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How a Little Bit of Fear Breeds Innovation

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Incumbent human processes were cumbersome, laborious, costly, slow and demoralizing. She is currently serving a governor-appointed position on the Information Technology Advisory Board for the State of Nevada. Krupa joined EO Las Vegas in 2018. . We used this type of expert knowledge to power our semantic engines.

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Sila banks $13M to offer single API for developing financial products, services

TechCrunch

The company was founded in 2018 by Shamir Karkal, Angela Angelovska, Isaac Hines and Alex Lipton to simplify digital payments and storage in a regulatory compliant way and build on blockchain technology. As part of the investment, Clara Sieg, partner at Revolution Ventures, is joining the company’s board.

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ManageXR grabs $4 million seed round to scale XR business 

TechCrunch

ManageXR announced today it has raised a $4 million seed round led by Rally Ventures , with venture partner and previous lead angel investor Jay Borenstein joining the company’s board of directors. . Wilson founded ManageXR in 2018 with the intention of building VR experiences for pediatric patients in the hospital.

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Opportunity Amid Volatility

Haystack

TechCrunch’s Kate Clark has done a round-up of the largest “private VC” rounds of 2018, and there’s a whole other list for just $100M+ financings led by Softbank’s Vision Fund. If the first move on the chess board was free, it leads me to believe that for most, the second and even third moves will be costly.

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Maev secures $9M; will have your dog howling for more of its raw pet food

TechCrunch

The idea for the direct-to-consumer pet care brand was sparked in 2018 by CEO Katie Spies and Christine Busaba. That attention to detail and care for pets is what attracted many of Maev’s investors to jump on board. “We The company previously raised undisclosed rounds backed by VMG Partners, Bolt and Willow Growth.

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After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next

TechCrunch

Any area that needs to compete both with incumbents and also a set of already successful “new age” companies that made the first step of meaningful disruption. In 2018, IVC awarded TAU Ventures an award for one of the most active VCs in Israel. What other types of products/services are you wary or concerned about?

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Announcing the agenda for TechCrunch Disrupt 2022

TechCrunch

Rivian emerged from stealth in 2018 with a pair of vehicles that helped it become the buzziest EV automaker since Tesla. So how should startups that have incumbents to take on, other startups to best, or both, approach the balance between growth and spend this year? Rivian Grows Up. with RJ Scaringe (Rivian). Wednesday, October 19.