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GDP under Modi govt higher than UPA's last four years: Niti Aayog VC

The Times of India 18 Aug 2018

NEW DELHI. Niti Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar said on Saturday that the GDP growth rate under four years of the Modi government is still higher than the growth rate of last four years of UPA ... The Niti Aayog VC also said, "Higher growth rate in 2009-2011 and in previous years was funded by untenable fiscal deficit and reckless expansion of commercial bank credit which was surely unsustainable ... He added ... ....

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Iconiq Holding Launches Digital Asset Index Funds and Announces Upgrades to the ICNQ Token With Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange Token Sale and Exchange Listing

Market Watch 17 Aug 2018

17, 2018/PRNewswire/ -- Iconiq Funds, the newly-launched asset management arm of Germany-based Iconiq Holding, the team behind the world's first decentralized VC group, Iconiq Lab, is launching a series of digital asset index funds beginning in Q4 2018 ... The first digital asset index fund launched by Iconiq will be a Maltese Professional Investor Fund, more commonly known as a PIF....

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Bitmain Continues Investment Spree with Blockchain Data Storage Firm

The Bitcoin News 17 Aug 2018

The funding round propels Lambda into crypto-linked companies that received investments from Bitmain as part of its plans to expand and diversify its circle of influence in the nascent sector. Lambda has already launched its own ICO earlier this month after completion of its private sale which included funding from FunCity Capital, BlockVC, BlueHill, Zhen Fund, Metropolis VC, Dfund, DATA Foundation and more ... Financemagnets ... source ... ....

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FinCanna - An Undervalued Business Making Royalty Investments Into Cannabis Startups

Seeking Alpha 17 Aug 2018

FinCanna has funded three companies to date, all of which have shown positive momentum in their early days ... This capital (a cumulative CAD 23.5m) is being used to fund FinCanna’s investments (discussed further in Investment Portfolio) ... [8] Restrictions imposed by the underlying investors in a VC fund that prevent the funds from investing in certain sectors such as alcohol, tobacco, or drugs....

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Investor frenzy in content start-ups sparks bubble fears

Live Mint 16 Aug 2018

The biggest proposed funding rounds include those at education content provider Byju’s and social network ShareChat ... Investor interest in content start-ups is so strong that some of the companies cited above may raise another round of funding before the end of the year. Early-stage venture capital (VC) firm India Quotient, Chinese VC firm Shunwei and Omidyar Network are leading the charge to fund content start-ups....

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Pantera Capital Seeks $175 Million for Third Crypto Venture Fund

The Bitcoin News 16 Aug 2018

For Pantera’s debut fund in 2013, the firm had raised $13 million, rising to $25 million for its second ... As Cointelegraph has reported, enterprise-focused blockchain startup Axoni this month saw a fresh infusion of venture capital in a $32 million funding round led by Goldman Sachs, which was joined by numerous others including VC firm Andreessen Horowitz and other high-profile banks such as Wells Fargo and JPMorgan....

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Excelero Receives Strategic Investment from Western Digital, Capping Five Successive Quarters of Strong Growth

Market Watch 16 Aug 2018

16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Excelero, a disruptor in software-defined block storage, announced that it received strategic investment funds from Western Digital Capital, the strategic investment fund of Western Digital Corp. WDC, -1.60% This investment represents the fourth strategic player to invest in Excelero, including Micron and Qualcomm, and brings the total VC funds invested in Excelero to $35 million....

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PE’s affinity to financial services: A short-term or a long-term phenomenon?

Live Mint 15 Aug 2018

Since 2016, the Indian financial services sector has received $14 billion in PE/VC investments, which is greater than the sum total of all investments in the sector from PE/VC investors in the 10 years prior to 2016 ... It has also been the most successful sector for PE/VC-backed IPOs, with funds garnering $1.3 billion in offers for sale across 13 IPOs....

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‘Sh*tcoin’ Ethereum Price Will Fall Below $100: BitMEX CEO

Cryptocoin News 15 Aug 2018

“The VC investor who has never suffered the vagaries of the market is as green as the noob who thinks he or she can go from 1 to 100 Bitcoin in a few trading days ... They will attempt to be a Monday morning quarterback, and that only adds to the VC investors’ anxiety ... However, Hayes argues that it will be VCs who deal the real death-blow since fund managers tend to operate according to a herd mentality....

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Asian investors have plenty of cash, a hearty appetite for investments and a different approach ...

Crunch 15 Aug 2018

The VC landscape has been shifting radically in the past few years as Asian investors pump cash into startups ... Asian VCs largely fund companies close to home, but their portfolios are expanding to include U.S ... Remember that the Asian VC market, while explosive, is still in its infancy. Chinese-led venture funding has increased 15-fold since 2013, according to The Wall Street Journal....

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This angel network wants to mobilize 100,000 women investors

Fast Company 15 Aug 2018

Already, Portfolia has created funds devoted to aging, consumer, enterprise, and women’s health ... With a check of between $10,000 and $100,000, women can join an open fund of their choosing ... For veteran VC Nola Masterson, one of the leads for Portfolia’s newly launched “femtech” fund, the opportunity to get introduced into later-stage rounds, an angel-network rarity, sealed the deal on her participation....

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Karma raises $12M to let restaurants and grocery stores offer unsold food at a discount

Crunch 15 Aug 2018

Karma, the Stockholm-based startup that offers a marketplace to let local restaurants and grocery offer unsold food at a discount, has raised $12 million in Series A funding ... venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners, appliance manufacturer Electrolux, and previous backer VC firm e.ventures. It brings total funding to $18 million....

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Clobotics raises $11 million for retail and wind energy AI

Venture Beat 15 Aug 2018

Inspecting wind turbines. Optimizing product displays for profitability ... The Shanghai firm today announced a $11 million funding round led by Nantian Info Tech VC and Wangsu Science and Technology Company, both of which join previous investors KTB Network, GGV Capital, and Capital Development Investment Fund Management Co ... “The strategy is simple ... It’s currently in two. wind energy and retail ... ....

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