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

TechCrunch

’s Seraphim Capital , the country’s only space tech accelerator, has released details of its newest cohort as part of its Space Camp programme, timed with the end of World Space Week last week. Raised so far: Undisclosed amount / seed from ICE71 Accelerate, 25 June 2020. ” Kinnami. ” Starfish Space.

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Bright Cellars lands more funding to personalize its subscription-based wine collection

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. “We’re optimizing wine like you might optimize a more digital product,” says co-founder and CEO, Richard Yau, a San Francisco native whose startup entered into a regional accelerator program early on and stayed, though the company is now largely decentralized. The company has now raised roughly $20 million altogether).

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Why TransUnion led blockchain fintech Spring Labs’ $30M Series B

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A number of fintechs have popped up as of late aiming to disrupt the traditional model of evaluating an individual’s creditworthiness. We knew a relationship with TransUnion in particular had the capacity to significantly accelerate our business,” he said. Spring Labs is one of them.

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Environmental, social and governance tracking gets easier with ESGgo

TechCrunch

The product itself is focused on data collection; from the first 50 companies ESGgo spoke to, they learned that there were no tools available. To fully track ESG impact across a business, the GRI and SASB standards suggest tracking hundreds of data points across the organization.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

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The main thing is getting construction companies and contractors to accelerate their adoption of the tech and the labor shortage issue is putting substantial pressure on them to act. Finishing is the ripest for disruption. This is an indication that the industry is ready for disruption. billion today to more than 7 billion.

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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. InstaFreebie Accelerating great stories and big ideas. Jaia Robotics Inc. Jaia Robotics Inc.

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Singapore-based retail analytics company Trax raises $640M Series E led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and BlackRock

TechCrunch

More specifically, we will use the capital to accelerate growth and triple-down on continued innovation across our core vision, machine learning, IoT and marketplace technologies.”. While we do see an acceleration of interest and adoption of digital innovation as a result of the ‘COVID effect,’ this is by far our biggest challenge.”.