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Author Talks: Steve Case identifies the US cities driving new innovation—and it’s not where you think

Mckinsey and Company

For the past decade, most venture capital funding in the United States went to three cities, but Steve Case says a convergence of social, technological, and policy factors is rebalancing the scale.

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Decentralized Finance, Crypto Funds, and Value Creation in Tokenized Firms

Reynolds Holding

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) employs blockchain technology and smart contracts with the goal of enabling perfectly disintermediated financial markets. The effect is much stronger if the backing CF’s investment strategy resembles that of a venture capital fund, rather than a hedge fund.

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6 Good Reasons Startups Don't Pursue Venture Funding

Lighter Capital

We’ve all read the headlines: SaaS Startup Raises $100M in Venture Capital to Disrupt Market with Its Innovative Solution It seems so common, but is it really? Venture capital funding is to tech startups what the Wizard of Oz was to Dorothy. Founders often wonder: Is venture capital worth it?

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The Beneficient Company Group, a Leading Technology-Enabled Provider of Liquidity and Related Services to Investors in Alternative Assets, to Go Public via Combination with Avalon Acquisition Inc.

Benzinga

Ben" or "the Company"), a technology-enabled platform providing liquidity, data, custody and trust services to holders of alternative assets, that will result in the Company becoming publicly listed. Strong History of Liquidity Execution: Beneficient has already financed transactions that delivered liquidity on approximately $1.1

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Fintech and the False Promise of Techno-Solutionism

Reynolds Holding

In particular, they need to ask whether it’s even possible for technological innovations to address the deep-seated and complex problems that fintech’s proponents say they can solve. Techno-solutionism can also deter policymakers from interrogating the limitations, and regulating the harms, of the proffered technological solutions.

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SEC Chair Gensler Testifies Before U.S. House Financial Services Subcommittee

Reynolds Holding

Private capital markets, such as venture capital, have brought new ideas to market quickly and flexibly. We can’t take our leadership in capital markets for granted, though. New financial technologies and business models continue to change the face of finance for investors and issuers.

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Is It the End of Entire Fairness as We Know It?

Reynolds Holding

Palantir Technologies, Inc. Here we previews the parties’ arguments on appeal, as well as the arguments of three separate amicus curiae in support of plaintiffs: a group of current law professors ; a former professor, who is also a current and former public company director (Charles Elson); and a venture capital fund.