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Fuel Me Raises $18 Million Series A Round

HPA

Focusing on mission-critical energy needs across industries like data centers, construction, and transportation. Fuel Me provides efficient fuel operations through an aggregated nationwide fuel procurement vendor network. and global energy markets,” said Carlo Passacantando, Founder and CEO.

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Alumni Ventures launches Women’s Fund 1

American Entrepreneurship

The membership community will be a resource base for the Women’s Fund, a women-centric network that will help source, invest in, and support top female-led startups. This builds on AV’s ten-year track record of $200M of investments made into female founders and CEOs, across healthcare, consumer, cybersecurity, fintech, and more.

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The industrial data revolution: What founders got wrong

TechCrunch

Joe Hellerstein is co-founder and chief strategy officer of Trifacta and the Jim Gray Chair of Computer Science at UC Berkeley. In February 2010, The Economist published a report called “ Data, data everywhere.” Little did we know then just how simple the data landscape actually was. Joe Hellerstein. Contributor.

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Meet 5 YLAI Fellows Traveling as Youth Delegates to the Summit of the Americas

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Bevon Charles , Grenada , CEO and founder of Akata Farms , a company that builds sustainable farms. Facundo Cajén, Argentina, CEO and founder of Proponas. Afroricas creates content on finance management, social networking, careers, and leadership to support black women in their personal and professional development.

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Singapore’s KNN3 wants to enable social discovery for decentralized apps

TechCrunch

Nansen has the support from a16z to provide on-chain data analysis for crypto investors. The Graph offers an API for developers to query blockchain data. The latest to get VC recognition is KNN3, a Singapore-based startup working to help developers make sense of relational data across blockchains. In the U.S.,

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From Dorm Room to Dominating the Finance and Tech World: A Deep Dive with Michael Mills, CEO of…

Jason Malki

Additionally, he is the founder and CEO of Infinitary Advisors , a SaaS consulting firm where he spearheads comprehensive competitive analyses for both startups and scaleups. We believe that the research and data analysis methods used by other funds are fundamentally flawed. Our primary hurdle has been networking.

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Can LEDs ultimately replace the sun?

TechCrunch

Precise controls backed by data analysis can calibrate food quality, leading to further improvements in yields while reducing raw inputs like water. When it comes to the next stages of that long course of innovation, vertical farming would seem to have all the right properties.