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Venture capital is really male and really really white — Arlan Hamilton wants to fix it

Jan25
by on January 25, 2019 at 11:23 am
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Arlan Hamilton, CEO and founder of Backstage Capital, wants to see more color in venture capital. Backstage focuses on “investing in underestimated founders,” making Hamilton one of the few pushing for change in VC. Her story is fascinating, and has touched many — Arlan was homeless only three years ago, and had no formal education or experience in finance. To date, Backstage Capital has invested more than $4M in 100 companies all with at least one founder who is a woman, person of color, or LGBTQ+. Right now, they’re working on a $36m investment into black women-led projects, $1 million at a time.…

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Venture capital is really male and really really white — Arlan Hamilton wants to fix it

Jan25
by on January 25, 2019 at 11:23 am
Posted In: Around the Web, TNW Answers


Arlan Hamilton, CEO and founder of Backstage Capital, wants to see more color in venture capital. Backstage focuses on “investing in underestimated founders,” making Hamilton one of the few pushing for change in VC. Her story is fascinating, and has touched many — Arlan was homeless only three years ago, and had no formal education or experience in finance. To date, Backstage Capital has invested more than $4M in 100 companies all with at least one founder who is a woman, person of color, or LGBTQ+. Right now, they’re working on a $36m investment into black women-led projects, $1 million at a time.…

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Venture capital is really male and really really white — Arlan Hamilton wants to fix it

Jan25
by on January 25, 2019 at 11:23 am
Posted In: Around the Web, TNW Answers


Arlan Hamilton, CEO and founder of Backstage Capital, wants to see more color in venture capital. Backstage focuses on “investing in underestimated founders,” making Hamilton one of the few pushing for change in VC. Her story is fascinating, and has touched many — Arlan was homeless only three years ago, and had no formal education or experience in finance. To date, Backstage Capital has invested more than $4M in 100 companies all with at least one founder who is a woman, person of color, or LGBTQ+. Right now, they’re working on a $36m investment into black women-led projects, $1 million at a time.…

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How DeepMind’s AI defeated top players at StarCraft II

Jan25
by on January 25, 2019 at 9:23 am
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence


DeepMind previously took on the challenge of beating world champions at the Chinese game of Go. It’s also gotten astonishingly good at Chess and Shogi, and has wiped the floor with the best AIs developed for those games. In August 2017, the Alphabet-owned firm decided to take on a much bigger and more complex challenge: training an AI to master Starcraft II. The immensely popular real-time strategy game sees players take charge of an alien race, gather resources, develop technologies, and pit your army against others in a bid for supremacy in a fictious sci-fi universe. In a series of matches…

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Apple’s new gas detection patent hints at an apocalypse-ready iPhone

Jan25
by on January 25, 2019 at 8:28 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


If you’ve watched recent movies about apocalyptic conditions wiping humans off the face of the earth, you’ve probably come across characters building underground bunkers they can burrow into in order to survive. These bunkers are often shown to be fitted with sensors (usually fictional ones) to detect different kinds of danger – an earthquake, an incoming storm, or even radioactive materials. But Apple thinks you might just need your iPhone for this. The latest patent the company was granted shows a mobile device with the ability to detect poisonous gases. Spotted first by PatentlyApple, the patent describes a future iDevice…

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