TechCrunch: MobileCoin, the startup known for building Signal’s crypto payments feature, has appointed a new CEO as it works on expanding its encrypted money transfer service to global users in need of a more modern remittance solution. Sara Drakeley is taking the helm as MobileCoin’s new chief executive officer.
Read MoreYahoo Finance: The Mina Foundation, the public benefit corporation serving the Mina Protocol, and developer partner SotaTek announce the integration of Mina Protocol with MetaMask Snaps, developed by Consensys. Mina Protocol will be one of the first non-EVM chains to be integrated within the MetaMask platform. Through MinaPortal, MetaMask users will be able to manage their MINA assets seamlessly. In 2022, MetaMask surpassed 100 million users.
Read MoreClubhouse Blog: Hey all. We’re evolving Clubhouse to be more like a messaging app with a big new update today, available now on iOS and Android. It’s designed to be more social than other messaging apps, and a bit more Clubhouse-y.
Read MoreBusiness Wire: Hinge Health, the industry leader for helping people move beyond pain, announced results from a new medical and pharmacy claims study illustrating how the company’s complete approach to care, combining digital exercise therapy (ET) with a clinical care team of physical therapists and health coaches, lowers the odds that individuals in pain will start - or continue - taking opioids.
Read MoreYahoo Finance: Lumina, a new enterprise-ready DEX and DeFi platform, will leverage the funds raised to enable fully private and compliant DeFi services on Mina Protocol, aiming to capture growing institutional interest in participating in DeFi.
Read MoreBusiness Green: New ice cream is made using milk from cows fed Mootral's natural feed supplement, which can reduce methane emissions over a third.
Read MoreMobiHealthNews: MedArrive, a care management platform merging telehealth and in-person care, announced it is adding virtual cardiology services to its in-home offerings via a partnership with health technology company Heartbeat Health.
Read MorePR Newswire: Drip Shop Live, the community-driven live streaming marketplace, is back with another collaboration, this time with Deep Pocket Monster, the YouTube sensation with over 664,000 subscribers.
Read MoreThe Block: The new offering enables entities from almost all over the world to send USDC to any U.S. bank account, Utopia said Thursday.
Read MorePR Newswire: Enigma Labs—the first crowdsourced network that allows the public to submit sightings of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) for analysis—will be participating in the EAA AirVenture show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, from July 24 to July 30.
Read MoreFeedNavigator: There has been growing awareness in the past two years about the need to cut methane emissions from all sources; COP26 in Glasgow helped spur on that greater level of responsiveness, when over 110 countries signed onto the Global Methane Pledge, says an executive.
Read MoreTechCrunch: Last week, we talked with Kindred Ventures, a small, nine-year-old, San Francisco-based early-stage venture firm that, despite investing in a lot of nascent startups — more than 100 to date — takes a generalist approach, investing in AI, climate tech, consumer internet companies, crypto deals, fintech startups, health startups, mobility startups and the outfits developing tools and infrastructure.
Read MoreGlobal Village Space: In recent years, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has been a hot topic in the tech industry. As AI continues to advance, it raises questions about the future of startups and whether we will see more or fewer companies emerge. To explore this topic, we spoke with Steve Jang and Kanyi Maqubela, the managing directors of Kindred Ventures, a San Francisco-based venture firm that invests in a wide range of startups, including those focused on AI and other frontier technologies.
Read MoreTechCrunch: Carbon removal — technology that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and stores it in geological, terrestrial or ocean reservoirs—or in durable products — saw a big splash of attention last year after Stripe, Shopify, Meta, Alphabet and more collectively agreed to pump $1 billion into funding removal startups. Today, a startup called Isometric hopes to give some structure to that nascent industry. The startup, with offices in London and New York, is launching today armed with $25 million, one of the largest seed rounds this year for a climate startup.
Read MoreFIERCE HEALTHCARE: The American Cancer Society (ACS) and Color Health, a platform for large-scale care delivery, are teaming up to provide access to convenient and accessible cancer screenings through employers and unions.
Read MoreNFTGATORS: Ledger has integrated its hard wallet security layer with Bitski Wallet.
Read MoreForbes: Jang started Kindred Ventures in 2014 as an angel investor and joined forces with Kanyi Maqubela to make it a full venture capital firm in 2018.
His $550 million-in-assets firm focuses on seed investments and has backed companies including Coinbase, Postmates, Tala, Tonal and Uber, and incubated three startups.
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