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| 14.05.2025 | Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian takes minority stake in Chelsea FC women’s team | Sign up today for the new CNBC Sport Newsletter
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has purchased a minority stake in Chelsea FC Women.
The investment gives him an ownership stake in two of the most-valuable teams in women’s sports.
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| 07.05.2025 | Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian negotiated their daughter’s $7-a-week allowance: ‘Good things come when you work for it’ | Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian are each millionaires — but that doesn’t mean they’re trying to raise entitled children.
Williams and Ohanian give their 7-year-old daughter Olympia a modest weekly allowance, Ohanian, 42, said in a video ... |
| 05.03.2025 | Digg founder teams up with former Reddit rival to buy and revive website | Content aggregator Digg is making a comeback with the help of an unlikely partner: Reddit co-founder and rival Alexis Ohanian.
Ohanian and Digg founder Kevin Rose acquired the platform for an undisclosed sum.
At its peak in 2008, Digg was r... |
| 05.03.2025 | 'We Can Do It Better': A Reddit Rival Just Relaunched — With Alexis Ohanian on Its Board Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says he's "all in on this chapter" helping to revive Digg, and more t... | Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, 41, has joined forces with former rival Kevin Rose, 48, to revive Digg, a social and link-sharing website Rose founded in 2004 — it was divided up and sold for parts to Betaworks, LinkedIn, and The Washingt... |
| 12.02.2025 | Denver Nuggets Dominate with Record-Setting Performance | The Denver Nuggets have turned the basketball court into a stage, and Nikola Jokic is the star performer. On February 10, 2025, the Nuggets scored a staggering 146 points against the Portland Trail Blazers, marking their highest score of th... |
| 11.02.2025 | ScorePlay scores big with €12.5 million to transform sports media management | ScorePlay, an AI-powered platform innovating sports media management, has secured €12.5 million in a Series A funding round in order to fuel the company’s expansion and support ongoing platform innovation.
The investment was led by Harry St... |
| 04.02.2025 | The 10 Biggest Rounds Of January: Infinite Reality Tops Busy Month | 8 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
This is a monthly feature that runs down the month’s top 10 funding rounds in the U.S. Check out November’s biggest rounds here.
The year started strong for huge rounds, as the first month saw a trio... |
| 30.01.2025 | Irish biotech Cambrean acquired by DNA startup Nucleus | DNA startup Nucleus has acquired Irish biotech Cambrean, an AI-based health platform using algorithms to analyse data from wearables like Oura rings and Apple Watches to create actionable health assessments.
Cambrian Genomics is a DNA start... |
| 10.12.2024 | Alexis Ohanian Says This Is His Best Investment So Far: $10,000 Turned Into More Than $17 Million Ohanian has backed 40 unicorns, but one investment stands out the most. | Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian is a technology entrepreneur and startup investor who's backed 40 unicorns, including Coinbase, Instacart, Ro, and Impossible, according to his website.
Ohanian is also the lead investor in the National Wome... |
| 16.10.2024 | 20VC: Third Fund Closed At $400 Million | 20VC, a London-based venture capital firm run by Harry Stebbings, announced that it had raised a third fund at $400 million. Stebbings is also best known for running one of the most popular VC-focused podcasts. The $400 million third fund w... |
| 22.03.2024 | Reddit co-founder’s VC firm eyes Japan for AI chip investments | Artificial IntelligenceInvestmentsNews
Gabriel Budi Sutrisno · 22 Mar 2024 · 2 min readReddit co-founder’s VC firm eyes Japan for AI chip investments
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, Sr. / Photo credit: Ohanian’s LinkedIn Page
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| 09.11.2023 | AI meets M&A: How these former management consultants are upending due diligence | Wokelo co-founders Saswat Nanda, left, and Siddhant Masson, both worked previously as management consultants. (Wokelo Photos)
If one promise of artificial intelligence is to minimize mind-numbing business tasks, look no further than the dru... |
| 10.08.2023 | 7 VCs explain why the creator economy still has legs | The White House is briefing TikTokers about the war in Ukraine. A Twitch streamer’s PS5 giveaway sparks a bonafide riot. A 25-year-old YouTuber from North Carolina is one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world.
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| 18.07.2023 | Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian shares his daily routine and why true work-life balance doesn't exist: 'I don't think anyone can really accomplish that' | Alexis Ohanian (center), Olympia Ohanian (left), and Serena Williams. Charles Krupa/AP
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Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian shared his typical work and family routine.
