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Daily Crunch: Lookout sells consumer security segment for $223M to become ‘pure-play enterprise company’ 

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Startups and VC Greycroft, the self-styled “seed-to-growth” venture capital firm, today announced the closing of over $1 billion in capital commitments across new funds, Kyle reports. Let’s lean on the accelerator : Ron reminds you that you don’t have to do it all by yourself: Incubators and accelerators help build lifelong relationships.

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Investors feed the meter for curb management startup Automotus

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million in a seed round led by Quake Capital, Techstars Ventures, Kevin Uhlenhaker (the co-founder & CEO at NuPark, which was acquired by Passport) and Baron Davis. New investors include Ben Bear, Derrick Ko, and Zaizhuang Cheng of micromobility company Spin. The startup is still small, with just 11 full-time employees.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Unpacking BuzzFeed’s SPAC, curb your meeting enthusiasm, more

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“It’s hard to pin down where Shein is from,” answered Richard Xu from Grand View Capital, a Chinese venture capital firm. Inside GM’s startup incubator strategy. Inside GM’s startup incubator strategy. Image Credits: MaC Venture Capital / Wonderschool. Why Amazon should pay attention to Shein.

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LG announces the first 50 participants in its LG Nova program

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Nova itself is a counterpoint to profit-focused corporate venture capital outfits, and is instead focusing on abilities to collaborate with the LG conglomerate across the board, in a few key verticals: the metaverse, connected healthcare, smart homes, electric vehicles (EV) and the wonderfully fuzzily named tech for good. .

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Newsletter: GoDaddy’s startup pick + WSJ’s miracle material

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Sweetch raised $20M in a Series A round led by Entreé Capital with participation from Noaber, Kortex Ventures, Insurtech VC, Fin TLV Ventures and existing investors Philips, OurCrowd and Qure Ventures, TechCrunch reports. Sweetch raises $20M for app that helps boost health outcomes. hours of work), and lost about 1.6

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Newsletter: Natural juice, less sugar + Fast food drones

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In late November, OurCrowd, Israel’s most active venture capital fund, became the first to open up offices in the UAE for direct investment in Emirati companies,” Thomas Grove notes in the Wall Street Journal , reporting on the Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s historic visit to Abu Dhabi this week. Invest Now.

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After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next

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Daniel Cohen , partner, Viola Ventures. Ben Wiener , partner, Jumpspeed Ventures. Inbal Perlman , partner, TAU Ventures. Dror Nahumi , partner, Norwest Venture Partners. Sharin Fisher , partner, Fort Ross Ventures. Tal Slobodkin , partner, StageOne Ventures . Daniel Cohen, Viola Ventures.

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