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Google partners with Sony Pictures Imageworks to launch an open source VFX render manager

TechCrunch LA

OpenCue doesn’t handle any of the actual rendering processes but it provides all the tools to break down those different steps and then schedule and manage the different rendering jobs across large rendering farms, both local and in the cloud.

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Microsoft Venture Fund Aims to Harness Early Stage Innovation

Xconomy

The name of the fund—which will back startups focused on cloud computing, machine learning, and security, with an emphasis on technology that complements Microsoft’s own products and services—is Microsoft Ventures. Microsoft Ventures now fills a gap we’ve had somewhere in the middle of that range.”.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began. Of course strongest industry players don’t stand still. It doesn’t take a huge leap to see how well the VC industry is positioned for the immediate future.

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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

Both Sides of the Table

It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon. If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. But not many others.

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Girls in STEM and Cyber Security Among Top Startups at Eureka Park 2018

Tech.Co

In a report by the National Student Clearinghouse only 18 percent of women graduated with a science degree in 2014. Their Siggy Robot is a self-balancing robot that rolls on a pink segway and can be coded to dance, go through obstacle courses, and engineered for entertainment.