Friday, December 27, 2019

The year of the French unicorns

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In September 2019, President Emmanuel Macron was about to wrap up a speech on late-stage investment in France. According to a press briefin...
Thursday, December 26, 2019

Latin America Roundup: XP’s chart-topping IPO, Wildlife becomes a unicorn, SoftBank backs Konfio

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Sophia Wood Contributor Share on Twitter Sophia Wood is a principal at Magma Partners, a Latin America-focused seed-stage VC firm ...

The four corners of the new space economy

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It’s gotten to the point now where a handful of angel investors can put a space company on the map. But the same changes that have made the ...

Remembering the startups we lost in 2019

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All manner of startups fail for all manner of reasons. But there’s one constant: this is an incredibly difficult business. Launching a succe...

As 2019 closes, a look back at what happened to the altcoin boom

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Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Today we’re peeking ...
Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Pyka and its autonomous, electric crop-spraying drone land $11M seed round

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Modern agriculture involves fields of mind-boggling size, and spraying them efficiently is a serious operational challenge. Pyka is taking ...

Public investors loved SaaS stocks in 2019, and startups should be thankful

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Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Today, something sho...