Tech
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Group Nine Media forms a SPAC to fund acquisitions
Group Nine Media — which owns Thrillist, NowThis, The Dodo, Seeker and PopSugar — is the latest company to form a SPAC,...
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403One final $100M ARR company and the startups we want to meet in 2021
As we head towards the exits of 2020, we have one more name to add to our roll call of private companies...
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Astroscale ships its space junk removal demonstration satellite for March 2021 mission
Japanese startup Astroscale has shipped its ELSA-d spacecraft to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazahkstan, where it will be integrated with a Soyuz...
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Liberis, the embedded finance provider for SMEs, raises additional £70M in equity and debt
Liberis, the U.K.-based fintech that provides finance for small businesses as an alternative to a traditional bank loan or extended overdraft, has...
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Asia’s casino capital Macau to host a CES alternative in 2021
Macau, the former Portuguese colony that is now the world’s biggest gambling center, is planning to host a tech fair next year...
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Google leads $145M investment in India’s Glance; backs DailyHunt in $100M round
Indian startup Glance, which serves news, media content, and games on the lock screen of over 100 million smartphones, has a new...
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Horizon Robotics, a Chinese rival to Nvidia, seeks to raise over $700M
In their rush to offer alternatives to advanced western chipsets, Chinese semiconductor companies are racking up large fundings from investors. Horizon Robotics,...
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Snoop Dogg’s Casa Verde Capital closes on $100 million as the cannabis industry bounces back
Casa Verde Capital, the investment fund co-founded by cannabis connoisseur Snoop Dogg (also known as Calvin Broadus), has closed on $100 million...
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Google, Cisco and VMware join Microsoft to oppose NSO Group in WhatsApp spyware case
A coalition of companies have filed an amicus brief in support of a legal case brought by WhatsApp against Israeli intelligence firm...
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Despite economic downturn, space startup funding defies gravity
The COVID-19 pandemic might have upended the global economy, but according to Meagan Crawford at Spacefund and Chris Moran with Lockheed Martin...