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Sinch acquires Pathwire, the company behind Mailgun and Mailjet, for $1.9B to add email into its API-based communications platform – TechCrunch

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Sinch acquires Pathwire, the company behind Mailgun and Mailjet, for $1.9B to add email into its API-based communications platform – TechCrunch

“Each form of digital communication has its unique advantages, and delivering high quality on a large scale requires both extensive technical skills and in-depth expertise,” said Oscar Werner, CEO of Sinch. “Together with Pathwire, we will be able to offer a world-class set of messaging, voice and email products that enable businesses and developers to … Read more

Rocket Lab’s order backlog tops $141M as the company inks five-launch deal with Kinéis – TechCrunch

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Rocket Lab’s order backlog tops $141M as the company inks five-launch deal with Kinéis – TechCrunch

It was a busy first half for the US-New Zealand company Rocket Lab, which released results for the first half of 2021 on Wednesday – the first such reporting since the company went public last month. Rocket Lab reported sales of $ 29.5 million for the six month period. Backlog also increased to $ 141.4 … Read more

98point6 CEO Robbie Cape is no longer with the company in abrupt shakeup at telemedicine startup

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98point6 CEO Robbie Cape is no longer with the company in abrupt shakeup at telemedicine startup

Robbie Cape, former CEO of virtual primary care startup 98point6, accepts the award for Health Innovation of the Year 2019 at the GeekWire Awards. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) 98point6 CEO Robbie Cape no longer works at the heavily funded virtual health company he co-founded in 2015, GeekWire has learned. The company confirmed on Wednesday … Read more

AI voice, synthetic speech company LOVO gets $4.5M pre-series A funding – TechCrunch

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AI voice, synthetic speech company LOVO gets $4.5M pre-series A funding – TechCrunch

Voice skins have become a very popular feature for AI-based voice assistants to personalize some of the more anodyne aspects of helpful, but also boring and robotic speaking voices that you get from services like Alexa. Now, a startup developing voice skins for various companies to use in their services, as well as third parties … Read more

Amazon senior cloud exec Charlie Bell is leaving the company after more than 23 years

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Amazon senior cloud exec Charlie Bell is leaving the company after more than 23 years

Charlie Bell (LinkedIn Photo) Charlie Bell, a member of Amazon’s Senior Leadership Team and long-standing lynchpin of the company’s cloud business, is leaving the company after more than 23 years. His departure, reported by The Information and confirmed by CNBC, is the latest change in the Amazon Web Services leadership team as Andy Jassy, ​​longtime … Read more

Microsoft is buying cloud cybersecurity company RiskIQ

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Microsoft is buying RiskIQ, a cybersecurity company best known for working with organizations like Facebook and the US Postal Service to find out where and how they are vulnerable to online attacks. The company didn’t disclose the terms of the deal, but according to Bloomberg, Microsoft agreed to pay about $ 500 million. Outside of … Read more

Close connections and remote work: Investor in Seattle helped Ohio dad land at portfolio company

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Close connections and remote work: Investor in Seattle helped Ohio dad land at portfolio company

Ben Gilbert, left, and his father Alan Gilbert while backpacking the Olympic Peninsula, Washington state. (Courtesy photo by Ben Gilbert) As the co-founder and CEO of Seattle-based venture capital firm Pioneer Square Labs, Ben Gilbert spends a lot of time helping businesses start and finding the key people they need to succeed. When PSL spinout … Read more

Lidar company Quanergy to go public via $1.4B SPAC deal – TechCrunch

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Lidar company Quanergy to go public via $1.4B SPAC deal – TechCrunch

Quanergy Systems, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-Based lidar company, announced Tuesday that it had entered into a merger with CITIC Capital Acquisition Corp. has agreed, a Chinese blank check firm affiliated with the country’s largest state-owned investment conglomerate. The transaction, which implicitly values ​​Quanergy at $ 1.4 billion, is expected to close in the second half of … Read more

Facebook acquires Seattle virtual reality gaming company BigBox VR, makers of Population: One

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Facebook acquires Seattle virtual reality gaming company BigBox VR, makers of Population: One

Big Box VR co-founders Chia Chin Lee (left) and Gabe Brown. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) The Seattle startup BigBox VR, the company behind the multiplayer virtual reality game POPULATION: ONE, was taken over by Facebook. Facebook was attracted to BigBox due to the popularity of POP: ONE, which has been one of the top … Read more

Home services platform Urban Company raises $255 million at $2.1 billion valuation – TechCrunch

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Home services platform Urban Company raises $255 million at $2.1 billion valuation – TechCrunch

Home Services Market Urban Company announced Wednesday that it has raised $ 255 million in a new round of funding and confirmed a valuation of $ 2.1 billion. The new round of funding – a Series F – was led by Prosus Ventures, Dragoneer and Wellington Management, while Vy Capital, Tiger Global and Steadview participated. … Read more