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La Unification Foundation, que está detrás del desarrollo de Shibarium, la solución de Capa 2 de Shiba Inu, compartió el día 24 de junio una publicación detallada en su blog de Medium sobre los proyectos de terceros que está desarrollando el equipo de Unification y el propio Shibarium. Entonces, gracias a la publicación, se supo que The Shibarium Private Alpha TestNet se lanzó hace unas semanas y está mostrando resultados exitosos. El mayor esfuerzo y atención del equipo en este momento se concentra en el desarrollo de la billetera interna Shibarium . Según los desarrolladores, la billetera pretende ser una aplicación "todo incluido", capaz de proporcionar movimiento de activos entre la Capa 1 y la Capa 2, la posibilidad de hacer staking y, en el futuro, también se implementará ShibaSwap . El largo desarrollo de Shibarium se explica por la necesidad de construirlo sobre una base sólida, confiable y probada. Para ello, Unification utiliza soluciones propias, como xFUND y Oracle of Oracles. Estas herramientas también se usaron para construir el mercado Woof Work. Se puede esperar una prueba beta pública de Shibarium para el tercer trimestre de 2022. Según los autores, Shibarium Public Beta TestNet permitirá a los usuarios y desarrolladores finalmente probar y evaluar el proyecto, incluido el proceso de validación.

Raise a glass to the festive spirit with Vik and Bree as they sit down with Brandon Farwell of Xfund in the third installment of DrinksWithAVC. Our hosts challenge Brandon, a Broadway aficionado ,  to a very merry version of 'name that tune'. Join us for an episode brimming with holiday cheer, laughter, and a side of venture capital insights.Links:www.xfund.com

What were some of the growth tactics Ishan used? What were the technical fires he learned the most from? Ishan Gandhi is a Stanford sophomore studying Computer Science and on a leave of absence. Hailing from London, he is the cofounder of Lighthouse, an Xfund-backed startup "bringing serendipity into social" that's currently in public beta. In his first year at Stanford, Ishan spent his spare time building Link - a viral matchmaking platform that had a staggering 2,400 of Stanford's 7,000 undergrads sign up within just 4 days of being online. Subscribe to Founders Couch wherever you get your podcasts. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/founderscouch/support

