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- Techcrunch’s Mary Ann Azevedo
- Self Financial Raises $50 Million in Funding — Link
- Silicon Hills News’ Laura Lorek - Self Financial closes $50M funding round as it continues hiring frenzy — Link
- Austin Business Journal’s Mike Cronin - Austin’s Self Financial lands $50 million for expansion — Link
- Austin American-Statesman’s Lori Hawkins
“Self Financial, a fintech company that aims to help consumers build credit and savings at the same time, announced today it has raised $50 million in Series E funding.
Altos Ventures led the financing, which also included participation from Meritech Capital and Conductive Ventures and brings the Austin-based startup’s total raised to $127 million since its 2015 inception.
The company, as many fintechs these days, aims to make building credit and savings more accessible, regardless of a person’s financial history. It requires no hard credit check to get started.” — Techcrunch’s Mary Ann Azevedo
“Santé Ventures (‘Santé’), an early-stage healthcare and life sciences investment firm, announced today the final close of its oversubscribed Fund IV. Consistent with Santé’s industry focus, expertise, and previous success, the new fund will make strategic investments across early-stage Biotech, Healthtech, and Medtech companies.
Fund IV secured capital commitments from more than two-dozen limited partners, including the Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System (“PSERS”) and new institutional investors in Asia and Latin America. Returning limited partners in previous Santé funds accounted for nearly 90% of the total capital.”
- Texas Monthly’s Tom Foster
- Lawyer Aids Genome Project to Revive Mammoth, Extinct Creatures — Link
- Bloomberg Law [Congrats to my Egan Nelson colleagues mentioned in this article, Aaron Barker & Kevin Chou] - Colossal Wants To “De-Extinct” The Woolly Mammoth — Link
- Fast Company - Dallas company makes colossal move to resurrect extinct woolly mammoth — Link
- Culture Map Dallas - Colossal Launches with $15 Million in Funding to Genetically Engineer Woolly Mammoths to Restore the Arctic Wilderness — Link
- Silicon Hills News’ Laura Lorek - Dallas’ Ben Lamm and Harvard’s Dr. George Church Plan to “De-Extinct” the Woolly Mammoth With Their Colossal New Startup — Link
- Dallas Innovates - Could Austin entrepreneur’s company bring back woolly mammoth? — Link
- Austin American-Statesman’s Kara Carlson
“Ben Lamm has always come off as the type of tech super-entrepreneur whose creations might either save humanity from itself or destroy us all. Or at least that’s how he’s styled himself. His corporate headshots tend to show him, wavy hair flowing past his shoulders, with dramatic lighting and, say, a spaceship in the background. His companies’ websites have the feeling of sci-fi movie posters, and his enthusiastic monologues tend to hurtle from trillion-dollar ambitions to UFO research to carbon-eating robots.
So it was with equal parts curiosity and a cocked eyebrow that I recently met up with Lamm at the Soho House roof deck overlooking Austin’s South Congress Avenue to hear about his latest project. He’d handed over the CEO reins at Hypergiant — the company he launched in 2018 to create artificial-intelligence systems for space satellites, undersea robots, and other advanced machinery — and this time he was onto something really big, I’d been told.” — Texas Monthly’s Tom Foster
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- How Four Hands bucked the Great Resignation as it paces for 50% revenue growth in 2021 — Link
- Cushman & Wakefield names new managing principal for Austin, San Antonio — Link
- Investing $50 million in startups to drive the future of transportation and logistics — Link
- As Samsung inches closer toward Taylor plant, all eyes turn to housing market — Link
- Bring back the mammoth: Ben Lamm’s new startup focuses on de-extinction — Link
- In the money Sept. 13: $77M raised, including by a company making private 5G networks — Link
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- Austin Business Journal & Austin Inno’s Brent Wistrom - Walmart partners with Ford, Argo AI on self-driving delivery service — Link
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