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Mission-driven ventures are growing fast during the pandemic

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Whether they are and what net outcomes they yield for various stakeholders are useful questions. The binary views are reminiscent of those we saw during the ICO frenzy in 2018. You’ve heard of SPACs, meme stocks and buy now, pay later, but have you heard of the LTSE, First Women’s Bank and Upsolve? Image Credits: Nasdaq.

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5 questions emerging managers should ask before selecting LPs

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After launching Avestria in 2019, we found that family offices and high-net-worth individuals were the best targets for us. For example, Juul, a male-founded e-cigarette company, received $10 billion more in funding in 2018 than female-founded companies received collectively that year.

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6 Tech Trends that will reshape Media & Entertainment in 2021

Trigent

By 2024, Over-the-top (OTT) media revenue is predicted to touch $158.84B that’s more than double the $67.8B revenue that was generated in 2018. Here’s our take on 6 technology trends that will influence the media and entertainment world this year. Print media will embrace a digital future.

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NEX raises $25M, launches Active Arcade to get people moving

TechCrunch

It also previously raised a $4 million seed round from Charmides Capital, Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment Ventures and Mandra Capital, Steve Nash, Jeremy Lin and Mark Cuban in 2018. Many other leaders in sports, media and technology have also baked NEX.

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UnitQ raises $30M in Accel-led round to help companies improve product quality

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For one, it gathers user feedback from public sources like app reviews and social media and from private sources such as support tickets, support chats and surveys. Specifically, unitQ says it identifies actionable insights in a variety of ways. It also does this through its own API, which connects to other external data sources.

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Four short links: 31 December 2018

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

EU To Fund Bug Bounties for Open Source Projects (ZD Net) -- this is good, but insufficient. Continue reading Four short links: 31 December 2018. Schema Crawler, Open Source Bug Bounties, Essential C, and AI Poker. SchemaCrawler -- Free database schema discovery and comprehension tool. Make sense of the databases you inherit.

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Inside the secretive Silicon Valley startup trying to save the oceans with tech

TechCrunch

An examination of California state filings show that Oceankind was incorporated as an LLC in 2018, managed by a family office that controls many of Google co-founder Larry Page’s properties and businesses. Casting a wide net for science. This lack of transparency worries some experts in philanthropy. “Is

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