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FoundersGrid #518
August 28, 2020
Smash Digital SEO
A growth agency, filled to the brim with unicorn images and SEO memes. A team of SEOs who actually know how to use SEO instead of just sell SEO to people who don’t know SEO. An agency with so much link juice you’ll need a mop and bucket to clean it all up. 
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  • Here are all the startups from the latest YC Demo Day.  Link
  • Funder Grants: fund a startup without giving up equity.  Link
  • Lidar startup Luminar is all set to go public.  Link
  • Xpeng has just raised $1.5B in its IPO.  Link
  • 3D printing unicorn Desktop Metal is reportedly going public.  Link
  • Apple has just acquired VR startup Spaces.  Link
  • Dataiku has just raised $100M in funding.  Link
  • SpaceX is increasing its latest funding round to $2B.  Link
  • Streaming is revealing how ISPs and Big Tech work against users.  Link
  • 1-1 virtual coffee sessions with the top tech talent, sourced from Twitter.  Link
  • Palantir, the next big IPO, post half a billion dollars last year.  Link
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