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These undergraduates left university to build Flux, a payments startup now in YC

Traditional remittance companies, while necessary, currently have two flaws in speed and exorbitant fees. It can take a long while (days to weeks) for money sent from an immigrant in the U.S. to reach

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Fetcher raises $6.5M to automate parts of the recruiting process

Fetcher, a startup that promises to make the recruiting process easier while also diversifying the candidate pool, is announcing that it has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding.Original known as S

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Blackstone just closed its inaugural growth equity fund, and it’s a doozy

The private equity giant Blackstone is today announcing the final close of its first growth equity fund — Blackstone Growth — with $4.5 billion in capital commitments from a wide range of

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Undercover work brought to life through drama

National security officers usually work undercover and keep a low profile, but a television drama has thrusted them into the limelight, highlighting their commitment to the country's safety.The fi

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MrBeast’s management company, Night Media, has a new venture fund that’s backed by creators

MrBeast’s management company is getting into the venture business.Night Media, the six-year-old, Dallas-based multimedia talent management company, is closing a debut fund with $20 million in ca

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Atlassian peps up Confluence with new graphical design features

Confluence, Atlassian’s wiki-like collaborative workspace, has been around for over 15 years and is often a core knowledge-sharing tool for the companies that implement it. But for the most part

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COVID-19, the real winner in Europe's vaccine suspension

A box of the AstraZeneneca vaccine, March 12, 2021. /Getty Editor's note: Jonathan Arnott is a former member of the European Parliament. The article reflects the author's opinions and not nece

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Okay, the GPT-3 hype seems pretty reasonable

This morning TechCrunch covered an interesting round for Copy.ai, a startup that employs GPT-3 to help other companies with their writing projects. GPT-3, or Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3, is a

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France’s privacy watchdog probes Clubhouse after complaint and petition

Clubhouse, the buzzy but still invite only social audio app that’s popular with the Silicon Valley technorati, is being investigated by France’s privacy watchdog.The CNIL announced today i

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Writing helper Copy.ai raises $2.9M in a round led by Craft Ventures

Copy.ai, a startup building AI-powered copywriting tools for business customers, announced a $2.9 million round this morning. The investment was led by Craft Ventures. Other investors took part in the

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Airtable is now valued at $5.77B with a fresh $270 million in Series E funding

Airtable, the no-code relational database that has amassed a customer base that spans 250,000 different organizations, has today announced the close of a $270 million in series E funding. The valuatio

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Improving HK electoral system provides "an institutional guarantee"

An article by Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. Cui Tiankai was published on the website of The South China Morning Post on Sunday. In the article, Cui emphasized that China's decision to improve in

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Behind closed doors

All is never as it seems behind the door across the street, a situation many films and novels, even William Shakespeare's works, have touched upon. What may, from the outside, seem like a perfect s

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Investors discuss alt-financing and the role of venture capital

There are so many ways to secure capital for your startup beyond traditional venture capital, from crowdfunding to debt financings to revenue-share agreements. But is all money created equal if you ar

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The path forward for essential workers

Gig workers and warehouse workers have become essential in a pandemic-ravaged economy. In California, a law went into effect earlier this year that makes gig workers independent contractors. Meanwhile

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UFC 259: Blachowicz rewrites UFC's Adesanya story line

One thing must be made clear: the UFC is in the sports-entertainment business. The fights may be more real than WWE but it's still built around story lines. That's why Conor McGregor is such a big de

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Afghan president says ready to discuss elections to advance talks with Taliban

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said on Saturday, in a bid to push forward peace talks with the Taliban, that his government was ready to discuss holding fresh elections,