velvet-draped Zoom backgrounds, concierge services, and artisanal coffee. It launched in 2021 and plans to add four more locations this year after doubling revenue to $20m in 2025, per Inc.
Rates typically begin at ~$300/month for individuals but can creep into the thousands depending on the membership tier.
CEOs need coworking spaces, too
For professionals with caviar taste and budgets to match, Industrious is kicking things up a few notches with Industrious Reserve — essentially, a WeWork for the 1% — which opens in NYC this spring, per Fast Company.
- The specs: pre-Zoom grooming services, private dining, caviar tastings, and dedicated staff who’ll greet you by name and bring you your coffee just as you like it.
- The clientele: C-suite execs and businesses like VC firms, hedge funds, and high-end fashion brands.
- The cost: $7k-$9.5k a month (oof).
Considering many top-earning professionals work well over 40 hours a week, it makes sense that they’d want the space they spend much of their time in to match their living standards.
Not sure if you’d call that work-life balance, but it’s gotta beat cheap snacks and cubicles.
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NEWSWORTHY NUMBER
Increase in average daily downloads of apps NonUSA (iOS) and Made O’Meter (iOS and Google Play) between Jan. 15-21 and the week prior, per TechCrunch. Both apps, which help users determine if products are American-made and offers local alternatives, recently sprang to the top of the Danish App Store amid a broader European boycott of American products and services following the US government’s threats of a Greenland takeover.
Ironically, iOS users will, however, need to use a US-made app store to download the apps onto their “designed in California” iPhones.
AROUND THE WEB
📅 On this day: In 1919, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith formed the legendary film studio United Artists Corporation.
🔎 Game: A compelling murder mystery that you solve by typing in codes.
💊 That’s interesting: ProPublica made a database to track where generic drugs come from and the factories that made them.
📰 Newsletter: Subscribe to The Wrap for essential stories and market moves.
🐱 Aww: A tussle.
SHOWER THOUGHT
If you were born in the '90s, you may be the last generation that remembers what it was like to go to the internet, rather than always being on it. SOURCE
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