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This VC introduced Palantir’s first business hire to its earliest engineer, then his business took off

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Fubini is a Carnegie Mellon grad who cofounded an enterprise company, CubeTree, that a dozen years later, sold to SuccessFactors, which was itself acquired by SAP the next year, in 2011. Fubini helped cofound the outfit with a handful of others.) Think fintech infrastructure, she adds. It all dates back to a key introduction.

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Nigeria’s ThankUCash secures $5.3M to build infrastructure for cashback, deals and BNPL services

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Yet, ThankUCash , a platform launched in 2018 by Connected Analytics , has managed to thrive, proving that not all is gloom in the deals, coupon and rewards business. Having matured as a business, Ononobi and his team want to take on a more complicated task: building infrastructure for companies that want to offer akin services. “We

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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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Crypto investors have 1099 problems, but Cointracker helps make sure filing taxes isn’t one

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billion infrastructure bill that apply to digital assets, including a requirement for crypto exchanges to disclose their gains and provide the names and addresses of their customers. . million for its seed round in 2018, which is when Lerner noticed the crypto markets evolving in a significant way. CoinTracker last raised $1.5

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Despite remote work and the economic downturn, some companies look to London for expansion

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. “The financial system is the backbone of our economy — through loans, investments, and the controlling of global cash flows, it is the most important vehicle when it comes to sustainably transforming our economy,” Plan A cofounder and CEO Lubomila Jordanova said. Liu said in a statement at the time.

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JAMstack conference, San Francisco 2019 - the JAMstack at scale

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In this talk we’ll get to hear details of how and why they chose to explore replacing their more traditional infrastructure, where it was successful and what challenges they encountered and overcame along the way. Teddy Sherrill, RBI. Expect to be surprised by what a humble font can do. Chris Coyier, CSS-Tricks. Ire Aderinokun, BuyCoins.

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How Git Can Power an Exciting Future for Content Management

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Microsoft became one the most significant contributors to open-source, added Windows Subsystem for Linux in 2016, and acquired GitHub in 2018. There’s no database, third party, or any extra infrastructure required — just files. Content management and Git. Updating source files through Git is a developer’s world.