Before marriage, he said he was terrible at finding any semblance ... |
| 27.06.2023 | Web3 Fashion Platform SYKY Launches Incubator for Emerging Digital Designers | Digital fashion platform SYKY has launched The SYKY Collective, a year-long incubator program created to help emerging digital designers grow their brands.
The inaugural class of 10 designers includes fashion house Pet Liger, fashion artist... |
| 21.06.2023 | More protein, fewer carbs: BetterBrand raises $6m in series A to expand guilt-free bagel business | BetterBrand—a Los Angeles-based startup making high-protein, ultra-low-carb bagels—has raised a $6 million series A round and says it is on track to break even by the fourth quarter of this year following dramatic growth in retail accounts ... |
| 24.05.2023 | Moonfire Ventures raises €106.7M fund: Know more about the new form of venture its building | London-based Moonfire Ventures, a new venture investing in early-stage startups in Europe, announced on Wednesday, that it has secured $115M (approximately €106.7M) in a fresh fund.
Moonfire transforms ventures by using machine learning mod... |
| 19.04.2023 | GOALS Secures $20 Million To Give Football Esports ‘The Game It Deserves’ | A Series A investment round, led by the founder of Reddit, brings GOALS’ total funding to $39 ... [+] million.GOALS |
| 14.01.2023 | SportTech: рынок с аудиторией но без денег | Мировой рынок SportTech оценивается примерно в $17 млрд и с уменьшением влияния COVID-19 ожидается значительный значительный рост в ближайшие годы. Так ожидается, что к 2026 году объем рынка будет более $40 млрд.
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| 12.08.2022 | Serena Williams is leaving tennis to become a full-time venture capitalist. Here’s why. | Serena Williams announced that she was leaving tennis to focus on venture capital investing.
Williams launched VC firm Serena Ventures in 2014 and has invested in over 60 companies.
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| 03.05.2022 | Americana Technologies Lets You Mint Anything Into a Digital Asset | Ryan Epps, Tech Times 03 May 2022, 01:05 pm
Ever wished to be an NFT artist? Even those that aren't fans of NFT art can still agree on the brilliancy behind Americana Technologies as it touts a rather interesting chip, called NFTA Universal... |
| 03.05.2022 | Americana’s chip turns physical objects into NFTs | NFTs are being used for far more than just proving you own a JPEG on the internet. Americana Technologies, a startup founded early last year by designer Jake Frey, allows brands and creators to turn physical items such as streetwear, collec... |
| 20.04.2022 | Helping retailers reduce their carbon footprint, Vaayu raises $11.5 million in Atomico-led round | Berlin-based climate tech startup Vaayu has raised $11.5 million in a seed funding round. The company will use the funding to further its services aimed at helping the retail sector reduce its carbon footprint with real-time carbon-tracking... |
| 13.03.2022 | Alexis Ohanian on his plan to back more emerging managers | Alexis Ohanian, Reddit cofounder, venture capitalist, and enthusiastic Twitter user, quietly announced a new initiative last week out of his venture firm, Seven Seven Six (776): the 776 Titans Fund. The new fund, as the firm describes it, p... |
| 15.02.2022 | Ro Raises $150M, Launches New Digital Clinic for Skincare | What You Should Know:
– Ro raises $150M in new funding led by ShawSpring Partners, with participation from General Catalyst, FirstMark Capital, TQ Ventures, SignalFire, BoxGroup, The Chernin Group, Initialized Capital, Altimeter Capital, Ba... |
| 02.02.2022 | Seven Seven Six Raises Two Funds, Totalling over $500M | Seven Seven Six ( 776 Management), the venture capital firm founded by Alexis Ohanian, raised two new funds, totalling over $500m.
The newly launched Funds II include:
an early stage-focused $300mvehicle, and
a $200m fund that will invest i... |
| 02.02.2022 | Seven Seven Six scores $500M+ | Seven Seven Six has raised over $500 million for its second fund. Founded by Alexis Ohanian, the early-stage VC firm invests primarily in software and technology companies.
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| 17.12.2021 | Alexis Ohanian and Polygon will invest $200M in decentralized social media | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Polygon and Alexis Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six will invest $200 million in social media projects that take advantage of blockchain techno... |
| 17.12.2021 | Alexis Ohanian and Polygon will invest $200M in decentralized social media | Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.
