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Reflections on 2018: Clinton Foy, CrossCut Ventures

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Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. What was the biggest news for your company in 2018? You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here.

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Glossier just laid off one-third of its corporate employees, mostly in tech

TechCrunch LA

Glossier, the popular beauty brand led by former blogger Emily Weiss, let go of 80 of its corporate employees today, according to an internal email obtained by Modern Retail. The cuts, which amount to around one-third of Glossier’s corporate workforce, will primarily impact the company’s technology team. “[W]e

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A Deep Dive into What Has Really Changed in Venture Capital

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Yes, VC / Startup Funding is up Massively If you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999. Taken together these “mega rounds” represent nearly half of the funding in 2018. More on that later.

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9 Innovative Startups To Watch For in 2024

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As investors continue pouring funding into artificial intelligence and consumer habits shift, many AI and subscription model startups have been enjoying rapid growth. Source: runwayml.com In June, Runway raised $141 million in funding, nudging its market valuation to an envy-inducing $1.5 You can unsubscribe at any time.

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Mobile messaging financial advisory service, Stackin, adds banking features and raises cash

TechCrunch LA

This funding allows us to build out new features around banking and investing that will enhance the relationship with our customers.”. According to Grimes, the company made the switch from video to text in March 2018 and built a custom messaging platform on Twilio to service the company’s 500,000 users.

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Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology

TechCrunch LA

Then, in 2018, programming language Python ditched the racist terminology. Bezos Academy, funded by Jeff Bezos’ $2B ‘Day One Fund,’ launches first free school in Seattle area – GeekWire. Send me an email at megan@techcrunch.com .

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How the myth of the ‘girlboss’ harms emerging women in tech

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Glossier affirmed our inherent beauty, then reminded us that we can be even more beautiful if we buy their “Boy Brow” pomade, which sold one tube every 32 seconds by 2018. Glossier founder Emily Weiss speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2018 Image Credits: TechCrunch. allocate 98% of their funding to startups helmed by men.

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