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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. — and a few stories that touch on the Ukraine situation, including a huge Russian fine of Google, Preply’s latest funding round , and how solar power can combat fascism.

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

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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. First, inflation soared as COVID stimulus money drove up demand.

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

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But the plant-based meat category has been deflating somewhat of late after earlier heavy hype. Especially in Europe, as the region remains heavily exposed to high energy costs triggered by Russia’s war in Ukraine and the country’s response to Western sanctions as the bloc seeks to reduce its dependency on Russia gas imports.

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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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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.