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Digital bank Chime quadruples valuation in less than a year to $5.8 billion as it takes on megabanks
CNBC - Hugh Son
A war is brewing in digital banking, and one leading player just loaded up on ammunition. Chime, the largest of a new breed of branchless U.S. banks, …
Dec 5, 2019
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A Conversation with Amino Partner Dr. Sue Xu: CES 2020 & Insights on Current Tech Trends
Medium - Amino Capital
By Jacob Jiao, NYU ’22 Reach me at jacob.jiao@stern.nyu.edu! The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) took place in Las Vegas, Nevada from Jan 7 to Jan 10. …
Jan 23, 2020
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Online Bank Chime Is Close to New Funding at a $1.5 Billion Value
Bloomberg - Julie Verhage
Chime, a financial technology startup that offers online banking services, is close to raising $300 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, according to …
Feb 5, 2019
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Repl.it raises $4.5M, announces a million users
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We're thrilled to announce that we have raised a Seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Marc Andreessen and Andrew Chen championing the deal. …
Oct 22, 2018
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Paperspace scores $13M investment for AI-fueled application development platform
TechCrunch - Ron Miller
Paperspace wants to help developers build artificial intelligence and machine learning applications with a software/hardware development platform powered by GPUs and other powerful chips. Today, the Winter...
Oct 16, 2018
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Amazon Rekognition announces updates to its face detection, analysis, and recognition capabilities | Amazon Web Services
Ranju Das
Today we are announcing updates to our face detection, analysis, and recognition features. These updates provide customers with improvements in the …
Feb 28, 2019
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Hate Assembling IKEA Furniture? This Robot Might Be Able to Help
Fortune - Erin Corbett
Researchers have designed a robot operating system that can process and understand how-to instructions, and put them into action, Science News reports. …
Jan 17, 2019
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Skycatch High Precision Package for Canadian mining giant - DroneDJ
dronedj.com - Haye Kesteloo
Skycatch, a drone data collection and analytics company from Sann Francisco, CA, announces today that their Skycatch High Precision Package (HPP) has …
Dec 19, 2018
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Buzzwords And Brilliance: Walking The Floor At Retail's Big Show
Forbes - Jon Bird
If I had a dollar for every mention of the word “frictionless” at the National Retail Federation (NRF) Big Show in New York last week, I would be a very rich man indeed. That particular buzzword dominated...
Jan 21, 2019
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National Bank of Canada Trials Blockchain Platform for Trade Finance | Coin Journal
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The National Bank of Canada has announced the successful completion of a pilot program in collaboration with IT firm CGI and blockchain startup …
Oct 22, 2018
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JP Morgan Alums Launch ‘Blockchain as a Service’ on AWS
Fortune - Jeff John Roberts
Does the world need another private blockchain? A startup called Kadena thinks the answer is yes, releasing a new version of blockchain—a tamper …
Jan 23, 2019
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Cities Could Be The First Customer For HD Maps This Startup Built For Autonomous Cars
Forbes - Liane Yvkoff
Lvl5 has taken a novel, crowdsourced approach to building and updating its high-definition maps that auto manufacturers could use to help their autonomous vehicles navigate roads. But let's face it--it's...
Oct 30, 2018
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Autonomous Vehicles
Self-driving cars could change the way you get around in retirement
CNBC - Lorie Konish
At The Villages retirement community in central Florida, there are approximately 125,000 residents and about 750 miles of road. And by the end of this …
Oct 11, 2018
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Don’t Ask When Self-Driving Cars Will Arrive—Ask Where
WIRED - Aarian Marshall
Autonomous vehicles are already on the road. Whether they're "here" depends on where you are. In 2018, sharp observers of self-driving vehicles may …
Dec 25, 2018
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Delivering Application Security At The Speed Of Technology With Machine Learning
Forbes - Tony Bradley
Henry Ford revolutionized the automobile industry—and manufacturing in general—with the concept of the assembly line. Vehicles existed and were being manufactured before Ford introduced the assembly line...
Oct 24, 2018
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To cripple AI, hackers are turning data against itself
Wired UK - Nicole Kobie
Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images A neural network looks at a picture of a turtle and sees a rifle. A self-driving car blows past a stop sign …
Sep 11, 2018
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https://medium.com/@anchain.ai/anchain-ai-secures-agrolytes-smart-contract-using-smart-contract-auditing-platform-c98beca23c0?source=userActivityShare-abe1dcd24f6-1549513587
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Feb 7, 2019
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Zenefits' Parker Conrad returns with Rippling to kill HR & IT busywork
TechCrunch - Josh Constine
Parker Conrad likes to save time, even though it’s gotten him in trouble. The former CEO of Zenefits was pushed out of the $4.5 billion human resources startup because he built a hack that let him and...
Oct 10, 2018
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Riot Games and Battlefy sign multi-year college season partnership - Esports Insider
esportsinsider.com - David Hollingsworth
After a successful partnership in 2018, Riot Games and Battlefy have announced a three-year partnership for the League of Legends College season until …
Nov 2, 2018
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Interview: Guesty co-founder and CEO, Amiad Soto, on 2018 and investment trends
shorttermrentalz.com - Paul Stevens
ShortTermRentalz spoke to Amiad Soto, co-Founder & CEO of property management platform, Guesty, about the company’s busy 2018 and potential …
Dec 20, 2018
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Moroccan cross-border B2B ecommerce marketplace WaystoCap expands into logistics and local sales, opens two new offices West...
menabytes.com - Zubair Naeem Paracha
Casablanca-based B2B ecommerce marketplace has recently expanded into logistics and local sales, the startup has told MENAbytes, adding that it has …
Dec 18, 2018
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Social music app Playlist lets you listen to music with others in real time
TechCrunch - Sarah Perez
A new app called Playlist aims to make music a more social experience than what’s offered today by the major music platforms like Apple Music, Pandora or Spotify, for example. In Playlist, you can find...
Nov 27, 2018
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Chime Milestones: Surpasses 750,000 Bank Accounts, 2.5 Million Transaction Volume, & Saved Members $72 Million in 2017
crowdfundinsider.com - Samantha Hurst
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Jan 4, 2019
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How Blockchain will lead us to an Open, Trustworthy, and Reliable Entrepreneurial Environment — Fireside chat with Dr. Jun...
Medium - David Kao
Amidst the hype and frenzy around cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, the true meaning of blockchain may seem lost to many investors and entrepreneurs …
Aug 19, 2018
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A Conversation with Zaki Manian, Blockchain Pioneer
Medium - Amino Capital
By Alex Chien, Princeton ’20, AMINO Summer Insider, and Sue Xu, PhD, Managing Partner, AMINO Capital Blockchain, the technological underpinning of …
Jun 29, 2018
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Niantic acqui-hires Evertoon to add a social network to Pokémon Go and other apps
TechCrunch - Sarah Perez
Niantic, the company behind the hit mobile game Pokémon Go and its predecessor, Ingress, announced today it has acquired the team from the startup Evertoon to help it further build out its mobile products....
Nov 3, 2017
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A Conversation With Larry Li
huffingtonpost.com - Patrick Daniel
I had the opportunity to sit down with Larry Li, managing partner of Amino Capital, and discuss his investment philosophy and outlook on how …
Oct 9, 2017
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Amino Capital started with their partners’ own money and founded by tech executives in Facebook, Google, Amazon, Yahoo and more than 60 LPs
How Larry Li starts a new model in Venture Investing
Medium - Amino Capital
Oct 7, 2017
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Sesame replaces your keys with your phone.
Sesame. Your key, reinvented.
kickstarter.com
Jul 8, 2017