📊Andreessen Horowitz Leads as Most Active US Investor in October
Andreessen Horowitz dominated October with 14 deals, marking its busiest month of the year. The firm was particularly involved in major rounds such as a $100 million Series C for Valon Technologies and a $51.5 million Series C for Infinitus Systems. General Catalyst and Lightspeed Venture Partners were also highly active, each participating in over 10 deals.
📊Andreessen Horowitz Leads as Most Active US Investor in October
Andreessen Horowitz dominated October with 14 deals, marking its busiest month of the year. The firm was particularly involved in major rounds such as a $100 million Series C for Valon Technologies and a $51.5 million Series C for Infinitus Systems. General Catalyst and Lightspeed Venture Partners were also highly active, each participating in over 10 deals.
For Oleksandra Tsekhanovska, head of the Hybrid Warfare Analytical Group at the Kyiv-based Ukraine Crisis Media Center, the effects are both near- and far-reaching. Telegram boasts 500 million users, who share information individually and in groups in relative security. But Telegram's use as a one-way broadcast channel — which followers can join but not reply to — means content from inauthentic accounts can easily reach large, captive and eager audiences. On Telegram’s website, it says that Pavel Durov “supports Telegram financially and ideologically while Nikolai (Duvov)’s input is technological.” Currently, the Telegram team is based in Dubai, having moved around from Berlin, London and Singapore after departing Russia. Meanwhile, the company which owns Telegram is registered in the British Virgin Islands. To that end, when files are actively downloading, a new icon now appears in the Search bar that users can tap to view and manage downloads, pause and resume all downloads or just individual items, and select one to increase its priority or view it in a chat. Multiple pro-Kremlin media figures circulated the post's false claims, including prominent Russian journalist Vladimir Soloviev and the state-controlled Russian outlet RT, according to the DFR Lab's report.
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