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Tribal Credit, which provides credit cards to startups in emerging markets, raises $34.3M

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As part of the investment, Tribal received $3 million from the Stellar Development Foundation , a nonprofit organization that supports the development and growth of the open-source Stellar blockchain network. . The raise follows “ 10x” year-over-year growth, according to CEO and co-founder Amr Shady.

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8 investors and founders highlight Valencia’s potential as a fintech and cybersecurity hub

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The blockchain/crytpo scene could do with some improvement, according to a few respondents. BIGBAN is a private nonprofit angel investor network based in Valencia, and incubators and accelerator programs continue to proliferate, supported by corporates and local government initiatives such as Startup Valencia. What does it lack?

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Daily Crunch: Former Metamates go from zero to unicorn with $200M crypto investment led by a16z

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All Raise hires new CEO : A nonprofit focused on “increasing diversity within venture capital deals and decision-makers” per our reporting, All Raise now has a new boss. Which is, notably, a new blockchain, and not something built atop an existing decentralized network. I, for one, cannot wait. The TechCrunch Top 3 4.

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Free Programming Courses from Harvard, MIT, Microsoft and more (Sponsored)

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The nonprofit site offers 2000 online courses from 140 institutions worldwide. Blockchain for Business from the Linux Foundation. Everyone has heard of blockchain, but most don’t understand how it can apply to their business. Courses are free to try. This is one of the most popular programs on edX. View more courses here.

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Radar Trends to Watch: March 2023

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Artificial Intelligence Facebook/Meta has announced a large language model called LLaMA that is 1/10th the size of GPT-3 and can run on a single GPU, but claims equivalent performance. Fastly’s Fast Forward Program provides free CDN services to open source projects and nonprofits that make the world a better place.

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Atlanta Tech Events and Startup Hubs You Need to Visit

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The events cover domains such as big data, cybersecurity, blockchain, and cryptocurrency. The event for data scientists and related entrepreneurs plans to introduce newly-emerging technologies and best practices in data science, machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence. TechAlpharetta.

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

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Some people are more excited by emerging areas like artificial intelligence, which has been a focus of the country’s military for years, and like cybersecurity is now producing many fresh teams of founders. Blockchain is a difficult sector because it lacks a clear regulatory environment, subsequently raising many questions.