Angel Investor

By Berg Moe

Angel Investor - Let’s Do This scores over €56 million with support from Serena Williams and Usain Bolt - Issue #66

#66・ Jun 7, 2022

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Here are some news articles and tweets I have been reading the last week. I hope you find some relevant stories! If not, send me your links and ideas and learn more about our community here.

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UK-based sports platform Let’s Do This scores over €56 million with support from Serena Williams and Usain Bolt

Technology has an increasingly important role in sports. With tech, athletes can train better, smarter and harder. It means athletes - amateurs and pros

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The race toward a new computing technology is heating up — and Asia is jumping on the trend

Quantum computing will speed up the computational power that drives many industries and could impact everything from drug discovery to how data is secured.

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Marquee Equity Uses AI To Connect Startups With Investors

Marquee Equity – a bootstrapped Saas platform, that is disrupting the way companies raise funds, globally. Founded in 2016 by their current CEO, Ash Narain, and CTO, Raj Kabir, the Delhi-based fundraising platform aims to make it easier for early-stage companies to connect with quality investors and raise capital.

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Deal of the week; Talus Bioscience

Inspired by scientist CEOs, Seattle startup lands $9.75M to build up drug discovery platform

Talus’ platform enables the discovery of compounds that affect transcription factors, key proteins that interact with DNA and turn genes on and off. Many transcription factors are implicated in cancer, which results from aberrant gene activity, and other diseases.

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Pi Labs: VC firm's proptech startup cohort raises £15m

Nine early-stage proptech startups are on course to secure £15m) in funding after completing Pi Labs’ accelerator programme.

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8 Entrepreneurship Rules For Great Companies According to LinkedIn’s Founder

Reid Hoffman has certainly a thing or two to say about tech entrepreneurship and successful investment: Co-Founder of LinkedIn, partner at Greylock Partners, founding member of PayPal, and angel investor in Facebook, Zynga, Flickr, and Last.FM.

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Microlending Definition

Microlending is the practice of granting small loans to people or businesses that might otherwise not qualify for such loans.

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This week's tweets

Troy Henikoff

@TroyHenikoff

So EXCITED for the latest class of @Techstars_Chi an announced here -> https://t.co/H4X8gUdQlZ Our first accelerator was run back in 2010, what a journey it has been - @Techstars for life!

11:14 AM - 6 Jun 2022

Janine Sickmeyer

@myfriendjanine

From bootstrapped founder to exited angel investor to institutionally-backed VC, I've been on all sides of the startup journey 🎢

AMA

2:53 AM - 1 Jun 2022

Angel Investors

@Angel__Investor

Rethinking Innovation With A Simple 5-Step Framework [Podcast] https://t.co/b5IHI27dpM #Angelinvestor #Marketing #Financing #GrowthHacking #SEO #Investor #BusinessAngel #Investment #VentureCapital #OnlineBusiness https://t.co/b0K6uz7BPv

11:06 PM - 31 May 2022

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Techstars Startup Digest Angel Investor is curated by:

Berg Moe - Humble servant at Gründerklubben - The Norwegian Entrepreneurs Club (33 000+ members), Bangkok Entrepreneurs and Techstars Startup Digest, Angel Investor, TEDx speaker.
berg.moe@startupdigestmail.com

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