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How W4 plans to monetize the Godot game engine using Red Hat’s open-source playbook

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A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. Concept illustration depicting technical support. But first… what is a game engine, exactly?

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Edda wants to be the Bloomberg Terminal for private markets

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Anyone who has worked in a role even tangentially connected to the public markets will at least have heard of Bloomberg Terminal , an industry standard platform used by professionals to gain real-time data and insights into the financial markets. Market opportunity. The private equity markets are predicted to grow to $12.5

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Traceable AI nabs $60M to secure app APIs using machine learning

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The new capital values the company at more than $450 million post-money, and CEO Jyoti Bansal — who’s also the cofounder of BIG Labs and Unusual Ventures — says that it’ll be put toward product development, recruitment, and customer acquisition. billion) and Harness (which recently raised a $230 million Series D).

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CTO Founders / Cofounders

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This is not only sad but incredibly frustrating, because it is so easy to see how a great technology can be developed and commercialized if only - if only the CTO hadn't been impulsive and insecure and brought on a business partner too early in the game. … And it’s not just inexperienced CTOs. Perhaps all of the above.

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Latent AI, which says it can compress common AI models by 10x, lands some key backing

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Steve Jurvetson, the veteran investor and cofounder of Future Ventures, says to “think of face-detection algorithms running locally within security cameras or appliances, or Siri-like voice interfaces working instantly, even when there’s no network connectivity.” ’s national defense strategy.). (In

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A new venture studio, SuperLayer, aims to become a preeminent Web3 launch pad

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In the case of Superlayer, that founder is Kevin Chou, who sold his gaming company, Kabam, for $800 million back in 2018 and almost immediately jumped headlong into the world of blockchain technologies, which he believes can unlock new economic opportunities, including for gamers and or creators. As Roelof Botha, the head of Sequoia’s U.S.

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Kudos, with its cotton-based, eco-friendly diaper, soaks up $2.4 million in seed funding

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Cofounder and CEO Amrita Saigal says that Kudos is the first and only disposable baby diaper to earn the cotton natural seal from Cotton Inc. Saigal actually left a career at P&G, which is where she met Kudos’ diaper engineering advisor Jim Keighley (her former boss at P&G). million seed round of financing today.