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Backers the sources do not name (\"angel investors\") are not counted.", "Name cleaning: a label in brackets after a name (a round, a role, a parent firm) is shown beside the pairing, and two spellings of one firm are merged (Coatue Management is listed as Coatue).", "People: where a pairing names a person, the row quotes the passage from the source that names them.", "Sources: every pairing shows the cited source or sources in which the backer is named. 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