Monthly Archives: November 2022

Crypto-focused VC on the FTX fallout: ‘I’m worried about the overall lack of LP appetite going forward.’

During an unprecedented bull run, crypto-focused investors raised, and deployed, billions of dollars in capital. But now, not only are VCs operating in a bearish crypto market, they are navigating the fallout of the FTX collapse and the potential impact it will have on their investment strategies moving forward. Double Down founder and general partner…

With $8.6M in seed funding, Nx wants to take monorepos mainstream

Narwhal, the company behind the popular monorepo-focused open source Nx build system for JavaScript code, today announced that it has raised an $8.6 million seed funding round co-led by Nexus Venture Partners and Andreesen Horowitz. A number of angel investors, including GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner, also participated in this round. Founded by two former Google…

Dept. of the Air Force’s Frank Calvelli talks startups and the military at TC Sessions: Space

The success of the commercial space sector, in both significantly reducing the cost of technology and massively increasing its capabilities, has captured the attention of the U.S. military. That attention translates into growing interest in startups and how they might secure the space domain for the U.S. and its allies. Frank Calvelli, the Assistant Secretary…

Dead Island 2 gets a fresh delay, but what’s one more after an eight year wait

You’ll have to wait 12 extra weeks before catching some sun with the undead, as Dead Island 2 gets pushed back to April 2023. Originally announced back in 2014, Dead Island 2 is the much-anticipated follow-up to its 2011 predecessor. Dead Island is an open-world melee hack n’ slash adventure featuring hordes of the undead,…