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Wyvern is ecstatic to publicly share one of our high-resolution hyperspectral images collected from our Dragonette-001 satellite! 🛰️🤳 A first for the space industry, our 5 m spatial resolution images with 23 unique bands provide groundbreaking high-resolution and high-quality data for our clients. We are excited to share this image and look forward to sharing many more as we continue to improve our processing and build our archive. Discover the Wyvern difference. Join us in making a Better Earth, From Space. For more information contact sales@wyvern.space #Wyvern #hyperspectral #SpaceData #HyperspectralSatellites #SatelliteImagery #smallsatellites

Today we're celebrating a HUGE milestone. Binarly has closed a $10.5 million seed round led by Two Bear Capital with participation from Blu Ventures Canaan Partners, Cisco Investments, and Liquid 2 Ventures. Check it out here >> https://lnkd.in/dYWcWiHn Thank YOU all for investing in the future of firmware and software supply chain security. Let's go solve some gnarly problems 🤙

I'm so excited to share that Allstar closed our $12M Series A led by Drive Capital! From the first zoom, to taking home a term sheet from Drive's office, we knew we found the right partners to take us to the next level 🚀 Recounting our journey, I remember when Gavin Silver and I decided we were ready to start Allstar. We put our notices in and soon after we were bootstrapping with no salary for over a year. Our friends and family thought it was a "bold move" (truthfully they were AMAZINGLY supportive, we could never do this alone.) Thankfully it didn't take long before Mark Cuban invested which set us on the trajectory we're on today. If only we knew how difficult our journey would become! We had no idea we'd move into our first office and 2 months later COVID would force us to build Allstar remotely for over 2 years. This delayed our next round almost a full year, and vastly changed our approach to building the business. Eventually the stay-at-home world brought a lot of positive attention to the creator economy and gaming, which helped set the stage to our Seed in 2021 led by members of the New York Angels. Soon after, the economy turned which caused the cost of capital to rise, and proved to be a tricky transition for anyone in tech. We had to make tough choices and one of those was eliminating all paid advertising from user acquisition. In hindsight this was a great move we wish we made sooner. It forced us to innovate, build a better product, and figure out how to grow in a scrappier way. This led to our userbase exploding, deeper traction, and accelerating revenue. Time for Series A! Like any fundraise, it was challenging and took many months of endless pitching, being on the road, and following up - until we finally landed the right partners: John Volquez and Chris Olsen of Drive Capital. For all our prep, research, list building, and strategic outreach, it was Drive who came to us. Talk about an important email you don't want to miss! We knew we found great partners when they were hustling just as hard as we were, from late night emails to jumping on planes to have in-person meetings. Like a scene out of a movie, after a great partner meeting, we flew home to New York with term sheet in-hand... well, I flew home – Gavin missed his flight and stayed the night. It's never easy! We're SO thrilled to put this capital to work scaling. We're investing in infrastructure, expanding the team, adding new games, and accelerating partnerships & bizdev. Thank you to everyone on Team Allstar and all our amazing partners, investors, advisors, customers, family and supporters for making this possible. We've generated nearly 30M clips for over 1.14M unique gaming creators, reaching 11.5M+ people driving over a quarter-billion views. 4 years in and we are JUST getting started. I can't wait to see where we go next. https://lnkd.in/gUNbFi6W #gaming #creatoreconomy #startups #tech #nyc

🚀 Big News Alert! Magma Secures $5M Funding Round! 🚀 Thrilled to share that Magma has successfully raised $5 million in a funding round led by GFR Fund, with strong support from key contributors like Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc. 021 Fund, 4Founders Capital , Supernode Global, Gaingels, Anorak Ventures, Acequia Capital, and leading angels. 🔗 Read the full release: https://lnkd.in/eYJzWnu2 🎨 This is a monumental milestone for Magma, and we're excited to collaborate with investors who share our vision for Magma platform's potential. Our journey of bringing artists together and supporting their creativity is about to reach new heights! 📈 Since our founding in 2020, Magma has achieved remarkable success, with 20+ million artworks created and 4+ million monthly visits. A huge thank you to our clients and partners for your unwavering support! 🌐 The funding will fuel the introduction of exciting features to Magma’s all-in-one art platform, facilitating seamless idea exchange for art teams. Additionally, we're expanding our international team with strategic hires in operations, business development, and sales. 👥 Welcome Oli Strong, our new CSO/COO, and Heather Shelton, our Commercial Director, to the Magma family! #Magma #Art #DigitalArt #DigitalArtists #BusinessPartners #BusinessSuccess #FundingAnnouncement #SeedRoundSuccess #SeedRoundClosed Exciting times ahead as we continue to grow our platform and nurture the creative journeys of artists worldwide! 🚀🎨 cc Damian Kaczmarek Wojtek Jodel Michel Besner Bobby Chiu