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Sharebite bags $39M to expand its corporate food ordering program Jun 29, 2022

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Sharebite, a startup that partners with restaurants to deliver food to corporate clients, today announced that it raised $39 million in a Series B round led by Prosus with participation from Fiserv, Contour Venture Partners, Reign Ventures, London Technology Club and Not Boring Fund.

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Degreed’s co-founder is back at the company he left…with the startup he built Jun 28, 2022

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Edtech up-skilling platform Degreed has acquired Learn In, which creates talent resource hubs for employers to better spin up education services for their teams.

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ConductorOne is bringing automation to identity and access management with $15M investment Jun 28, 2022

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The founders of ConductorOne, an identity and access control startup, both came from Okta, which is itself a single sign-on vendor based on the zero trust model.

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Zomato acquires Blinkit for $568 million in instant-grocery delivery push Jun 27, 2022

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Zomato has acquired Blinkit, a struggling 10-minute grocery delivery startup, in a $568.1 million all-stock deal as the loss-making food delivery firm looks to broaden its offerings at a time when its shares are trading far below last year’s debut price.

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Cryptoys banks a16z funding to build NFTs for kids Jun 27, 2022

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The past several months haven’t been entirely kind to the NFT market — while transaction volume hasn’t stuttered too significantly, the dollar amount invested in the space has been in free fall as cryptocurrency prices have taken a historic dive.

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Epsilon3’s space industry OS powers more than launches as it brings in $15M in new funding Jun 24, 2022

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The space industry is evolving, as are the tools it uses; Epsilon3 is a startup trying to make launches, satellite design, rocket manufacturing, and other complex processes easier and more collaborative.

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Tiger Global backs SaaS omnichannel social commerce platform SleekFlow in $8M funding Jun 24, 2022

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Social commerce — the process of buying and selling products or services directly through social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok — is becoming the most natural way for consumers to make purchases since people use social media and messaging apps almost every day.

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Starburst acquires data lake analytics accelerator Varada to challenge Snowflake Jun 23, 2022

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Starburst, the well-funded data warehouse analytics service and data query engine based on the open-source Trino project, today announced that it has acquired Varada, a Tel Aviv-based startup that focuses on data lake analytics.

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Fermyon wants to reinvent the way programmers develop microservices Jun 23, 2022

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When Fermyon’s founders were working at Microsoft, they helped build a lot of cloud native technologies.

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Vietnam-based Anfin makes stock investing accessible Jun 22, 2022

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Based in Vietnam, Anfin wants to turn more people into stock investors with features like fractional trading and in-app communities.

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