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Kikoff raises $30M for its hybrid consumer-credit and financial-literacy service

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CEO Cynthia Chen and CTO Christophe Chong co-founded the San Francisco-based company in late 2019 with the goal of helping consumers without a credit history establish one, and helping those with credit histories to continue building credit. Chen grew up in Beijing before coming to the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

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Chris Dixon, Marc Andreessen back $30M fund exclusively investing in NFT art

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A number of prominent Silicon Valley crypto VCs have backed a new upstart NFT fund led by Andrew Jiang and Todd Goldberg. The $30 million fund called Curated is devoted to buying and holding NFT artwork.

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Sandbox VR expands to new locations globally with $37M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz

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The grit and determination exemplified by Steve and his team at the height of the pandemic was more than admirable — it’s led them to become what we believe to be the strongest, most technologically advanced location-based VR offering available today,” said Andrew Chen, a16z general partner and Sandbox VR board member.

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Portfolio Management – Learning from experienced investors

NZ Entrepreneur

Andrew Chen shares his takeaways from the second instalment on Portfolio Management, held in Wellington on 13 May 2021. By Andrew Chen for the Angel Association of NZ. Andrew is a Venture Associate with Mat? Fund , an early-stage investment fund providing intelligent capital for scientific ideas.

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Clubhouse announces plans for creator payments and raises new funding led by Andreessen Horowitz

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Buzzy live voice chat app Clubhouse has confirmed that it has raised new funding – without revealing how much – in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz through the firm’s partner Andrew Chen.

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a16z bets millions on Maven, a platform for cohort-based courses

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The round places a16z general partner Andrew Chen on Maven’s board — and is his latest lead check in a creator-focused company, similarly pouring millions into recent rounds for Clubhouse and Substack. With the new capital, Kao tells me her team is focused on getting instructors to see the value of CBCs (cohort-based courses).

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Explo snags $2.3M seed to help build customer-facing BI dashboards

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In fact, Chen says that their YC mentors and investors have been highly supportive of the switch. With a diverse founding team, the company wants to continue looking at diversity as it builds the company.

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