Ian Hathaway

JANUARY 20, 2020

Last Sunday I hit send on my first book manuscript for review by the publisher. It’s been nearly three years in the making, full of twists and turns, a roundtrip Transatlantic move with my family, tens of thousands of discarded written words, and two hiatuses totaling twelve whole months in length. When I started, I had a six-month-old son; he’s now three years old and has an eight-month-old brother.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 20, 2020

YC has one of the most robust data sets on startups in the world, and the admissions team is excited to hire our first data scientist to dig into it. This is a great role for someone who’s inherently curious about our data. You should be experienced enough to know best practices but still excited to get your hands dirty. Maybe you’ve started a startup in the past or are looking to start one in the future, and you’re open to doing non-technical tasks like reading applications and interviewing fou

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 20, 2020

OurCrowd, the leading global investment crowdfunding platform and Israel’s leading venture investor, is out with a note on some of its exits in advance of the OurCrowd Global Investor Summit taking place in February, Israel’s largest tech conference and the largest equity crowdfunding event in the world. Read more here. The post [OurCrowd in Crowdfund Insider] Following Banner Year for Israeli Tech Exits, OurCrowd Highlights Investment Success with 36 Exits to Date appeared first on OurCrowd.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 20, 2020

I read this post on Bloomberg about a theme this week at Davos (never been) about the 2020s being a “Peak Decade”: Peak Globalization (tighter borders in the coming years) Peak Capitalism (the emergence of “stakeholder capitalism”) Peak Inequality (the rich getting poorer, relatively) Peak Youth (an aging world population) Peak Climate Change (I sure hope so) Peak Oil (I sure hope so) Peak Cars (I sure hope so) Peak Central Banks (go crypto!!!).

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Continuations

JANUARY 20, 2020

I have written previously about the need to regulate the use of facial recognition technology. The calls for regulation have become stronger in the wake of Kashmir Hill ’s New York Times article about Clearview AI. It is extremely important to get this right. Here are a few more thoughts based on the article to add to my prior post. First, it should be clear by now that it has become almost trivial to build a system like this.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 20, 2020

According to Elad Luz, head of research at CyberMDX, an Israeli-led company based in the US that is a pioneer in healthcare cyber intelligence, this happened because a certain piece of software is available to the public. Read more here. The post [CyberMDX in The Jerusalem Post] Israeli cyber expert: Healthcare is world’s most cyber-targeted industry appeared first on OurCrowd.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 20, 2020

BioCatch is taking a look back at 2019 to warn consumers about the growing threat of digital fraud. The company noted in a new blog post that digital fraud has been steadily rising every year, and cited several studies that show that that trend continued heading into 2020. Read more here. The post [BioCatch in Find Biometrics] BioCatch Calls Attention to Rising Rates of Digital Fraud appeared first on OurCrowd.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 20, 2020

OurCrowd’s portfolio is heating up: Alpha Tau launches their first US cancer trial; AgTech company CropX acquires the startup CropMetrics (cloud and sensor-based tech that provides irrigation timing recommendations to farmers); and g reat news for Zebra Medical Vision: Ohad Arazi joins as CEO, Amnon Shashua joins as a new investor – congrats to our brilliant chairman Eyal Gura and team.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 20, 2020

Says Kfir Kachlon, who is with the investment platform OurCrowd and is the tech lead for the project: “Cannabis for you [in the U.S.] sounds controversial, but in Israel we have been researching cannabis for decades, and no one is afraid of cannabis in the government.”. Read more here. The post [OurCrowd in Forbes] An Incubator For Cannabis Startups That – Get This – Is Government Sponsored Is Setting Up Shop in Israel’s Negev Desert appeared first on OurCrowd.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 20, 2020

Jerusalem, January 21, 2020 – OurCrowd, the global crowdfunding venture investing platform and Israel’s leading venture investor, will offer investors a sneak peek at the promising future stars of Israeli and Global tech at the sixth annual OurCrowd Global Investor Summit on February 13, 2020, in Jerusalem, Israel. Read more here. The post [PRESS RELEASE] OurCrowd Global Investor Summit Previews Israel’s Tech Exits appeared first on OurCrowd.

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