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Daily Crunch: London-based spatial computing startup Hadean closes $30 million Series A

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  • Fashionably late: Epic Games liked distributed computing startup Hadean so much that it didn’t want to miss out on a chance to back it. Paul has more on how Epic was able to get in on the $30 million Series A investment and why.
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