In exchange for an unannounced percentage of ownership, a16z START offers early-stage founders up to $1 million in venture capital. The checks are powered by a16z’s seed fund.
In exchange for an unannounced percentage of ownership, a16z START offers early-stage founders up to $1 million in venture capital. The checks are powered by a16z’s seed fund.
Andrew Ng, former artificial intelligence chief of Baidu and founder of Google Brain, is launching a new online course for deep learning; the course will be available through the online education site he co-founded, Coursera, and will include content from his popular machine learning course at Stanford where he is currently a professor. Source
In speaking to CoinDesk, AngelList CEO Naval Ravikant said he is looking to fund a blockchain alternative to Twitter; he explained that the prize will be awarded to anyone who can build a Twitter alternative and where people can monetize the contributions; this is part of a program that will help developers who are looking to build applications on the Blockstack platform; Naval tells CoinDesk, "I am indeed helping the Blockstack team and will be donating a small prize for a decentralized microblogging service." Source
The Sandbox, a Hong Kong-based blockchain gaming platform owned by Animoca Brands, has raised more than $90 million in a funding round led by SoftBank Group.
The CEO also details Starling’s plan to ramp up its lending in 2022 and the bank’s boycott of Facebook advertising.
There had previously been reports that Starling Bank could IPO as soon as 2022, but with the current environment it...