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Social stock trading services Public raises $65M Series C

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Less than a year after it raised a $15 million Series B, Public , a social-focused free stock trading service, has raised a $65 million Series C. The startup is not the only company to raise successive rounds this year. more to help companies protect your personal data. In this case Accel led the new investment.

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Daily Crunch: Hackers pinched LastPass customers’ encrypted password vaults, parent company admits

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Carly writes that the company’s owner, GoTo, says hackers stole customers’ encrypted backups. If you like the great outdoors : Strava, the activity tracking and social community platform, acquired Fatmap, a 3D mapping platform for the great outdoors, to make that next hike a doozy, Paul reports.

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OpenSponsorship lands new capital to bring brands, athletes together

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Ishveen Anand grew up in England playing sports all of her life, including during her time at Oxford. However, what she found was that the process was inefficient — the sports world was slow-moving in terms of brands getting contracts with athletes. Prior to this latest funding, the company raised a pre-seed round of $1.3

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Draftea kicks off LatAm fantasy football with NFL partnership, fresh funding

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Draftea , which calls itself the first daily fantasy sports company in Spanish-speaking Latin America , is taking fantasy football (not fútbol) to the region in a new partnership with the National Football League (NFL) and the NFL Player’s Association, a labor union representing the league’s athletes.

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Draymond Green isn’t starting a fund, but is working with top VCs

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” Palihapitiya was an early investor at Facebook and backed Yammer and Slack through his fund, Social+Capital Partnership. Gurley, currently at Benchmark, has led investments in a number of high-profile companies, including Nextdoor and OpenTable. As of June, Green had a reported net worth of $50 million.

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6 Tech Trends that will reshape Media & Entertainment in 2021

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M&E companies are now putting in a lot of effort to sieve through every tiny bit of information to keep annoying ads at bay. in 2023 with eSports being touted as the future of sports. Legalized sports betting will also see a surge with 5G technology, and several sports stadiums and similar arenas in the U.S.

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From crypto trading and home workouts to EV batteries and microLED displays, CES’ Taiwan startups cover a wide range of tech

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GenkiTek offers driver monitoring system that can detect potential distractions like eating, drinking or phone calls and send alerts to companies and drivers to reduce accidents. It has collected hundreds of thousands of driver images to train its AI system’s deep neural net for analyzing driver behavior.

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