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Luminar cuts 20% of staff and outsources lidar production
Lidar company Luminar is slashing its workforce by 20% and will lean harder on its contract…
ICONIQ Growth raises $5.75B seventh flagship fund
ICONIQ Growth has raised $5.21 billion across two funds associated with the seventh growth fund family,…
Inside TC’s Techstars investigation and how AI is accelerating disability tech
The downturn in venture capital funding that the world has seen since the bust of the…
Apple: pay attention to emerging markets, not falling China sales
Apple’s chief financial officer Luca Maestri challenged investor worries over an 8% drop in China revenue,…
EU plan to force messaging apps to scan for CSAM risks millions of false positives, experts warn
A controversial push by European Union lawmakers to legally require messaging platforms to scan citizens’ private…
TikTok gets Tay and Billie back with new UMG content licensing deal
Users on TikTok can once again create music clips using tracks from UMG’s catalog, a list…
NASA orders studies from private space companies on Mars mission support roles
Mars exploration has been always been the exclusive purview of national space agencies, but NASA is…
Chicago-based Hyde Park Venture Partners closes $98M Fund IV with two investments made so far
Midwest venture capital firms might always play catch-up to the coasts, but that’s not stopping some…
Midi is building a digital platform for an oft-overlooked area of women’s health
When Joanna Strober was around 47, she stopped sleeping. While losing sleep is a common symptom…