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VC Ann Miura-Ko is looking to help more students answer the question: Is this idea big enough?

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Now, co-founding partner Ann Miura-Ko and Tyler Whittle, a senior associate with the firm, have developed a new program to help student teams similarly develop an understanding of what big ideas look like — and why most concepts are not big ideas. Our chat has been edited for length.

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Playbook, which aims to be the ‘Dropbox for designers,’ raises $4M in round led by Founders Fund

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When Jessica Ko was head of design at Google and then Opendoor, she realized that her teams spent about 90% of their time digging around Dropbox looking for assets. It was such a chaotic process,” Ko recalls. Designers were quitting because it was giving them so much anxiety,” Ko recalls. Dropbox hadn’t solved it yet.

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Playbook, where ‘Pinterest meets Dropbox’ for designers, closes on $18M in funding

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CEO Jessica Ko was inspired to start the company after her experiences as a designer at Google and Opendoor. So in 2018, Ko left Opendoor to set about solving the problem she was tired of dealing with by creating file storage for modern design workflows and processes. are using the product,” Ko told TechCrunch. “It

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Taipei-based Influenxio gets $2M from DCM Ventures for its “microinfluencer” marketing platform

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Influenxio’s team, with founder and chief executive officer Allan Ko in the center. Though they may have as little as a thousand followers, microinfluencers tend to focus on specific content and be seen as more engaging and trustworthy by their audience, said Allan Ko, founder and chief executive officer of Influenxio.

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AI-powered transcription platform DeepScribe raises $30M to unburden doctors from tedious data entry

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DeepScribe was founded in 2017 by Akilesh Bapu, Matthew Ko and Kairui Zeng with the aim of unburdening doctors from tedious data entry and allowing them to focus on their patients. The idea for DeepScribe was prompted by Bapu and Ko’s own experiences.

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Online learning platform CLASS101 bags $26M Series B to support growth

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Co-founder and CEO of CLASS101 Monde Ko told TechCrunch that the company will use the proceeds to focus on hiring more talent, as well as expanding domestic business and overseas markets in the U.S. Ko and four other co-founders established CLASS101 in 2018, which was pivoted from a tutoring service platform that was founded in 2015, Ko said.

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Summer International uses social media data to launch new beauty brands

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NYX founder and Bespoke Beauty Brands CEO Toni Ko will also join Summer International as a strategic investor. Ko said Summer International differentiates by owning its own distribution network and it also has a network of live commerce and social commerce distributors, mainly micro influencers based in Southeast Asia.

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