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Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information: Meta brings back Kevin Martin, a Republican, as its head of US public policy, after failing to find a Democrat to lead its lobbying team — Meta Platforms is throwing in the towel on a plan to hire a top Democrat to lead its lobbying team after...

Short video app Triller is set to go public via a reverse merger with video-tech company SeaChange International, the two companies announced on Wednesday. The combined entity will be valued at approximately $5 billion. The boards of both companies have approved the proposed merger and the deal...

Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: LA-based Triller agrees to merge with SeaChange, taking the TikTok rival public at a $5B valuation, up from $1.25B in a recent round — Triller, a social-video platform, agreed to a merger with Seachange International Inc. in a move that will take the smaller rival to...

On-demand shuttle service and software company Via has confidentially filed to go public, the company said in a statement. The company has not yet determined how many shares will be offered or what the price range for the proposed offering will look like, as is typical for this sort of release...

Michael Novinson / CRN: Enterprise threat intelligence startup ZeroFox to acquire data breach response services provider IDX and go public via a SPAC at a $1.4B valuation — 'VARs are always looking for something new and something hot. Both sets of channel partners will be able to sell more...

ZeroFox, an enterprise threat intelligence cybersecurity startup that helps companies detect risks found on social media, has announced plans to become a publicly-traded company via a merger with blank-check company L&F Acquisition.As part of the transaction, Maryland-based ZeroFox — which has...

The early 2022 IPO cohort is beginning to take shape. Recall that Reddit recently filed to go public, albeit privately. That’s going to be a huge debut.With Samsara closing out 2021 and Reddit set to ensure fireworks, we might be content. But there are more offerings coming, including...

Indian edtech giant Byju’s, the nation’s most valuable startup, is in talks to go public in the U.S. by merging with a blank check company led by Churchill Capital, a person familiar with the matter said.Byju’s, currently valued at about $21 billion, is seeking a valuation of over $45 billion...

Instant grocery — where urban-dwelling consumers buy food and other essentials and can get them delivered in 15 minutes or less — continues to be a big business, and one of the juggernauts in the space is now raising a big round of funding to meet that opportunity: GoPuff is in the process of...

Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: Recycling service Rubicon, which uses data to match waste with disposal sites, will go public via SPAC at a ~$2B valuation; Rubicon works with Apple and others — Investors in software company include actor Leonardo DiCaprio, KKR co-founder Henry Kravis...

Bloomberg: Sources: Indian edtech company Byju's is in advanced talks to go public via SPAC on the NYSE, raising around $4B and valuing it at about $48B — - Education startup is discussing deal with Churchill Capital — SPAC merger could value Byju's at more than $40 billion

In August, Reddit raked in a hefty $410 million financing led by Fidelity, valuing it at $10 billion. It had plans to close out the round, a Series F, at $700 million at the time.The company’s CEO Steve Huffman told New York Times that Fidelity made it “an offer that we couldn’t refuse” and...

The final IPO that TechCrunch is tracking in 2021 had a solid run-up to its first day’s trading. Samsara, an IoT platform company, priced its public offering last night at $23 per share, the top end of its range.The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.Read it every morning on...

Signal AI, an artificial intelligence startup that trawls the vast sea of internet and other publicly available data to provide organizations with sentiment insights and other information to make better business decisions, has raised $50 million. It plans to use the funds to continue building...

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: PwC report details the ransomware attack on Ireland's public health system in May 2021 and finds that IT admins failed to respond to multiple warning signs — The consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers recently published lessons learned from the disruptive and...

Christmas has come early this year in the form of a new SPAC deal. InfiniteWorld announced yesterday it will merge with Aries I Acquisition Corporation in a deal that will value the startup at around $700 million, per company calculations.Another day, another SPAC deal. We know. But this time...

Harley-Davidson is taking its electric motorcycle division LiveWire public through a merger with a blank check company sponsored by executives of AEA Investors and Bridges Fund Management.The agreement with special purpose acquisition company AEA-Bridges Impact Corp (ABIC) will preserve much...

Walmart’s had its ups and downs in the robotics world, looking for any advantage in a bid to stay competitive with Amazon’s online domination. In July, the mega-retailer inked a deal with Symbotics, further cementing its commitment to the Massachusetts-based automation firm. The new deal...

Reuters: Symbotic, a warehouse robotics and automation company used in over 1,400 stores, will go public via SPAC at a $5.5B valuation — Walmart Inc-backed (WMT.N) Symbotic said on Monday it would go public through a merger with a SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) blank-check firm in a deal offering …