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Preply raises a $35 million Series B as demand for language learning grows

TechCrunch

Preply , a tutoring marketplace for language learning, has raised a $35 million Series B co-led by Full In Partners and Owl Ventures, an edtech fund that has backed Byju’s and Newsela. The raise comes nearly a year after the company landed a $10 million Series A. Fluent Forever raised $4.9

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Fishy business: Rooser raises $23M for its seafood trading platform

TechCrunch

Rooser , which provides a marketplace for sourcing fish aimed both at those fishing and those buying for wholesale, trade or retail, has raised $23 million — funding that it will be using both to expand into more markets, and to continue building more functionality into its platform.

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Flytrex raises $40M to build its drone-based delivery service across suburbs in the U.S.

TechCrunch

This is a Series C that brings the total raised by Flytrex to $60 million. Flytrex’s first-ever service was launched in Reykjavik , Iceland in 2017, but the first U.S. The early version of the service so far seems to have found willing customers on both sides of the marketplace.

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Facebook Dating launches in Europe after lengthy delay

The Verge

But the close connection Facebook Dating has to the rest of the company’s products has raised concerns in the past. Facebook touts the service’s privacy features, with many of its more personal matching tactics entirely optional.

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Gulf states using COVID-19 contact tracing apps as mass surveillance tools, report says

The Verge

The study analyzed a collection of contact tracing apps, which are designed to inform and monitor physical contact between people in the event someone contracts COVID-19, from 11 countries: Algeria, Bahrain, France, Iceland, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Norway, Qatar, Tunisia, and United Arab Emirates.

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After QuizUp and Trivia Royale, Thor Fridriksson’s next act is a mobile MMO

TechCrunch

The Icelandic serial entrepreneur is two-for-two in creating viral mobile games, but has thus far struck out in turning those into viable businesses. It was a disappointing fate for a game with tens of millions of users that had raised around $40 million from investors. Rocky Road raised $2.5

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Two European companies are mapping a future service for direct air capture to sequestration of CO2

TechCrunch

The company already has a collaboration with an Icelandic company called Carbfix, where the Climeworks technology is used to capture carbon dioxide and store it in mineralized basalt. To develop its technology, Climeworks has raised more than $150 million from investors, including the Swiss lender Zuercher Kantonalbank.

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