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The unusual story of an unusual company – Melanie Langlotz and Geo AR Games 

NZ Entrepreneur

” By 2013, Mel’s idea was further inspired while working at a startup called Augview that was using geospatial augmented reality for city infrastructure – nothing to do with games whatsoever – and she met the person who would become the co-founder of her studio. “It I’m no longer on my own and together we can do this.

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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of audiovisual startup Chroma

TechCrunch

Chroma , a startup working to build a new type of audiovisual entertainment specifically for mobile devices, is now adding a Twitter co-founder to its board. The venture most notably incubated the blogging platform Medium. However, in 2013, Stone and the others shifted their focus to individual startups.

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4 keys to international expansion

TechCrunch

During my five years with Global Founders Capital, Rocket Internet’s $1 billion VC arm, I saw more than a hundred of Rocket’s incubated companies attempt to internationalize. Finding the right balance between keeping costs in check and not underinvesting can mean doing things more slowly than your board would like.

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Alto raises $40 million to help individuals make tax-savvy investments in assets like crypto and artwork

TechCrunch

Veteran investor Eric Satz realized this in 2013 when he first tried to deploy money from his IRA into private companies and was met with pushback from his financial advisor, who was concerned about the potential risks, Satz told TechCrunch in an interview. ibnAle is set to join the company’s board of directors.

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Brand incubator Harry’s Labs makes acquisition of D2C deodorant brand Lum?

TechCrunch

Harry’s Labs, the in-house incubator started by razor brand Harry’s Inc. billion valuation and over $650 million in total funding raised since it was founded in 2013. announced Monday it agreed to acquire Lum? , the direct-to-consumer brand created to help control all-over body odor.

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Mistaking performance for competence

TechCrunch

While we anticipate the VC fundraising environment will become more cautious across the board, we don’t see robotics being uniquely impacted. We had to fight like crazy in Chicago in 2013 to get approval for that. Drone Fund led the raise, which also features HAX (SOSV), Incubate Fund, SBI Investment and DBJ Capital.

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Newsletter: Some good news for a change

OurCrowd

PitchBook has ranked OurCrowd as Israel’s most active investor each year since we were founded in 2013, with investments in more than 330 portfolio companies. Former Mossad Director Tamir Pardo has joined the advisory board of our portfolio company NanoLock Security. Top Tech News. Cyabra answers Elon Musk’s query on Twitter bots.

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