Can't-miss panel: Omair Tariq of Cart.com 🛒 + Jay Steinfeld of Blinds.com in “Houston OGs: A Fireside Chat.” The #HoustonTechRodeo event happens next Monday, 2/28! Blair Garrou events.hubilo.com/2022-tech-rode…

Ya know, we're something of a scale crusher ourselves.

Excited to announce our partnership w/ ORION Electronics Company, Inc to enable contactless E-Bike authentication! Our 4th launch in the mobility space in 2022, ORION plans to deliver our market-leading authentication solution across the U.S. buff.ly/3KgoK15 #ContactlessAuthentication #LISNR

And I convey my very last diploma tube as president of Rice.

Wow, just wow. 🤦‍♂️ The lack of insight on how to build a robust distributed evosystem is just astonishing. I cannot wait for the day when we look back on Ethereum as the Blackberry of blockchains. Innovative for its time but ultimately just a stepping stone to something better.

Bravo, Ben Johnson! The SpruceCrew CEO was named one of HousingWire’s 2022 Rising Stars. Blair Garrou housingwire.com/winner-profile…

End of the 1H and Cart.com 🛒 continues to break records…

It's not every day you're featured by Entrepreneur! Check out the story, which details our founder Omair Tariq's journey and his inspiration for building an all-in-one ecommerce platform. 🗞 : entrepreneur.com/growth-strateg… #entrepreneur #ecommerce

“We need governance structures that are actually adhered to, and we need more responsible VCs who practice good governance.” Samantha Lewis 🇺🇦 shares her thoughts on #DeFi, what she wants to hear in a pitch, and more in this TechCrunch piece from Jacquelyn Melinek. techcrunch.com/2023/01/10/six…

We’re pleased to announce Samantha Lewis 🇺🇦 has been promoted to Partner! Named one of Insider’s Rising-Star Fintech VCs, a Kauffman Fellow, and a member of Mercury’s DEI board, Samantha is a next-gen VC leader: driven, inclusive, & versed in emerging technologies.

1/ More in the VC community need to speak out publicly to quell the panic about Best crypto exchange ... I believe their CEO when he says they are solvent and not in violation of any banking ratios & goal was to raise & strengthen balance sheet

Our friends at Best crypto exchange have been great partners since the inception of Mercury Fund and they're taking their current challenges very seriously. Kudos for the transparency and pro-active steps to bolster the balance sheet. ir.svb.com/events-and-pre…

How Benson Hill cut a path for sustainable, non-GMO soy. “The focus at Benson Hill is scaling up their aquaculture ingredients… But they’ve already made inroads in the #pet and #poultry industries…” feedstrategy.com/animal-feed-ma…

Houston Landing — a new, nonprofit, no-paywall, nonpartisan journalism site — is ready to fully launch. Beginning Wednesday, you will see multiple news stories a day from our team. bit.ly/3C81kJJ

Excited to have Omair Tariq recognized along with so many other inspiring business leaders as a winner in the Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2023 Gulf South program! #EOYUS #EOY Gulf South EY US bit.ly/3qP2ojr

We are very excited to announce our partnership with SunCash, as we enable CBDC payments within its digital wallet, delivering online and offline proximity-based payments to consumers and merchants in the Bahamas!

If anyone is looking to understand what happened in #crypto this week between the #SEC and Ripple $XRP, I humbly recommend... mirror.xyz/c-georgen.eth/…

BIG NEWS! We’re thrilled to announce that Arden has acquired Shadow Storage, a leading decentralized storage solution built on GenesysGo shdwDrive. The full Medium post is below, with the tl;dr in the 🧵. medium.com/@ardenlabs/ard…

Arden is thrilled to announce the March 26 launch of Material World, a cross-chain NFT project built to gamify the utility of @Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) and Verified Randomness Function (VRF). Learn more in the🧵👇

Loyalty is indeed still a thing, and blockchain truly unlocks a number of value-add use cases to the end user experience. The on-chain tech must be implemented with a laser focus on ADDING value, rather than simply replacing existing value. Coming soon w/ Arden.cc