Expa’s News
Yumi focuses on healthier food alternatives that are tailored to babies' and toddlers' stages of development.
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Whether testing for omicron or delta, Detect offers a great at-home solution that's affordable, convenient, and accurate—with no false positives.
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Aero is reshaping the concept of attainable luxury travel and paying homage to the Pan Am era in the process. So it's no wonder that Digital Trend's The Manual has chosen to spotlight it. Think: semi-private cabins, Italian leather seats, suede sidewalls, leather-piped halo lighting, drinks… plus, reduced carbon emissions due to the use of biofuels.
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Roughly 15 percent of Expa's portfolio is based in Canada, according to Expa's general partner Milun Tesovic.
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Envoy was not spared by the pandemic, but thanks to a clever pivot by launching Envoy Protect, which helps keep employees healthy and safe, the startup that Expa partner Vítor Lourenço helped start is now worth $1.4B.
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Portfolio company spotlight
Over the past few years, the company has been completely transforming how studios and content creators do business. How? By giving them the power to manage their business affair for all content under a single dashboard. Want to know more about why we invested in Circus?
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Headlines of interest
The startup frenzy is due a pause. Venture capitalists had invested more than $600 billion around the world by mid-December, twice the total for 2020 and an all-time high, according to PitchBook…Buoyed by strong historical returns, venture capitalists are flush with cash.
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Wherever we look in the healthcare industry, we can find new technology being used to fight illness, develop new vaccines and medicines, and help people to live healthier lives… It's clear that the pandemic has accelerated the digitization of the healthcare industry.
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In the war for talent, equity compensation has become more important than ever, but it's not the easiest concept to explain, especially in privately funded companies.
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Technology has been one of the defining forces of the 21st-century thus far—and it's showing no signs of slowing down. The pandemic has only accelerated the need for technology. From communication to collaboration, tech has kept the world unified through a time of intense isolation.
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On the bookshelf
How can we reclaim our focus—as individuals, and as a society? Hari goes on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention. He introduces readers to Silicon Valley dissidents who learned to hack human attention, and veterinarians who diagnose dogs with ADHD. He explores a favela in Rio de Janeiro where everyone lost their attention in a particularly surreal way, and an office in New Zealand that discovered a remarkable technique to restore workers' productivity.
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What we're listening to
On this episode of Masters of Scale, Zynga founder Mark Pincus talks about pursuing a big opportunity and the importance of killing your own bad ideas along the way.
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Quote of the month
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Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.
Howard Schultz
Businessman, former Starbucks CEO
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