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Go1 nabs $100M at a $2B+ valuation to upgrade its curated enterprise learning platform

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And while most of its growth to date has been organic, it will be using some of the funding potentially to bring some inorganic growth into the mix. But Go1’s ambitions extend beyond that: It also plans to use some of the funding to further explore how it might extend its platform beyond corporate learning as well.

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Autonomous driving startup Momenta raises another $500M

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In the case of the GM deal, Momenta’s solution, which uses a mix of consumer-grade millimeter-wave radars and high-definition cameras, will be used in GM’s vehicles sold in China rather than the United States. and WeRide are among its closest rivals and have also raised a significant amount of capital.

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Epic Games acquires Sketchfab, a 3D-model sharing platform

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More recently, Unreal Engine has been used for different use cases beyond video games, such as special effects, 3D explorations of virtual worlds, mixed reality projects and more. Unreal Engine has been one of the most popular video game engines of the past couple of decades. But an engine without assets is pretty useless.

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Female Founders: What the numbers mean and what they don't

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Take the most widely used number--that way fewer women are getting venture funding than guys. If you go for people with some experience and insight, you are definitively going to get more females. Why so many mixed teams? You would probably be surprised on where my views are on some of those conversations.

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Grover raises $71M to grow its consumer electronics subscription business

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A startup tapping into the concept of the circular economy, where people don’t buy items outright but pay an incremental amount to use them temporarily, has raised some funding to scale its business in Europe and beyond. Similar to cars and films, there is definitely an argument to be made for owning gadgets on a subscription.

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As Apple messes with attribution, what does growth marketing look like in 2021?

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I’ve definitely been in companies where we’ve made that mistake before. One example from a few years ago at SeatGeek: We tried to build a media-mix model before we had something much more basic in place. A complex media-mix model or multitouch attribution model is intended to do that, but it’s hard to do it right.

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Location data analytics startup Placer.ai raises $50M Series B

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But the foot traffic and location analytics startup saw growth in new categories, including consumer packaged goods (CPG) and hedge funds that use its tech to perform due diligence. The new capital will be used on research and development and expanding Placer.ai’s sales and marketing teams.