Join KAV and 43North for an evening of innovation, cycling, and community at their state-of-the-art factory in Buffalo's Old First Ward. The Brown and White Ventures portfolio company will host cyclists and the public Wednesday, August 5th, 2026 from 5:30-8 p.m. at the helmet maker's HQ, 225 Louisiana Street. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5TH | 5:30PM - 8PM Go behind the scenes to see how KAV's bike helmets are designed, 3D printed, and hand-assembled right here in Buffalo. Learn how digital head scanning technology allows us to create helmets tailored to each rider for a more precise fit, enhanced comfort, and improved protection. Enjoy guided factory tours, product demonstrations, food trucks, prizes, and complimentary beverages by Thin Man Brewery. The Buffalo Bicycling Club will be hosting group rides that begin and end at the KAV factory. Whether you're a cyclist, interested in technology and manufacturing, or simply looking for a unique community event, come see how KAV is redefining helmet manufacturing through custom-fit design and 3D printing.

Counsel Stack announced its next advancement in AI-assisted legal research: the successful integration of its proprietary citator with Claude. This development marks a step forward in how legal professionals can leverage large language models (LLMs) to perform complex, grounded legal research and litigation workflows. By connecting Counsel Stack’s citator to Claude, the platform now enables the AI to research with the precision of a lawyer. The integration allows Claude to access and navigate Counsel Stack’s massive 200-million-edge citation graph, providing users with answers backed by direct, verifiable links to legal sources. "We connected Counsel Stack's citator to Claude. It researches like a lawyer, based on our prompting, and provides answers with links. Counsel Stack helps Claude find relevant legal sources and crawl around our 200m edge citation graph," said Von Wooding, CEO of Counsel Stack. This integration goes beyond simple search queries. It is designed to support sophisticated litigation workflows, including editing and redlining legal briefs, all while remaining grounded in curated, high-quality legal data. The system currently operates via a local Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, utilizing a robust 250GB dataset that includes over 50 million citations, ranging from federal statutes and regulations to state constitutions and agency enforcement actions. The company is also exploring the future of local, private legal AI. Counsel Stack has successfully tested the system with 27-billion-parameter local LLMs, demonstrating that high-performance legal research can be achieved without relying on third-party cloud services. "In the very near future you will be able to run a ~120 IQ LLM on your own machine, calling on local legal data that is updated daily from an oracle, and can answer most legal questions without connecting to a third party service," Wooding added. While the current primary bottlenecks for local deployment remain hardware-related—specifically the cost of vRAM and token throughput—Counsel Stack is actively optimizing its architecture to overcome these challenges. The company is also preparing to announce further integrations, including a connection to the Mike OSS front end, which is purpose-built for legal applications. This development positions Counsel Stack at the forefront of the "private AI" movement in law, offering firms the ability to maintain data sovereignty while utilizing cutting-edge research tools. As the legal industry continues to grapple with the balance between AI efficiency and data security, Counsel Stack’s approach offers a compelling path forward. Counsel Stack provides advanced legal technology infrastructure, specializing in citation graphs and AI-driven research tools designed to empower legal professionals with accurate, grounded, and efficient workflows. It is a portfolio company of Brown and White Ventures.

Frontliners, whether soldiers, police officers, firefighters, or others, enter dangerous, unknown spaces every day. Robots and drones, the obvious answer, fail in confined spaces. They have short battery lives, require training to operate, are difficult to carry, and often physically cannot fit through doorways or into tunnels. By the time one is deployed, the situation has changed. The result is that personnel go in blind. It can cost lives. Bounce Imaging's throwable camera solves this with a device that deploys in under two seconds with zero training. Its patented panoramic stitching technology is 1,000 times more efficient than conventional methods, meaning it runs on a long-lasting battery, does not overheat, and transmits stable video even while spinning through the air. The operator sees everything. Nobody has to guess. Brown and White Ventures announced this month Boucne Imagaing is one of its newest portfolio companies. Learn more at: https://bounceimaging.com