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OCTOBER 13, 2020

Our portfolio company Numerai , which operates the crowdsourced Numerai Hedge Fund and is the creator of the Numeraire crypto token introduced their latest effort, Numerai Signals , with this video yesterday: USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — Oct 10, 2020 Innovation Upends Extrapolation: Urbanization.

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Venture Well

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In honor of World Food Day, we spoke with two members of our community about their work at the intersection of climate change and food insecurity. The post disrupting the cycle of food insecurity and climate crisis: celebrating student and faculty innovation appeared first on VentureWell.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Fertility tracking has seen an explosion of startup activity in recent years. Femtech startup Lady Technologies is adding to this rich mix with the full U.S. launch of a dual-purpose device, called kegg , that’s designed to measure hormonal changes in a woman’s cervical fluid to help her determine the chance of conception on a given day.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Did you know that 43 percent of working Americans report having a side hustle ? With an increase in unpredictability around job security, a lot of people are starting side hustles with the intention of turning them into full-time businesses. When starting an online side hustle, most people pursue a business model that they see others succeeding with, without giving much thought to whether or not that business model fits their own strengths and lifestyle goals.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 13, 2020

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

As companies continue to shift more quickly to the cloud, pushed by the pandemic, startups like Armory that work in the cloud-native space are seeing an uptick in interest. Armory is a company built to be a commercial layer on top of the open-source continuous delivery project Spinnaker. Today, it announced a $40 million Series C. B Capital led the round, with help from new investors Lead Edge Capital and Marc Benioff along with previous investors Insight Partners, Crosslink Capital, Bain Capita

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 13, 2020

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

This year has been everything but business as usual for the venture and tech community. And we still have a presidential election ahead of us. So, why not listen to the aptly-named experts over at Unusual Ventures? Partners Sarah Leary (co-founder of Nextdoor) and John Vrionis , formerly of Lightspeed Ventures Partners, will join us on Tuesday, October 20 on the Extra Crunch Live virtual stage.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Jerusalem/Abu Dhabi, Oct. 13, 2020 – OurCrowd, the world’s largest global venture investing platform and Emirates Angels Investors Association, the leading Emirati angel investment network, today held an online event which gave Israeli investors and entrepreneurs their first glimpse of the tech opportunities available in the United Arab Emirates. UAE Tech Investment Landscape: Introduction for the Israeli Ecosystem , broke records with over 2,000 registrants who were able to hear from some of

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Chicago-based serial entrepreneur Dan Pinto has raised new cash and launched a new company looking to commercialize a years-old open-source project that purports to solve one of the web’s hardest problems — fraud prevention. The company he launched in January, FingerprintJS , touts itself as a new kind of toolkit offering browser fingerprinting as a service for any application.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 13, 2020

OurCrowd, the leading global investment crowdfunding platform, and the Emirates Angels Investors Association, an Emirati angel investment network, held an online event today allowing Israeli investors and entrepreneurs a first glimpse of the tech opportunities available in the United Arab Emirates following the historic diplomatic agreement between the two countries.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Ureeka , an SMB mentorship platform for next-wave entrepreneurs, has today announced the Kevin O’Leary Bootcamp , which will offer members access to an exclusive curriculum of his knowledge and advice. The startup, which raised $8.6 million in April , looks to offer a full-scale mentorship platform for underrepresented founders across all industries.

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GCUC

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We kicked off the GCUC Mastermind series last week with the Marketing session that was well attended and full of golden nuggets of knowledge. The post GCUC Mastermind – Week 1 – Marketing Takeaways appeared first on GCUC Community.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has thrown the fitness space for a loop. Caliber , a startup that focuses on one-to-one personal training, is today launching a brand new digital coaching platform on the heels of a $2.2 million seed round led by Trinity Ventures. Caliber launched in 2018 with a content model, offering an email newsletter and a library of instructional fitness content. “My co-founders started testing the idea of coaching people individually and that’s where the light bulb rea

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 13, 2020

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The Twilio-Segment acquisition was the biggest story of the weekend, and in our current IPO lull, it is the most discussed deal of the moment. So it hasn’t been a surprise to see folks working to figure out if the $3.2 billion price tag Twilio expects to pay for Segment is cheap, reasonable or expensive. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Our man in Abu Dhabi hits the airwaves. “Sabah al-Binali has a reputation in the Arab world as a straight-talking deal-doer, with a long record of high-profile transactions in the UAE and Saudi Arabia on his CV. But his latest venture could be just about the most significant of the lot,” says the Arab News’ in-depth profile of our new GCC Venture Partner and Head of the Gulf Region.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Today’s the day! This afternoon at 2 p.m. EDT/11 a.m. PDT, Yext CEO Howard Lerman will join TechCrunch for a live chat. The conversation is part of our continuing Extra Crunch Live series, now in its second season. What are we up to in the second installment of the conversations? The same as before, bringing the most interesting founders and investors ’round for a chat that you can contribute to by bringing your own questions.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Last week, the president announced that COVID stimulus is on hold for now and that further negotiations on a comprehensive stimulus bill wouldn’t take place until after the election—just weeks away (at this writing). Although there has been a suggestion that some industry-specific relief for the airlines be pushed through, it’s doubtful that a second stimulus package for families or any additional money will be made available to small businesses until after the election.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Edgify , which builds AI for edge computing, has secured a $6.5 million seed funding round backed by Octopus Ventures, Mangrove Capital Partners and an unnamed semiconductor giant. The name was not released but TechCrunch understands it may be Intel Corp. or Qualcomm Inc. Edgify’s technology allows “edge devices” (devices at the edge of the internet) to interpret vast amounts of data, train an AI model locally and then share that learning across its network of similar devices.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Qatalog , a London-based startup that has developed a “virtual workspace” that brings together disparate SaaS tools to help teams function better, is disclosing $15 million in Series A funding. Leading the round is European venture capital firm Atomico , with participation from Salesforce Ventures, and angel investors Jacob de Geer (CEO/co-founder of iZettle), Chris Hitchen (partner at Inventures, founder at Getprice) and Thijn Lamers (former EVP at Adyen).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

After several failed startup attempts and nine years spent building Nuvemshop into Latin America’s answer to Shopify, the four co-founders of the company have managed to raise $30 million in venture capital funding as they look to expand their business. The new funding came from previous investor Kaszek Ventures and new lead investor Qualcomm, with participation from FJ Labs, IGNIA, Elevar Equity and Kevin Efrusy, from the longtime Accel Partners investor’s personal wealth.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

French startup Spendesk has added $18 million to its Series B round. The company already raised $38.4 million as part of its Series B last year, which means that it raised $56.4 million as part of this round. Eight Roads Ventures is investing in today’s extension round. Spendesk, as the name suggests, focuses on all things related to spend management.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

A little less than two years after raising its seed round, the Israeli-based Nym Health has added another $16.5 million to its cash haul so it can roll out its technology developing auditable machine learning tools for automating hospital billing. The new financing came from investors, including GV (the investment arm of Google previously known as Google Ventures), and will be used by the company to expand its technology development and sales and marketing efforts across the U.S.

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