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  • Invia Robotics Announces $20M Series B

    Invia Robotics Announces $20M Series B

    Exciting days for Invia Robotics.
    Go to the profile of Greg Bettinelli
    Greg Bettinelli
    Aug 1
    Hiring New Associates at Upfront

    Hiring New Associates at Upfront

    We are excited to announce that we are hiring two Associates at Upfront Ventures to join our team in Santa Monica, CA. If you are…
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    Chang
    Jul 16
    Meet Parachute, the Modern Home Textiles Company That’s Turned Home Products into Identity…

    Meet Parachute, the Modern Home Textiles Company That’s Turned Home Products into Identity…

    Parachute, a modern home essentials company based in Los Angeles, just raised a $30 million series C round led by HIG Capital, a global…
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    Kara Nortman
    Jun 27
    Enough Lip Service, the Mortgage Industry is Overdue for Real Change

    Enough Lip Service, the Mortgage Industry is Overdue for Real Change

    Here’s an idea for a good time: send all your personal financial data to a stranger, in triplicate, manually via email or fax; and then…
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    Michael Carney
    May 18
    The Changing of the Live Ticketing Experience

    The Changing of the Live Ticketing Experience

    It is no secret that Venture Capitalists like myself love startups operating in categories ripe for disruption — but what does that really…
    Go to the profile of Greg Bettinelli
    Greg Bettinelli
    May 4
    The Future of Manufacturing and Hardware is Happening Today — in Shenzhen

    The Future of Manufacturing and Hardware is Happening Today — in Shenzhen

    If you are in hardware, all roads lead to Shenzhen.
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    Chang
    May 1
    What Can You Learn From Ring’s Astounding Success?

    What Can You Learn From Ring’s Astounding Success?

    Many people will write the history on why Ring became an enormously successful company and why it became a real-world unicorn in a world…
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    Upfront Ventures
    Apr 27
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    200 VCs share what they really think about blockchain

    200 VCs share what they really think about blockchain

    As has become an annual tradition, we surveyed a few hundred of the best VCs in the game in January to get a pulse on the most topical…
    Go to the profile of Michael Carney
    Michael Carney
    Mar 5
    Everything You’ve Wanted to Know About eSports But Were Afraid to Ask

    Everything You’ve Wanted to Know About eSports But Were Afraid to Ask

    Consider a category with 200M daily users globally and more than two hours average daily engagement. It’s safe to say that most investors…
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    Upfront Ventures
    Mar 24, 2017
    Giving time back to our doctors and nurses to deliver patient care

    Giving time back to our doctors and nurses to deliver patient care

    We are a nation with the highest per capita healthcare spend in the world, 2 times that of comparable wealthy nations.
    Go to the profile of Kevin Zhang
    Kevin Zhang
    Mar 27
    What Makes For a Magical Connected Device Experience?

    What Makes For a Magical Connected Device Experience?

    Go to the profile of Yves Sisteron
    Yves Sisteron
    Dec 4, 2015
    The Saastr Podcast with Mark Suster

    The Saastr Podcast with Mark Suster

    This week, Mark Suster joined Harry Stebbings on The Official Saastr Podcast to discuss all things SaaS.
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    Kerry Bennett
    May 25, 2017
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