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PortalOne raises $60M as it levels up to launch its hybrid, immersive gaming platform later this year

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Gaming has been one of the most popular entertainment categories in the last two years of pandemic living. Now, a gaming startup that’s building a new kind of platform that it thinks will be a — wait for it — game changer in the category is announcing some funding as to ride that wave of attention.

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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

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In this post I set out to explain why the seed market emerged as its own category in the first place and why it’s declined as of late. ( The reality is that as a result of two major trends the costs of starting a technology startup went down massively. The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5

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Sneaker culture staple GOAT hits $1.75 billion valuation on new $100 million round

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It’s a big number, and a big day, for the Los Angeles-based startup. Since it launched in 2015 it has expanded into adjacent categories and become one of the biggest retailers of the current e-commerce craze. billion thanks to $100 million in new financing. ” Money, it’s gotta be the shoes.

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Ubuntu Edge, Startups, Crowdfunding, and More | Chat with Kate Drane Hardware Category Lead of IndieGoGo

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Many new startups and small businesses are shooting to crowdfund their campaign. Kate Drane, hardware category lead at IndieGoGo joins us and talks about IndieGoGo and crowdfunding. Would you see startups and small businesses lean towards more into crowdfunding? Or see if your idea is the next greatest trend people want.

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Headspace appoints former Intuit exec CeCe Morken as president and COO

TechCrunch LA

Headspace is already a giant in the mental wellness category. The company has research underway in over ten clinical trials to move from mental wellness into the digital health category, under its Headspace Health subsidiary, which launched in 2018.

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Sir Richard Branson To Ride Through Hurricane Irma On Necker Island

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Sir Richard Branson , the technology mogul behind Southern California's Virgin Galactic , and investor in Los Angeles-based Ring , among other companies, shared his plans to ride through the Hurricane Irma, the approaching Category 5 monster storm, on his private island, Necker Island. Image: Bransons's residence at Necker Island.

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Disrupting Space: A new event from TechCrunch

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In 2018 alone, venture investments in space topped $2 billion for the first time, and 187 investors wrote checks to 90 startups, according to Bryce Space and Technology. In that spirit, TechCrunch is pleased to announce our first TC Sessions: Space , a single-day show dedicated to this fast-emerging startup category.

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