Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab closes on $2B at $10B valuation
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hopMy lands $18.5M to help influencers earn more money from promoting products
ShopMy, a marketing platform for content creators to connect with brands and monetize their content, announced today that it raised $18.5 million. The company will use ithe money to help scale its network of 40,000 creators, including Alix Earle, the latest “It Girl” on the internet with over 10 million followers on TikTok and Instagram. […]
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Fluent Metal takes a stab at the metal 3D printing market
To say that it’s rocky out in the metal 3D printing world may be a bit of an understatement. Almost a decade ago, Desktop Metal was one of the early darlings in accessible 3D printing in metal. The company raised almost half a billion in VC funding. Since then, the company has had a hell […]
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Ted Schlein’s 2-year-old Ballistic Ventures has already raised a second $360 million fund
After a shakeup at Kleiner Perkins a few years back, one of its star B2B investors, Ted Schlein, started his own firm. Ballistic has already closed a second fund, even bigger than the first.
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WarpStream is building a cheaper, cloud-native streaming service
When the open source streaming service, Apache Kafka, was created in 2011 at LinkedIn, it was a different world. Most companies were still on prem. The notion of cloud computing was just beginning to emerge. WarpStream, an early stage startup, sees the value of streaming in a cloud native context and built a new solution […]
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She ‘Reverse-Engineered’ Her First Company’s Failure Into a Sober-Curious Brand Making $25 Million a Year
Is TikTok Getting Banned In the U.S.? Here’s What We Know So Far
India’s Paytm secures third-party app license ahead of bank unit curb
The National Payments Corporation of India, the firm that built the eponymous UPI payments rail in the country, approved Paytm’s application to participate in the payments ecosystem as a third-party application provider, delivering much-needed relief to the financial services firm that serves more than 300 million users and over 10 million merchants in the South […]
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