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Seven Seven Six, the new venture firm from Alexis Ohanian, closes $150 million Fund 1

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Ohanian’s idea with the name stems from the fact that the cook was likely a fantastic athlete, but not necessarily the best athlete out there; many people were excluded from the first Olympic games, from athletes outside of Greece to those who didn’t have the means to show up to women, who weren’t even allowed to watch the games.

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Hack The Box, a gamified cybersecurity training platform with 1.7M users, raises $55M

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HTB is not the first nor only company to build cyber training around a gamified environment. startup is not disclosing valuation at the moment. US Cyber Games , built in conjunction with U.S. government organizations, is built out as a mass-player environment that is used to identify and train would be white-hat hackers.

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Tips on how to mobilize your supporters

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Build a routine that people can set their watch to, to build up momentum around an organization.&#. A Mashable meetup in Greece. • Justin also pointed to this article on how to bring social network avatars to life and an essay on how slacktivism is a misnomer.

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Daily Crunch: In latest earnings release, Twitter admits to miscounting users for the second time

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CommandBar landed $19 million to continue creating a search-and-browse plugin for web apps, and Deepset raised $14 million to help companies build natural-language processing apps. It is active in Poland and Greece and about to launch in Romania. Snapchat adds new assistive devices for bitmoji avatars. raised $18.5

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