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

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The following: Crunchbase raised $50 million! Yes, our former employer has raised a new, large round that had us all thinking about its health, our history thereof, and our love for its news team and other parts of the company we remember fondly. So we had to touch on the huge Amazon-One Medical deal to get started.

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

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With plans to raise a $25 million fund and more than $15 million already invested, PsyMed Ventures focuses on early-stage startups developing psychedelic therapeutics. Dear Sophie, We’re a startup that currently has an employee, who is originally from Ukraine, working for us on an H-1B visa. United with Ukraine.

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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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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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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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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. Energy crisis.

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

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Today, Dorian is announcing that it raised a $14 million Series A round led by the Raine Group with participation from March Gaming, VGames, Gaingels and London Venture Partners, where Dorian co-founder and CEO Julia Palatovska was once an investor. Dorian raises $3.25M for its no-code, interactive storytelling platform.