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Hillbilly Elegy Author J.D. Vance Heads To Ohio In Search Of Investment Opportunities

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According to reports, Vance is heading home to Ohio on the hunt for venture deals for Steve Case’s investment vehicle Revolution LLC. And there are some serious funds on offer — Revolution funds has over $1 billion in capital to hand out to firms at all stages of development. In 2010 California companies received $28.4

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New England Confectionery Co. Sells For $18.8M At Auction

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Ohio-based Spangler Candy Company won the auction with a bid of just under $19 million, The Boston Globe reported. “We Spangler was among two other bidders: Round Hill Capital LLC and Gordon Brothers. The candies are made in a suburb of Boston, where the company has a little more than 200 employees.

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An App A Day Keeps Grocery Shoppers Coming Their Way

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Flashfood bears a close resemblance to Boston, Mass. Hunger and wasted food are two problems that can have one solution,” believes Daily Table founder Doug Rauch, former Trader Joe’s president and co-CEO of Conscious Capitalism, Inc. Up next are areas in Texas, Connecticut, Florida, Ohio and South Carolina.

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55 US Companies That Became Unicorns In 2018

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New York, Boston, Chicago, and Nashville, among other cities, all played host to newly minted unicorns last year. Select Investors: Tencent Holdings, Disney Accelerator, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Vulcan Capital, ICONIQ Capital. It is also known for developing Unreal Engine.

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11 New Restaurant Concepts Reimagining Fast Food & Casual Dining

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Vegan fast casual: By Chloe (NYC, Boston, LA, Providence, London). The restaurant has 12 current locations, in New York, LA, Providence, Boston, and most recently London, and another 20 are planned. In Boston, Oleana founder Ana Sortun opened the lunch and takeout venue Sofra. table of contents. Today, just 2,877 remain.

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Fintech Fundings: 186 Companies Raised $1.6 Billion in June

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HQ: Cincinnati, Ohio. HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Tags: SMB, capital raising, VC, venture capital, p2p, peer-to-peer, investing. Total dollars raised YTD is now $17.4 billion, more than double the $8.4 billion more raised during the same period a year ago. ——-. Fintech deals by size from 25 June to 1 July, 2016: Paycor.

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