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 Rebellions, a South Korean fabless AI chip startup, said today it has closed $124 million  165 billion KRW  in a Series  stan smith original B round of funding to develop its third AI chip, called Rebel. The startup will also use the new capital, oversubscribed with an initial target of $90 million, to ramp up production of its data center-focused chip, Atom, and for hiring.This Series B values the three-year-old startup at approximately $658 million  880 billion KRW  post-money, CFO of Rebellions Sungkyue Shin said in an exclusive interview with TechCrunch. This latest capital infusion brin adidas original samba gs the total raised to around $210 million since Rebellions ; inception in 2020.KT, the South Korean telecom giant, led this latest round as a strategic investor. Previous backers Temasek   Pavilion Capital and Korea Development Bank, and new investors including Korelya Capital and DG Daiwa Ventures, also participated.Rebellions ; fundraise comes at a key moment in the chip industry, specifically aro jordan5 und  Jwdm LIV 8211; Live Captions
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 Frichti s Julia Bijaoui, TransferWise s Flora Coleman, OpenClassrooms  Pierre Dubuc, Vinted s Thomas Plantenga and UiPath s Daniel Dines shared the stage with Macron and each asked one ques hoka herrenschuhe tion about funding, European regulation, talent, the digital single market, etc.Just like last year, Macron took a strong stance when it comes to corporate taxes.  In order to compete with American giants, you need to make sure that competition is fair. reebok classic leather  Y nb ou pay taxes, so the tech giant that is competing against you should pay taxes too,  Macron said.France recently approved a tax on tech giants. If you generate more than 鈧?50 million in revenue globally and 鈧?5 million in France, you must pay 3% of your French revenue in taxes, even if your company is registered in Ireland, Luxembourg or the Netherlands. It s a temporary measure because we want a tax at the European level, and more generally at the OECD level,  Macron said.When it comes to funding, things look much better now than a few years ago. Th

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 Hero MotoCorp, which already owns a 33.1% stake in the Bengaluru-headquartered Ather Energy, disclosed  PDF  in a stock exchange filing that its board of directors had approved a fresh investment of up to $66.5 million in the rights issue of Ather Energy.Prior to the new investment, Ather Energy has raised $336 million over the years from investors including Tiger Global, Flipkart founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, and India   quasi-sovereign fund NIIF, according to Tracxn. It was valued at $739 million in a round last year.Ather Energy, which was on track to hit $1 bill air force 1 ion in revenue by December this year, recently hit a roadblock after the Ministry of Heavy Industrie nike force 1 s cut the subsidy it offers for two-wheelers, dealing a blow to Ather, that, like many other EVs, has been a huge beneficiary of state and air af1  federal subsidies in recent years.Prior to the policy change, Ather was in talks to close a round of about $250 million at a valuation of over $1 billion. Binny Bansal, an  Ezkr Framework says hackers accessed customer data after phishing attack on accounting partner
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Izos Why Salesforce is moving Marketing Cloud to Microsoft Azure
 The changes follow a series of legal challenges and new regulations in select markets over Apple   control of its App Store, where the company is under pressure to permit third-party payments and increased competition. Both the EU and the U.S. are considering measures designed to level the playing field across numerous fronts when it comes to app stores and the fees t adidas originals samba hey charge.Most notably, Apple   new guidelines see it deleting one of its vaguer rules over how an app has to function in order to be permitted on the App Store.With the update, Apple removed the requirement  rule 4.2.3  that says an app must  include sufficient content in the binary for the app to function at launch.  Though designed to ensure that apps have some sort of minimum functionality and are usable upon in adidas originals uomo stallation, Apple has also wielded this rule to block a air jordan pps that would require another app to function or that first need to call resources from the internet. As to why Apple is now remov Ykrg Get your pass to TC Sessions Space now and save up to $100
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 Anshu SharmaContributorAnshu Sharma is the co-founder and CEO at Skyflow, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor.More posts from Anshu SharmaWhat if Christensen was wrong about disruption Toward transitive data privacy and securing the data you don t shareClayton Christensen was an amazing obs af1 erver of business, and his work on disruption is seminal. Hi mens dunks s book  The Innovator s Dilemma  has come to define how we analyze companies that get disrupted by newcomers.The core of his thesis is that companies focus on their current best customers and improve the product for them while a new entrant comes in with a cheaper product that serves the underserved segment with an inferior product that is good enough 鈥?and over time, the inferior product gets better enough to meet the needs of most customers disrupting the incumbent s core business.But has he been proven wrong in  airforces the last 10 years on many major disruptions  For instance:iPhone was more expensive than competitors at launch.Tesla was Ikbc Doug Leone s Advice for New Startup Founders
 Andrey Andreev, the founder of Ba hoka wanderschuh doo, the controversial London-based company that owns a series of dating apps and was the main backer and builder of Bumble, is selling his entire stake in MagicLab, the company that owned both Bumble and Badoo  and other dating apps , to Blackstone. He will step away from the business in the process, and Wolfe Herd, Bumble   founder, beco skechers laufschuhe mes the CEO of the whole company, retaining much of her stake in the business in the process. We understand that stake is at about 19%.The deal values Bumble and the wider business   which is profitab womens sambas le   at $3 billion.Blackstone also will be making an investment in the company as part of the deal. This transaction is an incredibly important and exciting moment for Bumble and the MagicLab group of brands and team members. Blackstone is world-class at maximizing the success of entrepreneur-led companies, which presents a tremendous opportunity. We are very excited to build the next chapter with t

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Brnn Patient21 a digital healthcare startup with brick-and-mortar clinics raises $108M to grow beyond Germany
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