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    Trym raises $3.1M seed to grow its cannabis cultivation platform – TechCrunch

    Commercial cannabis operations often rely on software platforms to track and forecast crops from seed to sale. Trym today is announcing a large $3.1M...

    Self-cleaning water bottle company LARQ raises a $10M Series A – TechCrunch

    After launching its first bottle in 2018, LARQ has drummed up a good deal of interest among consumers looking for ways to wean...

    Crypto exchange Bitpanda closes $52M Series A from Valar Ventures, backed by Peter Thiel – TechCrunch

    Bitpanda, a crypto assets platform, has closed a $52 million Series A funding round form Valar Ventures, a venture capital firm backed by Peter...

    Online course platform Thinkific raises $22M – TechCrunch

    It’s been a big year for online learning companies — and it sounds like Thinkific is no exception. The Vancouver-based startup is announcing that...

    How to Keep the Peace in a School Pod

    Keep track of issues that come up throughout the week, and schedule frequent meetings to resolve them as they arise. Yamalis Diaz, a child...

    Is It OK to Use Connections to Jump the Line for a Specialist?

    The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on using your connections to get in to see a doctor months before anyone else can — and more. Source link...

    Huboo, the ‘full stack’ fulfilment provider, picks up £14M Series A – TechCrunch

    Huboo, the U.K.-headquartered startup that offers an end-to-end fulfilment service for online retailers of all sizes, has raised £14 million in Series A funding. The...

    Travel activities platform KKDay raises $75 million Series C as it focuses on “staycations” – TechCrunch

    With lockdowns around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has hit the travel industry especially hard. In Asia, however, several startups are adapting by focusing...

    Multis is a business bank account for cryptocurrencies – TechCrunch

    Meet Multis, a French startup that is building business bank accounts, except that it lets you store, send and receive cryptocurrencies. The startup just...

    Russian surveillance tech startup NtechLab nets $13M from sovereign wealth funds – TechCrunch

    NtechLab, a startup that helps analyze footage captured by Moscow’s 100,000 surveillance cameras, just closed an investment of more than 1RUB billion ($13 million)...

    Exotec raises $90 million for its warehouse robots – TechCrunch

    French startup Exotec has raised a $90 million Series C round led by 83North, with existing investors Iris Capital and Breega also participating. Other...

    Microsoft outage leaves users unable to access Office, Outlook, Teams – TechCrunch

    Microsoft said it’s investigating an authentication outage with Office 365, preventing users from accessing some of the company’s most widely used services, including Office.com,...

    Indonesian fintech startup BukuWarung gets new funding to add financial services for small merchants – TechCrunch

    A month after completing Y Combinator’s accelerator program, BukuWarung, an financial tech startup that serves small businesses in Indonesia, announced it has raised new...

    XtalPi lands massive $319M SoftBank-led round C to continue its high-tech drug discovery – TechCrunch

    XtalPi, an American-Chinese biotech firm that focuses on AI-assisted drug discovery, has raised a $319 million round C from a slate of enthusiastic investors...

    Over 2 U – TechCrunch

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqiE55y5tiQ The pandemic shook up our and virtually every other video news production process as Zoom became the focus of our daily lives; slowly but...

    Judge delays TikTok ban – TechCrunch

    Americans can continue using TikTok for now, Google updates its developer policies and Uber gets approval to resume operations in London. This is...