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Autonomous driving startup Momenta raises another $500M

TechCrunch

Momenta often speaks of how its alliance with car manufacturers differentiates itself from its peers, which have chosen a more cash-intensive route of developing in-house robotaxi fleets. The new injection brings the total of the startup’s Series C to over $1 billion.

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Alternative VC Tech Stack: Chisos structured finance

David Teten VC

Q: Please give us an overview of Chisos. Q: Who are your closest peers, and how do you differ? Q: What are the tools you’re using for your front office: sourcing , LP relations, investing analysis, etc.? We’re proud to share the next in PEVCtech ’s periodic series on the tech and analytics stack of investment management firms.

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How to Make Better Reference Calls

Both Sides of the Table

I like to get a mix of people who have reported to the candidate, whom the candidate has reported to (2x) and peers. Reference calls. We all have to make them. Whether you’re considering hiring a new employee or as an investor whether you’re looking to do a background check on the founders of a company.

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The Doom Loop

Entrepreneur's Handbook

The inflation is entrenched because a large number of jobs are now being done from home, and the wealthy computer desk jockeys working these jobs now require a different mix of goods. The COVID pandemic, and most importantly, the global policy response to it, pulled forward decades worth of societal trends in a very short period of time.

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Incredibuild powers up with $35M to boost its distributed, faster approach to games and software development

TechCrunch

The company has picked up $35 million in a Series B round of funding — money that it will be using for product development, as well as to strengthen its ecosystem with more investment into community, developer relations and cloud programs across more markets. Over time, that also incorporated cloud compute.

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What’s your VC tech stack? Results from a survey of early-stage VC funds

David Teten VC

But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes? These GPs believe strongly that automating data gathering, sifting through and selecting investment opportunities, managing relationships and streamlining follow-on funding and exit processes, gives them a competitive advantage over their peers.

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Brainly raises $80M as its platform for crowdsourced homework help balloons to 350M users

TechCrunch

Borkowski confirmed it is “definitely” an up round for the company. Brainly, a crowdsourced homework helper for students, raises $30M to expand in the US. Everywhere else, Brainly is currently free to use. (In That C round was raised specifically to help Brainly grow in the U.S. In the U.S.