Jamie Goldstein Contributor Share on Twitter Jamie is the founding partner of Pillar VC, a Boston-based seed-stage venture capital firm. He has spent the last
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African startups join global funding boom as fintech shines
The Exchange is on a trip around the world, poking our heads into various startup markets to better understand how different geographies are faring during
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Smoking pizza ovens and pilfered dollar bills, or the early story of RapidSOS
The irony of 911 is that it’s a number that everyone knows (at least in the United States), and yet, no one really thinks about
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RapidSOS learned that the best product design is sometimes no product design
Sometimes, the best missions are the hardest to fund. For the founders of RapidSOS, improving the quality of emergency response by adding useful data, like
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1910 Genetics’ Jen Nwankwo and Playground Global’s Jory Bell are joining us for Extra Crunch Live
Our Extra Crunch Live series continues with some heavy hitters in August, including Jen Nwankwo, founder and CEO at 1910 Genetics, and Playground Global general
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Edtech’s venture-backed globalization pauses at China
U.S.-based edtech investors are increasingly going global, but recent regulatory crackdowns in China, which instructed local K-12 tutoring startups to go non-profit, have led to
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