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Sneha Shah / The Economic Times: Research: Indian startups have raised a record ~$36B in 2021, up from ~$11B in 2020; SoftBank invested $3B+ and Tiger Global was among the most active investors — India's startup ecosystem has notched up record investment of nearly $ 36 billion in privately...

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Ben Dummett / Wall Street Journal: Online training service Skillsoft acquires edtech company Codecademy for $525M in cash and stock; Codecademy raised $40M in February — Acquisition is Skillsoft's largest deal since going public in June — Skillsoft Corp. has agreed to acquire rival...

Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: Render Network, a P2P network that offers remote rendering power for 3D visuals, raises $30M led by Multicoin Capital, bringing its total raised to $50M — In brief — Render Network, a peer-to-peer service for providing 3D rendering power, has raised $30 million.

New York Times: Crypto and blockchain startups raised $28B+ in 2021, up 4x YoY, according to PitchBook, as large tech companies lose execs and engineers to crypto companies — Tech executives and engineers are quitting Google, Meta, Amazon and other large companies for what they say is a...

Hi there, I am currently recruiting parents of children aged between 12 and 24 months to take part in my undergraduate dissertation in Psychology at Durham University. We are hoping to examine the effects of COVID-19 restrictions on childrens' emotional responses. Having spent so much time with...

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Sigma Computing, which offers no-code, cloud-based data analytics tools, raises a $300M Series C co-led by D1 Capital and XN, brings its total raised to $381.3M — No-code cloud analytics and business intelligence firm Sigma Computing Inc. has closed on what may...

Katie Jennings / Forbes: Cerebral, an app-based mental health service provider that recently raised $300M at a $4.8B valuation, has made some staff health insurance contingent on quotas — I am a staff writer covering healthcare. Email me at kjennings@forbes.com. — The company, which raised...

Gearoid Reidy / Bloomberg: Research: Japanese startups raised a record $3B+ in H1 2021, up from $2.37B in H1 2020, as China's crackdown leads SoftBank and others to invest in the country — Japan's startups are attracting increasing interest from overseas investors as the country starts to...

Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: Legacy, an NFT-powered game by Peter Molyneux's 22cans studio and Gala Games planned for next year, raised $54M in virtual land NFT sales in less than a week — But are these games a brave new world or a FOMO-driven gold rush bubble? — On Saturday, Peter Molyneux's...

Dan Primack / Axios: Source: grocery delivery service Gopuff, which recently launched in London and NYC, raised $1.5B in convertible notes at a ~$40B valuation — Gopuff, an instant delivery platform for everyday items, has raised $1.5 billion in new funding at around a $40 billion valuation...

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: Denver-based Gtmhub, which helps companies track objectives and results, raises a $120M Series C led by Index Ventures, bringing its total raised to ~$160M — Denver-based software startup Gtmhub announced this morning that it has closed a $120 million Series C. Index...

Mike Isaac / New York Times: Reddit, home to more than 100K active communities visited by 50M+ people every day, has raised more than $1B in private capital and was last valued at $10B+ — Reddit announced on Wednesday that it had confidentially filed paperwork for an eventual public offering...

Norwest Venture Partners, the now 60-year-old venture and growth equity firm backed entirely by the banking giant Wells Fargo, today rolled out its sixteenth fund, a $3 billion vehicle and its biggest to date. It’s easy to shrug off the development, but this new pool brings the assets Norwest...

Janko Roettgers / Protocol: VR meeting startup Spatial officially pivots to NFTs, letting users host galleries and events, and raises $25M, bringing its total raised to $50M — Just a few months after Meta unveiled its own VR meeting platform, a startup known for a similar product is hitting...

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Mesh Payments, which helps companies track employee expenses, raises a $50M Series B led by Tiger Global, bringing its total raised to $63M — Now that the world appears to have settled longer-term into working in a significantly more distributed way in the wake of...

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Toronto-based TealBook, a supply chain data service, raises a $50M Series B led by Ten Coves Capital and others, bringing its total raised to $73M+ — The supply chain — which affects businesses from individual retailers to marketplaces, as well as product sellers —...

Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: Nike acquires RTFKT, an NFT studio founded in 2020, for an undisclosed sum; RTFKT raised an $8M seed in May led by a16z at a $33.3M valuation — Nike is taking a plunge deeper into the world of crypto collectibles, announcing that they're acquiring the NFT studio...

In recent years, enterprise software companies have grown faster, and more valuable, than ever. Still, most startups never reach that kind of escape velocity, with many of plodding along while their venture backers — who are returning to market more quickly and raising bigger funds — move on to...

Founder Collective: Analysis of 166 tech IPOs from 2010 to 2019: the 30 most valuable startups raised half as much capital and produced nearly 4X the value as the 30 most funded — Does raising a large amount of capital make a startup more likely to succeed? Is capital a weapon? Do startup...