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New Funds, New Era

Andreessen Horowitz

Along the way, each submarket – American Dynamism , Apps ( Consumer , Enterprise , Fintech ) , Bio+Health , Crypto , Games , Growth , and Infrastructure – has become as big as the original entire Venture Capital market.

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Zombie startups

TechCrunch

is a really apt term is I’m just naming certain categories of software that I know well, but I fail to see a future where all of those [categories], given the advances in compute and data and algorithms, don’t get more intelligent. Visual generation is not an existing software category. The reason I think that software 3.0

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Former Binance executives launch $100M crypto fund

TechCrunch

Old Fashion Research ( OFR ) – whose name is derived from the classic cocktail – was founded in late 2021 by managing partners Ling Zhang, who was previously the vice president of M&A and investments at Binance, and Wayne Fu, former head of corporate development at the crypto exchange. It’s no longer centralized in a top-down approach.”.

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Crypto is altering the investing landscape for even the most disciplined VCs

TechCrunch

While many funds are returning to more conservative check-writing , with a focus on profitability and business fundamentals, crypto remains a sector in the spotlight that attracts dedicated billion-dollar funds and investment terms that remind us more of 2021 than 2022. Yet, things are accelerating across the board in crypto.

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Over 500 mobile apps are now using the term ‘metaverse’ to attract new users

TechCrunch

Social-crypto platforms — which were really just MMORPGs with a heavy financial component — were also dubbed metaverses, prompting land rushes for metaverse real estate. Of these, “crypto” was the most common term to be spotted alongside “metaverse,” with 23% of apps (144 total apps) mentioning the term.

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Indonesian crypto trading app Pintu scores $113M Series B

TechCrunch

Launched in April 2020, Pintu bills itself as “Indonesia’s leading homegrown crypto assets platform.” But since crypto asset ownership still only has a 4% penetration rate among the population, Pintu’s team notes that it has plenty of room to grow. This is the third round of funding the startup has landed in little over a year.

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Neobroker Bitpanda raises $170M at a $1.2B valuation to take its trading platform beyond crypto

TechCrunch

“We are shifting to become a pan-investment platform, not just a crypto broker,” said Eric Demuth, the CEO of Bitpanda, who co-founded it with Paul Klanschek and Christian Trummer. Both have been building a name for themselves as significant backers of crypto startups. No roadshow needed, we will help you.