{"id":1210043,"date":"2022-09-23T22:18:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T22:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/23\/london-based-spatial-computing-startup-hadean-closes-30-million-series-a\/"},"modified":"2022-09-23T22:18:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T22:18:44","slug":"london-based-spatial-computing-startup-hadean-closes-30-million-series-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/23\/london-based-spatial-computing-startup-hadean-closes-30-million-series-a\/","title":{"rendered":"London-based spatial computing startup Hadean closes $30 million Series A \u2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\"><em>To get a roundup of \u2019s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT,<\/em> <em>subscribe here<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Friday, and that means\u2026 Actually, we don\u2019t even really know what that means anymore, other than that we\u2019re going to sit in the sunshine and bask in the very last few days of warm weather before it becomes time to be envious of the antipodeans for the next six months.\u00a0 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristineMHall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christine<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Haje\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Haje<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>The  Top 3<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fashionably late<\/strong>: Epic Games liked distributed computing startup Hadean so much that it didn\u2019t want to miss out on a chance to back it. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/psawers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul<\/a> has more on how Epic was able to get in on the $30 million Series A investment and why.<\/li>\n<li><strong>From bland to bling<\/strong>: Life insurance is not often an exciting topic, but Strava co-founder Mark Shaw believes he has found a way to \u201czhuzh\u201d it up with Inclined, a company lending against whole life insurance policies, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bayareawriter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mary Ann<\/a> writes. The company is now flush with a $15 million Series A.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shopping for healthcare<\/strong>: Healthcare is a complicated web of doctors, labs and payers that rarely seems to connect. Kenyan startup Ponea Health is out to change that with its healthcare marketplace offering that brings everyone together, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/annienjanja\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Annie<\/a> reports.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Startups and VC<\/h2>\n<p>The crypto market is flooded with centralized (Binance, FTX) and decentralized ETH-based perpetuals and options trading platforms (Dydx, Opyn, Perpetual Protocol). Nibiru is attempting to build the first mainstream decentralized multichain solution. The company was co-founded by Tribe Capital GP Arjun Sethi, and just raised $7.5 million in seed funding at a valuation of $100 million, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/refsrc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manish<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>A cloud kitchen \u2014 also known as a ghost kitchen or a shared kitchen \u2014 offers restaurant owners and food entrepreneurs a commercial kitchen space at a reduced cost for food delivery and takeout. A Manila-headquartered startup called CloudEats, which operates cloud kitchens across the Philippines and Vietnam, just raised a $7 million Series A extension to accelerate the digitization of food service in Southeast Asia, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kateparknews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kate<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a few more\u2026<\/p>\n<h2>8 investors discuss what\u2019s ahead for reproductive health startups in a post-Roe world<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_2403808\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2403808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Image Credits:<\/strong> Alexander Ryabintsev \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dominic-Madori Davis surveyed eight investors about the role venture capital might play in this new era where Americans no longer have the legal right to obtain an abortion.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s Dobbs decision affected more than healthcare and personal privacy: Will capital and talent flee U.S. states that restrict reproductive rights? Will investors back more startups that expand healthcare access?<\/p>\n<p>Given \u201cthe tenuous relationship between venture money and ethics,\u201d Dominic-Madori asked the group how they plan to exert influence \u2014 and how they prefer to be approached by entrepreneurs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hessie Jones, partner, MATR Ventures<\/li>\n<li>Lisa Calhoun, Gary Peat and William Leonard, Valor Ventures<\/li>\n<li>Mecca Tartt, executive director, Startup Runway<\/li>\n<li>Ed Zimmerman, founding partner, First Close Partners<\/li>\n<li>Theodora Lau, founder, Unconventional Ventures<\/li>\n<li>McKeever Conwell, founder, RareBreed Ventures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Recently on +:<\/p>\n<p><em>+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack.<\/em><em> You can sign up here<\/em><em>. Use code \u201cDC\u201d for a 15% discount on an annual subscription!<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Big Tech Inc.<\/h2>\n<p>Who knew a baseball simulation game would catch on so well in the height of a pandemic? The Game Band certainly did. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/asilbwrites\">Amanda<\/a> speaks with the makers of Blaseball about how they are building the game for the future.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Breaking in a new show<\/strong>: If you\u2019re a fan of \u201cBreaking Bad,\u201d the show\u2019s creator announced a new show for Apple TV+, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/indianidle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ivan<\/a> writes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Clapping back<\/strong>: The California Civil Rights Department is now looking at a countersuit from Tesla after a judge refused to dismiss a case involving racial bias at the electric car giant. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RebeccaBellan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rebecca<\/a> has more.<\/li>\n<li><strong>New chief<\/strong>: Former Google ad executive Allan Thygesen has a new gig: serving as DocuSign\u2019s new CEO,<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ron_miller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Ron<\/a> reports.<\/li>\n<li><strong>No supply shortage here<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaclyntrop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jaclyn<\/a> reports on GM Ventures\u2019 new investment in Lithion Recycling, a Canadian battery recycler, to keep the juice flowing for GM\u2019s fleet of electric vehicles.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Urgent message<\/strong>: Elections are happening in Italy on Sunday, and the country is nervous about election interference measures, so it fired off a message to Meta requesting information on how Facebook plans to manage this,<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/riptari\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Natasha L<\/a> writes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To get a roundup of \u2019s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. 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