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Meati Foods bites into another $100M amid growth to 7,000 retail locations

Meati Foods is adding 2,000 retail locations within Kroger’s family of stores by April. Three products will be available, including the Classic cutlet as well as Classic and Carne Asada steaks.

Lucid Bots secures $9M for drones to clean more than your windows

The robotics company builds intelligent robots that are purpose-made to tackle the “dirty” jobs that people don’t want to do.

Israeli startup Panax raises a $10M Series A for its AI-driven cash flow management platform

While visualizing cash flow is helpful, Panax wants to go further than providing a dashboard and help finance teams manage treasury, Panax CEO Noam Mills told TechCrunch.

EU grills Elon Musk’s X about content moderation and deepfake risks

The European Union has deepened the investigation of Elon Musk-owned social network X it opened back in December, under the bloc’s online governance and content moderation rulebook: the Digital

Atlan scores $105M for its data control plane, as LLMs boost importance of data

For the founders of Atlan, a data governance startup, data has always been at the heart of what they do, even before they launched the company. In fact, co-founders Prukalpa Sankar and Varun Banka got

Axmed raises $2M from Founderful to streamline drug supply chains in underserved markets

The seed funding follows a $5M grant the startup got from the Gates Foundation to make maternal and child healthcare available in high-priority countries.

Xona Space Systems closes $19M Series A to build out ultra-accurate GPS alternative

For decades, the Global Positioning System (GPS) has maintained a de facto monopoly on positioning, navigation and timing, because it’s cheap and already integrated into billions of devices around t

FTX crypto fraud victims to get their money back — plus interest

Bankruptcy lawyers representing customers impacted by the dramatic crash of cryptocurrency exchange FTX 17 months ago say that the vast majority of victims will receive their money back — plus

Google Wallet is now available in India

Google Wallet has debuted in India as the company’s digital wallet for non-payment use cases — two years after it was launched in the U.S.

Bluesky to add DMs, video support and in-app custom feed curation

The social network said it is planning to introduce direct messages, support for videos, improved custom feeds, and new moderation controls.

Samsung Medison to acquire French AI ultrasound startup Sonio for $92.7M

The French startup's AI assistant is aimed at helping obstetricians and gynecologists with the evaluation and documentation of ultrasound exams.

NBA champion Kyle Kuzma looks to bring his team mentality to Scrum Ventures

Kyle Kuzma is a lot of things. He’s a forward for the Washington Wizards NBA team and a 2020 NBA champion. He’s also a style icon — depending on who you ask — and an angel investor. No

Ofcom to push for better age verification, filters and 40 other checks in new online child safety code

Ofcom is cracking down on Instagram, YouTube and 150,000 other web services to improve child safety online. A new Children’s Safety Code from the U.K. Internet regulator will push tech firms to

After a $20M Series A funding, Germany’s Insempra plans eco-friendly lipid production

Insempra plans to turn oil yeast in lipids on an industrial scale using yeast fermentation factories.

Tesla is Luminar’s largest lidar customer

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that lidar sensors are a “crutch” for autonomous vehicles. But his company has bought so many from Luminar that Tesla is now the lidar-maker’s top custom

Brandywine Realty Trust says data stolen in ransomware attack

U.S. realty trust giant Brandywine Realty Trust has confirmed a cyberattack that resulted in the theft of data from its network. In a filing with regulators on Tuesday, the Philadelphia-based Brandywi

Rivian loses $1.45 billion as cost-cutting measures continue

Rivian lost $1.45 billion in the first quarter, showing that its recent company-wide cost-cutting measures have a ways to go before it can approach profitability. The EV-maker brought in $1.2 billion

Meta’s AI tools for advertisers can now create full new images, not just new backgrounds

Meta claims that it has strong guardrails in place to prevent its system from generating inappropriate ad content or low-quality images.

Biden signs bill to protect children from online sexual abuse and exploitation

On April 29, Senators Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Marsha Blackburn (R-SC) proposed a bipartisan bill to protect children from online sexual exploitation. President Biden officially signed the REPORT Act int

Bloom is reinventing how e-bikes are made in the US

The pandemic ushered in an e-bike boom. But like so many other pandemic trends, that boom didn’t last. The last year has seen e-bike startups VanMoof and Cake file for bankruptcy amid a backdrop
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