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At Basis Set Ventures, merging venture capital and software development yields a $165 million new fund (TechCrunch)

Jonathan Shieber When Xuezhao Lan first formed Basis Set Ventures, the goal was to leverage technology to give venture capital investing super powers. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/22/at-basis-set-ventures-merging-venture-capital-and-software-development-yields-a-165-million-new-fund/

Audi spinoff holoride collects $12m in Series A led by Terranet AB (TechCrunch)

Rebecca Bellan Holoride, the company that’s building an immersive XR in-vehicle media platform, today announced it raised €10 million (approximately $12 million) in its Series...

Applied XL raises $1.5M to build ‘editorial algorithms’ that track real-time data (TechCrunch)

Anthony Ha AppliedXL, a startup creating machine learning tools with what it describes as a journalistic lens, is announcing that it has raised $1.5 million...

Colgate-Palmolive, Coca-Cola and Unilever join AB Inbev’s sustainable supply chain accelerator (TechCrunch)

Jonathan Shieber A clutch of the world’s largest consumer products and food companies are joining Budweiser’s parent company Anheuser-Busch InBev in backing an investment program to support...

Window Snyder’s new startup Thistle Technologies raises $2.5M seed to secure IoT devices (TechCrunch)

Zack Whittaker The Internet of Things has a security problem. The past decade has seen wave after wave of new internet-connected devices, from sensors through...

As ExxonMobil asks for handouts, startups get to work on carbon capture and sequestration (TechCrunch)

Jonathan Shieber Earlier this week, ExxonMobil, a company among the largest producers of greenhouse gas emissions and a longtime leader in the corporate fight against climate...

Russia – Russia’s Bear Economy (Project-Syndicate)

ANDERS ÅSLUND Russians today are chagrined to learn that they are worse off than Romanians and Turks. Although President Vladimir Putin would like them to...

Powering Sustainable Food Systems (Project-Syndicate)

AGNES KALIBATA, KRISTINA SKIERKA As world leaders mark Earth Day at a climate summit hosted by US President Joe Biden, they must remember what the largest...

USA – G.I. Joe Trotsky (Project-Syndicate)

NINA L. KHRUSHCHEVA As far as anyone can tell, the US military is not on the verge of an internal breakdown, let alone primed to...

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