Venture capital gets less diverse in 2020
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A look at Havana's SNET, the "street network" of Cuba's capital which at its peak had ~100K IP addresses, and its demise as state-run WiFi and 3G networks arise (Priscila Bellini/Rest of World)
Priscila Bellini / Rest of World: A look at Havana’s SNET, the “street network” of Cuba’s capital which at its peak had ~100K IP addresses,...
Bullpen Capital raises $130 million more to fund the far afield and misunderstood
Bullpen Capital, a now 10-year-old, venture fund in Menlo Park that focuses on what it calls post-seed investing — it backs startups that have already...
Baidu’s smart home group seeks to raise capital at a $2.9 billion valuation
The group responsible for developing Baidu’s voice platform, DuerOS, will seek to raise capital at a $2.9 billion valuation.Read More Source link [ad_2] قالب وردپرس...
Tech Moves: Lighter Capital names new CEO; Amazon exec joins Uber as CTO; and more
Melissa Widner. (Lighter Capital Photo) — Seattle-based ‘alternative VC’ firm Lighter Capital named Melissa Widner as its new CEO. She takes over from former CEO...
EverC, which provides banks and payment processors support to detect and prevent online money laundering, raises $35M Series B led by Red Dot Capital Partners (Shoshanna Solomon/The Times of Israel)
Shoshanna Solomon / The Times of Israel: EverC, which provides banks and payment processors support to detect and prevent online money laundering, raises $35M Series...
Turing.com, a service using automated tech to vet and match remote software developers with companies, raises $14M in seed funding led by Foundation Capital (FinSMEs)
FinSMEs: Turing.com, a service using automated tech to vet and match remote software developers with companies, raises $14M in seed funding led by Foundation Capital ...
Capital One agrees to $80M fine, cybersecurity consent order for 2019 data breach
Capital One Financial Corp. today agreed to pay an $80 million fine and enter into a consent order to boost its cybersecurity in a settlement...
Nearly 10,000 companies backed by venture capital or public equity investors got small-business loans under the PPP
Startups backed by some of the most well-heeled venture firms received loans under the Paycheck Protection Program, a federal initiative designed to keep small businesses...
Alexis Ohanian is leaving Initialized Capital
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian is leaving Initialized Capital, the investment firm he co-founded in 2011 with Garry Tan, as first reported by Axios and confirmed...
German chipmaker Infineon raises 1.06 billion euros with capital increase
German chipmaker Infineon Technologies raised about 1.06 billion euros ($1.16 billion) by issuing new shares to partially finance its $10 billion acquisition of U.S.-based Cypress...
'We're not cherry-picking': A top venture capital firm is guaranteeing some startups that it will reinvest in their next fundraising round, and this could be a lifeline in the coronavirus era
First Round, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage companies, is assuring startups it will reinvest in their second round of fundraising when it led...
How technology can help SMEs raise capital in 2020
Public Capital Markets Evolution for SME’s Despite the importance of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME’s) to the global economy, 2008’s global financial crisis forced a contraction in...
Tuesday Capital teams up with design powerhouse Frog to grab startups’ attention — and keep it
In a day and age when everyone seems to have their own seed-stage venture fund, it’s hard to stand out. But Tuesday Capital, the San...
Texas-based Cysiv, an enterprise Security Operations Center-as-a-Service company that spun out of Trend Micro, raises $26M Series A led by ForgePoint Capital (Dallas Innovates)
Dallas Innovates: Texas-based Cysiv, an enterprise Security Operations Center-as-a-Service company that spun out of Trend Micro, raises $26M Series A led by ForgePoint Capital — ...