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

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Dear Sophie, We’re a startup that currently has an employee, who is originally from Ukraine, working for us on an H-1B visa. He is trying to get his parents out of Ukraine. United with Ukraine. We also entered a prospective Ukrainian employee who fled to Poland in the H-1B lottery, but he wasn’t selected yet.

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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. ” Training day.

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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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It’s also teasing a Series B round coming next year — which it anticipates being one of 2023’s largest B rounds in Europe in the alternative proteins industry (for some context, another European startup, Planted, raised a $72M Series B round earlier this fall ). Continued momentum isn’t necessarily a given.

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Daily Crunch: Hackers leak nearly 200 gigabytes of internal Samsung source code

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We have a packed newsletter today, so get hype for a news digest. Twitter tries to restore service in Russia : While some tech companies are working to cut ties with Russia after the country’s government invaded Ukraine, others are trying to keep their services up in the country. PST, subscribe here. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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

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I think the biggest inspiration and the idea here is, how can we enable more people to participate in the games industry?”. 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). Image Credits: Dorian.