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Sofar Ocean’s Series B
Hanel Baveja – Nov 2, 2021
Co-authored by Rebecca Kaden There are over 4,000 satellites in orbit around the Earth today. Enabled by advances in IoT and distributed sensing in the last few decades, these satellites help us do everything from GPS navigation to weather forecasting. [...] Read more
Fiveable’s Series A
Hannah Murdoch – Sep 27, 2021
Co-authored by Rebecca Kaden Inequities in our education system are well-documented. High-quality instructors, college prep classes, and affordable test prep materials are unevenly distributed. However, learners in today’s classrooms don’t have time to wait for systemic change. Educational equity [...] Read more
REVOS
Albert Wenger – Sep 1, 2021
Increased mobility is one of the great accomplishments of the industrial age. We can get to places much faster whether it is for work, to visit friends and family, for sightseeing, or to participate in an event. Those gains, however, [...] Read more
Mindset
Hanel Baveja – Aug 25, 2021
The original paparazzi is thought to be Tazio Secchiaroli, famous for his 1958 photograph of King Farouk of Egypt sitting in a cafe in Rome with two women, neither of them his wife. The former King tried to break Secchiaroli’s [...] Read more
Bright Moments DAO
Fred Wilson – Aug 25, 2021
Yesterday, USV sent 500 ETH to the Bright Moments DAO and we got back one million Bright Moments DAO (BRT) tokens into our wallet. This is the third time USV has invested in a DAO and we will blog about [...] Read more
Measurement in Market Making
Hanel Baveja – Aug 16, 2021
In order to provide high-powered incentives in any economic market, you need an accurate and ongoing measurement of quality. For example, it’s difficult to imagine a financial system in which capital market participants cannot review audited financial statements before making [...] Read more