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Hello and welcome back to Startups Weekly, a weekend newsletter that dives into the week noteworthy news pertaining to startups and venture
Before I jump into today topic, let catch up a bit
Last week, I wrote about Revel, a recent graduate of Y Combinator that raised a small seed round.
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What happened this week?
Uber the TV show
Is anyone surprised Mike
Isaac &Super Pumped& is set to become a TV show? Travis Kalanick notorious journey to CEO of Uber and subsequent ouster was made for
This week, news broke that Showtime Brian Koppelman and David Levien, the creators and showrunners of &Billions,& would develop the project,
with Isaac himself on board to executive produce
I will be watching.
All Raise expansion
All Raise members
All Raise, an 18-month-old nonprofit organization that seeks to amplify the
voices of and support women in tech, announced new chapters in Los Angeles and Boston this week
I spoke with leaders of the organization about expansion plans, new hires, product launches and more
&Women are hungry for the support and guidance we provide
I think the movement is just gathering momentum,& All Raise CEO Pam Kostka told me.
VCThe unicorn from down under
You&ve probably heard of
The Australian tech company, which has developed a simplified graphic design tool, is worth a whopping $3.2 billion as of this week
Investors in the company include Bond, General Catalyst, Bessemer Venture Partners, Blackbird and Sequoia China
Alongside a fresh $85 million funding, Canva is also making its foray into enterprise with the launch of Canva for Enterprise
Read about that here.
What else?
The Station, TechCrunch Kirsten Korosec new weekly newsletter, has officially launched
She is going deep each week on all things mobility and transportation
You can read her first one here Subscribe here.
lsquo;Cloud kitchens& is an oxymoron, says TechCrunch editor Danny Crichton
He penned an interesting piece this week, arguing cloud kitchens are just adding more competition to one of the most competitive industries
in the world, and that isn''t a path to leverage.
NASA made history this week when astronauts Christina H
Koch and Jessica Meir took part in the first-ever spacewalk in the agency history featuring only women
No, this isn''t startup-related but it pretty damn cool
Watch the video here.
NASA astronauts Christina H
Koch and Jessica Meir
VC deals
Pensando comes out of stealth with $278M in funding
Pendo scores $100M at unicorn valuation
Galileo Financial
raises $77M
Mobile game startup MadBox raises $16.5M
Winnow secures $12M for its food waste solution
Realtime Robotics secures $11.7M Series
A
TruTag nabs $7.5M for tiny, edible bar codes
Mexico City Zubale gets $4.4M to put locals to work
Evervault gets $3.2M from Sequoia
Autify
raises $2.5M seed for its no-code software testing tool
Startup spotlight: Petalfox
I discovered the business earlier this week
Basically, it a super easy way to order flowers, coffee and others goods via SMS
That all.
Equity
This week was honestly a treat
We had myselfin the studio along withAlex Wilhelmand a special guest,Sarah Guo from Greylock Partners, a venture firm (obviously)
Guo has the distinction of having the best-ever fun fact on the show
We kicked off withGrammarly, a company that recentlyput $90 million into its accounts
Then chatted about Lattice, Tempest, WeWork, SaaS, the future of valuations in Silicon Valley and more if you can believe it
Listen here.
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