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Entropy, a decentralized crypto custodian that raised a $25M seed led by a16z in June 2022, is shutting down after "several pivots, and two rounds of layoffs" (Zack Abrams/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/386942/entro…

Entropy, a16z-backed decentralized custody startup, is winding down and returning capital to investors
Entropy's "anti-capitalist anarchist" founder is winding down the firm and returning capital to investors after failing to find a scalable business model.

Worth, which aims to help financial services onboard and underwrite SMBs, raised a $30M Series A led by Fulcrum Equity Partners, following a $25M seed round (Brian Contreras/Inc)
https://www.inc.com/brian-contreras/fintech-startup-stax-unic…

Worth, the Startup From the Founders of Stax, Just Raised $30 Million to Deliver 'Simplicity for Small Businesses'
The brother and sister team of Sal Rehmetullah and Suneera Madhani are banking on AI for their young fintech startup.

United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta went public with her own account of being raped by Cesar Chavez, following a NYT investigation.
Huerta said she kept the secret because, “I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for.”
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Dolores Huerta worried her abuse by Cesar Chavez would hurt farmworker movement
The New York Times uncovered a pattern of abuse by the civil rights icon, including of young girls.

The mastermind behind an extensive cyber-fraud empire, Vincent Chen Zhi, has been deported from Cambodia to China.
Cambodian tycoon Vincent Chen deported to China amid $10bn fraud and money laundering allegations | The Standard
https://www.thestandard.com.hk/china-news/article…

Cambodian tycoon Vincent Chen deported to China amid $10bn fraud and money laundering allegations
Vincent Chen Zhi, the founder and chairman of the Cambodian Prince Group, has been deported to China following his arrest in Cambodia amid serious allegations of large-scale fraud and money laundering, among other transnational crimes that involved more than US$10 billion.

xAI co-founder Tony Wu says he "resigned", following co-founder Igor Babuschkin's exit in August 2025; Wu was in charge of reasoning and reported to Elon Musk (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/another-cofound…

Another Cofounder of Elon Musk’s xAI Resigns
Tony Wu, one of xAI’s cofounders, said he has resigned from Elon Musk’s AI company. Wu’s exit follows the departure last year of another xAI cofounder, Igor Babuschkin. “I will deeply miss the people,  the warrooms, and all those battles we have fought together,” Wu said in a post on X. “It’s time for my next chapter.” Wu, a computer scientist who got his doctorate from the University of

Venice, which develops identity security software, emerges from stealth after raising a $25M Series A led by IVP, following an $8M seed round (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/sk5qcux00we

Rotem Lurie raises $25 million Series A for Venice, an identity security startup backed by Wiz founders
The Israeli company replaces static enterprise permissions with dynamic access control.