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  • VC funding in U.S. startups nears $100 billion in 2018, highest since dot-com era

    GEEKWIRE

    U.S. startups are raising investment dollars at levels unseen since the dot-com era. Venture capital funding in U.S. companies reached $99.5 billion in 2018, the highest since 2000, according to the Q4 MoneyTree report from PwC and CB Insights. Driving the big investment numbers are companies such as Epic Games ($1.25 billion in October); Katerra ($865 million round); Instacart ($600 million); DoorDash ($535 million); Zoox ($500 million); and Magic Leap ($461 million). There were a record …

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  • Pandora Radio cofounder’s Grabango raises $12 million for cashierless store tech

    VENTUREBEAT

    Cashierless stores are fast becoming a reality, thanks to Amazon’s aggressive expansion of its Amazon Go chain and an emergent class of startups looking to nab a slice of the nascent sector. It’s a win-win for retailers: With a checkout-free arrangement, customers don’t have to contend with lines or self-checkout machines, and stores save substantial overhead in payroll — theoretically, at least.

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  • Autonomous trucking startup TuSimple is taking 3 to 5 commercial trips a day

    TECHCRUNCH

    A little more than a year ago, autonomous trucking startup TuSimple —flush with a fresh round of venture capital — was preparing to scale up its testing to two full truck fleets in China and the U.S. TuSimple, a China-based company with an R&D facility in San Diego and test operations in Tucson, has put that money to use.

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  • iBuyer firm focused on multifamily properties launches in Malibu

    THE REAL DEAL

    A new company has entered the increasingly crowded iBuyer market promising quick and easy sales without charging sellers premiums. Go iBuyer is a privately funded startup that launched this week out of Malibu, California, according to Inman. It was founded by Keller Williams agents David Bramante and Kayla Horwat — the same team behind My Home Agent, a lead generation company that works with voice technology including Amazon’s Alexa.

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  • It’s Official: Open-Plan Offices Are Now the Dumbest Management Fad of All Time

    INC

    A new study from Harvard reveals that open-plan offices decrease rather than increase face-to-face collaboration.

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  • 5 Possible Scenarios For The Future Of Coworking

    BISNOW

    The coworking industry is gobbling up the office market like the Cookie Monster on an Ambien-fueled eating binge. As coworking activity continues to increase in the U.S., including doubling inventory in the past couple of years in major markets, industry experts and asset owners are beginning to study what the future holds for this fast-growing segment.

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  • Amazon’s cashierless Go stores could be a $4 billion business by 2021, new research suggests

    RECODE

    Amazon Go is not only trying to out-convenience convenience stores, it could out-earn them, too. And that could mean a new, giant multi-billion dollar business for Amazon within just a few years. Amazon’s new cashless, cashierless stores — which allow customers to just grab items off shelves and automatically get charged upon exiting, thanks to a bevy of sensors and cameras — bring in about 50 percent more revenue on average than typical convenience stores, according to new estimates from RBC…

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  • Where Do Deals Come From, 2018

    CORIGIN VENTURES

    This is always one of my favorite posts to write. It’s not only a great way to help founders navigate the best ways to get in front of their target investors, but internally the data shines light on the value of deal source channels and our time allocations.

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  • Marc Andreessen: audio will be “titanically important” and VR will be “1,000” times bigger than AR

    TECHCRUNCH

    In a new a16z podcast with the venture firm’s founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, there’s a lot to enjoy, from Andreessen’s TV show recommendations to Horowitz’s secret to excellent barbecue. (It’s pretty much just “time,” as you might imagine.) More useful for our founder readers may be Andreessen’s predictions around tech and, because he’s asked about them specifically, his predictions when it comes to wearables, including that virtual reality will be “one thousand” times bigger than a…

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  • How Smart Cities Will Vacuum Up Data — And Attempt To Protect It

    CB INSIGHTS

    We dive into initiatives for collecting and sharing accessible city data, as well as how organizations around the world are handling growing privacy concerns. Cities are undergoing a digital transformation. As technologies emerge to make these urban spaces more connected, a lot of data is being generated. But the data collected is most useful if all of its sources — from traffic lights to parking meters — work together. …

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