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Redacted comes out of stealth with $60M in funding and a new take on fighting cybercrime

TechCrunch

Today a startup called Redacted is coming out of stealth with a different approach to tackling that malicious activity: It applies threat intelligence, and then proactively goes after the hackers to recover data loss and disrupt their activities. “It was the universe telling me to use the name,” he said with a little smile.

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How capital-as-a-service can help you get your first check in 2021

TechCrunch

“A lot of founders mix up raising money with making money.” Flexing its “20-minute term sheet” the startup uses an algorithm to shift through a startup’s data, and if it has positive ad spend and positive unit economics, they make an investment worth anything from $10,000 to over $10 million. Mobility-as-a-service.

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Heyday raises $555M to buy up and scale more D2C brands in the Amazon marketplace universe

TechCrunch

San Francisco-based Heyday — which buys up and then grows direct-to-consumer merchants and brands that have found initial traction, leveraging the Amazon marketplace — has raised $555 million, a Series C that it will be using to continue expanding its technology, investing in business development, and to buy up more assets.

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Does Atlantic Canada have a blueprint for rural revival in the post-pandemic era?

TechCrunch

In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power. Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America? Indeed, many Canadians refer to Toronto as “east”’ despite there being 1,900 miles between Drake and The Weeknd’s hometown and St. More posts by this contributor.

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Penpot inks $8M as signups for its open source spin on Figma jump 5600% after Adobe’s $20B acquisition move

TechCrunch

Now, a Spanish startup called Penpot — which is taking a new approach to design collaboration through an open source platform that brings designers and developers into the mix simultaneously — says that it’s been seeing a huge amount of adoption since the Figma deal. Ruiz-Múzquiz refers to this as “the handoff mindset.”

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How to Manage a Board

Y Combinator

When people refer to setting up a board, what they usually mean is the process of adding outside directors, after the company raises money. One thing you can do is check references with founders that those investors have worked with – just as with recruiting any talent. option grants). Managing Your Board. Meeting Schedule.

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Turkey’s Spyke raises $55M in a seed round to bring a social twist to casual mobile games

TechCrunch

Spyke Games , which hopes to bring a new dimension to casual games by using multiplayer functionality and other social elements, has raised $55 million in a seed round of funding. As a point of reference, when Peak was acquired for $1.8 On one side, the genre has been around for years now, and so the time is ripe to try to disrupt it.