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Finding Founder-Market-Geography Fit

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In 2017, we partnered with iconic leaders in American business to turn the thesis we developed on the road — that great companies can start and scale anywhere when given a chance — into an investment vehicle. This trifecta serves as a catalyst for accelerated growth and long-term viability.

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FundersClub Weekly Newsletter - June 8, 2017

FundersClub

Brian Armstrong of Coinbase (FC Portfolio) outlines their long-term strategy for accelerating the world’s shift to an open financial system in " What is Coinbase’s strategy? " Founder and Operator Thoughts.

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Bloomfilter Raises $7 Million Seed Round

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The financing will allow the company to accelerate product development, customer success, and go-to-market activities. He was the Founder and CEO of Motion AI, a visual chatbot builder, which was successfully acquired by HubSpot in 2017. In addition to the capital raise, Bloomfilter announced the general availability of its platform.

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Corelight secures $75M Series D to bolster its network defense offering

TechCrunch

million Series A in July 2017. Vern Paxson, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, joined forces with Robin Sommer and Seth Hall to build a network visibility solution on top of an open source framework called Zeek (formerly Bro). .

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AMD to acquire data center optimization startup Pensando for $2B

TechCrunch

“Joining together with AMD will help accelerate growth in our core business and enable us to pursue a much larger customer base across more markets,” he said. While the solution requires chips and cards, the framework is all software defined,” he explained. “This gets AMD into the NPU or IPU market. .

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Aptiv’s latest investment shows that software-defined vehicles are here to stay

TechCrunch

Aptiv comes on as a strategic investor at a time when the company is working on accelerating the transition to the software-defined car by offering a complete stack to automakers, one that includes high-performance hardware, cloud connectivity and a software architecture that is open, scalable and containerized. . “The

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Countingup closes £9.1M for its business current account with built-in accounting features

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Leading the round is Framework Venture Partners, with participation from Gresham House Ventures, Sage and existing investors. Founded in 2017 by Tim Fouracre, who previously founded cloud accounting software Clear Books, Countingup now boasts over 34,000 business customers. Countingup , the U.K. million in Series A investment.