BlackRock Seeds Ethereum-Backed Digital Liquidity Fund With $100 Million Having surpassed Microstrategy in the size of its holdings amid the furious success of spot bitcoin ETFs the world’s largest asset manager has taken “the next step forward” toward a single ledger, instantaneous settlement and ending illicit activities, in the view of CEO Larry Fink. BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has filed United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Form D for...
Paradigm leads a $55 million round for zero-knowledge proofs startup Succinct. The funding was for the platform’s Seed and Series A rounds. It attracted venture firms Robot Ventures and Bankless Ventures and angels Sreeram Kannan and Sandeep Nailwal from Eigenlayer and Polygon respectively. Succinct, a crypto startup that wants to make zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs accessible […]
SustLabs, an IIT Bombay incubated startup, said it is aiming for $100 million ARR in the next five years, with growth driven from global markets in Europe and Asia Pacific. The company’s AI stack makes energy meters smart which can sense and prevent potential electrical hazards. It was founded by Kaushik Bose and Soumya Bhattacharya in 2016 to create an electricity activity tracker that can offer insights into the power consumption of appliances.“Our aim is to empower residential electricity...
Carbon emission management platform Sprih has raised $3 million in a funding round led by early-stage venture capital firm Leo Capital. The company said that the funds will be used for expanding globally on the sales front, acquiring talent for developing artificial intelligence (AI) models focusing on climate issues and expanding the network of partners. “We are trying to bring all the climate data in one place and for that, we are going to keep investing in research and product development,”...
More than 100 experts from 10 countries in Western Europe and Scandinavia will mentor early-stage tech startups from Romania and Southeast Europe that apply to Startup Reaktor, a program that allows founders to access pre-seed investment and expand internationally. Startup Reaktor is an “internationalization first” program dedicated to early-stage and very early-stage tech startups from […]
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Wake Forest will match up against Georgia on Sunday for the second time
By JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Freshman Audi Crooks scored a career-high 40 points on 18-for-20 shooting in her sensational NCAA Tournament debut, and No. 7-seed Iowa State hit all the big shots in the second half to rally from 20 points down and beat 10th-seeded Maryland 93-86 on Friday night.
By JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Audi Crooks grabbed the Iowa State name plate and emphatically placed it on the big NCAA Tournament bracket board, into the space for the second round. She absolutely earned the chance to do so. “That was so fun, my teammates soaked me in water,” she
Freshman Audi Crooks scored a career-high 40 points on 18-for-20 shooting and grabbed 12 rebounds in her sensational NCAA Tournament debut, and No. 7-seed Iowa State hit all the big shots in the second half to rally from 20 points down and beat 10th-seeded Maryland 93-86 in the first round. The 20-point comeback marked the second-largest all-time in an NCAA Tournament game trailing only Texas A&M overcoming a 21-point deficit to beat Penn in 2017. Emily Ryan knocked down a key 3-pointer with...
Howdy, "Cowboy Carter." Almost two years after Beyoncé ushered fans into her glitzy disco "Renaissance," the countdown for her latest album is finally on. "Cowboy Carter," the second act of the pop diva's promised "Renaissance" trilogy, lands later this week — and with it, a bounty of material for the Beyhive. Beyoncé enters her "Cowboy Carter" era months after revealing the new album, and dropping two singles, during Super Bowl LVIII in February. Since then, the 32-time Grammy winner has shared...
After nobody won the Powerball jackpot in Monday night’s drawing, the total grand prize for the next drawing of the lottery on Wednesday is up to $687 million.