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New social investment platform Follow taps influencers to mirror their investment strategies

TechCrunch

If you’d like to invest the same way that fintech influencers, including Austin Hankwitz , WOLF Financial , Breyanna Nava and Patrick Meng do, Follow can help you do that. Social investing is not a new concept. Morgan Chase, where he led product development for Chase’s retail and card businesses, creating cards like Chase Sapphire. “It

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Dapper Labs, Flow, and NBA Top Shot

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Dapper Labs came out of an incubator called Axiom Zen back in 2017. I wrote a short post on the USV blog announcing that we had invested in Cryptokitties , but in truth, we invested in much more. Financings don’t really interest me but companies do. And this is a fascinating company.

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How Up.Labs threads the needle between corporate venture capital and accelerators

TechCrunch

One element of the 2021 venture capital apotheosis that doesn’t get enough attention is corporate venture capital. Accelerators also had a pretty good run through 2021: Recall that Y Combinator cohort sizes reached new records and the group boosted the amount of capital that it invested in batch companies.

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Take A Seat In Our No-Cost Startup Boot Camp And You Might Take Home Up To $10,000!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

You’ll expand your network, engage with other successful entrepreneurs, discuss your business model with experts and develop a pitch that could win you up to $10,000! The weekly ZOOM sessions will be on Tuesdays, March 23, 2021 – June 2, 2021 / 2:00 – 5:00 P.M. The deadline for applications is March 10, 2021.

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Singapore’s Decentralized Gaming Ventures Receives Major Funding Boost from Hashed

AsiaTechDaily

Register Singapore-based Decentralized Gaming Ventures, a venture builder in the web3 gaming space, has secured a substantial seven-figure investment round. Currently, the venture builder operates a Singapore-based studio that serves as an incubator for 32 promising game developers organized into eight teams.

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How fintech and serial founders drove African pre-seed investing to new heights in 2020

TechCrunch

At the time, seven-figure seed investments in African startups were a rarity. Typically, pre-seed rounds are raised when the startup is still in the product development phase, yet to make revenue or discover product-market fit. Her firm, TLcom, led the $1 million pre-seed investment in Okra. Okra is an API fintech startup.

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The greatest moment to start a company? Right Now!

Jason Calacanis

” “If only I had started an app or cloud company during the ZIRP run up from 2009 to 2021!” Co-location providers and office sharing started, as did remote work and offshore developers. APIs and open-source software cut costs and developer cycles dramatically. and ZIRP).