Plant-based food brand Huel valued at $560M following Idris Elba-backed round

Plant-based food brand Huel valued at $560M following Idris Elba-backed round

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Huel, the European provider of nutritional products, has sold more than 270 million meals across the globe since Julian Hearn started the company...

LastPass says it was breached — again

LastPass says it was breached — again

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Password manager LassPass said its investigating a security incident after its systems were compromised for the second time this year. LastPass...

Pinterest shuts down its ‘Creator Rewards’ program

Pinterest shuts down its ‘Creator Rewards’ program

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Pinterest has shut down its Creator Rewards program that allowed creators to earn money by creating content around monthly prompts and achieving...

India pips North America to become the biggest smartwatch market

India pips North America to become the biggest smartwatch market

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India surpassed North America to take the top global spot in the smartwatch market in the quarter that ended in September, according to a report...

Disney coughs up $900M to acquire MLB’s remaining stake in BAMTech streaming company

Disney coughs up $900M to acquire MLB’s remaining stake in BAMTech streaming company

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Disney paid $900 million to Major League Baseball (MLB) earlier this month to buy out the league’s remaining 15% stake in the streaming firm...

eFounders morphs into Hexa, a portfolio company of startup studios

eFounders morphs into Hexa, a portfolio company of startup studios

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Over the past 11 years, eFounders has refined the startup studio model in Europe. The company has contributed to the launch of more than 30...

Gogoro to pilot battery swapping and Smartscooters in Philippines next year

Gogoro to pilot battery swapping and Smartscooters in Philippines next year

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Gogoro, the Taiwanese company that’s commercializing battery swapping ecosystems for electric scooters, is targeting the Philippines as its...

Sequoia India backs Prismforce that helps IT companies build better talent supply chain

Sequoia India backs Prismforce that helps IT companies build better talent supply chain

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Prismforce, an India-U.S. startup that provides IT and tech services companies with tools to build better talent supply chain, has raised $13.6...

Instafest app lets you create your own festival lineup from Spotify

Instafest app lets you create your own festival lineup from Spotify

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If your favorite music festival’s lineup didn’t live up to your expectations this year, don’t worry; a new app called Instafest will create...

Seedstars Capital launches to support new fund managers around the world

Seedstars Capital launches to support new fund managers around the world

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The venture market is in the middle of a downturn, but there are still plenty of emerging fund managers. Seedstars International Ventures,...

AWS makes Lambda cold start latency a thing of the past with SnapStart

AWS makes Lambda cold start latency a thing of the past with SnapStart

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At its re:Invent kickoff keynote tonight, AWS announced a small but important update to Lambda, its serverless platform, that tackles one of...

Despite ban, Twitter downloads surge in China amid COVID protests

Despite ban, Twitter downloads surge in China amid COVID protests

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Twitter saw a surge in downloads in China as protests against the country’s stringent COVID restrictions erupted nationwide over the last few...

AWS launches Graviton3E, its new Arm-based chip for HPC workloads

AWS launches Graviton3E, its new Arm-based chip for HPC workloads

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At its traditional evening keynote at re:Invent, AWS tonight announced quite a bit of new hardware in its cloud, starting with a new version...

As Pipe’s founding team departs, tensions rise over allegations

As Pipe’s founding team departs, tensions rise over allegations

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On November 22, alternative financing startup Pipe announced that its three co-founders were stepping down from their executive roles and that...

Southeast Asia insurtech Igloo increases its Series B to $46M

Southeast Asia insurtech Igloo increases its Series B to $46M

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Igloo, a Singapore-based insurtech focused on underserved communities in Southeast Asia, announced it has raised a Series B extension of $27...

Deepomatic wants to build the AI-based computer vision companion for field workers

Deepomatic wants to build the AI-based computer vision companion for field workers

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French startup Deepomatic has raised a $10.5 million (€10 million) Series B funding round. While the founding round is relatively small, the...

Cameroonian crypto and savings platform Ejara raises $8M, led by Anthemis and Dragonfly

Cameroonian crypto and savings platform Ejara raises $8M, led by Anthemis and Dragonfly

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Ejara, a Cameroonian fintech offering an investment app that allows users to buy crypto and save through decentralized wallets, has raised...