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GM confirms a third electric pickup truck is in development

GM will add a full-size electric pickup truck to its GMC lineup, the latest in a string of EV product announcements by the automaker in the past year as it pushes to deliver more than 1 million electr

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Founders: How well do you really understand seed-stage financing?

I’ve fundraised a lot. Tactically, fundraising is a skill like any other. You get better the more you do it. But practicing gets you nowhere if you don’t have a strong foundation in unders

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LeagueApps raises $15M to be the ‘operating system’ for youth sports organizations

Youth sports are an integral part of our communities, bringing families together and helping kids all over gain confidence and skills.Most of us don’t think about all the work that goes into setting u

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AngelList Venture’s Avlok Kohli on rolling funds and the busy state of VC

Few companies have deeper insights into the day-by-day state of venture capital than AngelList. According to the company’s data, over 51% of the “top tier U.S. VC deals” involve thei

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Robinhood targets IPO valuation up to $35B amid warning that crypto incomes are slipping

Robinhood released an S-1/A filing detailing its first IPO price range this morning. The company first filed to go public in early July after raising billions earlier in the year.The well-known U.S. c

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Advanced technologies give boost to Beijing Winter Olympics

02:33 Monday marks the 200-day countdown to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. Organizers are busy putting the final touches on venues and other infrastructures. Meanwhile, technologies

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Rise Gardens grows with $9M Series A to help anyone be an indoor farmer

As more consumers embrace plant-based diets and sustainable food practices, Rise Gardens is giving anyone the ability to have a green thumb from the comfort of their own home.The Chicago-based indoor,

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How one founder pivoted a startup designed for in-person interaction in light of the pandemic

When Ashley Sumner designed and launched Quilt, it was meant to be a response to digital social networking, preferring creating authentic in-person interactions between people who didn’t necessa

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COVID-19 antibodies persist 'at least nine months after infection', study finds

Researchers test almost all the inhabitants of the small Italian town of Vo, which became the centre of the country's pandemic last year.

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Nigerian investment platform Chaka secures $1.5M pre-seed after bagging country’s first SEC license

When Robinhood raised its $3 million seed round in 2013, it was a couple of months old with huge ambitions of democratizing securities access to the underserved and unserved. Robinhood has since taken

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Lenskart valued at $2.5 billion following $220 million investment from Temasek and Falcon Edge Capital

Temasek and Falcon Edge Capital have led a $220 million investment in Indian omni-channel eyewear retailer Lenskart, valuing the Bangalore-based startup at $2.5 billion.The new investment, which inclu

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Japan, S.Korea leaders summit in limbo amid uproar over sexual innuendo

Plans to hold the first in-person summit between the leaders of Japan and South Korea have hit a snag over a disparaging comment by a Japanese diplomat about the South

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Pakistani FM visits Chinese nationals injured in blast

The Dasu attack is not only an attack on the Chinese, but also on Pakistan and the friendship between the two countries, said Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi when visiting the serious

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The rich world's debt to island states

Fishing is the main industry in Greenland. /VCG Editor's note: Jeffrey D. Sachs, University Professor at Columbia University, is Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia

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Martine Moise, widow of assassinated president, returns to Haiti

Martine Moise, the widow of Haiti's assassinated president Jovenel Moise, returned to the Caribbean nation on Saturday for his funeral after she was treated in a Miami

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Commandos seek 'battlefield advantage' as they train with drone swarms in UK first

Royal Marines have trained with drone swarms in what is thought to be a first for the UK's armed forces, as the Ministry of Defence looks to move the military further into the 21st century.

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Visualping raises $6M to make its website change monitoring service smarter

Visualping, a service that can help you monitor websites for changes like price drops or other updates, announced that it has raised a $6 million extension to the $2 million seed round it announced ea