News Brazil-based Gupy, which uses AI to help around 1,500 companies select, hire, and train employees, raises ~$93M led by SoftBank Latin America Fund and Riverwood (Aluisio Alves / Reuters) April 19, 2023
News Fishbrain, a Stockholm-based sport fishing app, social network, and digital marketplace with ~12M users, raises $31M from Consensus, Adrigo Asset, and SoftBank(FinSMEs) April 19, 2023
News Many celebrities promoting NFTs, like Paris Hilton and Jimmy Fallon, are either represented by, or have links to, OpenSea investor Creative Artists Agency(Max Read / Read Max) April 19, 2023
News Facebook Oversight Board member told UK Parliament that the panel feels constrained when reviewing decisions on a case-by-case basis, may seek algorithm access (Dell Cameron / Gizmodo) April 19, 2023
News Sequoia, YC, Craft Ventures, and other VCs give startups advice on surviving the downturn; Lightspeed: “boom times of the last decade are unambiguously over(Wall Street Journal) April 19, 2023
News Facebook says there were 1.4B+ voice and video calls on WhatsApp on NYE 2020 globally, up 50%+ YoY, and 55M+ live streams across Facebook and Instagram (About Facebook ) April 19, 2023
News An oral history of Amazon’s cloud storage service S3, which debuted 15 years ago to store 20B objects and has scaled to store 100T objects by 2020 (Tom Krazit / Protocol) April 19, 2023
News Profile of PodSwap, a startup offering a battery replacement service for Apple’s AirPods, and a great example of why we need right-to-repair legislation (Kif Leswing / CNBC) April 18, 2023
News Sources: as German car trading service Auto1 plans its IPO, Sequoia and Lone Pine will each buy ~€50M in shares from existing investors and put €50M+ in its IPO (Blomberg) April 18, 2023
News Q&A with Arm CEO Rene Haas on the company’s plans, business model, open-source competitor RISC-V, Intel relationship, need to invest more in R&D, and more(Max A. Cherney / Protocol) April 18, 2023