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Former FTX Exec Scores Millions For A Crypto Startup, With Mooch Among His Backers
Friday, January 20, 2023 - 1:05pm | 340Read More...Just days after blasting former boss Sam Bankman-Fried on Twitter, former FTX US president Brett Harrison raised $5 million in funding for his new startup, Architect. The company, which aims to make centralized and decentralized crypto markets more user-friendly, is backed by hedge fund manager...
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Signal Advisors Adds $10M Series A Led By General Catalyst
Thursday, April 22, 2021 - 7:11pm | 451Read More...Detroit-based Signal Advisors, a tech-enabled distributor of annuities and life insurance, announced the closure of a $10 million Series A led by General Catalyst. What Happened: Signal, through its tech-centric approach, enables smaller, constrained producers better access to advisory tools,...
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Touring Detroit Through The Eyes Of Legendary Silicon Valley Investors
Tuesday, June 2, 2015 - 5:37pm | 1115Read More...Interest in Detroit is at an all-time high as investors, leaders and innovators from across the world are seeing opportunity. Techstars, a world-class accelerator, realized the potential in the city and announced it will set up shop this summer, and others are traveling daily to tour the city to...
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Does Pinterest Want To Replace Google Search With Guided Search?
Monday, May 19, 2014 - 9:17am | 616Read More...Pinterest, which promotes itself as a visual search engine after starting its Internet life as a scrapbooking website, just raised $200 million from investors. Again. The company raised $225 million last October and has raised $764 million to date according to ReadWrite. The latest round of...
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America's Top VCs Think These 54 Companies Are the Next Big Thing
Saturday, April 20, 2013 - 1:54pm | 159Read More...Looking for a hot new phone app? Seeking to invest in the next Facebook (NASDAQ: FB)? Or just curious about the trends in Silicon Valley? Whatever your heart may desire, Benzinga has you covered. Using VentureBeat's list of top 20 venture capital firms in 2012, we combed through the recent...
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TweetDeck: From Tiny Startup to Twitter Acquisition
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 2:25pm | 369Read More...It wasn't that long ago that TweetDeck was simply a small startup with big dreams. But in the years following its initial release in the summer of 2008, TweetDeck quickly became one of the premiere desktop applications for Twitter. Today, the company's founder and CEO, Iain Dodsworth, blogged...
