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Mortgage is suddenly sexy as SoftBank pumps $500M in Better.com at $6B valuation

TechCrunch

It’s also up tenfold from its $600 million valuation at the time of its Series C raise in August 2019. That, combined with the general fervour in venture funding, means it’s not a big surprise that Better.com has raised $700 million in just a matter of months. billion a month in loans. We’ll do it when it’s right,” he said.

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A tale of two surveys: Fintech VCs change tune on investment landscape

TechCrunch

What a difference a few months makes. Here we are, not even six months later, and the vibe from the responses of our latest survey — this time of eight fintech investors — is a very different one. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know.

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2021

TechCrunch

In October, it was reported that Waverly Labs had acquired Abundant’s IP, meaning that its technology may still live on in some form. Chanje reportedly still owes “many” of its former employees months of back pay and promised bonuses, with at least four having filed suit against the startup. Chanje (2015-2021). Image Credits: Chanje.

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The Year’s 10 Biggest VC Funding Rounds: OpenAI, Stripe And Anthropic Top The List For Biggest Raises In 2023

Crunchbase News

The deal followed a $1 billion investment in 2019 from Microsoft into the AI startup. In October, the WSJ reported previous investor Google agreed to invest up to $2 billion in the OpenAI competitor. The raise came just about 18 months after it raised $1 billion in 2021. This was the company’s second-biggest deal of the year.

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Can DevSecOps Undo DoD’s Broken Software Failures?

Marv's Smart Future

In October 23rd, 2019, the scientific journal Nature, published an article detailing Google’s claims that, using their 54 bit quantum computer, they processed a task in 200 seconds that would take a classical computer 10,000 years.

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What we learned from Ágiles 2018, Latin America’s Agile Methodologies Conference

UruIT

On October 2018 I went to my first Latin American Conference on Agile Methodologies, Ágiles 2018. In this post, I want to share with you some of my thoughts about how to make the most out of the conference if you decide to attend Ágiles 2019 as well as my top takeaways. Insights from Latin America’s main Agile Conference.

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What we learned from Ágiles 2018, Latin America’s Agile Methodologies Conference

UruIT

On October 2018 I went to my first Latin American Conference on Agile Methodologies, Ágiles 2018. In this post, I want to share with you some of my thoughts about how to make the most out of the conference if you decide to attend Ágiles 2019 as well as my top takeaways. Insights from Latin America’s main Agile Conference.