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GrubMarket raises $60M as food delivery stays center stage

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GrubMarket , which provides a B2C platform for consumers to order produce and other food and home items for delivery, and a B2B service where it supplies grocery stores, meal-kit companies and other food tech startups with products that they resell, is today announcing that it has raised $60 million in a Series D round of funding.

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Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology

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In 2014 , open-source platform Drupal moved to replace “master/slave” with “primary/replica.” . Meanwhile, we’re seeing ads for Yes on 22 inside on-demand apps. Send me an email at megan@techcrunch.com . But GitHub is by no means the first company to consider and make these changes.

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The Station: Via hits $2.25B valuation, letters from readers, layoffs in a time of COVID-19

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Please reach out and email me at kirsten.korosec@techcrunch.com to share thoughts, opinions or tips or send a direct message to @kirstenkorosec. metro area, San Diego and Santa Monica. The on-demand shuttle startup raised $400 million, TechCrunch learned. Deal of the week. Exor contributed $200 million of that raise.

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Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current

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However, San Diego-based Deal Current (www.dealcurrent.com) appears to have found a sustainable niche in the industry--not providing daily deals, but powering those multiplying deal sites, including a number of major newspaper groups. They are using DealCurrent as the deal platform for all of their clients.

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Interview with Tom Allanson, PerfectForms

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I've watched businesses operate throughout my career, and saw that so many times business users struggle with relatively simple applications, where they can't get them build, can't get them to work, and where they have to kludge together an email system to route things to get things approved. How did the company start?

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Interview With Paul Myer, Veracity: Why The Industrial Internet Needs Security

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However, if you think about IT security, all the systems everyone is familiar with, ERP systems, web, and email, and other basic network systems, all those systems that are designed to run companies, my history and background is in securing those platforms. However, industrial security is very different.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

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Zong is obviously doing something right since they are now the preferred mobile payment platform for Facebook’s mobile credit offering but will compete against some serious guns – Boku has raised nearly $40 million from Benchmark, Index, DAG and Khosla Ventures – the A list of who’s who VCs. 15mm in Series A.