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Investors raising funds * 3 Boomerang Capital, a Greenwich, Conn.-based midmarket health care PE firm co-founded by Adam Dolder (ex-Great Point Partners), is raising its debut fund, per an SEC filing. Link * Ardian raised more than $20b for a new PE secondaries fund that’s targeting a total of $25b,

Analyst reports: * PwC Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2023–2027 . Link News * The explosion of streaming services and VFX-heavy blockbusters is pushing the visual effects industry’s beleaguered artists to the brink. Link Startups raising funds * The ATP Tour, the top men's tennis tour, has held talks with Saudi Arabia's Public

News * Startups raising funds * Cart.com, an Austin, Texas-based provider of e-commerce enablement solutions, raised $60m in Series C funding at a $1.2b valuation from B. Riley Venture Capital, Kingfisher Investment Advisors, Snowflake Ventures, Prosperity7 Ventures and Legacy Knight. Link * JuliaHub, a Cambridge, Mass.-based platform for modeling, simulation

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,

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

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

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

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,

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

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's gallium and germanium

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 not allow

* 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 up