June 10, 20210CommentsClip, a Mexican mobile payments startup targeting SMBs, raises $250M from SoftBank’s Latin American fund and Viking Global, at a valuation of $2B (Bloomberg)
June 10, 20210CommentsDeliveroo is partnering with Neighbourhood Watch in the UK to offer training to its couriers to keep an eye out for crimes (Jane Wakefield/BBC)
June 10, 20210CommentsGoogle researchers detail an AI system that outperforms humans in designing floorplans for microchips, promising better and more-rapidly produced chip designs (Andrew B. Kahng/Nature)
June 10, 20210CommentsLedger, best known for its Nano series of cryptocurrency hardware wallets, raises $380M Series C at a valuation of $1.5B (Andrew Asmakov/Decrypt)
June 10, 20210CommentsCentral banks of Switzerland and France trial Europe’s first cross-border digital currency payments, focusing on the bank-to-bank wholesale lending market (Reuters)
June 10, 20210CommentsPrefect, whose dataflow automation service allows companies to streamline workflows and schedule when apps run, raises $32M Series B led by Tiger Global (Chris Metinko/Crunchbase News)
June 10, 20210CommentsFintech startup TreasurySpring raises $10M for platform giving online access to Fixed-term-funds
June 10, 20210CommentsAlexis Ohanian’s new VC firm Seven Seven Six raises $150M for its first fund and says it targeted a base of 50% women and 15% Black or indigenous investors (Alex Konrad/Forbes)
June 10, 20210CommentsSources: an EU regulator is proposing sanctioning Amazon’s privacy practices with a fine of $425M+, which could yield the biggest GDPR fine yet (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal)
June 10, 20210CommentsNMPA files a $200M lawsuit against Roblox for alleged music copyright infringement, and launches a “major ramp-up” of its takedown campaign against Twitch (Steve Dent/Engadget)
