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Global VC funding in digital health at record high of $4.9 billion in Jan-Jun: Report

The Economic Times 20 Jul 2018
"Digital health continues to grow at a record pace and is well on its way to smashing 2017's record of $7.2 billion in VC funding," Mercom Capital Group CEO and Co-Founder Raj Prabhu said ... ....
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This small fashion startup has big plans to save the planet

Fast Company 20 Jul 2018
Aday is small startup with lofty ambitions to, say founders Meg He and Nina Faulhaber, design clothes that help save the planet. advertisement. advertisement ... [Photo. courtesy Aday]For Faulhaber and He, the clothing of the future created by the three-year-old brand is as billed ... Related ... Another impressive brand, Reformation, has raised $37 million in VC funding, and has built an eco-friendly factory from the ground up in downtown LA ... More....
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Insight Venture Partners closes 10th fund at $6.3 billion

Venture Beat 19 Jul 2018
New York-based venture capital (VC) firm Insight Venture Partners has closed its tenth fund at a whopping $6.3 billion. Fund X, as its known, will be leveraged to continue investing in growth-stage companies globally ... News emerged last year that Insight was targeting a $6 billion tenth fund, and by July it had ......
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Global fintech boom continued in Q2, with 383 startups raising a record $20 billion

Venture Beat 19 Jul 2018
Funding for financial startups around the world continued to set a blistering pace in the most recent quarter, scoring $20 billion for companies seeking to disrupt established banking and payment systems ... But even without that massive round, VC-backed fintech companies raised $6.3 billion in funding, up from $5.6 billion in the previous quarter, according to a report released today by CB Insights....
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Armored Things raises $5.5M to keep crowds safe

Business Journal 19 Jul 2018
This story first appeared on BostInno ... Together with iNovia Capital, the leading investor in the institutional round is Glasswing Ventures, the early-stage VC firm that announced its $112 debut fund focused on AI startups earlier in July. The round, which includes MassVentures as a participating… ... ....
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Number of startup beneficiaries under govt's Fund of Funds scheme comes down to 58 in 2017-18

Your Story 19 Jul 2018
In 2016, the government announced the Rs 10,000-crore FFS to provide funding support for startups ... Some of the VC funds that SIDBI had backed under the FFS scheme include Pi Ventures, Unicorn India Ventures Fund I, Bharat Innovation Fund, Ankur Capital Stellaris Fund, North Eastern Venture Fund, Menterra Social Impact Fund I, JM Financial Fund II, and Endiya Seed Co-Creation Fund, among others....
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Why the House Agriculture Committee cares about cryptocurrency

Yahoo Daily News 19 Jul 2018
Joshua Fairfield, a tech law professor at Washington and Lee University; Amber Baldet, a former JPMorgan executive now running a blockchain startup called Clovyr; Scott Kupor, managing partner at the Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, which recently launched a new crypto investment fund; Daniel Gorfine, CIO of the CFTC; Gary Gensler, ......
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The First Version of Blockchain-Based Ubcoin Marketplace Has Been Released

Coin Idol 19 Jul 2018
Ubcoin is an eBay-like Ethereum-powered marketplace that allows people to exchange real goods for cryptocurrency and vice versa ... The public beta of the platform will be available for testing at the end of August, 2018 ... Earlier this year, Ubank received investment from the Singapore-based VC fund Amereus Group for the promotion of Ubcoin Market in Asia ... Readers should do their own research before investing funds in any company ... ....
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Lifebit raises $3M to scale-up AI-powered analysis of DNA data

Crunch 19 Jul 2018
Making sense of DNA data is a two-step process, namely the biochemical-sequencing of the DNA and the analyzing and extracting insights from the sequenced DNA data. As of today in 2018, the first part of this process is now almost fully automated requiring minimal human intervention ... It’s now closed a $3m (£2.25m) Seed funding round led by Pentech and Connect Ventures, with participation from Beacon Capital and Tiny VC (AngelList)....
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CityBlock Capital Builds All Star Team Comprising Blockchain Industry Leaders to Invest Tokenized NYCQ Venture Fund

Market Watch 18 Jul 2018
CityBlock Capital merges this new ecosystem with traditional VC in several ways ... Everyone talks about access because of blockchain, CityBlock Capital’s funds actually provide it — through lower minimums for LP’s, faster liquidity, an expanded number of allowable investors including those who would otherwise not have access to VC deals, and accepting both USD and select crypto currencies — making participation frictionless....
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SME lending startup OfBusiness gets Rs 200 crore

The Times of India 18 Jul 2018
The three-year-old startup saw existing investors Matrix Partners and Zodius Capital participate in its series-C funding round ... In all, it has racked up Rs 500 crore in equity and debt funding ... OfBusiness co-founder and CEO Asish Mohapatra told TOI that the new funds will help the company shore up debt to boost its loan book. A former VC at Matrix ......
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Quantapore Inc. Closes Series 3 Financing Round to Fund Beta Launch of DNA Sequencer

Market Watch 18 Jul 2018
Tsingyuan Ventures and Sangel Venture Capital were major investors in the round and were joined by Baidu Ventures and Cloudstone VC ... The current funding will be used to advance Quantapore’s technology to beta units for deployment to select, early-adopters in industry and academia ... Tsingyuan Ventures is a technology-focused venture fund investing in seed to A-round startups in the United States ... About Cloudstone VC....
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Indianapolis’ Kenzie Academy raises $4.2 million to expand tech apprenticeship offerings

Venture Beat 18 Jul 2018
Indianapolis-based tech apprenticeship academy Kenzie Academy announced today that it has raised $4.2 million in seed funding. The funding was led by existing investor, edtech VC firm ReThink Ventures ... Kenzie Academy cofounder and CEO Chok Ooi discussed the new round of funding in a phone interview with VentureBeat, as well as what kind of interest Kenzie Academy has seen since launching its first cohort in January....
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