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UK report spotlights the huge investment gap facing diverse founders

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VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. New research looking into how U.K. population.

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How to Leverage Micro VC Funds to Build an Angel Portfolio

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Having a better overall portfolio of venture capital by adding funds into the mix. This is above and beyond whatever events and educational opportunities the fund provides for its community, which could also be very useful. What if you added funds to the mix? Access to other investors.

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Edtech’s venture-backed globalization pauses at China

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The success of Chinese edtech was used to predict the surge of U.S.-based On Saturday, the Chinese government rolled out legislation aimed at easing the financial burden of education services on families, at the cost of venture-backed startups. based consumer edtech, which saw parent adoption surge during the pandemic.

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Serial fintech founder raises $20M for Ant Money to make micro-investing even more accessible

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Now as 2021 comes to a close, Cruttenden’s latest fintech, Ant Money, is announcing it has raised $20 million in funding (a mix of previously unannounced seed and Series A capital) and acquired Blast via a stock-for-stock merger. I think that’s a really big differentiator for us from our competitors.”.

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The Duolingo EC-1

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Education may well be the most important activity we conduct as a society — and it may also be the hardest space to build a startup in. Engagement and education feel aggressively at odds, which limits the way that startups can scale and succeed. It’s a language-learning app that has caught fire.

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Indonesian aquaculture startup DELOS raises $8m in funding

AsiaTechDaily

Register DELOS, an Indonesian aquaculture-tech company , has raised $8 million in Seed extension financing co-led by Centauri, a collaborative fund between MDI Ventures and KB Investment Co., and Southeast Asian venture capital fund Alpha JWC Ventures.

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Republic’s metaverse real estate arm spins off, rebrands as Everyrealm

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Although important questions remain about which platforms and use cases will win the day in the metaverse craze, one thing is clear — capital is flowing fast into the metaverse, and “unreal estate,” so to speak, is no exception. 10,000 virtual items in the store sold out in the span of an hour, she added.