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When Circle raised its $110 million funding round, the company used this opportunity to talk about its stablecoin — USD Coin, or USDC for short. And you can now buy, sell and send USD Coins on Circle Trade and Circle exchange Poloniex.

But what is a stablecoin As the name suggests, 1 USDC is worth 1 USD. Unlike traditional

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Today, a new crop of startups is launching out of the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator. This marks the 15th ERA class, with the past 14 classes comprising 165 startups with a combined market capitalization of more than $2 billion.

Thirteen companies in total are participating in the demo day today, spanning a variety of industries, including

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Instana, an application performance monitoring (APM) service with a focus on modern containerized services, today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series C funding round. The round was led by Meritech Capital, with participation from existing investor Accel. This brings Instana total funding to $57 million.

The company, which

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Despite the increase in women in the U.S. workforce and public pledges from several high-profile CEOs to close the gender pay gap, women, especially working mothers, often find themselves without the resources necessary to succeed at work.

Maven, a digital health startup and benefits platform focused on improving access to healthcare for women, has

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Bleximo, a startup that aims to build &quantum accelerators& — basically quantum-based, application-specific integrated circuits — today announced it has raised a $1.5 million seed round led by Eniac Ventures. Other investors in this round includeBoost VC, Creative Ventures, KEC Ventures and Gyan Kapur.

Instead of

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Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, Warby Parker and a long list of other startups of the 21st century have appointed C-level employees to roles focused exclusively on data science.

These digital-age companies have established &data cultures,& which provide employees broad access to high-quality data, advocate for data literacy and have data-driven

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