🔍Hannah Bronfman Sets Sights on Launching Her Own Fund
Angel investor and wellness entrepreneur Hannah Bronfman, known for backing over 70 companies, plans to launch a fund targeting overlooked founders. Speaking at AfroTech, she emphasized the importance of community, mentorship, and increasing Black investor representation. Bronfman envisions writing $1M–$3M checks and eventually creating a Black-owned conglomerate akin to LVMH.
🔍Hannah Bronfman Sets Sights on Launching Her Own Fund
Angel investor and wellness entrepreneur Hannah Bronfman, known for backing over 70 companies, plans to launch a fund targeting overlooked founders. Speaking at AfroTech, she emphasized the importance of community, mentorship, and increasing Black investor representation. Bronfman envisions writing $1M–$3M checks and eventually creating a Black-owned conglomerate akin to LVMH.
After fleeing Russia, the brothers founded Telegram as a way to communicate outside the Kremlin's orbit. They now run it from Dubai, and Pavel Durov says it has more than 500 million monthly active users. "He has to start being more proactive and to find a real solution to this situation, not stay in standby without interfering. It's a very irresponsible position from the owner of Telegram," she said. "We're seeing really dramatic moves, and it's all really tied to Ukraine right now, and in a secondary way, in terms of interest rates," Octavio Marenzi, CEO of Opimas, told Yahoo Finance Live on Thursday. "This war in Ukraine is going to give the Fed the ammunition, the cover that it needs, to not raise interest rates too quickly. And I think Jay Powell is a very tepid sort of inflation fighter and he's not going to do as much as he needs to do to get that under control. And this seems like an excuse to kick the can further down the road still and not do too much too soon." Groups are also not fully encrypted, end-to-end. This includes private groups. Private groups cannot be seen by other Telegram users, but Telegram itself can see the groups and all of the communications that you have in them. All of the same risks and warnings about channels can be applied to groups. At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised.
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