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Whoop raises another 200M for its athletefocused fitness wearable

Equity podcast: More funding for scooters Cruise gets a boost and Chinese IPOs

SoftBankbacked construction giant Katerra said to be shutting down after raising billions

Indias Meesho cuts 251 jobs to accelerate timeline to profitability

Startups Weekly: Zoom CEO says its stock price is too high

Southeast Asias Carro raises 60M for its automotive classifieds and car financing service

Alphabet gives some Loon patents to SoftBank open sources flight data and makes patent nonassertion pledge

From bootstrapped to a 417M valuation Chiles Buk raises 50M for its HR management platform

AI training and social network content moderation services bring TaskUs a 250 million windfall

H Twenty Capital aims to be goto fund for preseed investments in Latin America

Daily Crunch: Winter may be longer because unicorns wont accept down rounds says SoftBank leader

Okay one final Form D note

SoftBank slashes Oyos valuation to 27 billion

Mortgage is suddenly sexy as SoftBank pumps 500M in Bettercom at 6B valuation

WeWork accelerates IPO plans plots September listing

Giftgiving mobile app Goody nabs more capital to scale in time for the holidays

Clearco cofounder Andrew DSouza steps back as Michele Romanow assumes CEO role

Bill Gates Airbus and SoftBank invest in satellite video startup that wants to help us see and understand the Earth live and unfiltered

SoftBankbacked Oyo files for 116 billion IPO

Indian vibecoding startup Emergent triples valuation to 300M with 70M fundraise

VCs say there are more startup opportunities to chase in Latin America

The bear and bull cases for Arms IPO

Kurly a grocery ecommerce startup in Korea closes upsized 113M Series D round

Getaround is latest Softbank portfolio company to announce layoffs

Indias budget hotel startup OYO raises 1B for international growth

Layoffs hit another Softbank co as 32B Flexport cuts 50

Dogwalking app Wag may be raising a huge round of funding

Tokyobased SODA which runs Japans largest sneaker resell platform lands 22 million led by SoftBank Ventures Asia

Indian ecommerce startup Snapdeal files for IPO

SoftBank forms AI healthcare JV in Japan with Tempus

Udelv partners with HEB on Texas autonomous grocery delivery pilot

TMobile and Sprint agree to merge creating 146B rival to ATT and Verizon led by John Legere

A look at six new funds begs the question: is a slowdown really coming

SoftBank could still walk away from Uber

Clubhouse proves that time is a flat circle

Maverick Ventures announces 382M evergreen fund

How to lose money SoftBank edition

HealNow raises 13 million to bring online payments to pharmacies

SoftBank bets big on Pipefy which just raised 75M for its lowcode workflow management tool

The Stanford connections behind Latin Americas multibillion dollar startup renaissance

Chinas Jaka Robotics fueled by Saudi Arabias Prosperity7 in global push

What does SoftBanks Masayoshi Son plan to say or do about its ties to Saudi Arabia Were about to find out

SoftBank deepens commitment to LatAm with two new partners focused on earlystage investing

GM Cruise snags Dropbox HR head to hire 1000 engineers by the end of the year

Social app IRL makes its first acquisition with deal for digital nutrition company AaBeZe Labs

Equity podcast: Circle raises 110M VCs hunt liquidity and the Vision Funds possible twin

Xiaomi CDRs SoftBanks successors and Chinas Samsung investigation

Enterprise healthcare platform Collective Health raises 205M led by SoftBank

Brazils Petlove raises 150M from Riverwood SoftBank to sell pet products and services online

SoftBank is just the latest validation for Miamis booming startup scene