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The Heartbeat of Korean Gaming: Pangyo Techno Valley’s Evolution into a Cultural Epicenter

AsiaTechDaily

Register The Pangyo Techno Valley, Korea’s representative game valley, is growing into a content & culture complex, hoping to become a ‘pump-priming’ for the Korean gaming industry. including IT (Information Tech), BT (Bio-Tech), CT (Culture Tech), and NT (Nano Tech). By 2025, investments summing up to 171.9

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Is cell-cultured meat ready for prime time?

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Across cultures and geographies, animals have been such a vital part of the food chain that it’s hard to imagine a world where animals are not put to the knife to produce protein. Cell-cultured meat is one such source. Eat Just also recently received approval to sell chicken breasts made with cell cultures. High steaks.

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ByteDance Co-Founder Resurfaces with New Venture in Hong Kong After Two-Year Absence

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The fund, known as Cool River Venture, will primarily focus on investing in technology-related industries. Zhang’s new venture emerges as Hong Kong aims to attract affluent individuals following a period of population decline and isolation caused by the Covid pandemic.

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Natives Rising wins backing to help Native Americans into tech and startups

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The grant was from the Reboot Representation Tech Coalition , a group of 21 tech companies which aims to double the number of Black, Latina, and Native American women receiving computing degrees by 2025, by making philanthropic investments in relevant programs.

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How social commerce is bridging Southeast Asia’s infrastructure gaps

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Amit Anand is a founding partner of Jungle Ventures and an early pioneer and leader in the development of Southeast Asia’s venture capital industry. trillion industry by 2025 , with the biggest gains being made in Brazil and India. Amit Anand. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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WoodSpoon’s food delivery service cooks up support for home chefs with $14M round

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Restaurant Brands International led the round along with World Trade Ventures and a group of individual investors, including Victor Lazarte. They began reaching out to local home chefs in the area and gathered them together in a marketplace where they could share their culture and passion of food with others.

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Tiamat Sciences cooking up plant-based proteins for cheaper production of cellular meat

TechCrunch

Today, it announced $3 million in seed financing, led by True Ventures, with participation from Social Impact Capital and Cantos. Phil Black, co-founder of True Ventures, said the investment into Tiamat Sciences fit into its plant-based portfolio. Future Fields is tackling cultured meat’s biggest problem.

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