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Ping Goes the Blockchain: Partnership Brings Consensus, Kill Switch with New Platform

Fintech Labs Insights

Just days after being acquired by Vista Equity Partners, Ping Identity has introduced a new identity management app that could pave the way for a seamless and secure user experience referred to as “continuous authentication.”

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From Alibaba to Zynga: 21 Of The Best VC Bets Of All Time And What We Can Learn From Them

CB Insights

Apax Partners also first invested in King Digital in 2005, when the company was still distressed from a point of near-bankruptcy in 2003. Then, in 2003, the firm invested another $30M, for a total of $120 million before SMIC’s IPO. The company’s backers included several Israeli investors. After SMIC raised $1.7B

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