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Bolt makes first acquisition with Tipser, launches ‘Remote Checkout’

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Tipser’s technology enables consumers to purchase products natively from sites like online publications, mobile marketplaces, price comparison sites, social media platforms or search engines. The company is led by Marcus Jacobsson, co-founder and CEO, who started the company in 2012 with Axel Wolrath and Jonas Sjöstedt.

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A Gen Z VC speaks up: Why Gen Z VCs are trash

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Gen Z VCs have raised funds, garnered social media followings and profited from the Gen Z mentality. Sure, most of us grew up in an age of technology, but we didn’t all grow up in an age of social media. There’s a drastic difference in views and experiences between someone born in 1997 and someone born in 2012. Myself included.

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Coursera is planning to file to go public tomorrow

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The Mountain View-based business, founded in 2012, was last valued at $2.4 certification, which means that it hits high standards for social and environmental performance. The company has been talking to underwriters since last year, but tomorrow could mark its first legal step in the process to IPO.

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Jungle Ventures closes a $600M fund, bringing its total assets under management to over $1B

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Jungle Ventures was founded in 2012 by Amit Anand and Anurag Srivastava, launching with a $10 million debut fund. We’ve been investing with that philosophy since our inception in 2012. based social-crypo-community platform for women Eveworld; and inFeedo, an employee retention SaaS platform. . “If

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A Vine mess: The choice between rebooting and reviving old software

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When Vine launched in 2012, TikTok was still five years away, and Vine never figured out how to monetize its platform successfully in a way that took care of the top creators and influencers. It might be ambitious to think that you can go from zero to a world-class social media site in a matter of months.

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@Jack (Dorsey) quits Instagram, putting the first-name handle up for grabs

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In a post on decentralized social media Nostr , Dorsey shared he deleted the account after years of non-use. He hadn’t posted since April 9, 2012, the book noted — the morning he found out about Instagram’s sale. “Don’t know why it took me so long,” he wrote.

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Panorama raises $60M in General Atlantic-led Series C to help schools better understand students

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Existing backers Owl Ventures, Emerson Collective, Uncork Capital, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Tao Capital Partners also participated in the financing, which brings the Boston-based company’s total raised since its 2012 inception to $105 million. Panorama Raises $12 Million To Help Schools Understand Their Students.

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