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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

VC Financings: 1. Other players such as Obopay have set out to focus on mobile person-to-person cash transfers, mFoundry (a GRP portfolio company) has focused on mobile banking and a mobile wallet and one of my favorite companies m-via is focusing on mobile remittances (right now between the US and Mexico). Read more: TechCrunch.

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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten VC

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010.

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China’s game engine Cocos raises $50M, goes beyond games

TechCrunch

Cocos Technologies, a China-based game engine provider that has been around since 2010, just announced it has picked up $50 million in a Series B funding round in a bid to work on development and move beyond games. It’s also making forays into non-game scenarios like online education and autonomous driving. The mini game renaissance.

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SonarSource raises $412M to scan codebases for bugs and vulnerabilities

TechCrunch

An alarming report from Veracode and Enterprise Strategy Group found that nearly half of organizations knowingly ship vulnerable code despite using cybersecurity tools, often to meet release deadlines. In 2010, SonarSource’s open source project hit a milestone of over 2,000 downloads per month. It’s an acute problem.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

“If I am buying some items and feel a bit unsafe about the merchant I’m using, if there’s a credit card, I don’t feel like I’m risking my money. Luckily, a mutual contact got wind that Sequoia was on the lookout for interesting companies in the region and Klarna’s name was promptly thrown into the mix.

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Hippocratic is building a large language model for healthcare

TechCrunch

At least, that sales pitch from Hippocratic AI , which emerged from stealth today with a whopping $50 million in seed financing behind it and a valuation in the “triple digit millions.” ” AI in healthcare, historically, has been met with mixed success. . Babylon Health , an AI startup backed by the U.K.’s

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Reimagining B2B Commerce with Faire

Y Combinator

require payment financing, invoicing/approvals, inventory management) and requirements differ from vertical to vertical. As a result, B2B buyers are looking for online platforms to help with the discovery, purchase, and financing of new products. Will the behavior changes from COVID-19 be permanent?