Top news of the week: 08.09.2022.
Animoca Brands confirms $110 million funding deal with Temasek, Boyu and CGV
The raise comes in the form of a convertable note issuance.
Meet 10 money managers who quietly control the vast personal fortunes of Steve Cohen, Leon Black, the Waltons, and other big-name billionaires
Chief investment officers for über-rich families do everything from buy sports teams to pick hedge funds. They also like to stay under the radar.
The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse
Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences
Metaverse Magna raises $3.2M at a $30M valuation to build Africa’s largest gaming DAO
This February, Africa and emerging market-focused Nestcoin raised a pre-seed round to build, operate and invest in its web3 applications, including crypto content platform Breach Club and ...
Boston’s ClearMotion funded by Nio Capital to switch on in-car metaverse in China
U.S.-China decoupling is expected to discourage cross-border investments between the two superpowers as investors shy away from sanctions and geopolitical risks. But in some areas, Chinese ...
Daily Crunch: PSG, Battery Ventures invest $100M in open source password manager Bitwarden
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They built a Minecraft crypto empire. Then it all came crashing down
Kids in the Philippines were earning hundreds of dollars from a play-to-earn Minecraft game, until new rules sent the community into a tailspin.
Inside Wall Street's most innovative tech projects from top firms like Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and Millennium
Firms like Goldman Sachs, Millennium, and Vanguard are increasingly throwing money and talent at data tools and emerging tech like quantum computing.