A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 31, 2020

I was looking at my Feedblitz dashboard this morning. Feedblitz powers the daily email for this blog. These are all of the emails/blog posts I have done this month: As you can see the open rate hovers between a low of 33% (Ghost Pacer) and a high of 45% (Subscription Agreements). The unsubscribe rate ranges from 0.02% to 0.075% (on my birthday!). I suspect the click data is not instrumented properly because I can’t imagine that nobody clicks on any links in the posts.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 31, 2020

EMQ, a global financial settlement network, announced that it has further expanded its real-time international payment capabilities across Vietnam, leveraging National Payments Corporation of Vietnam (NAPAS) – the country’s domestic payment network. This will further support the government’s vision to accelerate Vietnam’s digital economy under the National Digital Transformation Program by 2025.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 31, 2020

On Tuesday, September 15th at 10 AM PT, Redpoint will welcome Kimbre Lancaster as the next co-host of Office Hours. Kimbre is the former Director of Global Events and Field Marketing at Gremlin where she managed the industry sponsorships program, Gremlin’s produced conferences (Chaos Conf, Failover Conf) and the new remote field program. Prior, she built and scaled the programs at both Split and Scalyr.

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AUGUST 31, 2020

Fifty-two percent of K-12 educators in the U.S. say their school has not warned them about the dangers of ransomware as they prepare to scale remote learning in the fall, according to the Education Cybersecurity Threat Index released today by Morphisec, the leader in Advanced Threat Prevention. In addition, more than one-in-five (21%) educators within colleges and universities say their institution has already been the victim of a cyberattack since the onset of COVID-19.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 31, 2020

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 31, 2020

The deadline to apply for YC Winter 2021 is Wednesday, September 23 at 8pm PT. We created a deadline because deadlines are good motivational mechanisms for finishing tasks. Unsurprisingly, about eighty percent of all YC applications are submitted the week before the deadline. But we’ve sometimes seen companies not apply to YC because they don’t want to wait until our regular interview cycle (October and November for the Winter 2021 batch) to raise money.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 31, 2020

Hailo, the leading AI chipmaker delivering unprecedented performance to edge devices, today announced its international expansion in Japan with the establishment of Hailo Japan G.K., a wholly owned subsidiary located in Tokyo. Hiro Uchida , a former Sony executive, has been appointed President to lead the operation. Read more here. The post [Hailo in PR Newswire] Leading AI Chipmaker Hailo Opens Japan Subsidiary to Support Growing Asia-Pacific Client Base, Expand International Reach appeare

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 31, 2020

New York City-based Insight has developed a threat detection platform that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to scan deep and dark networks for specific keywords to alert potential targets. Sixgill investigates the Dark Web, the Internet of Things, and other areas of human activity to identify and predict cybercrime and terrorist activity.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 31, 2020

Hailo, a maker of chips that allows edge devices like smart cameras or smart cars to have artificial intelligence capabilities, said it is setting up a wholly owned subsidiary in Tokyo, Japan. Read more here. The post [Hailo in Times of Israel] Israeli chip maker Hailo to set up Tokyo unit as demand for AI tech grows appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 31, 2020

Safer Scooters on the Streets of Rome, Heading to London Trials. LINK, the shared electric scooter service created by OurCrowd portfolio company Superpedestrian , launches in Rome in September. The company, a robotics startups spun out of MIT, already operates the scooters in several US cities and has been approved by the UK government to participate in trials for a London tender.

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