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With capital aplenty, modern corporate investors marry financial and strategic goals

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The corporate venture capital (CVC) market is booming. Yesterday, The Exchange dug into the data behind the CVC market’s very busy 2021. But it’s not a pure venture capital story. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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Predictions for Living, Working, & Traveling Post-Covid in America’s Startup Cities

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Post-Pandemic Geography: Predictions for Living, Working, & Traveling Post-Covid in America’s Startup Cities Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Announces that Airbnb Co-founder and CEO, Brian Chesky, will join Steve Case for the Tech Talent Tour Mainstage Discussion (Thursday, June 24th, 2021 at 12:00 PM ET).

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Undock raises $1.6M to help solve your group scheduling nightmares

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But we seem to be in a calendrical renaissance, with incumbents like Google and Outlook getting smarter and smarter and newcomers like Calendly growing significantly. The company plans to launch a full-featured calendar in Q1 of 2021, that would include collaborative editing right within calendar events, and embedded video conferencing.

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Canada’s Neo Financial closes on $145M Series C, surpasses 1 million customers

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Also participating in the round were Tribe Capital, Altos Ventures, Blank Ventures, Gaingels, Maple VC and Knollwood Advisory. Notably, it only went live in January of 2021, so it has managed to surpass 1 million customers in a relatively short period of time. Valar Ventures led the investment, which brings Neo’s total funding to $234.7

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Data-driven iteration helped China’s Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years

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Incumbent giants therefore could lose a sizable chunk of market share if a company could just manage to weave together China’s manufacturing proficiency and agility with the modern tech startup philosophy of “moving fast and breaking stuff.”. trillion in 2021, more than triple that of the No. 2, the U.S. Image Credits: VCG.

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Bond Pet Foods enters meat proteins phase with $17.5M Series A

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million Series A investment in June from a group of investors that includes Archer-Daniels-Midland Company’s venture arm ADM Ventures, Cavallo Ventures, Genoa Ventures, Lever VC, Thia Ventures, iSelect Fund, Stage 1 Fund, Lifely VC and Satori Capital. The move is buoyed by a $17.5 Prior to the Series A round, the company raised $2.5

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Spend management platform Teampay expands partnership with Mastercard, raises $47M

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Today, Teampay has hundreds of customers and significant venture capital financing behind it. million in debt) Series B led by Fin Venture Capital with participation from Mastercard, Proof Ventures, Trestle and Espresso Capital, bringing Teampay’s total raised to $65 million. . billion in 2021. billion valuation.