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A few weeks ago,聽we chatted about how to make networking more personal. Then I remembered what a founder once told me: If you ever move to a city, and you work in an industry that the city is known for, like tech in San Francisco, it鈥檚 basically impossible to be your authentic self.

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So here鈥檚 my edit to earlier advice: schedule a coffee this week with someone you actually want to talk to. The kicker: they have to be outside the world of venture capital and tech.聽, and I might include them in next week鈥檚 post.

Until then, let鈥檚 wind back into tech with our Q3 reports. We took a look at聽global venture capital trends in the past quarter聽and narrowed that lens to聽focus on North American deals.TL;DR: Seed is growing all over the world, and shaky IPOs haven鈥檛 impacted investor appetite (yet).

Continuing our regional coverage,聽听耻苍辫补肠办别诲听Latin America鈥檚 tech scene, where startups are on track to raise an unprecedented amount of capital this year.聽聽wrote a story about聽Boston鈥檚 seed scene and how it stacks up against other venture hubs, and, to end our road trip,聽聽drove us through the聽East Bay鈥檚 鈥渇unding hotbeds.鈥�

For the people behind the stories, listen to the聽latest podcast in our mini-series聽Some Personal News to hear聽, our senior data reporter, unpack his VC data tips and tricks.聽And for the latest Seed Series, our look at the earliest investors of risky startups, we chatted with Katie Rae of The Engine, a venture firm spun out of MIT.

This week also had its fair share of funding news. ASYSTEMS, a male wellness startup,聽raised a $4 million seed round, and Five Below, a cheap goods store, took part in a聽$12 million Series A round to build out esports in real life. Grammarly also聽raised $90 million to solve comma complexity for all of us. In super late-stage news, RigUp聽raised a $300 million a16z-led round for on-demand oil and gas jobs, and Next Insurance聽raised $250 million at a $1 billion valuation.

Now go grab a coffee,

滨濒濒耻蝉迟谤补迟颈辞苍:听.