EV charging investment is hot, a new concern creeps into crypto, LatAm’s 2022 outlook and more - April 28, 2022

April 28, 2022 [Investment in EV charging is electric]( Venture investors and startups are scaling up efforts to improve electric vehicle infrastructure. Over the past few quarters, scores of companies in the EV space have raised funding, much of it seed and early stage. We take a look at this niche part of the sector. [Environmental concerns over crypto come into focus]( It’s sometimes easy to think everything in the world of crypto is cheery, especially when new unicorns are minted almost weekly. But a couple of recent events highlight a concern—energy consumption—that while unlikely to derail the crypto industry, certainly has the potential to disrupt the digital currency sectors. [What LatAm’s startup ecosystem will look like in 2022]( Latin America was the fastest-growing region for venture investment in 2021, but funding fell in Q1 2022. What will the rest of this year hold? Investors will be driven by the possibility of successful exits from the region and U.S.-based funds will lead the way, predicts guest author Wenyi Cai of Polymath Ventures. [Layoffs hit Robinhood amid tech stock selloff]( Stock trading platform Robinhood announced plans this week to cut about 9 percent of its workforce. The layoffs come during a time when tech stocks in particular have been hit hard. [Dragonfly Capital Partners launches new $650M crypto fund]( Crypto investor Dragonfly Capital Partners has launched a new $650 million fund. It’s one of several new crypto-focused funds announced in the last two months—even as funding to crypto startups in the first quarter of the year fell from the previous quarter. [The Emerging Unicorn Board: Meet the next billion-dollar startups]( We’ve launched [The Crunchbase Emerging Unicorn Board]( a curated list, powered by Crunchbase’s data, of fast-growth private companies that are on the path to achieve unicorn valuations. We have more than 300 companies on the list so far that are on the cusp of billion-dollar valuations. See who they are and help us identify other emerging unicorns for our new list. [Truly terrible SPAC performers hit lower lows in 2022]( To put it mildly, the great SPAC boom of 2020 to 2021 has not worked out as well as the players behind these deals had hoped. Revisiting a curated list of 49 “truly terrible performers” among venture-backed SPACs from December, it turns out that all but four have fallen further since then. [How to generate hyper-targeted lead lists]( Online marketing is vitally important for modern enterprises. However, you can’t send the same marketing email or ad to everyone on your lead list. This article will go over what targeted lead lists are, how they help your brand, and how to make them. 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