MoviePass ousted Watt, along with its other cofounder Stacy Spikes, from the company two years before filing for bankruptcy. Since then, Watt has been building Share Ventures, a venture studio that's now closed on nearly $20 million of funding from backers including Amazon and Alphabet. Share Ventures has quietly been spinning up those startups and plans to start announcing them in the coming months. Oral health company Feno, one of Share Ventures' portfolio companies, is working on a smart toothbrush powered by AI. Share VenturesAI is supercharging the venture studio modelThreats to the venture capital industry, from high interest rates to the explosion of AI, aren't letting up.

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