So, let’s start with last week’s startup funding scene. We had a total of 391 funding rounds, $9.2 billion total funding, 146 acquisitions recorded, and a transaction of a total acquisition amount of $12.5 billion. Let’s dive right into the highlights now. Used car marketplace Motorway picks up £11M Series A Motorway, the U.K. used car marketplace, has raised £11 million in Series A funding. Leading the round is Marchmont Ventures, the fund managed by Hugo Burge and Alan Martin (the former CEO and CFO of Momondo Group, respectively), along with participation from existing backer LocalGlobe. Founded by the team behind Top10 — the mobile and broadband comparison site that exited to uSwitch in 2011 — Motorway has set out to make it easier to sell your used car online. The website lets car sellers instantly see live offers from multiple car buying services and specialist dealerships. Indonesia’s EV Hive raises $13.5M and expands into co-living and new retail WeWork’s battle to win co-working in Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country, is intensifying after one of the U.S. firm’s key rivals issued a slew of announcements to double down on its business. EV Hive, an Indonesia-based co-working startup, said today that it has raised $13.5 million and expanded into new verticals. The company is putting off plans to foray into new countries in order to prioritize growth opportunities at home. The four-year-old company, which started as a project for seed-stage VC firm East Ventures, has rebranded to CoHive as part of the strategy to diversify its business. That’ll see it add new services for living spaces (CoLiving) and retailers (CoRetail), in addition to its core co-working and events businesses. Duffel raises $21.5M in Series A from Benchmark for its travel platform Ten months ago London startup Duffel hinted that it would be “a new way to book travel online, aiming at the booking experience ‘end to end,’ ” and announced a healthy $4.7 million funding round, but not much else. Last week, Duffel announced a funding of $21.5 million in Series A from U.S. VC giant Benchmark, which also backed Snap, Twitter and Uber. Benchmark is joined by Blossom Capital and Index Ventures, which participated in Duffel’s $4.7 million seed round last year. Duffel appears to be building a new software stack for travel, in the same way that challenger banks started from scratch to make themselves more agile than the laggard banks. SafeAI raises $5M to develop and deploy autonomy for mining and construction vehicles Startup SafeAI, powered by a founding talent team with experience across Apple, Ford and Caterpillar, is emerging from stealth today with a $5 million funding announcement. The company’s focus is on autonomous vehicle technology, designed and built specifically for heavy equipment used in the mining and construction industries. What SafeAI hopes to add is an underlying architecture that acts as a fully autonomous (Level 4 by SAE standards, so no human driver) platform for a variety of equipment. Said platform is designed with openness, modularity and upgradeability in mind to help ensure that its clients can take advantage of new advances in autonomy and AI as they become available. Two Sigma leads $12m series A for expert knowledge network NewtonX NewtonX is a “knowledge access platform” which attempts to intelligently answer questions posed to it by business clients. Clients answer a carefully calibrated series of questions to properly vet and scope a query, and then NewtonX farms it out to it network of experts for insight. That rapid-response network has now gotten the attention of Two Sigma Ventures, the venture wing of the high-flying algorithmic-trading hedge fund, which led a $12 million Series A round into New York City-based NewtonX. That’s a follow up to a $3 million seed round co-led by Third Prime Capital and Xfund last year. Moving on to acquisitions - WordPress management site WP Engine acquires Flywheel as it moves to a $1B valuation and IPO WordPress now accounts for 34 percent of all websites globally, and today one of the key companies that helps handle the creation and management of some of those WP-hosted sites is getting a little bigger through some consolidation in the wider ecosystem. WP Engine, which works with businesses to build and manage their WordPress-hosted sites, has aquired Flywheel, a smaller competitor. Financial terms of the deal are not being disclosed, WP Engine, as Brunner describes it, focuses largely on mid-market and larger businesses, while Flywheel — founded and currently based out of Omaha — has focused on smaller businesses. That makes the two natural complements to each other, but Brunner notes that there will be more gained from the union. What else caught our eyes- Facebook just reinvented digital currency with its Libra cryptocurrency that will launch early next year. No they’re not calling it Zuckerbucks. Libra is like cash that lives inside your phone. Starting in 2020, you’ll be able to purchase Libra through Libra wallet apps on your phone or from some local grocery and convenience stores. You cash in your local currency like dollars and get nearly the same number of Libra coins, which are represented by wavy three-line emoji instead of the $ symbol. But first you’ll have to verify your identity with a photo. You’ll then be able to spend your Libra while online shopping, or potentially pay for things like Ubers or your subscription for Spotify, since those companies have partnered with Facebook to make Libra popular. Since it’s almost free to digitally move Libra from one account to the other, you won’t have to pay high credit card processing fees that can add almost 4% to your total. And some Libra wallet apps and shops will give bonus discounts or free coins for signing up and paying with Libra.

Patrick Chung is a founding partner of Xfund, which he spun out of NEA, Accel, Breyer Capital, and Polaris Ventures. In this episode, Patrick shares how startups are working with doctors to create a healthier future, his favorite startups to help us live longer through genetic testing, crowdsourcing diagnosis, accelerated performance and so much more! This episode is jam packed with insights into the hot new digital health startups and the answer to the questions, are we going to live forever and what does it mean to be human. Check it out and share your thoughts!

Patrick Chung is Founder and General Partner at Xfund, a $50M seed stage venture fund based in Silicon Valley. Patrick is an incredibly sharp guy; he has had an impressive academic career — with three degrees from Harvard University (College, Law School, and Business School) and one from Oxford University — and professional career, having been a consultant at McKinsey, operator at venture backed Zefer, and General Partner both at NEA and xFund. This conversation was fun and Patrick gave a lot of interesting insight. Some of my favorite moments included: (1) why he thinks liberal arts founders thrive and his fund is a bet on that (6:05), (2) how an influx of capital affects seed stage investing (14:13), (3) why managing uncertainty will be a key strategy in 2017 (20:24), and finally (4) three key takeaways for young professionals (35:22).

FounderLine is a live weekly webcast devoted to helping startup founders succeed, hosted by seven-time startup entrepreneur and investor Joe Beninato. Each week, Joe welcomes an experienced entrepreneur or investor to discuss startup-related topics and field questions from entrepreneurs around the world. FounderLine is broadcast live, and viewers are welcome to send questions via email or twitter. For more information, go to founderline.com. In this episode, host Joe Beninato and guest Patrick Chung of Xfund answer viewer questions including: - As a startup I’m competing with Google for the valley’s top engineers and can’t give the benefits or pay that they do. What are some suggestions to help me convince people to work with me instead of for Google? - Today Secret announced that they're shutting down. How does a company with lots of capital and millions of users fail? What lessons can be learned from their rise and fall? - Startup hiring is so difficult. What advice do you give your companies and how do you personally help them out? - What are the most important characteristics you look for in a founder before funding them? What are some signals you look for? How would a woman have an advantage or disadvantage? - If someone wanted to pitch you about their company, what's the best way to gain an audience with you?