TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade. However, in June 2020, the Italian government sponsored a €1 billion investment program aimed at the native startup ecosystem, creating a new venture arm: CDP Venture Capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America? Stephen Harper, the country’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, famously quipped that the region suffered from “ a culture of defeatism.” venture capital. More posts by this contributor. Soon, the region’s hard-luck narrative stuck.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

venture capital to date (more on this in a separate post), unfortunately relegating billion-dollar exits as “ho-hum” events to the technology crowd. It’s been a few years now since BlackBerry made phones, and this represents its largest purchase to date (by a factor of 3) since its 2015 acquisition of Good Technology.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Juganu: Using light to chase away Covid-19. Hot-button issues in the US election. Investors around the world are focused on the US Presidential election. OurCrowd is investing in a Series B Round alongside BNP Paribas, Standard Bank South Africa, Moneta Capital, Renegade Partners and Viola FinTech. Healthcare.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 24, 2011

What I soon realized was that once you start applying filters for qualifications, experience, interest, culture fit, timing, you don't know nearly as many people as you think you do. How about using Quora or Twitter as contest platforms for your target hiring audience to win something on by proving their knowledge.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Sequoia, the top venture capital firm on the face of the earth, put in a growth round that valued the company at close to half a unicorn. I imagined a future Wing media arm with a TV channel, a venture capital fund… …and then it all came crashing down. Audrey Gelman was on the cover of Inc magazine, visibly pregnant.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In November of 2015, I posted a tweet that declared Benchmark was interested in discovering Internet healthcare investments. Additionally, all of us that have been consumers of the U.S. So if Internet and mobile technologies can be used to change real estate or transportation, why not healthcare?

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