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Reveal Technology raises $11M to scale ‘decision dominance’ tools for DOD

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Military operators need to rapidly make decisions in high-stakes environments, but they’re often stuck with technology that’s unable to deliver accurate information about their surroundings. Military leaders have made clear that they’re prioritizing “decision dominance” for troops, but actually shipping new technologies and getting them in the hands of end users can be more challenging.  […]

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YC-backed Zimi raises $2M to help international merchants easily sell in the U.S.

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Audrey Djiya and Peter Nsaka always wanted to be founders.  Djiya’s parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents were all entrepreneurs, and even as she took a consulting job after college, she kept an idea journal, documenting the problems she saw and the potential ways technology could help solve them.  “Growing up watching family members move goods cross-border,

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Dimension raises $500M second fund for investing at the intersection tech and life sciences

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Many VCs, particularly newer firms, readily admit that 2024 has been a challenging year for raising fresh capital. Dimension Capital, a two-year-old venture outfit, had a different experience when raising its second fund.   “Every investor from fund one came back very quickly,” said Zavian Dar (pictured center), one of the firm’s three founders and managing

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Lead Edge is increasingly steering its 700+ investors away from VC deals

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Mitchell Green worked variously in investment banking, as an analyst with Bessemer Venture Partners, and for a hedge fund backed by Tiger Management before striking out on his own in 2011. Going it alone was seemingly the right move. Green now manages money for more than 700 individuals who have committed $5 billion to his

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As YC retreats from Africa, alumni launch accelerators to fill the gap

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The influential accelerator Y Combinator made a splash in Africa in 2020 when it shined its light on the market and began to accept startups from the region into its cohorts. The move was huge: in this nascent market, startups especially rely on programs like these to find their feet and connect with investors, and

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Fly Ventures sets its eyes on technical founders with a fresh €80M fund

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Fly Ventures, the Berlin-based VC that invests in seed-stage European startups within enterprise and deep tech, has launched its third fund at €80 million. The firm raised its last €53 million fund in 2020. Aiming at technical founders, the firm claims Fund III was oversubscribed and raised in a single closing. Meanwhile, the small increase

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Time4 is a new Daphni-backed fund dedicated to French entrepreneurs with diverse backgrounds

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France’s startup ecosystem has grown significantly over the last decade, thanks to public support and private investment. However, capital isn’t evenly distributed. Most venture-backed startups are Paris-based, with founders who come from the same handful of universities and schools. This is what VC firm Daphni is hoping to change with Time4, a fund with a

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