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Israels cybersecurity startup scene spawned new entrants in 2019

Social app IRL makes its first acquisition with deal for digital nutrition company AaBeZe Labs

Workplace messaging platform Slack has confidentially filed to go public

Latin America Roundup: Big rounds big mergers and a 38M pandemic fund from Nubank

Construction management software developer Procore raises 75 million at a 3 billion valuation

SoftBank announces AIfocused second 108 billion Vision Fund with LPs including Microsoft Apple and Foxconn

Getaround raises a 140 million Series E amid rebound in shortdistance travel

SoftBank buys 676M old Sharp plant for its OpenAI collab in Japan

Startups Weekly: Lessons from a failed founder

Microsoft and the second Softbank Vision Fund as another play for corporate cloud dominance

Lowcode integration platform Digibee raises 25M Series A

Space Angels Chad Anderson on entering a new decade in the entrepreneurial space age

African fintech OPay is reportedly raising 400M at over 15B valuation

SoftBankbacked Embark Veterinary valued at 700M after 75M Series B

SoftBank bets big on Pipefy which just raised 75M for its lowcode workflow management tool

SoftBank Vision Funds Carolina Brochado is coming to Disrupt Berlin

Theranos gets 100 million in debt financing to carry it through 2018 with some caveats

Ubers selfdriving car unit raises 1B from Toyota Denso and Vision Fund ahead of spinout

SoftBank is considering taking a majority stake in WeWork

Guardian Circle upgrades with a decentralized alert network

ShopBack a cashback startup in Asia Pacific raises 45M from Rakuten and others

Balderton closes 600M fund its biggest yet earmarked for earlystage investments

Layoffs reach 23andMe after hitting Mozilla and the Vision Fund portfolio

Equity Monday: Two earlystage rounds grocery delivery and SoftBanks bill

Innovations in inclusive housing

Ubers IPO may not be as eyepopping as we expected

SoftBank leads cash infusion into AI infrastructure company Pyxis One as it starts year with new name

Bosch picks up Fiveai after the selfdriving startup pivoted to B2B and then put itself up for sale

ToursByLocals snaps up its first funding C33M to link sightseers with guides globally

After Shopifys huge quarter BigCommerce raises its IPO price range

Immigrant founders smartphone growth SEO tactics SoftBanks financials and AR tech

Brazilian proptech startup QuintoAndar lands 300M at a 4B valuation

Getaround is latest Softbank portfolio company to announce layoffs

Golden Gate Ventures hits first close on new 100M fund for Southeast Asia

Daily Crunch: A closer look at Googles remotecontrolled 30 Chromecast

Equity Monday: Elon Musk reinvents corporate governance

Sam Altmans bet against Slack

Payment service Toss becomes Koreas newest unicorn after raising 80M

Flipkart founders Navi files for 440 million IPO

Mobile payments firms in India are now scrambling to make money

Tech layoffs rise as costcutting comes into vogue

Advocating reform activist investor Elliott Management takes a 25B stake in SoftBank

SoftBank launches new fund to raise and invest 150 million in Black and Latinoled startups

Whats the secret sauce behind Croatian EV maker Rimac

Lenskart Plans to Raise 100 Mn from ChrysCapital

TikTok parent ByteDance sues Chinese news site that exposed fake news problem

As its startup market accelerates Brazil could be in for an IPO bonanza

Fintech giant Klarna raises 639M at a 456B valuation amid massive momentum in the US

SoftBank forms AI healthcare JV in Japan with Tempus

WeWorks chairman says it expects to have positive cash flow in 2021