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10 Early-Stage eSports Startups To Watch

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Select Investors: CAA Ventures, Greycroft Partners, GVR Fund, Samsung NEXT, Sony Innovation Fund. Select Investors: DN Capital, The Raine Group, 500 Startups. Select Investors: Accel Partners, Horizon Ventures, Lowercase Capital. Select Investors: Advancit Capital, Lowercase Capital. Dojo Madness. 300+ items.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

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In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand. However, the model doesn’t currently allow companies to issue new shares, meaning that DPOs do not raise any capital for the company. STAYING PRIVATE.

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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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AI 100: The Artificial Intelligence Startups Redefining Industries

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Boston-based Cybereason is close to reaching Unicorn status. The company raised $102M in Q2’17 from the likes Data Collective, Intel Capital, Microsoft Ventures, NVIDIA GPU Ventures, Real Ventures, and Tencent Holdings. Felicis Ventures, Signatures Capital, Walden Venture Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

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46 Corporations Working On Autonomous Vehicles

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Top initiatives: First company to test self-driving tech on the streets of Singapore, and later in Boston. It then also became the first to test such technology on public streets in Boston, Massachusetts. Samsung enters the driverless race, tests driver assist technologies on roads. Aptiv hits the road for testing.

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121 Of The Biggest, Costliest Startup Failures Of All Time

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In this review of failure, we’ve looked in our venture capital database to find the most well-funded startup companies that ultimately failed or had an undesirable exit, such as an asset sale or an acquisition for less than the total funding raised by the company. The 101 Biggest Product Failures Of All Time. Total Funding: Over $100M.

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Fintech Favorites

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This is company’s third location (the other two are in Boston and Toronto). ” Mobile UI takes a look at Capital One Wallet and its new, old-school user interface. Samsung Pay celebrates its first anniversary in the U.S. ” Manulife unveils new “Lab of Forward Thinking” location in Singapore.

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