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Thanks to Amazon, One Medical and Whole Foods are on the same dang shelf

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ForSight is building eye-surgery robots , just raised a stack itself, and we are hype about it. From there, it was time to talk the bevy of new venture funds that came out, the end of Modsy — or is it? OK, don’t fear: The long shots are still getting venture funding. Equity drops every Monday at 7 a.m.

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Heura tucks into $20M funding chunk for its plant-based proteins ahead of beefier B round next year

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And today it’s announcing a new €20M bridging funding round, ahead of the expected (beefier) B. It notes that this (pre-) Series B funding includes the issuance of convertible notes which will lead to equity next year in the full Series B round so a bunch of investors are clearly bought into its sales growth pitch.

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Daily Crunch: Byju’s founder chips in toward $800M funding round to reach $22B valuation

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We have your full news digest below, but stay hype about TechCrunch Sessions: Mobility , because it’s looking increasingly lit. The latest tech response to Russia’s Ukrainian invasion: Non-Russian tech companies continued their work to isolate the Russian state after its government invaded neighboring Ukraine. Oh boy was that a week.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Psychedelic biotech, Gogoro’s SPAC, H-1Bs for Ukrainians

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“Gogoro will use the fresh funds from its IPO to continue to expand in Taiwan as it branches outward to larger markets like China, India and Indonesia,” writes transportation reporter Rebecca Bellan. Dear Sophie, We’re a startup that currently has an employee, who is originally from Ukraine, working for us on an H-1B visa.

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VRAI wants to tackle the energy crisis by bringing VR simulation training to offshore wind sector

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Virtual Reality (VR) has struggled to transition too far beyond gaming circles and specific industry use-cases such as medical training , but with the burgeoning metaverse movement championed by tech heavyweights such as Meta , there has been a renewed hope (and hype) around the promise that virtual worlds bring. hub in Gateshead.

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Stop sensationalizing the ‘collapse’ of VC: Look at the data

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SPACs are the construct VCs need to fund clean tech. Instead of a collapse, the data suggests a healthy “reversion to the mean” following an astonishing and historic hype cycle in 2021. lockdowns and Russia’s war on Ukraine placed further pressure on an already strained global supply chain. More volatility.

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Dorian’s no-code, interactive storytelling app turns fiction writers into game developers

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Users can livestream themselves playing their own story to generate hype, or they can play through another user’s story (again, the original IP owner could decide the royalty split). Still, if a fan writer were to take their derivative works outside of Dorian to monetize them, that’s where they might run into legal issues.