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| 16.12.2021 | Serena Williams to keynote eMerge Americas | Facebook
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Do success stories get any more inspiring than this? Serena Williams, the celebrated tennis champion, entrepreneur, fashion designer and venture investor, will share insights on her entrepreneurial journey ... |
| 22.11.2021 | Investing platform EarlyBird announces $4M Seed, led by Alexis Ohanian's Seven Seven Six | CHICAGO, Nov. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- EarlyBird announced it has secured $4M in seed funding. The round was led by Alexis Ohanian's Seven Seven Six, followed by strategic participation from Gemini's Frontier Fund along with Rarebreed Ventu... |
| 18.11.2021 | Party Round raises $7M to make the process of raising capital less awful | Party Round is building software that it hopes will make the process of raising early-stage corporate capital far simpler than it is today. And the company just used its own service to raise $7 million.
A host of names took part in the, wel... |
| 18.11.2021 | Fourthwall raises $17M for its all-in-one creator commerce platform | Let’s say you’re a YouTube star — honestly, it’s not impossible, given that now, some estimate that over 20,000 YouTubers have at least 1 million subscribers. You’re going to monetize through YouTube ads, probably, but you might also sell m... |
| 09.11.2021 | The co-founder of Reddit to partner on $100 million investment to build social media on the solana blockchain | Alexis Ohanian has partnered with the Solana Foundation to invest $100 million to build social-media projects on the solana blockchain.
The amount is double the $50 million investment that was initially planned.
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| 09.11.2021 | Houston Exponential hires new exec to promote inclusive innovation | Houston's considered one of the most diverse cities in the country, and Houston Exponential is focused on building an innovation ecosystem that's reflective of that.
The nonprofit organization announced a new hire that will lead this initia... |
| 04.11.2021 | Senior Companion Platform Papa Raises $150M at $1.4B Valuation | What You Should Know:
– Senior companion and support platform Papa, today announced a $150M in Series D funding to extend the reach and scale of Papa’s innovative solution. With a valuation of $1.4B, this funding round, led by SoftBank Visi... |
| 27.09.2021 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | Editor's note: In this week's roundup of Houston innovators to know, I'm introducing you to three local innovators across industries — from space health to virtual collaboration — recently making headlines in Houston innovation.
James Hury,... |
| 24.09.2021 | City launches public dashboard for tracking COVID-19 in Houston's wastewater | In 2020, a group of researchers began testing Houston's wastewater to collect data to help identify trends at the community level. Now, the team's work has been rounded up to use as an online resource.
The Houston Health Department and Rice... |
| 24.09.2021 | Rice University rises with massive $100M gift for innovative new student center | Rice University's Owls are soaring of late, with the school just being named the top in Texas and No. 7 in the U.S. Now, the institution known as the "Ivy League of the South" is the recipient of a mammoth gift aimed at a game-cha... |
| 08.09.2021 | Event: The Startup/ Venture Relationship With Clash and Seven Seven Six | What should be the relationship between every startup and their investor?
Last week, dot.LA hosted a Summer Series event that featured a discussion with Justice Tention, chief operating officer at Clash App, and Travis Mason, an operating p... |
| 09.08.2021 | Houston business leaders join forces to create innovative apprenticeship program | Much of the business world has operated under the belief that to enter the workforce, one must have a four-year degree. While this belief might be evolving naturally over recent years, two corporations have teamed up to move the needle even... |
| 09.08.2021 | Funding The Rebels: Watch Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian discussing the surprising business opportunities brought about by the pandemic with The Wharton School | Last year, we wrote about Alexis Ohanian after the Reddit co-founder resigned from the board of directors and urged the company to replace him with a black person. Ohanian, who is married to professional tennis player Serena Williams, was t... |
| 09.08.2021 | Final call for virtual global healthtech summit — and it's free to attend | It's nearly time: The online international summit HealthTech Beyond Borders is about to explore the future and impact of new technologies in the healthcare sector. A special focus on medical and healthcare developments and opportunities in ... |
| 09.08.2021 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | Editor's note: In this week's roundup of Houston innovators to know, I'm introducing you to three local innovators across industries — from blockchain technology to consumer-facing innovations — recently making headlines in Houston innovati... |
| 30.07.2021 | Houston cancer-fighting institution names 10 innovative fellows | A Houston institution has identified 10 researchers moving the needle on curing cancer.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center named 10 "early career" faculty members to its 2021 class of Andrew Sabin Family Fellows. Th... |
| 27.07.2021 | Houston energy startups claim big wins, space health fellows named, and more innovation news | What's the latest in news for the Houston innovation ecosystem? So glad you asked. Here's some local startup and tech news you might have missed.
In this roundup of short stories within Houston innovation, an energy transition startup snagg... |
| 27.07.2021 | Deloitte IDs 3 tech trends that deserve a closer look in 2021 | While cloud computing and artificial intelligence continue to dominate the technology industry, edge computing is also making headlines.
