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☆ Ansel, a health insurance startup that wants to upend the claims industry, just raised $20 million using this 12-slide pitch deck
  + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Callum Burroughs | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Read previewHealth insurance startup Ansel has raised $20 million in new funding. Founded in 2019, Ansel is a platform that provides supplemental health insurance via carriers across 48 US states. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Advertisement"We're focused on making health hardships not become financial burdens," Veer Gidwaney, founder and CEO of Ansel, told Business Insider. The new capital will go towards expanding the company's partnerships with leading insurance providers, developing its tech platform, and scaling its marketing and distribution.
Persons: —, Ansel, Veer Gidwaney, Gidwaney Organizations: Service, Business, Gallup, Nationwide, Portage, Sigma Ventures, Brewer Lane Ventures, SixThirty Ventures Locations: New York City
☆ ‘I am personally sticking with SVB.’ Prominent tech figures pledge support for bank
  + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
CNN —After a rollercoaster week for Silicon Valley Bank’s customers, some prominent voices in the tech world are now publicly saying they will keep their money with the embattled lender – and they’re urging others to do the same. It also comes after the regional bank’s saga sent shockwaves across global financial markets. The push to continue doing business with Silicon Valley also highlights the unique relationship between the tech lender and the startup community, and their mutual dependence on each other. The bank has worked with nearly half of all US venture-backed tech and health care companies. But not everyone shares the desire to stay loyal to the bank after its implosion.
☆ SVB's tech failings were a problem long before the bank run that led to its demise, critics say
  + stars: | 2023-03-12 | by ( Mackenzie Sigalos | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +5 min
But long-time clients and others with intimate knowledge of how SVB operated say the bank did itself no favors. In April 2020, Tech Crunch reported on other SVB customers complaining that the bank mishandled the PPP process. The central bank said it's creating a new Bank Term Funding Program aimed at safeguarding institutions impacted by the SVB failure. In addition, regulators said depositors at both SVB and Signature Bank in New York will have full access to their deposits. Roughly 95% of SVB's deposits are uninsured, which makes the bank particularly unique in that it serves primarily businesses.
☆ Silicon Valley Bank collapse sends tech industry into a panic
  + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +5 min
Following the bank’s collapse on Friday, uncertainty in the startup community only grew. Founders Fund, an influential venture capital firm founded by billionaire Peter Thiel, reportedly advised its portfolio companies to pull money from the bank. “SVB is the most important capital provider to tech startups and the biggest supporter of the community,” he said in a tweet. “Now is the time to support them.”The rapidly unfolding fallout at Silicon Valley Bank comes at a challenging moment for the tech industry. Now, the bank’s collapse risks compounding the industry’s cash crunch and broader turbulence.
☆ Wall Street trading firms aren't giving up on crypto just yet
  + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
A bunch of high-profile Wall Street investors just piled into a startup that pledges to fix a major issue in the crypto industry. And while plenty of those bets blew up — the most spectacular of which was crypto exchange FTX — that hasn't stopped Wall Street. Click here to read more about a new crypto startup that's got backing from some of Wall Street's top trading firms. For a breakdown of all the key partnerships between Wall Street and cloud partners, check out our running list of more than 30 deals. Cheman Cheung left Wall Street after his father passed away to recover from a state of "mental chaos."
☆ Crypto exchange C3 aims to fix a big flaw exposed in the collapse of FTX. Its cofounders just raised $6 million from hedge fund Two Sigma's venture arm.
  + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( April Joyner | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
The crypto exchange C3 has raised $6 million in seed funding led by Two Sigma Ventures. A series of bankruptcies — FTX, BlockFi, Celsius, Voyager, Genesis — has exposed major flaws within several crypto financial institutions. Michel Dahdah believes his company, the crypto exchange C3, can fix one big challenge these crypto companies face: the custody question. C3 has raised $6 million in seed funding led by Two Sigma Ventures, the venture-capital arm of the hedge fund Two Sigma Investments. In the traditional finance world, custody and exchange are separate functions, and crypto needs to follow suit, he said.
☆ This a16z-backed startup wants to make it easier for designers to create interactive, animated graphics. Here's an exclusive look at the pitch deck Rive used to raise $10 million from Two Sigma Ventur
  + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Stephanie Palazzolo | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Rive offers designers and developers a tool to create animated, interactive graphics. Brothers Guido and Luigi Rosso cofounded the graphic design startup in 2016. Currently, design processes are inefficient, with engineers forced to rebuild mockups that designers create in tools like Figma, Guido Rosso told Insider. To that point, Rive also offers open-source libraries to load and run Rive graphics across a variety of destinations, including apps, games, and websites. Here's an exclusive look at the 10-slide pitch deck Rive used to raise $10 million in Series A funding from Two Sigma Ventures:
☆ Startups, Investors Bet on Remote Work Future
  + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Angus Loten | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +6 min
Even as more employers signal an end to remote work, tech startups and their investors are betting that it is here to stay, offering a range of digital tools designed to support a permanent workforce outside of the office. “Investors are super-pumped on remote,” Mr. Salam said. “Remote work is a durable phenomenon,” said Ravi Gupta, a partner at Sequoia who led the firm’s investment in Remote. Mr. Riggs said Frameable currently has hundreds of commercial customers, who rent its software with rates varying by the number of users. “I may be a bit biased, but I absolutely believe remote work is here to stay,” said Remote’s Mr. van der Voort.
☆ Although the crypto hype is fading, 3 VCs say there's still 'low-hanging fruit' opportunities in Web3 security and compliance. Here's why.
  + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( April Joyner | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Despite the crypto winter and a funding slowdown, several VCs remain interested in Web3 security. Like in most other areas of the market, venture funding for cybersecurity has dropped this year. These are prime areas, in his view, for security startups to step in. In September, Solidus Labs made Insider's list of the most promising crypto startups of 2022. Crypto security, according to Seewald, is not so different from security for other tech applications.
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