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Building a growth community in India with Ayush Srivastava of Growth Folks

Indian startups of all sizes are raising record amounts of investment funding this year and getting public exits, as we’ve been covering in recent months. To hear more about the growth behind th

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Sequoia’s Stephanie Zhan and Rec Room’s Nick Fajt are joining us on Extra Crunch Live

Sequoia is one of the most prestigious and successful venture firms to ever exist. The firm’s portfolio includes Airbnb, 23andMe, Docker, Dropbox, Figma and GitHub — and that barely covers

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The Art of the Party: Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge

02:00 This Chinese painting was created by Chinese artist Wei Zixi in the 1970s.It was modeled on the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, the first modern bridge designed and

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Chris Sacca’s Lowercarbon Capital has raised $800 million to “keep unf*cking the planet”

Lowercarbon Capital, a climate-tech focused fund founded by longtime investor Chris Sacca and his wife Crystal Sacca, has closed on $800 million in capital, Sacca announced today in a post on the firm

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Motivo raises $12M Series A to speed up chip design with AI

Chip design is a long slog of trial and error, taking years to bring a design to market. Motivo, a five year old startup from a chip industry veteran is creating software to speed up chip design from

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Wonder Brands picks up $20M, aims to build marketplace of Latin American e-commerce brands

E-commerce roll-up companies are big in the United States, and Wonder Brands wants to be that for Latin America.The Mexico-based company closed on $20 million in seed funding, co-led by ALLVP and Moun

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WhatsApp gains the ability to transfer chat history between mobile operating systems

WhatsApp users will finally be able to move their entire chat history between mobile operating systems — something that’s been one of users’ biggest requests to date. The company tod

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Bite Ninja scoops up pre-seed funding to reimagine restaurant working environments

Will Clem knows all too well about restaurant workers not showing up for a shift. At least one person would have car trouble or need to stay home with sick children, and it became a common occurrence

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Facebook engineers develop new open source time keeping appliance

Most people probably don’t realize just how much our devices are time driven, whether it’s your phone, your laptop or a network server. For the most part, time keeping has been an esoteric

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Singapore’s logistics tech startup Parcel Perform raises $20 million

Singapore-headquartered Parcel Perform, which connects merchants with e-commerce carriers and provides shipment tracking features, said on Wednesday it has raised $20 million in a new financing round

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Starship Technologies is bringing food delivery robots to four more US college campuses this year

Starship Technologies, an autonomous delivery services company, announced that it will begin delivery service on four additional college campuses this fall, adding to the 20 campuses on which it alrea

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VCs are betting big on Kubernetes: Here are 5 reasons why

I worked at Google for six years. Internally, you have no choice — you must use Kubernetes if you are deploying microservices and containers (it’s actually not called Kubernetes inside of Google; it’s

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Surfside, a marketing technology for the cannabis space, inhales $4 million

Surfside, a data and marketing platform aimed directly at the Cannabis industry, has today announced the close of a $4 million seed round led by Casa Verde. The firm’s managing partner, Karan Wa

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Leaks and spills: What happened in the U.S. coronavirus labs?

04:08 When the WHO and some countries said they wantto investigate the origin of COVID-19 in China,the Chinese government agreed and cooperated. But after months of investigation, the r

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Top aide to New York's Governor resigns amid his harassment scandal

Melissa DeRosa, a senior aide to New York governor Andrew Cuomo, resigned Sunday night amid the governor's spiraling sexual harassment scandal, saying the last two years have been "mentally and physi

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The Art of the Party: Chengdu-Chongqing Railway

01:58 This oil painting, titled “Roadbuilding Pioneers,” was created by Chinese artists Chen Yifei and Wei Jingshan in 1972.It depicts Chinese people united to build th

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UFC 265: Gane smashes Lewis to become France's first ever UFC champion

A major factor in the UFC's meteoric success has been the company's deftness when creating storylines. Using the opaque ranking system as a basis, the UFC brass matchmake with the best fighters alway