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Olsam raises $165M to buy up and scale consumer and B2B Amazon Marketplace sellers

On the heels of Heroes announcing a $200 million raise earlier today, to double down on buying and scaling third-party Amazon Marketplace sellers, another startup out of London aiming to do the same is announcing some significant funding of its own. Olsam, a roll-up play that is buying up both consumer and B2B merchants selling…
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31 August 2021 0

Space manufacturing startup Varda inks deal with Rocket Lab for three spacecraft

Orbital manufacturing startup Varda Space Industries is moving fast. Only a few weeks after announcing a $42 million Series A, Varda has signed a deal with launch company Rocket Lab for three Photon spacecraft to support the startup’s initial missions. The first spacecraft will be delivered in the first quarter of 2023, with the second…
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11 August 2021 0

Internal rates of return in emerging US tech hubs are starting to overtake Silicon Valley

AngelList analyzed IRR for almost 2,500 deals dating back to 2013 Abe Othman 7 hours Abe Othman Contributor Abe Othman is the head of data science at AngelList Venture, where he leads a small team creating the new field of quantitative venture capital. He has founded two machine-learning companies with successful exits and invested in…
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27 April 2021 0

Hadrian is building the factories of the future for rocket ships and advanced manufacturing

If the eight person team behind the new startup Hadrian has their way, they’ll have transformed the manufacturing industry within the next decade. At least, that’s the goal for the new San Francisco-based startup, founded only last year, which has set its sights on building out a new model for advanced manufacturing to enable the…
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15 April 2021 0