June 10, 20210CommentsNexford University lands $10.8M pre-Series A to scale its flexible remote learning platform
June 10, 20210CommentsMythical Games raises $75M Series B led by WestCap Group for developing a platform for “playable NFTs” where player-owned game avatars can be bought and sold (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
June 10, 20210CommentsSources: UK’s competition watchdog is planning a formal investigation into Amazon, mirroring the EU probe, over how it uses the data it collects (Financial Times)
June 10, 20210CommentsTwitter names new board member to replace Elliott Management’s Jesse Cohn, who was appointed to the board in March 2020 as part of a deal to keep Dorsey as CEO (Reuters)
June 10, 20210CommentsJakarta-based BukuWarung, which offers digital payments and a Shopify-like e-commerce platform for SMBs, raises $60M Series A led by Valar and Goodwater Capital (Catherine Shu/TechCrunch)
June 10, 20210CommentsHawthorne Effect, which offers a cloud-based clinical trials platform, raises $20M Series A led by Northpond Ventures, bringing its total funding to $24M (Ben Adams/FierceBiotech)
June 10, 20210CommentsBukuWarung, a fintech for Indonesian MSMEs, scores $60M Series A led by Valar and Goodwater
June 10, 20210CommentsJBS says it paid an $11M ransom in bitcoin to resolve an attack last week; the payment was made after most plants were operational to avoid further disruption (Jacob Bunge/Wall Street Journal)