Ockam raises $4.9 million in seed funding to make it easier for developers to secure and scale their IoT apps Ockam, a two-year-old, Bay Area-based company that’s selling tools to developers so they can establish an “architecture for trust” within their connected device applications, has raised $4.9 million in seed…
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Garrett Camp, who came up with the idea for Uber, never drove a taxi. Joe Gebbia and Brian Chesky, who devised Airbnb, never worked at a hotel. They’re all outsiders who used software to massively disrupt established orders they were never a part of and had no interest in preserving.…
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Financial institutions know how to calculate the risk of serving traditional businesses, although for the firms touching cryptocurrency, the math is still a bit fuzzy. The assumption of added regulatory hurdles and money-laundering fears, have led to a widespread problem, and most likely your bank would rather just not deal…
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Japan’s Yusaku Maezawa on Friday posted a record of $ 900 million paid for the fashion king following his sale of shares in Zozo Inc., an online fashion retailer he founded, to SoftBank Group Corp.In video posted to YouTube, Maezawa visit a bank in Tokyo for update their bank book,…
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As 2019 is nearing its last month, the upcoming cryptocurrency events are also being scheduled and announced online. Here is our list which will help you find a crypto event that you can attend in this December. Bangkok World Blockchain Summit 2019 Event date: Dec 01, 2019 – Dec 02,…
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Freight-matching startup Forager, founded in late 2018, specializes in cross-border freight matching. Forager has a new president — Marc Kiven, who cofounded the ad tech company Signal in 2009, joined the company last month. Matt Silver, the CEO and cofounder of Forager, says the logistics newbie will bring “tech entrepreneur…
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Motivo, a startup platform that new mental health providers can use to complete their training alongside a remote clinical supervisor, has announced a $2.2 million seed funding round. The investment was led by Cox Enterprises, with additional participation from Techstars, SEI Ventures, ECMC, Great Oaks VC, The Jump Fund, Emmett…
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When the storied venture firm Sequoia likes a deal, it will sometimes not only lead one of its financing rounds but fund it exclusively — no matter how that impacts earlier investors. Given the firm’s powerful brand, it’s hard to complain (too much), even if it means that earlier backers…
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When it comes to workplace productivity and communication apps, it can often feel like Slack, Trello and Asana have the market cornered. But Aydin Mirzaee saw past the crowded space. In his previous work, Aydin often found himself wishing for a better feedback and productivity tool — and one that…
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The National Business Angels Congress 2019 will gather an investment portfolio of more than 1,000 million euros. Marina de Empresas, in Valencia, will host the fifth edition of this event, in which investors, entrepreneurs and some of the most innovative corporations in the national ecosystem will meet. The Big Ban…
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