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Metaverse Magna raises $3.2M at a $30M valuation to build Africa’s largest gaming DAO

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This February, Africa and emerging market-focused Nestcoin raised a pre-seed round to build, operate and invest in its web3 applications, including crypto content platform Breach Club and gaming guild Metaverse Magna (MVM). Nine months after its launch last December, the latter has completed a seed sale token round of $3.2 million at a $30M fully diluted valuation. .

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Crypto Regulation is Coming… and it’s Bullish.

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In the last few months, we’ve seen an established stablecoin with an $18B market cap de-peg to 0. We’ve seen centralized crypto lending apps like Celsius, BlockFi, and Voyager become insolvent and lose users’ funds due to poor risk management. We’ve also seen $14 billion+ lost in scams, hacks, and exploits over the last year. It’s now completely clear that crypto regulation is coming, and likely sooner than we think.

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Docquity, a community for healthcare professionals, raises $44M Series C

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A call between doctors can save lives. That’s what Docquity co-founder Indranil Roychowdhury learned when his father was hospitalized with a life-threatening condition in India. An emergency room doctor initially told him that there was no chance of survival, but then another doctor called one of his peers in the United States, and they came up with an alternative treatment plan that worked.

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Vietnamese e-commerce retailer Coolmate receives $2.3m in Series A funding

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Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Coolmate , a Vietnamese menswear brand that sells through its own e-commerce store, has raised an additional $2.3 million for its Series A funding round participated by GSR Ventures and Do Ventures , according to an announcement. Coolmate is the first Vietnamese startup to receive funding from GSR Ventures, a world-renowned early backer of unicorns including Advance Intelligence Group,

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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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SkorLife gives control of credit data back to Indonesian consumers

TechCrunch

Indonesia’s credit bureaus currently have about 92 million credit records, but the founders of SkorLife say many people have trouble accessing their own data. That’s why they built the app, which not only lets people see their credit histories for free, but also gives personalized advice on how to improve data. The Jakarta-based startup announced today it has raised $2.2 million in pre-seed funding.

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VC fund MSA Novo invests $15m in 6 Indian startups

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Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Multi-stage global venture capital firm MSA Novo , announced that it has invested more than $16 million in six Indian startups and plans to further inject funds into the Indian startup ecosystem by the end of 2023. The venture firm invested in startups such as MPL, Slice, Jar, Apps For Bharat, Flint, and Questbook, focussing on early and growth-stage tech-enabled startups.

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How To Make More Money By Becoming (Slightly) Less Creative

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Successful entrepreneurs balance creativity and efficiency to reap top profits Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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How To Outsource Customer Service? [Detailed Guide]

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Customers can make or break a business. And to woo. Read more. The post How To Outsource Customer Service? [Detailed Guide] appeared first on Feedough.

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Have you marked down your portfolio yet? You are running out of time to hide

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To mark down your portfolio or not mark down your portfolio? That is a question many venture capitalists are grappling with right now. But first, what does that mean? VCs keep a running tab of the value of each fund and entire portfolio based on the prior valuations each company raised at. The value of each company generally only gets updated when it raises a round at a new valuation, and firms typically do a full valuation audit at the end of each year.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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IP Licensing Basics

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Whether you've developed a new biotech product or want to incorporate another company's intellectual property into one of your own technology products, you'll soon find yourself navigating the complex world of IP licensing. Even with a qualified intellectual property attorney guiding you through the process, you should become familiar with IP licensing basics.

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Answering Your Questions #10

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? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify. What’s up, you beautiful bastards. We are back with Q&A round 10! In this conversation, you’ll enjoy 3 BIG things: How I compensated my initial hires at AppSumo. How to allocate your marketing funds for top, middle, and lower funnel. What is my process for interviewing contract copywriters.

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Solar Foods wants to replace industrial animal farming with a high-tech protein harvest

TechCrunch

Fermentation has a long, rich history in food production, from beer and wine, to yogurt and cheese, leavened bread and coffee, miso and tempeh, sauerkraut and kimchi, to name just a few of the tasty things we can consume thanks to a chemical process thought to date back to the neolithic period. But if this 2017-founded Finnish startup, Solar Foods , has its way fermentation could have a very special place in the future of human food too.

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3 views: Meetings are bad, yo. Choose emails

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It’s a long weekend here in the United States, meaning office workers, at least, get a three-day break from the dreaded meeting. We wanted to take this time to offer up an impassioned defense of … email. Hear us out. It’s conventional wisdom that meetings are killers of productivity and morale and happy work environments. So why not write an email? We know email has its drawbacks, too — it’s hard to manage and riddled with spam.

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

CAPTARGET presents a masterclass in M&A deal sourcing. Learn to cast a wide net, embracing seller self-identification. Consistency is the linchpin: keep the origination process steady for a reliable flow of opportunities. Diversify your tactics, employing various tools and vendors. Tech matters! Understand DNS settings, domain authority, and brand presence for optimal outreach.