📊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.
Elsewhere, version 8.6 of Telegram integrates the in-app camera option into the gallery, while a new navigation bar gives quick access to photos, files, location sharing, and more. Ukrainian forces successfully attacked Russian vehicles in the capital city of Kyiv thanks to a public tip made through the encrypted messaging app Telegram, Ukraine's top law-enforcement agency said on Tuesday. 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. However, the perpetrators of such frauds are now adopting new methods and technologies to defraud the investors. On Telegram’s website, it says that Pavel Durov “supports Telegram financially and ideologically while Nikolai (Duvov)’s input is technological.” Currently, the Telegram team is based in Dubai, having moved around from Berlin, London and Singapore after departing Russia. Meanwhile, the company which owns Telegram is registered in the British Virgin Islands.
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