Technology

Learn how Massachusetts’ proposed Responsible Robotics Act could reshape robotics compliance, liability, and public safety standards.

ML Strategies can help you understand how Massachusetts’ latest AI and robotics proposals could shape compliance, liability, and public safety standards.

This edition of MintzTech Connect explores key issues shaping the venture capital and emerging companies landscape, and includes a client spotlight and a guide to being an effective board member.

Our client spotlight on LEA Technologies. LEA deploys autonomous document and data agents for the wealth management industry.

This article highlights best practices and key considerations in fulfilling the role of director for a private company.

Explore why standard Y Combinator SAFE liquidity terms may under-protect investors, and how adding payout multiples can strengthen returns in early exits.

California has suspended enforcement of its venture capital demographic reporting law (FIPVCC). The DFPI will not require filings by April 1, 2026, pending rulemaking.

Updated New York LLC Transparency Act limits reporting to foreign‑formed LLCs operating in NY. Learn key deadlines, exemptions, and penalties under the revised NYLTA.

Avoid shockingly high Delaware franchise tax estimates. Learn how the Authorized Shares and APV methods work and how startups can minimize their tax liability. 

Mintz client Conductive Ventures became the first to use Mintz’s innovative Series SAFE Preferred Stock structure in a recent AI startup investment. Developed in part by Mintz Member Amit Singh, the structure blends SAFE efficiency with preferred equity protections.

This issue of MintzTech Connect introduces the Series SAFE Preferred, a new early‑stage financing instrument developed by the Mintz VC & Emerging Companies team to address QSBS uncertainty in traditional SAFEs, and concludes with a spotlight on Mintz client Conductive Ventures’ first use of the structure in an AI startup investment.

California’s A.B. 2013 imposes new disclosure requirements for generative AI systems starting January 1, 2026. Learn who’s covered, what must be disclosed, compliance challenges, and practical steps to protect IP and avoid enforcement risks.
 

This issue of MintzTech Connect includes an analysis of OBBBA changes to the QSBS rules, continues with a deep dive into the tax benefits available when converting an LLC into a C corporation that is issuing QSBS, and concludes with a spotlight on our client Conductive Ventures.

Mintz client Conductive Ventures became the first to use Mintz’s innovative Series SAFE Preferred Stock structure in a recent AI startup investment. Developed in part by Mintz Member Amit Singh, the structure blends SAFE efficiency with preferred equity protections.

This edition of Mintz Venture Watch provides a 2024 Year in Review and an overview of VC transactions in the first half of 2025, as well as a look at Mintz’s work with clients in the technology, life sciences, and sustainable energy and infrastructure sectors.

This issue of MintzTech Connect leads with a terrific article about negotiating a letter of intent from the seller’s perspective. It continues with an article about a common problem regarding Delaware franchise taxes. The issue concludes with a spotlight on Coworker.ai, a cool new company that has created an AI “teammate” that can perform complex work at the level of an experienced colleague.

Our Client Spotlight this month features Coworker.ai, a cool new company that has created an AI “teammate” that can perform complex work at the level of an experienced colleague.

As we head into the second half of 2025, the prospects for innovation in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) seem limitless.  It is difficult to find an industry that hasn’t touted the potential for robotics and AI to bring significant growth and advancement: from agriculture to warehousing and logistics. Key sectors, including healthcare, financial services, retail, and manufacturing, are integrating robotics into their physical processes and attempting to optimize other aspects of their businesses through the use of AI, including the use of surgical robotics to enhance precision and efficiency in medical procedures and the adoption of robotics to increase safety, productivity and quality in manufacturing and logistics.

Read about Walkabout, a very interesting company with an app that aggregates everything on the internet locally, helping neighbors to connect in meaningful ways in person.