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Silbert’s Bitcoin Opportunity Fund Drops $250K On India-Based Unocoin
By Kim-Mai Cutler Despite some early moves that raised questions about Bitcoin’s legality in the country, the Indian market and its sheer size is still enticing to investors. Barry Silbert, a longtime Bitcoin enthusiast and founder of SecondMarket, just invested $250,000 in Unocoin. The company, which handles trading, merchant processing and storage for the currency,…
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Now Launching Out Of Y Combinator, Theorem Aims To Be The Priceline For Fashion
By Colleen Taylor At first, what Theorem does sounds like what a lot of other companies do: It’s an online marketplace for well-made, higher-end clothing and accessories. But Theorem comes with a very interesting twist: The price of each item is up for negotiation. Buying something on Theorem hearkens to the kind of back-and-forth haggling…
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Four Of The Best Investors In The Game Will Talk Trends At Disrupt SF
By Jordan Crook We’ve had a lot of exciting guests cross our Disrupt stage — there was the time we had the HBO crew from Silicon Valley do an interview, and Ashton Kutcher is becoming a regular fixture, not to mention repeat appearances from Mark Zuckerberg and Marissa Mayer and Marc Benioff. But perhaps more…
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YC-Backed Rigetti Computing Raises $2.5M To Create Commercial Quantum Systems
By Kyle Russell Once confined to research labs and science fiction, quantum computing is finally reaching a point where researchers aren’t simply trying to find out what’s possible, but looking at how they can actually work the technology into commercial hardware. YC-backed Rigetti Computing wants to be one of the companies that leads the effort…
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Glowing Plant Is One of Y Combinator’s Very First Biotech Startups
By Kim-Mai Cutler Long known for backing software plays, Y Combinator is starting to dip its toes into biotech. In its latest batch is a new synthetic biology startup called Glowing Plant that blew away Kickstarter funding goals last year with plans to engineer — you guessed it — a glow-in-the-dark plant. Glowing Plant’s aims…