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                : Hearth Display, that’s who. The startup brought in $2.8 million to turn your whiteboard into a 27-inch display to show off the family’s to-do list,
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                Siemens Xcelerator is an open digital business platform to accelerate your digital transformation with speed, ease and scale.
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               They say there’s a market wobble in progress, but you wouldn’t think so by the number of new funds and venture firms that got announced today. Six of them, in fact:
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                 $100 million for crypto
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                :
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                 Protagonist launches $100 million fund to make early-stage crypto companies the main character
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                 Jacquelyn
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                .
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                 $20 million for legacy industries
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                :
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                 C2 Ventures raises new fund to invest in the “dull, dirty and dangerous”
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                 Catherine
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                 $500 million for India and SE Asia startups
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                :
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                 Lightspeed raises $500 million for its new India and Southeast Asia fund
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                 Manish
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                .
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                 $1 billion for multistage startups
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                :
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                 Cathay Innovation launches third multistage startup fund at $1 billion
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                by
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                 Paul
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                .
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                 $10 million for science-based companies
                </strong>
                :
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                 Conscience VC raises oversubscribed fund for consumer companies rooted in science
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                by
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                 Becca
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                .
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                 And another $430 million for crypto
                </strong>
                :
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                 Crypto-focused Multicoin Capital launches $430 million venture fund
                </a>
                by
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                 Jacquelyn
                </a>
                .
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               Whew! That was a lot of new funds all in one day. Don’t worry, though, we have some nonfund news too:
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                 Airlift comes down for landing
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                :
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                 Manish
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                reports that
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                 Pakistan’s Airlift is shutting down
                </a>
                , citing funding and market conditions.
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                 The machines are still learning
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                :
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                 Kyle
                </a>
                reports that
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                 Tecton raises a whopping $100 million
                </a>
                , showing that machine learning continues to be a growth market.
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                <strong>
                 Oh, it’s Nothing
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                : There’s a shiny new smartphone on the block, as
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                 Nothing’s Phone (1)
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                is officially announced,
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                 Brian
                </a>
                reports.
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                 Living on the edge
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                : Another monster round in the computing space, as
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                 Scale Computing secures $55 million
                </a>
                to help companies manage their edge-computing infrastructure,
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                 Kyle
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                writes.
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                 Hello, swimmers
                </strong>
                : Posterity Health wants to help
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                 address male fertility needs
                </a>
                ,
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                 Kate
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                reports.
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                 Dude, where
                 <em>
                  are
                 </em>
                 you?
                </strong>
                : It sucks to not be able to hear the person on the other end of the line. New tech is on the way in the form of
                <a rel="noopener" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial;color: #14c435;text-decoration: none" target="_blank">
                 this open source earbuds project
                </a>
                , reports
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                 Haje
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                .
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                 We’re charged up!
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                : In a world where a lot of cars are moving to being battery-powered,
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                 battery recycling is seeing a lot of investor interest,
                </a>
                reports
                <a rel="noopener" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial;color: #14c435;text-decoration: none" target="_blank">
                 Jaclyn
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