đź’µFaber Launches Third Venture Fund, Secures $34M in First Close for Iberian Startups Lisbon-based VC firm Faber has raised $34 million in the initial close of its third fund, aiming for a $64 million target to support pre-seed and seed-stage deep tech, AI, and biotech startups in Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands.
đź’µFaber Launches Third Venture Fund, Secures $34M in First Close for Iberian Startups Lisbon-based VC firm Faber has raised $34 million in the initial close of its third fund, aiming for a $64 million target to support pre-seed and seed-stage deep tech, AI, and biotech startups in Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands.
Artem Kliuchnikov and his family fled Ukraine just days before the Russian invasion. "The result is on this photo: fiery 'greetings' to the invaders," the Security Service of Ukraine wrote alongside a photo showing several military vehicles among plumes of black smoke. This provided opportunity to their linked entities to offload their shares at higher prices and make significant profits at the cost of unsuspecting retail investors. Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.” What distinguishes the app from competitors is its use of what's known as channels: Public or private feeds of photos and videos that can be set up by one person or an organization. The channels have become popular with on-the-ground journalists, aid workers and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who broadcasts on a Telegram channel. The channels can be followed by an unlimited number of people. Unlike Facebook, Twitter and other popular social networks, there is no advertising on Telegram and the flow of information is not driven by an algorithm.
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