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Tenacity Venture Capital today announced the launch of its inaugural fund, which will invest in transformative technology companies in the formation, pre-seed and seed stages. Founded by 25-year entrepreneur and investor Ben Narasin, the fund spins out with initial commitments from NEA as well as other leading investors and serial entrepreneurs.

Four of the top 5 deals this week come out of foreign markets - Mexico, Sweden, France and Germany. We also have two deals in the blockchain sector - Solana Labs and Ledger. Big numbers again, this week, too. The smallest deal in the Top 5 came in at $180M with the "winner" - Swedish payments firm Klarna - topping out at $639M USD.

-SIMON Annuities and Insurance Services LLC (“SIMON”) is pleased to announce that Nationwide—a Fortune 100 insurance and financial services company with more than nine decades of experience protecting people and their financial futures—as the latest carrier to join its insurtech platform’s Marketplace.

Practifi, a business management platform for the financial services industry, was planning to change how it interacted with email and calendar scheduling programs but wasn’t sure how to proceed. A client advisor board offered just the insights the firm needed.

SIMON Markets LLC (“SIMON”) today announced it will integrate cryptocurrency education into its leading-edge fintech platform for wealth management professionals, delivering on what firms and their financial professionals have been asking for amidst a rapidly growing market.

Crypto is on a roll across the wealth management space, as Wall Street financial institutions, independent broker-dealers and RIA firms increasingly explore how to offer crypto-based financial products and strategies.

FusionIQ, a leading investment research and technology provider, today announced the addition of more than 30 alternative investment products to its workstation through an integration with Galaxy Plus. Alongside equities and fixed income products, FusionIQ customers can now analyze and invest in a variety of alternative investment strategies.

Better HoldCo, Inc.(“Better” or the “Company”), one of the fastest-growing digital homeownership platforms in the U.S., and Aurora Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: AURC) (“Aurora”), a special purpose acquisition company, which closed its initial public offering on March 8, 2021, today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement that will transform Better into a publicly-listed company.

Joel Bruckenstein, president of Technology Tools for Today (T3), has launched registration for the T3 Advisor and T3 Enterprise conferences. Formerly run as two separate events at different venues at different times of the year, the post-pandemic plan for 2021 is to run the two events back-to-back beginning Monday September 27 and concluding on Friday, October 1, 2021, in Denton, Texas.

Property tech “is a good number of years behind the maturity of other spaces. Fintech, for example, has already dramatically re-shaped the world of wealth management, with many traditional wealth management businesses forced to adopt new technologies or fail.”