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Neobroker Bitpanda raises $170M at a $1.2B valuation to take its trading platform beyond crypto

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” In addition to Austria, Bitpanda is live in France, Spain, Turkey, Italy and Poland, with plans to expand to more markets this year, building hubs in Madrid, Barcelona, London, Paris and Berlin. . “In the EU, we probably have less than 10% of the population owning stocks. Our growth goes hand in hand with that.”

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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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during the same period last year, after clocking up its most successful first half of the year in its five-year history and bagging a number of major retailers to stock its plant-based foodstuffs (including Ocado in the UK, Migros in Switzerland, Carrefour in Italy, E.Leclerc, Intermarché and Super U in France).

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Yep, ‘Learning Man’ is becoming a thing 

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Seen on TechCrunch Call me, beep me, if you wanna reach me In edtech, history matters: Reach Capital just closed its largest fund to date Talking with Future Ventures about its new fund, AI hype and Siri sucking (still) After GoFundMe, Rob Solomon is flying a $200M Kite in the land of commerce Elon Musk says Twitter will finally remove legacy checkmarks (..)

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Social media giants urged to tackle data-scraping privacy risks

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Notably, Italy’s privacy watchdog slapped ChatGPT with a local stop-processing order earlier this year — which led to a brief break in service while OpenAI rushed out with disclosures and controls.

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Twig takes $35M to turn stuff you own into a way to pay

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The Series A is pegged for launching in the US (slated for Q1 this year) and the EU (Q2; where it’s eyeing Italy, France and Germany for starters), as well as expanding the product’s capabilities and feature-set with a focus on the buzz around Web3 and digital collectables. For now, Twig accounts are only available in the UK.

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Zoom knots itself a legal tangle over use of customer data for training AI models

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OpenAI later resumed service in Italy having switched to a claim of legitimate interests — which requires it to offer users a way to opt out of the processing (which it had added). It said the AI giant would have to choose between consent or legitimate interests for processing people’s data for training models.

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Surging homegrown talent and VC spark Italy’s tech renaissance

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As Italy reinstates many COVID-19 restrictions, the country’s tech ecosystem is watching and waiting to see what the wider effects of the emergency will be. Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade.

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