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Former Rivian exec says ‘Every car company will become a robotics company’

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Jiten Behl, partner at Eclipse Ventures and former chief growth officer at Rivian, thinks we’re entering an era of major re-industrialization in the US — one where factories run on AI-powered robots, not cheap overseas labor.   Behl, who helped scale Rivian from a conference room idea in 2015 to a publicly traded EV maker, is now investing […]

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Coursera and Udemy enter a merger agreement valued at around $2.5B

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​Coursera and Udemy announced on Wednesday a landmark merger agreement valued at approximately $2.5 billion, bringing together two of the biggest names in online learning. Coursera will acquire Udemy in an all-stock transaction, marking a pivotal moment in online education. The companies said the merger will be finalized in the second half of next year,

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Whole Foods to install smart food waste bins from Mill starting in 2027

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Food waste startup Mill said Tuesday that it has inked a deal with Amazon to deploy its bins in Whole Foods produce departments across the country starting in 2027. Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund is also investing in the startup, though it did not disclose the amount. The company has raised a total of $250 million

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Canadian peer-to-Peer clothing rental company Rax is expanding to the U.S.

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Marley Alles started out in accounting.   She thought that her dream was to work at a big company. “And then once I got there, I was like ‘oh, that’s it,” she told TechCrunch.   Alles began fostering other passions and found herself curious about the world of startups. She would listen to every podcast and read each book, taking notes on

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India’s Digantara raises $50M for space-based missile defence tech

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Digantara, an Indian space surveillance startup, has raised $50 million in a new funding round as it moves beyond space situational awareness into missile tracking, citing growing demand from governments for space-based defence capabilities. The all-equity Series B round included new investors such as 360 ONE Asset and SBI Investments of Japan, as well as

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Mesa shuts down credit card that rewarded cardholders for paying their mortgages

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Fintech startup Mesa has shut down its Homeowners Card, which awarded points to cardholders for paying their mortgages. A message on the Mesa website states that as of December 12, “all Mesa Homeowners Card accounts are closed,” adding, “All credit cards have been deactivated and you are no longer able to make any new purchases

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Retro, a photo-sharing app for friends, lets you ‘time-travel’ through your camera roll

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Retro, a friend-focused photo-sharing app with roughly a million users, is adding a new feature that lets you time-travel through your old photo memories from your phone’s camera roll. While the app today offers a way to share photos of what’s happening during your week with a private group of friends, or create shared albums,

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Overview Energy wants to beam energy from space to existing solar farms

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Overview Energy emerged from stealth today with a plan to use the world’s solar panels as nighttime collectors of power beamed down from space. The startup plans to use large solar arrays in geosynchronous orbit — about 22,000 miles above the Earth where satellites match the planet’s rotation — to harvest sunlight. It will then

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