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AI Startup Mad Street Den Closes Series A Round Of Funding

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Artificial intelligence may still seem futuristic to many, but a startup trying to bring artificial intelligence into our daily lives has piqued the interest of investors, reportedly raising $5 million in a Series A round of venture funding. It comes nearly a year-and-a-half after the startup, Mad Street Den , closed a $1.5

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Watching The Watchers Of The Apple Watch Watch

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The ecosystem was treated to a tale of two Apple Watches this week — and one wonders where the truth is, here, too. startups grabbed $1 billion in the first quarter of 2017, which is a pretty nifty sum when on the heels of Brexit, which took many by surprise and, in fact, is above the tally raised in each of the previous three quarters.

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Transcript: Albert Wenger

Barry Ritholtz

And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. WENGER: Yeah, that had really been my goal since my own first startup in ’96, ‘97, which was a company called W3Health that ultimately failed. So we can’t make massive investments in startups. Why is that? WENGER: Yes, absolutely.

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Transcript: Howard Lindzon

Barry Ritholtz

Apple was its own animal and they controlled their ecosystem. I can either just give it away for free, which, you know, I started the cash tag dollar sign… RITHOLTZ: Right. LINDZON: Well, because Gateway had failed, like everybody was doing it. RITHOLTZ: Right. There was no differentiator between Dell, Gateway, HP. LINDZON: Yes.

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