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Wall Street Journal: Sources: Intel plans to publicly list shares of its Mobileye unit at a $50B+ valuation; Intel acquired the self-driving car company in 2018 for about $15B — Move could value Mobileye at more than $50 billion, according to people familiar with the matter — Intel Corp. is...

Joseph Williams / Bloomberg: Call center software provider Genesys raises $580M at a $21B valuation led by Salesforce Ventures — - Salesforce Ventures led $580 million round joined by Zoom — Effort signals booming demand for call center software — Call center software provider Genesys Cloud...

Bloomberg: Everphone, which lends and refurbishes phones for businesses, raises a Series C with $65M in equity and $135M in debt at a $170M valuation led by Cadence Growth — - Startup raised $65 million in equity and $135 million in debt — Everphone buys thousands of smartphones and lends...

Financial Times: SenseTime seeks to raise between $750M and $767M in its Hong Kong IPO, at a valuation of between $16.5B and $17B; the company previously hoped to raise $2B — Chinese AI group's downsized share offer comes as Beijing seeks to rein in sector — SenseTime, the Chinese artificial...

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Hotel Engine, an online hotel booking and management service for business travel, raises a $65M Series B at a $1.3B valuation, up from $150M in 2019 — With the pandemic heading into its second year, people all over the world are traveling more for work again.

Berber Jin / The Information: Sources: Airtable, a developer of cloud-based collaboration software, is finalizing $700M+ in new funding at an $11.7B valuation — Airtable, a developer of cloud-based collaboration software, is finalizing a new round of funding that would value the San Francisco...

Mehnaz Yasmin / Reuters: Panther Labs, which helps companies detect and respond to security threats in real time, raises a $120M Series B led by Coatue at a $1.4B valuation — Panther Labs raised $120 million in fresh capital as part of an early-stage financing round led by investment manager...

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: London-based Glorify, a Christian app that offers audio prayers and more, raises a $40M Series A led by a16z at a $250M valuation — Glorify attracts investment from VC firms as well as Kris Jenner and Michael Bublé — An app that helps Christians connect to...

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Jokr, a rapid grocery delivery service in the US and Latin America, raises a $260M Series B at a $1.2B valuation, five months after raising a $170M Series A — Online grocery sales are in single digits right now, but new data suggests it will top 20% by 2026 due to...

Tim Casey / Forbes: 100 Thieves, which manages professional esports teams and around 15 video game streamers, raises a $60M Series C at a $460M valuation — During the 2017 NBA Finals, Matt Haag flew to Oakland, Calif., to meet with Dan Gilbert, the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers.

With the pandemic heading into its second year, people all over the world are traveling more for work again. If you’ve flown anytime in the past few months, the packed planes are in part evidence of that.Further evidence that travel is rebounding lies in the number of people staying in hotels...

Radhika Anilkumar / Reuters: Canadian video platform Rumble, popular with right-wing users, will go public via SPAC at a $2.1B valuation and expects to raise around $400M — Canadian video platform Rumble Inc said on Wednesday it would go public by merging with blank-check firm CF Acquisition...

Kakao Mobility, the South Korea-based mobility as a service (MaaS) startup behind Kakao T, a ride-hailing app, said it has raised an additional $55 million (65 billion won) from strategic investor GS Retail. This brings its total raised to about $941.4 million (1.11 trillion won) and values it...

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: CyCognito, which helps eliminate critical security risks in IT ecosystems, raises a $100M Series C at an $800M valuation led by The Westly Group — CyCognito, a company developing bot technology to probe potential cyberattack vectors, today announced that it raised...

Yogita Khatri / The Block: Blockchain audit service CertiK raises an $80M Series B2, following $61M across B and B+ rounds, at a nearly $1B valuation led by Sequoia Capital — Quick Take — CertiK, a blockchain and smart contract auditing firm, has raised another $80 million. — The firm is now...

As companies look for ways to prevent cyber attacks, one strategy is to be proactive and find vulnerabilities that could lead to a breach in an approach called “attack surface management.” A number of companies have taken this approach, and one, CyCognito, announced a $100 million Series C today...

Michael Pooler / Financial Times: Brazilian neobank Nubank lowers its IPO range from $10-$11 to $8-$9, targeting a $41.5B valuation and raising up to $2.6B — Implied $41.5bn valuation would make lender most valuable financial institution in its home country — Nubank has scaled back its...

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Spain-based Jobandtalent, a marketplace matching temps with employers, raises a $500M Series E at a $2.35B post-money valuation led by Kinnevik — Spain's Jobandtalent, a “workforce marketplace”-cum-digital temping agency which uses AI to match workers to casual...

Bloomberg: Sources: Indian food delivery service Swiggy is raising $600M-$700M at a $10.5B valuation led by Invesco, up from $5.5B in April — Indian food delivery service Swiggy is raising $600 million to $700 million in a round led by Invesco that's due to close this month, according to...

Frank Chaparro / The Block: Bitcoin mining firm Griid says it will go public via a SPAC in Q1 2022 at a valuation of around $3.3B, including debt — Bitcoin mining firm Griid is preparing to become the latest company in the crypto market to go public, the Ohio-based firm announced Tuesday.