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With the Otherside metaverse land auction set to take place this weekend, the creators have asked bidders to verify themselves.

AI Legal Expert Dr. Maura R. Grossman to Keynote on Hot Topics in Technology Assisted Review

U.S. Treasury Department officials have tied North Korean hacking group Lazarus to an Ethereum wallet used in the $622 million

Bitski, a non-fungible token (NFT) platform, has raised $19 million in Series A funding from investors, including Jay-Z’s Marcy Venture Partners.

In this week’s edition of Insider Tech we look at the lessons of Yahoo and AOL, and prepare for Elon Musk’s crypto comedy show.

The creation of the metaverse(s) is accelerating and every week brings with it many news about its creation, growth, collaborations, brand activations, and investments. Here are the highlights from this week in the metaverse.
Forbes

Ethereum and Dogecoin prices rocket to the moon S&P Dow Jones launches crypto indices Mastercard wants in on CBDCs Who will be Andreessen Horowitz's next crypto superstar? Beijing tightens leash over crypto miners From the Editor's Desk Dear Reader, Things are heating up out there in cryptoland.

Andreessen Horowitz is working on launching a $1 billion venture capitalist (VC) fund to expand its presence in the cryptocurrency space Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z, is one of the leading venture capitalist firms in the cryptocurrency space.

For much of last year and the beginning of this one, blank-check companies were all the rage. Not so much anymore. The number of such entities, also known as special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, that have gone public in recent weeks has slowed to a trickle.
Lidar maker AEye's merger deal sees value cut as SPAC boom fizzles
Silicon Valley Business Journal

WorkBoard, a maker of productivity software, has raised $75 million in a Series D round led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2. Andreessen Horowitz, GGV Capital, Workday Ventures, M12, Capital One Ventures and SVB Capital also participated. Bay Area-based WorkBoard's platform allows businesses to create and track objectives and key results.
SoftBank leads $75M round for WorkBoard
PitchBook News & Analysis

Revere launched a platform to connect rising VCs with funders seeking to get into big-name deals. The firm was inspired by cofounder Chris Shen's frustrating experiences at a family office in China. Revere finds VCs with stakes in hot startups and links them with backers who put in follow-on money.
Revere Launches VC Platform to Get Small Investors Into Top Startups
Business Insider

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 2021-- Dialpad Inc., the industry leader in AI-powered communication and collaboration, announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company helping clients build communities in print, in-person and online, has named Dialpad as a 2021 Unified Communications Product of the Year Award winner.
Dialpad Receives 2021 Unified Communications Product of the Year Award
Galveston County Daily News

Ousted for LSD microdosing, Iterable CEO Justin Zhu now speaks out

Andrew Radin was a straight A student. So when he stopped turning in assignments in Nigam Shah's class at Stanford University, the professor knew something was up. "If you don't hand in assignments, you're gonna fail," Radin recalls Shah saying one day after class. "Everything alright at home?" Little did

Hot email startup Superhuman is making it easier for users to schedule Zoom or Google Meet calls. CEO Rahul Vohra says that next up is an Android app and Microsoft Office integration. Those launches will help Superhuman grow its $30/month email app beyond tech workers, he said.
Superhuman Planning Android App, Microsoft Office Integration
Business Insider

Forward Enterprise helps network operations engineers avoid outages through its unique mathematical model. The platform creates a digital twin of the network (across on-premises devices, private and public cloud) enabling network operators to map all possible traffic flows, instantly troubleshoot, verify intent, predict network behavior, and reduce MTTR (mean time to resolution).

The lack of access to mental health services in the United States is a root cause that's deepening the mental health crisis the country presently faces. Ninety-six million Americans have had to wait for more than a week for mental health treatments. 25% of Americans report having to choose between mental health services and daily necessities.

Cryptocurrency exchange operator Coinbase has named The Martin Agency as its creative agency of record in the U.S., the firm said on Wednesday. The Martin Agency will work to introduce the Coinbase brand to a wide audience both familiar and unfamiliar with cryptocurrency and to educate people about cryptocurrency as a viable financial tool.
Coinbase names Martin Agency as advertising AOR
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Brazil: Mexican proptech startup Casai has announced that, as part of its ongoing expansion in Latin America [LatAm], it will launch operations in São Paulo and invest R$100 million [Brazilian reales] over the coming years in its growth strategy in Brazil.
Casai to invest $100m in Brazil expansion in coming years
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