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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.) In fact, the founder of XYZ, Ross Fubini, says his firm wrote Anduril its first check.

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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.”

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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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Reveal raises $50M to espouse the benefits of partner ecosystems

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In a 2018 Accenture survey , 76% of business leaders said that current business models will be unrecognizable in the next five years, with ecosystems being the main change agent. ” Before launching Reveal in 2020, Bouchez was the CEO of Multiposting, an HR tech startup, until 2018, when it was acquired by SAP.

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

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Over 3% of the entire global cryptocurrency market, representing over $50 billion worth of digital assets, is tracked on CoinTracker , its CEO and cofounder Jon Lerner told TechCrunch in an interview. million for its seed round in 2018, which is when Lerner noticed the crypto markets evolving in a significant way.

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How Ryan Reynolds and Mint Mobile worked without becoming the joke

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He bought a majority stake in Portland-based Aviation Gin in 2018, which recently sold for $610 million. He also cofounded marketing agency Maximum Effort alongside George Dewey, which has made its own impact over the past several years. ” Mint isn’t Reynolds’ first entrepreneurial venture.

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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. ThankUCash cofounders. Loyalty, deals and rewards services are a rarity in most African markets.