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Domestika raises $110M on a $1.3B valuation to expand its learning community for creative types

TechCrunch

In one of the latest developments, Domestika — a popular site that creates and sells online video tutorials and courses covering a range of visual arts and related skills, building a larger community around that content where members can also interact and learn from each other — has raised $110 million in funding on a $1.3

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

TechCrunch

We have the core of our business rocking and rolling with our education market,” says Robinson. New Capital Partners were early investors in Teladoc, a virtual healthcare company founded in 2002. Our main customer base was K-12 school districts. Teladoc went public in 2015 at an enterprise value of $620 million.

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Fireside Project manifests a $200K fund to improve access to careers in psychedelic health

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The org also developed an app to help keep people tethered to planet earth, and to help people who need some assistance with a trip they are currently on, or “integrating” a recent journey. I started having my own psychedelic experiences many years ago, the first one was in 2002 I think.

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After bootstrapping since 2002, Articulate raises $1.5B on $3.75B valuation

TechCrunch

But Articulate , a SaaS training and development platform, is not your typical company and today it announced a whopping $1.5 CEO Adam Schwartz founded the company with his life savings in 2002 and hasn’t taken a dime of outside investment since. He says that the company started back in 2002 as a plug-in for PowerPoint.

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Hambleton Lord and Christopher Mirabile Are Changing the Face of Angel Investing

Angel Capital Association

With their shared dedication to professionalize angel investing, commitment to educate the angel community and decades long friendship, it is easy to understand why Hambleton Lord and Christopher Mirabile have been so successful at changing the face of angel investing.

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Saving Lives, One School at a Time

Entrepreneurs' Organization

My first visit to Bangladesh was in 2002, and I had no illusions about this country. For example, Bangladesh is one of the few developing countries that is on target for achieving most of the Millennium Development Goals. I expected poverty and there was plenty of it.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

The Past (1985-2002). But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. then bought GeoCities for $3.6