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Twig takes $35M to turn stuff you own into a way to pay

TechCrunch

Vinted raises $303M for its 2nd-hand clothes marketplace, used by 45M and now valued at $4.5B. Now fintech startups compete to offer the most appealing feature mix to net a target youth demographic. Its website also talks up its use of carbon offsetting and other initiatives to shrink environmental impact.

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Nym gets $6M for its anonymous overlay mixnet to sell privacy as a service

TechCrunch

But Tor does not do packet mixing — and Nym’s contention is that a functional mixnet can provide even stronger network-level privacy. The tech is open source, but Nym confirms the plan is to use some of the Series A funding for an independent audit of new code.

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How Ecosystem-Led Growth Unlocks the Next Generation of GTM

Andreessen Horowitz

In this conversation, a16z Growth general partner Sarah Wang speaks with Crossbeam CEO Bob Moore about his new book, Ecosystem-Led Growth: A Blueprint for Sales and Marketing Success Using the Power of Partnerships. I’ve written my share of ambitious e-books and white papers and things like that along the way.

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