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Japan’s EdgeCortix Closes $20 Million Funding Round, Collaborates with Renesas Electronics

AsiaTechDaily

Leading this financing endeavor were Japan’s venture capital firm, SBI Investment Co. and Global Hands-On VC (GHOVC), a collaborative venture capital entity with a track record of successful semiconductor investments that span the Japan-United States nexus.

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Liveblocks grabs $5 million for its real-time collaboration API

TechCrunch

Boldstart and Seedcamp already invested in the company’s pre-seed round. Over the past few years, building a web app has become easier thanks to frameworks and APIs. It can be used to create collaborative whiteboards, a note-taking app, a multiplayer CMS, etc.

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Japanese Regulator Plans to Double Crowdfunding Investment Cap for Retail Investors

AsiaTechDaily

Register Japan’s Financial Services Agency plans to double the cap on the amount of money retail investors can invest in unlisted startups. At present, through crowdfunding, retail investors have a limitation of investing a maximum of 500,000 yen annually in individual unlisted startups. By contrast, the U.S. accumulated 100.1

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This freshly funded startup spun out of a student-run Stanford investment club

TechCrunch

In late 2020, a group of Stanford students banded together to create Stanford 2020, a venture fund solely to invest in their fellow classmates’ ventures. million for the debut investment vehicle — waitlist not included. million seed funding round led by Initialized Capital, with investments from GSR, NEA and Canaan.

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Collaborative Disruption at the DoD with Kathleen Hicks and Sharon Weinberger

Andreessen Horowitz

Sharon: Another thing you talked about is just this tremendous amount of private investment venture capital going into defense. So we work very hard on trying to drive up the percent of our procurement and investment that is going to those small businesses. We recently wrote about the 100 billion that’s gone in since 2021.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

I have been thinking about this topic for the better part of a year, for USV and for the 150 portfolio companies that we have invested in and advise. We call it FrameWork and it will be opening next month. FrameWork is just an example of the many ways that knowledge workers will choose to work going forward. But guardrails?

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Japan Launches Silicon Valley Hub for Startups: Innovation Campus in Palo Alto

AsiaTechDaily

The strategic location aims to facilitate collaboration with local entities such as companies, venture capital firms, and research institutions. With a focus on industry-academia-government collaboration, the base will play a key role in supporting Japanese startups’ overseas expansion efforts.