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

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This Series D is being led by Zeev Ventures, a longtime investor, with additional contributions from GSV and other unnamed, private investors, and it has now raised around $200 million to date. I am excited to support the team as they continue to innovate and grow.”. billion valuation. Its current valuation of $1.3

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African payments company Flutterwave raises $170M, now valued at over $1B

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New and existing investors who participated include DST Global, Early Capital Berrywood, Green Visor Capital, Greycroft Capital, Insight Ventures, PayPal, Salesforce Ventures, Tiger Management, Worldpay FIS 9yards Capital. . Rising African venture investment powers fintech, clean tech bets in 2020.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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The Past (1985-2002). Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000.

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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. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. Opportunities in vertical search exist where the sources of data are somewhat hidden and can be unlocked and displayed in an innovative manner.

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5 noteworthy startup-led trends of the 21st century that transformed industries | Propel(x)

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Deep tech refers to scientific or engineering innovations that disrupt existing industries through years of research, patent application, and other forms of intellectual property. billion in venture capital in 2021 and $70.7 billion in the first quarter of 2022 alone, according to PitchBook’s Venture Monitor report.

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Lee Jun-goo, CEO of ANDOPEN, Sets Sights on Global Biometric Control Market

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Register The once futuristic scene of iris recognition for identification, seen in the 2002 film Minority Report, has become a reality in 2023. This innovative service has bagged the 2023 Edison Award in the Safety and Security Solutions category, a highly esteemed invention accolade in the United States.