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Seraphim Capital’s space tech accelerator releases details of its newest Space Camp cohort

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Kinnami has created a unique storage and security system, ‘AmiShare’, which fragments and encrypts data. By storing these encrypted fragments across a distributed network of devices, it can secure data collected on the edge and have application within Satcoms, Defence and Enterprise.” ” Starfish Space.

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InstaDeep’s acquisition is a classic case of an African startup gone global 

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The bootstrapped company — which didn’t receive outside capital until 2018 — depended on original AI research that Beguir published , which led to the startup being discovered by specialized clients who later became partners and investors, such as DeepMind, Google and its future acquirer BioNTech. That was crazy.

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Is ocean conservation the next climate tech? 7 investors explain why they’re all in

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In the process, they’re betting that innovative approaches to solving those problems will not just create returns but create disruptions and innovations that spill over into adjacent sectors. Before 2018, there were only a handful of ocean-focused funds; however, in the last 18 months, more than 18 ocean-focused funds have been launched.

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Indonesian consumer research startup Populix gets $1.2M in pre-Series A funding

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million since it was founded in January 2018, including a $1 million seed round also led by Intudo. That gives us a chance to disrupt it, in the sense that it has always catered to the big clients. It says its data classification system can recognize over 73% of all items on invoices. Populix has now raised a total of $2.3

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

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Finishing is the ripest for disruption. 80 percent of construction firms are having trouble hiring craft workers ( Associated General Contractors of America from August 2018 ).Today, billion into construction tech in 2018. This is an indication that the industry is ready for disruption. percent are younger than 25. (

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

provides aquatic data collection services and aquatic drones that work in pods of 1- 20 to collect data at unprecedented scale at orders of magnitude less cost. 2018 Libboo Accelerating great stories and big ideas. Jaia Robotics Inc. Jaia Robotics Inc.

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