Deloitte's vice chairman and US technology sector leader, Paul Silverglate, shares his perspectives on ... |
| 27.07.2021 | Expert: Solar energy is a necessary solution to summer power grid insecurity in Texas | You know the old adage: "If you don't like the weather here, wait five minutes." Texas weather is not just unpredictable; it can be downright bipolar. I don't need to remind you of the knockout punch Old Man Winter delivered last ... |
| 18.06.2021 | Brief: Jay-Z fund backs plant-based NUGGS maker Simulate | Marcy Venture Partners, a VC firm founded by music moguls Shawn ‘Jay-Z’ Carter and Jay Brown alongside Walden Venture Capital‘s Larry Marcus, has invested in plant-based protein startup Simulate, Bloomberg reports.
New York-based Simulate —... |
| 10.06.2021 | Seven Seven Six, the new venture firm from Alexis Ohanian, closes $150 million Fund 1 | In June of last year, Alexis Ohanian announced that he was leaving Initialized Capital, the venture firm he co-founded alongside Garry Tan in 2011. Nearly a year later, he’s announcing that his new venture firm, Seven Seven Six, has raised ... |
| 08.06.2021 | SIMULATE Announces $50M Series B and Receives Valuation Of Over $250M | New York’s SIMULATE, which started life under the name of its first product NUGGS in 2019, today announces $50 million in Series B funding, making a total raise of $60 million, in a round which valued the company at more than $250 million. ... |
| 06.05.2021 | Metafy adds $5.5M to its seed round as the market for games coaching grows | This morning Metafy, a distributed startup building a marketplace to match gamers with instructors, announced that it has closed an additional $5.5 million to its $3.15 million seed round. Call it a seed-2, seed-extension or merely a baby S... |
| 27.04.2021 | Brothers Raise $9.5m In Series A Funding To Develop Their Riverside Platform | Gideon and Nadav Keyson are two young brothers from Amsterdam who have developed an advanced ... [+] podcasting and video recording platform that's already attracted clients including Disney, Fox Sports and Hillary Clinton.Mark Okhuizen |
| 26.03.2021 | Victoire Cogevina raises $3M seed round, led by Alexis Ohanian, for soccer startup Gloria | Facebook
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A couple of months ago, we reported that Victoire Cogevina, the CEO of a soccer social media startup, had moved back to Miami – “the best American city for football.”
Today, Cogevina, who co-founded Gloria ... |
| 15.03.2021 | California based alternative asset platform Alt raises US $ 31 million | Alt, a San Francisco based alternative asset platform, announced on 11th March 2021 that it has raised US $ 31 million in its seed and Series A rounds combined. The round was led by Seven Seven Six along with participation from multitudes o... |
| 23.02.2021 | Alexis Ohanian's new Seven Seven Six fund just picked the first 3 members of its program to train new VC investors | Alexis Ohanian's Seven Seven Six fund announced three new operators in residence.
The fund received over 1,100 applications in a week and only accepted three operators.
Back in September, Seven Seven Six targeted a $150 million fundraising.... |
| 22.02.2021 | Alexis Ohanian’s new Seven Seven Six fund just picked the first 3 members of its program to train new VC investors | Alexis Ohanian. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
Alexis Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six fund announced three new operators in residence.
The fund received over 1,100 applications in a week and only accepted three operators.
Back in September, Seven Seven S... |
| 17.01.2021 | Meet the millennial CEO who wants to redefine the ownership of men's clothing, and convinced Alexis Ohanian and Nas to invest | Regy Perlera, 28, is the founder and CEO of Seasons, a menswear rental platform.
