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Snowflake and JFrog raise IPO ranges as tech markets stay hot

What market selloff?Despite last week’s market declines, two big IPOs are rolling ahead this week, with Snowflake and JFrog both boosting their IPO price ranges this morning. The jump in expect

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DaVinci Kitchen is building a robotic pasta-making kiosk

The robotics industry is having a major moment amid the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s true that category has been an exciting target for investments for a number of years now, but labor i

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China's EV sales rise for second month as overall market recovers

VCG New energy vehicle (NEV) sales in China surged 26 percent year on year to 109,000 units in August for their second consecutive month of gain, a promising sign for automakers that have inve

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Iron Ox raises $20 million for its robotic farms

Bay Area-based Iron Ox today announced a $20 million Series B. The funding, led by Pathbreaker Venture and family office firms, brings the robotics company’s total funding up to $45 million to date.

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SpaceX will launch Masten’s first lander to the Moon in 2022

SpaceX has secured a contract to act as the launch partner for Masten Space Systems, one of the companies awarded a NASA launch contract under that agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (C

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Cryptocurrency exchange FTX acquires portfolio tracker Blockfolio

FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange that offers derivatives, options and other sophisticated products, is acquiring a popular portfolio tracking app, Blockfolio.FTX is spending $150 million for the acquisi

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"When China recovers, we recover with it": Honeywell key executive

"When China recovers, we recover with it. So for us, as a very, very local and entrenched multinational company operating in China, recovery of China is a great story for us," said Shane Tedjarati, pr

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The founders of Blavity and The Shade Room are coming to Disrupt 2020

Although the media industry is currently in the midst of a long-overdue reckoning over diversity, representation and racism, Morgan DeBaun and Angie Nwandu have been building a more diverse digital m

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India’s first Earth-imaging satellite startup raises $5 million, first launch planned for later this year

Bengaluru-based Pixxel is getting ready to launch its first Earth imaging satellite later this year, with a scheduled mission aboard a Soyuz rocket. The roughly one-and-a-half-year old company is movi

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ChargePoint raises $127M as electric vehicle adoption grows among fleet operators

Electric vehicle charging network ChargePoint raised $127 million in funding in a bid to expand its platform for businesses and fleets in North America and Europe.A mix of existing investors from the

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Boston’s Q2 shows that the startup rebound isn’t ahead of us, it’s upon us

The coronavirus caused some disagreement amongst Boston’s venture capital community. Looking back at our mid-2020 survey of its VCs, some saw the city’s strength in biotech and healthcare as a competi

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China's central SOEs receive over 110-bln-yuan social capital in H1

China's centrally-administered state-owned enterprises (SOEs) received more than 110 billion yuan (about 15.7 billion U.S. dollars) of social capital through equity tr

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Amazon reportedly in talks to buy a 9.9% stake in India’s Reliance Retail

Amazon may join its global rivals Google and Facebook in backing one of Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s ventures.The American e-commerce giant is in preliminary talks to acquire a 9.9% stake in R

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Electric-bike maker Cowboy raises $26 million

Cowboy has raised a $26 million (€23 million) Series B funding round from Exor Seeds, HCVC, Isomer Capital, Future Positive Capital and Index Ventures. The startup has been manufacturing premium elect

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‘Edtech is no longer optional’: Investors deep dive into the future of the market

One reason some venture capitalists and founders don’t enter edtech is because the space has a sluggish stereotype, thanks to red tape, slow sales cycles, and, in America, a fragmented customer base.B

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Revel lands permit to bring hundreds of electric mopeds to San Francisco

Shared electric moped startup Revel received a permit that will allow it to operate in San Francisco, beginning in August.The startup will start with a fleet of 432 mopeds featuring a new paint schem

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Auckland-based photo software startup Narrative raises $2.58 million led by Founders Fund

For many freelance photographers, marketing their businesses and editing photos takes as much time, if not much more, than photoshoots. Founded in 2017, Auckland-based Narrative helps professional pho