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VC Office Hours: Unlocking the Farmers’ Market with Black Farmer Fund
The fund is technically a nonprofit with a debt fund attached.
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GM and Toyota are shaping up to be the biggest losers in the EV transition
Legacy automakers have scaled back or set overly modest electric vehicle production targets. They may come to regret that.
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Fintechs go shopping
Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. If you want to receive The Interchange directly in your inbox every Sunday, head here to sign up! We’re back and making up for lost time after…
The most important metrics for SaaS funding in 2024
Today we’re focusing on metrics and business environments that apply to most SaaS companies — not the unicorn outliers.
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Shein a light
We won’t be getting our hands on a Shein filing just yet, but we can’t wait to.
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23andMe says hackers accessed ‘significant number’ of files about users’ ancestry
Genetic testing company 23andMe announced on Friday that hackers accessed around 14,000 customer accounts in the company’s recent data breach. In a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission published Friday, the company said that, bas…
OpenAI’s GPT Store delayed to 2024 following leadership chaos
OpenAI’s app store for AI, the GPT Store, will not launch this year as previously announced, but rather on an unspecified date in early 2024, the company said. The delay is almost certainly due to the leadership shakeup that occurred in November,…
When Uncle Sam puts his thumb on your brake pedal
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Amazon signs 3-launch deal with SpaceX for Project Kuiper satellite internet constellation
Amazon has purchased three Falcon 9 launches from SpaceX to support deployment of its Project Kuiper mega-constellation, the company said Friday. The new deal comes scarcely two months after it was revealed that Amazon was facing a lawsuit over its dec…