Seasons raised $4.3 million in 2019 from investors such as Alexis Ohanian's Initialized Capital, Notation Capital, and the rapper Nas. It currently offers over... |
| 11.12.2020 | Five Predictions For Early Stage Startups In 2021 | getty |
| 28.09.2020 | Основатель Reddit Алексис Оганян зарегистрировал новый венчурный фонд на $150 млн | Фото: Medium
Сооснователь соцсети Reddit и венчурного фонда Initialized Capital Алексис Оганян планирует собрать $150 млн для нового фонда 776, следует из документов Комиссии по ценным бумагам и биржам США. В июне предприниматель покинул In... |
| 26.09.2020 | 4 things to know in #MiamiTech: $2M pitch contest open to Black founders, and more news to note | Facebook
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Black founders are invited to compete for a cool million in funding in a new pitch competition. Revolution’s Rise of the Rest, along with partners Opportunity Hub and 100 Black Angels & Allies, are host... |
| 25.09.2020 | Alexis Ohanian files for a new $150M fund, with a nod to his Olympian family | According to an SEC filing, Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit and early-stage VC firm Initialized Capital, is raising a new fund, named 776, with a target of $150 million. The filing comes three months after the entrepreneur left Ini... |
| - | Helping retailers reduce their carbon footprint, Vaayu raises $11.5 million in Atomico-led round | Berlin-based climate tech startup Vaayu has raised $11.5 million in a seed funding round. The company will use the funding to further its services aimed at helping the retail sector reduce its carbon footprint with real-time carbon-tracking... |
| - | HIMSS21 Day 2 Roundup: CVS Health Virtual Primary Care, M&A Activity, Funding, More | Raintree Systems Mourns the Passing of its CEO, Richard Welty
Raintree Systems, a software development company that provides value-based solutions for the healthcare industry, announces the passing of the company’s Founder and CEO, Richard ... |
| - | StartUPDATES: New developments from healthcare startups | What could Ubuntu mean for health equity? Equiva CEO Nir Altman ponders this question in a recent blog post, citing an article titled Ubuntu Philosophy in Healthcare recently published at KevinMD.com, the widely known platform where physici... |
| - | Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian on what wife Serena Williams taught him about ‘sustained greatness’ | For years, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has talked about the dangers of “hustle porn,” or overworking. His passion about the subject came from his wife, tennis legend Serena Williams,” he says.
Ohanian, 37, co-founded Reddit in 2006 and... |
| - | Serena Williams is leaving tennis to become a full-time venture capitalist. Here are some of the investments she has already made, from a couples' therapy startup to an NFT wallet. | Greg Allen/Invision/AP
Tennis champion Serena Williams said she is leaving the sport to pursue venture capital investing.
Serena Ventures invests in a wide range of companies, from crypto ventures to a line of chickpea-based foods.
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| - | Melinda French Gates, Alexis Ohanian and others call on Congress to pass paid family leave | In the United States, just 21% of civilian workers have access to paid family leave through their employer, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
As a result, many workers are forced to make hard decisions when it comes to balan... |
| - | Meet the millennial CEO who wants to redefine the ownership of men's clothing, and convinced Alexis Ohanian and Nas to invest | Regy Perlera. Courtesy of Seasons
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Regy Perlera, 28, is the founder and CEO of Seasons, a menswear rental platform.
Seasons raised $4.3 million in 2019 from investors such as Alexis Ohanian's Initialized Capital, Notation Capital,... |
| - | 13 leading VCs and investors funding creator economy startups like Linktree, Fourthwall, and Pearpop | From left to right: Jess Lee, Jarrid Tingle, Saaya Nath, and Faraz Fatemi Color; Harlem Capital; Jump; Lightspeed; Marianne Ayala/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| - | Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian on his biggest money mistake: Hiring a financial advisor | Alexis Ohanian is perhaps most widely known for co-founding Reddit and selling it for $10 million 16 months later at the age of 23 (and for marrying tennis legend Serena Williams in 2017). But today he is also known as a savvy start-up inve... |
| - | Elektra Health Raises $3.75M for Evidence-Based Menopause Care | What You Should Know:
– Elektra Health, a new women’s health tech company on a mission to smash the menopause taboo, is announcing $3.75M in seed funding co-led by Alexis Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six and Flare Capital Partners, with participat... |
| - | 12 of the best retail-tech venture capitalists in 2022, according to deal data and other VCs | Kimmie Carey, Ethan Choi, Carter Reum, and Frederic Court. Listen Ventures; Accel; M13; Felix Capital; iStock; Vicky Leta/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| - | Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian keep their start-up investments 'separate' — even though they're married | When tennis legend Serena Williams and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian first met at a cafe in Italy in 2015, the conversation quickly turned to business.
Today, the duo is married — with a daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr. — and both ha... |
| - | Here's an exclusive look at the pitch deck a 23-year-old TikTok star used to land $4.5 million from investors like Alexis Ohanian's Seven Seven Six | TikTok star and founder of Anja Health, Kathryn Cross. Autumn Communications This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Anja Health is a stem cell banking startup launched by 23-year... |
| - | Serena Williams is leaving tennis to become a full-time venture capitalist. Here’s why. | Serena Williams. Getty/Clive Brunskill
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Serena Williams announced that she was leaving tennis to focus on venture capital investing.
Williams launched VC firm Serena Ventures in 2014 and has invested in over 60 companies.
Serena V... |
