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Distributed Computing Start Up Hain

has nabbed $30 million to power the Metiverse.

A Strava co-founder is racing into a lucrative market, lending against life insurance, and

Kenyan startup Ponia is gaining momentum in driving access to medical services.

Hadian, a UK-based distributed spatial computing startup that's

setting out to build the infrastructure for the burgeoning metaverse,

has closed a $30 million series A round of funding from a high-profile

cast of investors, including Epic Games and Tencent. Founded out of London in 2015,

Hadians started with a broad mission to put super computer levels of

processing power at the disposal of anyone, Techronch wrote back in 2017, when the company was

still operating in beta.

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