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Meet Super.mx, the Mexico City-based insurtech that raised $7.2M from VCs and unicorn CEOs

TechCrunch

Better Tomorrow Ventures led Super.mx’s $2.4 million seed round, which also saw capital from 500 Startups Mexico, Village Global, Anthemis and Broadhaven Ventures, among others. Like the US, a two-tier venture capital market is emerging in Latin America. It’s not a cultural problem,” Villarreal said.

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Psychedelics startups are on a long journey to consumer markets, but these 5 VCs are taking the ride

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“Like a pressure cooker, COVID blew the lid off what was a simmering mental health crisis for over a decade,” VC Tim Schlidt told TechCrunch. According to the World Health Organization, the global prevalence of anxiety and depression increased by a massive 25% in the first year of the pandemic.

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Call center automation software vendor Replicant raises $78M

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For use cases involving payment or electronic protected health information, Replicant offers a service called highly confidential turn, which the company says redacts sensitive data in the turn of conversation from Replicant’s database and logs. ” To date, Replicant has raised $110 million in venture capital.

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Quickly Unpacking Amazon’s Acquisition Of PillPack

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One analyst estimated $15b+ of incumbent market value was wiped out. PillPack didn’t over-raise venture capital, likely had several million on the balance sheet when it was acquired, and the acquisition presents a terrific outcome for the Boston area.

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After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next

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Such an example is Augury from our portfolio that has developed an end-to-end solution to provide manufacturers with early, actionable and comprehensive insights into machine health and performance. There is an incredible, thriving entrepreneurship culture that breeds fascinating companies weekly. DevOps, martech, digital health.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Fintech stays hot, Brex doubles, and startup IRR is up all over

TechCrunch

We dug into the how and why of its new investment and riffed on what going remote-first has done for the company, as well as its ability to attract culture-aligned and more diverse talent. Where did the fintech venture capital market push the most money in Q1, and why? How Brex more than doubled its valuation in a year.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

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Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms. He is one of Silicon Valley’s legendary venture capitalists. He was named the venture capitalist of the year in 2016 at the TechCrunch’s annual Crunchy awards. .” Bill Gurley : Absolutely.

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