By most measures, Dom Leca is a successful entrepreneur. He’s started and sold two companies, including one to Google. And yet instead of feeling accomplished, several years ago Leca realised he felt an internal void.
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February 3, 2021
Reinventing the browser? Beam raises fresh capital to take on Google, Microsoft and Mozilla
Madness or genius? Beam has raised $9.5m to take on some of the biggest tech companies in the world creating a new web browser.
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