📊Wonder’s $250M Food Delivery Round Headlines a Diverse Week in Startup Funding
Wonder led the week's funding news with $250M to fuel its Grubhub acquisition, followed by biotech Metsera's $215M Series B. Other major rounds included Writer's $200M AI funding, Firefly Aerospace's $175M for lunar missions, and Chaos Industries' $145M to enhance defense tech. This diverse week highlights continued investor interest in food delivery, biotech, AI, and defense sectors.
📊Wonder’s $250M Food Delivery Round Headlines a Diverse Week in Startup Funding
Wonder led the week's funding news with $250M to fuel its Grubhub acquisition, followed by biotech Metsera's $215M Series B. Other major rounds included Writer's $200M AI funding, Firefly Aerospace's $175M for lunar missions, and Chaos Industries' $145M to enhance defense tech. This diverse week highlights continued investor interest in food delivery, biotech, AI, and defense sectors.
Emerson Brooking, a disinformation expert at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, said: "Back in the Wild West period of content moderation, like 2014 or 2015, maybe they could have gotten away with it, but it stands in marked contrast with how other companies run themselves today." Some people used the platform to organize ahead of the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, and last month Senator Mark Warner sent a letter to Durov urging him to curb Russian information operations on Telegram. "The inflation fire was already hot and now with war-driven inflation added to the mix, it will grow even hotter, setting off a scramble by the world’s central banks to pull back their stimulus earlier than expected," Chris Rupkey, chief economist at FWDBONDS, wrote in an email. "A spike in inflation rates has preceded economic recessions historically and this time prices have soared to levels that once again pose a threat to growth." But because group chats and the channel features are not end-to-end encrypted, Galperin said user privacy is potentially under threat. In February 2014, the Ukrainian people ousted pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych, prompting Russia to invade and annex the Crimean peninsula. By the start of April, Pavel Durov had given his notice, with TechCrunch saying at the time that the CEO had resisted pressure to suppress pages criticizing the Russian government.
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