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Extra Crunch roundup: Here’s everything you missed at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021

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Seattle-based fintech Remitly, like Toast, priced above its proposed range. “At Dear Sophie: What’s the difference between IEP and the latest proposed startup visa? Dear Sophie, What’s the difference between International Entrepreneur Parole and the latest proposed startup visa? Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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I think my favorite example of that is a women's group from the highlands of Bolivia who wrote to us maybe seven or eight years ago. Each year we receive over 3,500 proposals from women's organizations all around the world. I think the biggest challenge for us is trying to make hard decisions.

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Malaysia is looking to data centers to boost its economy, but experts warn of risks

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” She compared data extraction to silver mining in Bolivia, which enriched colonial Spain but left nothing behind for Latin America. President Joe Biden’s administration proposed new rules that would limit exports of advanced AI chips made by U.S. “They are extracting data in the same way.