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Israeli venture platform OurCrowd today announced that SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 has made a $25 million convertible equity investment into the firm.  As part of this deal, OurCrowd is also entering into a strategic partnership with SoftBank Investment Advisers (SBIA) to "consider investment opportunities via OurCrowd’s online venture capital investment platform" and jointly evaluate market trends.

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Can Ro expand past generics? In a detailed report, TechCrunch’s Natasha Mascarenhas dug into Ro, the company behind Roman and other health-focused services as it works to expand its product mix and keep growing.  TechCrunch read the strong pricing event as indicative of a warm IPO market not only for pure tech companies, but also unicorns that are more tech-enabled than tech tech.

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Daily Crunch: LinkedIn launches global freelancer platform to compete directly with Upwork, Fiverr

Google today announced a preview of Android 12L, which sounds like a new version of Android, but Google calls it "a special feature drop that makes Android 12 even better on large screens."  The idea here is to provide users on tablets, foldables and Chrome OS laptops -- anything with a screen above 600 dp -- with an improved user interface.

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Abacus.ai wants to build an AI platform that simplifies machine learning model creation, while still leaving room for power users.  Today the company announced a $50 million Series C. At the same time, it announced that the platform was expanding to include computer vision use cases.  With today's investment, the company says that it has raised over $90 million in under 30 months.

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Fifty Years, a six-year-old, San Francisco-based outfit with a portfolio that's already rife with mostly deep tech companies -- many with a good story to tell about how they can have an impact on the environment -- just closed its third and newest fund with $90 million in capital commitments.

Fifty Years, a deep-tech investor, has raised $90 million from tens of "unicorn" founders

Spain's on-demand delivery platform Glovo has announced what it's calling "The Couriers Pledge" -- an initiative which commits its business to setting a new -- "fairer" -- social rights standard for its gigging couriers.  Glovo says the commitments will (eventually) apply to couriers working across its entire market footprint -- whatever their exact employment status.

As EU eyes 'balance' on precarious gig work, Glovo offers pledge of 'fairer' conditions for couriers

Digital transformation efforts in a number of industries have driven massive adoption of robotic process automation (RPA) over the past decade.  The hard truth is that RPA is a decades-old technology that is brittle with real limits to its capabilities.  In this talk, Varun Ganapathi, Ph.D.

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