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Startups Weekly: Upfront Ventures bets on a bus service

TechCrunch LA

billion in a round led by the private equity firm GPI Capital this week. Vianai raises $50M seed to transform machine learning. Groww, an investment app for Indian millennials, raises $21M. Equity drops every Friday at 6:00 am PT, so subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts , Overcast , Spotify , and all the casts.

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Turning the Camera on Chris Dixon

Both Sides of the Table

Chris Dixon is one of my favorite people in tech and writes one of the few blogs I read religiously. If you like the quick summary notes, please check out Adam’s blog on tech, entrepreneurship & VC as a thank you. The firm focuses on early stage companies in the Northeast but occasionally invests in California startups.

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Empirico Raises $17M, Inks 3-Year Antisense Collaboration with Ionis

Xconomy

Empirico, a biotech that has developed tools to analyze genomics data and use those insights to identify potential therapeutic targets, has signed a collaboration deal with antisense drug developer Ionis Pharmaceuticals that includes a $10 million equity investment.

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UiPath Snags $225M To Expand Robotic Workforce for Businesses

Xconomy

New York-based UiPath is the latest such company to score a haul, announcing Tuesday it raised $225 million in a Series C funding round co-led by earlier investor CapitalG —the growth equity investment fund of Google parent company Alphabet—and Sequoia Capital, a new investor.

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Convoy Reloads With $185M For Its Freight Shipment Marketplace

Xconomy

Convoy , an online marketplace that connects shippers with freight truck fleets and independent drivers, announced today it raised $185 million in a Series C fundraising round led by CapitalG, the growth equity investment fund of Alphabet, Google’s parent company. regions, CEO Dan Lewis says.

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Announcing Xconomy’s Agtech and Food Channel

Xconomy

At Xconomy, we have seen growing investments in the sector—both in a rash of new agtech startups and by bigger players such Monsanto, Bayer Crop Sciences, and Syngenta. The annual AgTech Investment Report from AgFunderNews found that investment in agriculture and food-related technology startups alone hit $4.6

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VC Confidence Holds Steady in Quarterly Survey, But Reasons Change

Xconomy

In a survey of 29 Silicon Valley venture capitalists in December, the VCs mulled whether President-elect Donald Trump would buoy up their investment prospects with lower corporate taxes and government regulations, or worsen conditions by heightening global political instability and raising the risk of a major military conflict or economic downturn.