Angel Investor – Let’s Do This scores over €56 million with support from Serena Williams and Usain Bolt – Issue #66

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UK-based sports platform Let’s Do This scores over €56 million with support from Serena Williams and Usain Bolt — www.eu-startups.com
Technology has an increasingly important role in sports. With tech, athletes can train better, smarter and harder. It means athletes – amateurs and pros

The race toward a new computing technology is heating up — and Asia is jumping on the trend — www.cnbc.com
Quantum computing will speed up the computational power that drives many industries and could impact everything from drug discovery to how data is secured.

Marquee Equity Uses AI To Connect Startups With Investors — techstory.in
Marquee Equity – a bootstrapped Saas platform, that is disrupting the way companies raise funds, globally. Founded in 2016 by their current CEO, Ash Narain, and CTO, Raj Kabir, the Delhi-based fundraising platform aims to make it easier for early-stage companies to connect with quality investors and raise capital.

Deal of the week; Talus Bioscience

Inspired by scientist CEOs, Seattle startup lands $9.75M to build up drug discovery platform — www.geekwire.com

Talus’ platform enables the discovery of compounds that affect transcription factors, key proteins that interact with DNA and turn genes on and off. Many transcription factors are implicated in cancer, which results from aberrant gene activity, and other diseases.

Pi Labs: VC firm’s proptech startup cohort raises £15m — www.uktech.news
Nine early-stage proptech startups are on course to secure £15m) in funding after completing Pi Labs’ accelerator programme.

8 Entrepreneurship Rules For Great Companies According to LinkedIn’s Founder — ceoworld.biz
Reid Hoffman has certainly a thing or two to say about tech entrepreneurship and successful investment: Co-Founder of LinkedIn, partner at Greylock Partners, founding member of PayPal, and angel investor in Facebook, Zynga, Flickr, and Last.FM.

Microlending Definition — www.investopedia.com
Microlending is the practice of granting small loans to people or businesses that might otherwise not qualify for such loans.

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