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When Software Eats the World, Vulnerable Populations – Like Kids – Can Get Exposed to Venture Risk Without Knowing It

Hunter Walk

I’m a believer in the ‘ software eats the world ‘ thesis, although I often change it to ‘software enables the world,’ which is not nearly as evocative but also not as consumptive. I’ve said before this is one reason why we are very very careful about investing in addiction or mental health startups.

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Binance-backed Xend Finance launches DeFi platform for credit unions in Africa

TechCrunch

Nigerian startup Xend Finance uses decentralized finance (DeFi) to address currency devaluation. This gave birth to Xend Finance.” Not only is Xend Finance trying to protect credit unions from fluctuation, but it is also changing how they operate. Image Credits: Xend Finance. Image Credits: Xend Finance.

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5 emerging use cases for productivity infrastructure in 2021

TechCrunch

Previously, he worked in finance and founded an IoT coffee company. According to McKinsey & Company, the pandemic accelerated the share of digitally enabled products by seven years, and “the digitization of customer and supply-chain interactions and of internal operations by three to four years.”

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Metropolis’ AI Platform Transforms Parking Experiences, Backed by $1.8 Billion in Financing

American Entrepreneurship

The four co-founders are continuing to pass major milestones with an acquisition strategy and timely funding since its launch in 2017 Drivers’ parking experiences around the country are now being enhanced through artificial intelligence, enabling them to readily come and go without checking out. The financing included $1.05

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Tech-enabled homebuilder Homebound raises $75M Series C led by Khosla

TechCrunch

But in 2021, Homebound expanded to Austin, Texas, its first non-disaster market, with the goal of taking learnings from those rebuilds and applying the same “streamlined, tech-enabled building process” to make custom homebuilding an option for local homeowners.

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6 African women CEOs discuss how they raised more than $1M in 2021

TechCrunch

raised more money from venture capitalists in 2021 than ever. But according to data from PitchBook, less than 2% of VC funding went to all-women-founded teams in 2021. On the bright side, founding teams counting both women and men as members raised 17% of VC investments in Africa in 2021. raise in 2021. as yesterday!

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5 areas where VCs can play an outsized role in addressing climate change

TechCrunch

Dr. Abrar Chaudhury is a climate finance research fellow at Oxford Said Business School researching on topics of global environmental change, climate finance, policy implementation, sustainable development, and corporate purpose. VCs invested nearly $50 billion in climate-tech companies between 2020 and 2021. Contributor.