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Netflix employees stage a trans solidarity walkout, pose list of demands

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They want Netflix to address a list of demands in the categories of content investment, employee relations and safety, and harm reduction. When asked in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter , co-CEO Ted Sarandos didn’t say whether he would meet the group’s demands. — Most (@Most) October 20, 2021.

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Food Rocket blasts off after securing funding, grocery delivery deal with Circle K parent

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Food Rocket has taken an unconventional route, striking a funding deal with Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. On-demand grocery startup Food Rocket launches in the Bay Area, goes up against delivery giants. Many grocery delivery startups begin small, in one city, building up locations to cater to a certain neighborhood.

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Bird Plans To Invest $150M In Europe

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Santa Monica-based on-demand electric scooter provider Bird says it is planning a major investment in Europe, saying it will invest $150M in the continent in 2021. Bird offers up on-demand, electric scooters being used for micro-mobility, particularly in dense urban neighborhoods.

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Nowadays puts its spin on plant-based nuggets

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Investment into alternative proteins, for example, plant-based meats and dairy substitutes was $5 billion in 2021, according to both the Good Food Institute and Crunchbase data. This includes a $2 million pre-seed round from 2021. The round was led by Stray Dog Capital, with additional strategic support from Standard Meat Co.,

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Boulevard books $70M to help beauty and wellness salons with their bookings

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The funding, a Series C, will be used to continue expanding Boulevard’s product and engineering teams and to build out more tools targeting an ever-wider set of users in the bigger wellness and beauty sector (those product additions are typically big — it most recently added a whole new payments feature). Focusing on the U.S.

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Six Tech Startups to Look Out For in 2023

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And in addition to streamlining biofuel production, Reversion is also developing ways to improve energy storage for when supply exceeds demand, taking a multi-pronged approach to sustainable power generation. . This April, the startup raised a staggering $4 million in a seed funding round.

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A16z-backed Shein challenger Cider is growing rapidly

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That number is dwarfed by Shein, which gained over 170 million downloads worldwide in 2021 and surpassed Amazon as the top shopping app in the U.S. As of last September, Cider had raised $130 million in funding and crossed the $1 billion valuation point. Cider has racked up roughly 7.4 And Cider has broken into the crowded U.S.

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