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GrubMarket raises $60M as food delivery stays center stage

TechCrunch LA

Companies that have leveraged technology to make the procurement and delivery of food more accessible to more people have been seeing a big surge of business this year, as millions of consumers are encouraged (or outright mandated, due to Covid-19) to socially distance or want to avoid the crowds of physical shopping and eating excursions.

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What Is xAI? Elon Musk Reveals New Startup To Rival OpenAI

Tech.Co

Initially pinned as a generative AI startup for Twitter when it first hit the headlines back in April, the xAI website seems to suggest that the new startup will remain separate from the social media platform, as well as Musk's collection of other technology companies.

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Kara Nortman Was Just Promoted to Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures. Here’s What it All Means

Both Sides of the Table

And all the platform stuff. For example, we’re now already well into our third growth fund that we started in 2015 (the first returned 2x cash in 3.5 Instead he championed our investment themes into sustainability and food technologies having invested in companies like Apeel Sciences and Ynsect.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

Twilio has now raised around $235 million, including a July 2015 round totaling $130 million. It also wasn’t clear at the time what types of apps would be built on top of the platform, other than cheaper IVR systems. Tech Diligence - Consider The Source. Yet most VC's bury their failures under six feet of denial.

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Interview with Brett Crosby and Brew Johnson, PeerStreet

socalTECH

Brew Johnson: At the high level, it's a marketplace, a lending platform for real estate. The easiest way to look at it, from the tech perspective, is that we are very similar to LendingClub. We said, let's create a technology marketplace and platform that creates benefits for those existing lenders, as well as investors.

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7 Lessons They Don’t Teach You In Crowdfunding School

Startup Professionals Musings

Crowdfunding is the hot new vehicle for raising money to support your entrepreneurial efforts, with over 1,250 website platforms around the world to help you, according to a 2015 industry report. Project your costs as diligently as your revenues. How can you go wrong? Several crowdfunding successes have failed as a business.

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Oh Yeah, That Powerful Computer In My Pocket Is Also A Phone

InfoChachkie

Why are the world’s biggest Internet companies investing in a technology created in the late 1800’s? The results were recently published in the 2015 Call Intelligence Index. Non-mobile, online channels, such as desktop search, display ads and review sites drive 30% of calls. 140 Years Old And Still Kicking.

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