ClassPass is headed to Asia via an imminent launch in SingaporeU.S fitness startup ClassPass is headed to Asia after it announced plans to go live in Singapore, its first city in the continent. Four-year-old ClassPass allows its users to book fitness classes and packages across a multitude of gyms. The company claims to work with more than 10,000 fitness partners across over 50 cities globally. That’s mostly in the U.S. but it has also forayed into Canada, the UK and Australia and now it is seeking out additional growth opportunities. [ Tech Crunch ] Yahoo Co-Founder Jerry Yang Says He's the Luckiest Person AlThe rise of Chinese Internet giants like Alibaba and Tencent happened as the U.S. tech industry largely ignored that market, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang said. Chinese tech companies started out mainly copying successful western companies, Yang said on Monday at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colo. “The West by definition kind of ignored that,” Yang said “They looked at China as they’re just going to copy, they’re not going to innovate.” Left to their own devices, the Chinese companies evolved rapidly in “an almost cut-throat market environment that developed these entrepreneurs” [ Fortune ] How WeWork and Slack Are Scaling UpIf WeWork represents the physical aspect of how we work today, then Slack signifies the digital side. At the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference on Monday, the chief product officers of both companies explained how they’re scaling and handling their rapid growth as customers have flocked to their services and platforms. [ Fortune ] VC Firm Andreessen Horowitz Promotes Connie Chan to General PartnerVenture firm Andreessen Horowitz has promoted Connie Chan to general partner with a focus on consumer investments. Chan, a partner who joined as an analyst in 2011, is the first general partner to get promoted from within the firm. Her promotion means that Andreessen Horowitz is breaking its long-standing requirement that general partners need to have operating experience prior to joining. [ Fortune ] Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel bets on crypto start-up Block.oneVenture capitalist Peter Thiel is placing a new bet in the crypto space. The early Facebook investor was a part of Cayman Islands start-up Block.one’s most recent funding round announced Monday. The company recently raised a record $4 billion to fund its blockchain platform eos.ios through a process known as an initial coin offering, or ICO. The fundraising more than doubled the next biggest offering of that type, and eclipsed the world's biggest initial public offerings on stock exchanges this year before its flagship product even went live. [ CNBC ] Online learning platform Unacademy gets $21M Series C from Sequoia India, SAIF and Nexus Bangalore-based Unacademy will add more educators to its online learning platform, which claims to be India’s largest, after closing a $21 million Series C. The funding comes from Sequoia India, SAIF Partners and Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from Blume Ventures (all four firms are returning from Unacademy’s Series B last year). Originally a YouTube channel created in 2010 by Gaurav Munjal, Unacademy was officially launched as a startup in 2015 by founders Munjal, Roman Saini and Hemesh Singh. It has now raised $38.6 million in total. [ TechCrunch ] SEX, BEER, AND CODING: INSIDE FACEBOOK’S WILD EARLY DAYSTiming Cashflows of Your Sales Commissions and Your CustomersFormer Israeli prime minister helps launch a16z-backed cyber defense startupHatched In A Dorm Room, This $25M Investment Fund Is Redefining Venture CapitalChina Drives Q2 Investment In The Asia-PacificA $15 billion e-cig startup that’s taking over the US is moving into LondonFundrasing 101: The VC Landscape in Europe + Beyond - Panel Discussion Kirsty Nathoo with Shan-Lyn Ma, Founder of ZolaWhat I Learned Launching A New Product // Rachael Blumenfeld, Dia&Co [FirstMark's Design Driven] Jessica Livingston Shares 9 Things She Learned From Founding YC |