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9º Clean: Energy, Logistics & Batteries. Agro/Food tech - 8th July

News * U.S. regulators last week approved two companies, Upside Foods and Good Meat, to begin selling cultivated poultry products. Link * Market Map: Foodtech serves up big ideas as deals shrink. Link Startups raising funds * Omeat, an LA-based cultivated meat developer, raised $40m from S2G Ventures, GV, Bold Capital Partners,

8º Fintech - 8th July

News * Startups raising funds * Utu, a Singapore-based tax-free shopping fintech for travelers, raised $33m in Series B funding from firms like SC Ventures. It also acquired CardsPal, a Singaporean provider of commerce deals and promotions. Link * TreasurySpring, a London-based corporate cash management platform, raised $29m in Series B funding. Baldteron

7º BioTech & eHealth - 8th July

Startups raising funds * NVision Imaging, a German developer of MRI technology, raised $30m in Series A funding. Playground Global led, and was joined by B-to-V, Pathena Investments, Entree Capital, Lauder Family, ES Kapital and Sparkassenkapital Ulm. Link * Nyra Health, an Austrian developer of digital therapy tools for neurology patients, raised

6º CyberSecurity & Defense & Identity - 8th July

News * After Fortinet patched a major FortiOS bug on June 12, researchers find that ~336K out of ~490K affected SSL VPN interfaces are still unpatched and open to RCE (Jonathan Greig / The Record) * A US Navy red team member releases TeamsPhisher, which leverages an unfixed Microsoft Teams bug to send

5º Blockchain & cripto - 8th July

Analyst Report: * PitchBook: global crypto startup funding was $2.34B across 382 deals in Q2 2023, down for the fifth straight quarter; valuations fell nearly 70% YoY in H1 2023 (Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch) News * London-based Revolut plans to stop offering Solana, Polygon, and Cardano for US customers on Sept. 18,

4º Cloud, Big Data & Analytics - 8th July

News * How much electricity do data centres use? There are lots of made-up statistics floating around, but it looks like energy consumption has been roughly flat for a decade, despite a 5-6x increase in use. Link (scientific paper) and article * Huawei releases Pangu Model 3.0, its new cloud computing

3º Hardware, Chips, Telco, Space, IoT & Quantum computing - 8th July

Analyst report: * Ericsson’s latest global mobile data report. Link News * Sources: Google delays releasing its first fully custom Pixel chip by at least a year; instead of codename Redondo's 2024 debut, codename Laguna is set for 2025 (Wayne Ma / The Information)(🔐) * TSMC does not expect China'

2º AI, Robots & Automation - 8th July

News * Thousands of performers who signed their voice rights away in perpetuity years ago are now being forced to compete with AI-cloned versions of their voices (Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times)  (🔐) * Valve won't publish Steam games that use copyright-infringing AI artwork, contrary to reports claiming that the company will

1º Analyst Reports - 8th July

* iPhone market share in SE Asia is growing. Link * PwC Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2023–2027 . Link * Ericsson’s latest global mobile data report. Link * Snap now has 4m paying subscribers (far more than Twitter, FWIW). Link * Unicorn creation at lowest levels since 2017. Link * Market Map: Foodtech serves

12º Investors raising funds - 23th Jun

11º Media, Videogames, MarTech & AdTech - 23th Jun

10º "Traditional” SW - 23th Jun

9º Clean: Energy, Logistics & Batteries. Agro/Food tech - 23th Jun

8º Fintech - 23th Jun

7º BioTech & eHealth - 23th Jun

6º CyberSecurity & Defense & Identity - 23th Jun

5º Blockchain & cripto - 23th Jun

4º Cloud, Big Data & Analytics - 23th Jun

3º Hardware, Chips, Telco, Space, IoT & Quantum computing - 23th Jun

2º AI, Robots & Automation - 23th Jun

1º Analyst Reports - 23th Jun

12º Investors raising funds - 17th Jun

11º Media, Videogames, MarTech & AdTech - 17th Jun

10º "Traditional” SW - 17th Jun

9º Clean: Energy, Logistics & Batteries. Agro/Food tech - 17th Jun