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2021-11-21 14:00:03 Sol Santas Christmas Escape — generative NFT art project.

We will mint 5,555 unique Christmas NFTs.

Our prize fund is more than 1500 $ and you get the opportunity to win our NFTs. 

Join our Discord and Twitter so you don’t miss our mint and have a chance to attend the White List to take some gifts:

Discord: https://discord.gg/urykKdf57t
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sol_Santas_NFT

DROP DATE: November 28th 8PM UTC
Price: 1 SOL 
Where: https://sol-santa.io/ Open / Comment

2021-11-19 21:00:04 Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led a $75 million funding round in the startup Overwolf.

Overwolf is a platform that enables creators to build, share and monetize items inside games. Open / Comment

2021-11-19 15:00:06 The Brazilian marketplace Facily has raised $250 million at a $850 million valuation.

Among the lead investors is Germany's Delivery Hero.
TechCrunch also notes that Citius has become a "co-anchor" investor. This little-known fund has already made 21 investments (in Facily twice). It also invested in Buyk, the US-based fast grocery delivery service launched by the founders of Samokat. Open / Comment

2021-11-19 14:00:01 Get FREE Token NOW! Open / Comment

2021-11-18 21:00:07 Samsung Safety Truck

A huge screen mounted to the back of a truck, transmitting a picture of the road ahead, enables to overtake the truck with ease. Open / Comment

2021-11-18 18:19:21 Conductor, a marketing technology company has picked up $150 million.

In fact, the company is quite "ancient" - it was founded in 2005. In 2018, it was acquired by WeWork. But in 2019, Conductor bought itself out from WeWork - that year the co-working chain had just started having problems.

And now Conductor is independent again. In the last funding round it was valued at $500 million. Open / Comment

2021-11-17 21:00:07 Narrative BI, a data analytics service founded by Belarusian entrepreneur Mikhail Rumyantsev, has raised $1.2 million.

Among the investors were Joint Journey, Adventures Lab, and others. The startup is quite young, created at the end of 2020. Yet Rumyantsev had had an experience in this business before. He launched the FriendlyData analytics platform and sold it to American ServiceNow in 2018. Open / Comment

2021-11-17 17:00:05 Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam and former Sequoia Capital partner Matt Huang, have found a new crypto VC firm, Paradigm.

The most exciting thing about the news is the venture fund size: $2.5 billion. Not bad!

To compare, Andreessen Horowitz announced the $2.2 billion crypto-centric fund this summer. Some of Paradigm’s most high-profile investments since 2018 include FTX, Coinbase, BlockFi, Maker, Uniswap and Sky Mavis. Open / Comment

2021-11-16 21:00:05 Huawei will develop staff by adding a digital employee

One of the advantages is that it will possibly appear in different parts of the world, as long as this technology doesn't completely replace humans.

The CEO of Huawei Cloud, Zhang Pingan, at the Huawei CONNECT conference 2021, introduced the first virtual human employee named YunSheng. The kind of job performed by YunSheng was not declared, though. However, she is already messaging in work chats.

YunSheng is an energetic 23-year-old female with short red hair, wearing glasses, a hoodie and blue jeans. She can think, talk, conduct presentations and do live broadcasts. She moves in real time when standing on stage. She can do all these things due to artificial intelligence algorithms.

Huawei developed YunSheng using automatic AI modeling, AI voice tech and AI-accelerated rendering. These three technologies helped Huawei create the ideal virtual human. Open / Comment

2021-11-16 17:00:03 Amazon's stake in Rivian is now valued at $20.6 billion

Amazon seems to like Rivian so much that it decided not to sell the stock at IPO, but instead purchased about $200 million worth of Rivian shares.

It purchased at the offering price of $78 per share, and now the company’s closing price is almost $130. So they've already made $133 million in a few days . Open / Comment