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Retailers: Don't Track Me, Bro

This is going to be BIG.

Given the time I spent a decade ago doing not only venture capital, but investing in private equity funds that buy retail companies, I find this data collection fascinating. Venture Capital & Technology' These efforts aren''t new. Path Intelligence raised a million bucks to do this years ago.

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Meet the mobile therapy startup backed by Christian Angermayer’s re:Mind Capital

TechCrunch

Mental health startup Ksana Health has received $2 million in seed funding led by re:Mind Capital, the mental health VC arm of Christian Angermayer and Apeiron Investment Group. It’s a move informed by two trends: passive data collection, and a burgeoning mental health crisis in teens and young adults. .

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Searchlight puts new capital to work with expanded talent intelligence tools

TechCrunch

The latest round of funding was led by Founders Fund with participation from Accel, Shasta, Kapor Capital, Operator Collective and a group of angel investors including executives at companies like Coda, Confluent and Plaid. Searchlight collection of behavioral data. million seed round in 2019.

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The Startups and Investors Bringing Voice Tech to Healthcare

Dream It

NeuroLex offers a voice data collection platform, an API that researchers can use to clean and model voice files, and voice datasets for conditions like fatigue, depression, schizophrenia, Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease. Here’s a look at it:

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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

Both Sides of the Table

Today the company officially announced its most recent round of capital ?—?having Capital of course drives scale advantages and when you have “winner take most” markets it also has a way of scaring away some investors from investing in the 3–5th “me too” competitors. Bird already has an enormous lead in data collection.

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How Chicago is changing who raises early-stage venture capital

TechCrunch

For those of us who cover the venture capital industry, two narratives are ubiquitous: There’s the story of how much capital has been invested of late; you’ve seen the data — 2020 and 2021 set nearly every record around the world for private-market investment. But there’s some cause for cautious optimism.

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Data show 2021 was a bonkers, record-setting year for venture capital

TechCrunch

Data collected from a number of sources indicates that last year set venture capital records around the world. Today’s startup boom, from a venture capital perspective, is a wide-ranging and incredibly expensive enterprise. Venture capitalists went hard in 2021. market retain much of their historical heft.