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After bootstrapping since 2002, Articulate raises $1.5B on $3.75B valuation

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Most companies don’t announce their first venture investment after almost 20 years in the business, nor do they announce that round is the equivalent of a good startup’s entire private fundraising history. CEO Adam Schwartz founded the company with his life savings in 2002 and hasn’t taken a dime of outside investment since.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

One of my goals in doing the show was not only to educate entrepreneurs but also to put a human face on many of the VCs in our industry as VCs can be hard to get to know. Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00 Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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The Past (1985-2002). But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. The Present Era.

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Tim Brady is leaving YC

Y Combinator

grew when I succeeded him as CPO in 2002, as he left in search of new adventures. We stayed in contact over the years and when I began thinking of starting something in the educational technology space in 2010, it was natural for us to begin batting ideas around. My connection to Tim and what he meant to Yahoo! And what adventures!

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Domestika raises $110M on a $1.3B valuation to expand its learning community for creative types

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The creative community has been a ripe target for startups building tools and services to serve their interests and needs as they transition from their traditionally offline practices into a digital present and future. Another is the startup’s focus on e-learning. billion valuation. (Its Image Credits: Domestika.

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DotCom Therapy raises $13M to provide therapy for kids, in and out of school

TechCrunch

It’s far from the only teletherapy company looking to capitalize on a boom in venture capital investment in mental health startups , but it’s operating in a hyper-specific sphere: therapy for kids. . Should startups build or buy telehealth infrastructure? Those range from unicorns like TalkSpace to other startups. .

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Fireside Project manifests a $200K fund to improve access to careers in psychedelic health

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The FDA approved ketamine as a treatment for medicine-resistant depression back in 2019, and startups like Mindbloom have popped up to fill that gap in the market. I started having my own psychedelic experiences many years ago, the first one was in 2002 I think. MDMA (ecstasy) is hella illegal, (it’s a Schedule 1 drug in the U.S.,

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