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Jack Selby of Thiel Capital is using a new VC fund to invest in Arizona startups

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Jack Selby, a former PayPal exec and the longtime managing director of Thiel Capital who attracted some attention years back for his low-key largesse , has a new, $110 million venture fund that he intends to invest mostly in his adopted state of Arizona, where Selby has lived since 2002. Peter is my golden goose.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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In 2002 after exiting his second company he was attracted to the variety of being a VC. He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. Tell us more about Highland Capital (14:30 – 16:30).

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Taking advantage of Latin America’s market downturn

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Andre Maciel is the founder of Volpe Capital. Jennifer Queen is the founder of Pina , a PR firm focused on startups and venture capital firms. Latin American venture capital and growth investments through 2018 had averaged less than $2 billion per year. Image Credits: Volpe Capital. Share on Twitter.

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SoftBank Vision Fund 2 invests $160M in media localization provider Iyuno-SDI Group

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SoftBank Group first invested in Iyuno Media Group through SoftBank Ventures Asia , its venture capital arm, in 2018. SoftBank Vision 2 will join Lee and investors Altor, Shamrock Capital Advisors and SoftBank Ventures Asia Corporation on Iyuno-SDI Group’s board of directors.

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Because the Domain Makes it Really Real

This is going to be BIG.

I got my first job in venture--at GM--in February 2001. I tried to write a book for college kids in 2002-2003, couldn''t get it published, so I started blogging in February of 2004. Venture Capital & Technology' I started a business newspaper in 1998 in college covering the stock market and the economy.

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How Venture Funding For Early-Stage Startups Will Change During the COVID-19 Crisis

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Paul Martino, General Partner at Bullpen Capital. During our recent Dreamit Kickoff week, Bullpen Capital Founder and General Partner Paul Martino ( @ahpah ) spoke with our Spring 2020 cohort about the state of the VC ecosystem in the current economic crisis. Will a financial crisis affect how venture funds deploy capital?

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DotCom Therapy raises $13M to provide therapy for kids, in and out of school

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It’s far from the only teletherapy company looking to capitalize on a boom in venture capital investment in mental health startups , but it’s operating in a hyper-specific sphere: therapy for kids. . This Series A was led by New Capital Partners — a firm with a history of success in the telemedicine space.

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