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- Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery: microphone Kittl carves out a slice of the world of graphics dominated by giants like Canva and Adobe, raising $11.6 million in Series A funding without the need for the tough learning curve of other platforms. They write that they are developing a design platform that “turns ideas into graphic products with ease.” .
- This startup is heating up: European smart thermostat startup Tado was planning to go public, but raised another round of funding, raising $46.9 million to pursue profitability. Pole There are more.
- “Being a black founder is always crypto winter.”: This is how Spatial Labs founder Iddris Sandu explained when seeking funding for his web3 company. The infrastructure and hardware company has raised $10 million in seed funding to create products and shopping experiences using augmented reality. Dominic Madrid writing.
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Fintech startup Stripe has set a 12-month deadline to go public by conducting transactions such as direct listings or private market fundraising events and tender offers, according to sources familiar with the matter. This news is surprising given how dry public market activity in the tech world has been. Mary Ann When Natasha M. report.
In the months of 2021, there was a brief and beautiful moment when I felt that investing in robots might be immune to broader market forces. We all fundamentally and implicitly understood otherwise, but it was a great moment nonetheless. Brian muse. However, it is now becoming clear that what we thought was happening with investment in robots is actually happening.
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According to its own census, GitHub says it has 100 million active users. Pole report. That’s a huge increase from his 3 million a decade ago, and when Microsoft, which bought the company five years ago, announced that his GitHub user count had crossed 90 million, he was just over 3. That’s a big increase from last month.
Meanwhile, US and European law enforcement agencies have worked together to seize Hive’s ransomware infrastructure, including leak sites and decryption keys. curly report. She said Hive was “one of the most prolific ransomware campaigns,” focused primarily on healthcare and public health organizations, and was announced in August 2021 by the Illinois-based Memorial Health System. It claimed responsibility for the breaches that occurred and recently wrote that it targeted Tata Power, a top power generation company. Indian company in October.
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