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Venture capital undermines human rights

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The future of technology is determined by a handful of venture capitalists. The world’s 10 leading venture capital firms have, together, invested over $150 billion in technology startups. Europe and China, which in turn are shaping the future of technology. Despite gains, gender diversity in VC funding struggled in 2020.

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Productfy raises $16M to build the ‘Shopify of embedded finance’

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Existing backers Point72 Ventures, 500 Startups and Envestnet | Yodlee also participated in the financing, which brings its total raised since its 2018 inception to nearly $19 million. But Productfy, unlike many other BaaS companies, is not just focused on developers. Productfy Inc. , When we launched these programs, we learned a ton.

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YC, Khosla-backed Atmos lands $12.5M to design custom dream homes

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Atmos , a startup which has built an online marketplace that teams up homebuyers with builders and land developers to design and build custom homes, has emerged from stealth today with $12.5 It then teams up buyers with a “vetted builder partner.” . million raised in Series A funding round led by Khosla Ventures.

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‘High conviction, low volume’: Playfair launches $70M pre-seed fund for European startups

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‘High conviction, low volume’ Playfair, for its part, seeks out founders “outside of dominant tech hubs,” as well as founders working on projects that may run more tangential to where the main hype and “buzzy-ness” exists. ” A large chunk of early-stage deals fall apart in the due diligence phase. .

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO

Around the turn of the century, Autonomy Corporation was one of the darlings of the UK technology industry, specializing in knowledge management and enterprise search. November 2005: Autonomy agrees to buy search technology developer Verity for $500 milllion, its third acquisition of the year after NCorp (in February) and etalk (in June).

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Extra Crunch roundup: A fistful of IPOs, Affirm’s Peloton problem, Zoom Apps and more

TechCrunch

Tech companies that go public capture our imagination because they are literal happy endings. HANGZHOU, CHINA – JULY 31: An employee uses face recognition system on a self-service check-out machine to pay for her meals in a canteen at the headquarters of Alibaba Group on July 31, 2018 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China.

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Attending Oracle’s CodeOne? Here Are 15 Sessions Everyone Will Be Talking About

OverOps

— OverOps (@overopshq) October 15, 2018. Any Advanced Technology Is Indistinguishable from Magic [DEV5689]. Venkat Subramaniam , President, Agile Developer, Inc. Erik Gahlin , Principal Member of Technical Staff, Java HotSpot Virtual Machine, Oracle. Moscone West – Room 2018. – 10:45 a.m.