Berlin-based Payrails, whose platform helps enterprises accept payments, issue payouts, and more, raised a $32M Series A, taking its total funding to $52.8M (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/12/payrails-ra
"Anyone you’re talking to has had decreased funding, or lost almost all of their funding, or is having trouble continuing their funding...
That, along with the pretty pervasive and growing anti-science establishment narrative … have been strong motivators to look elsewhere,” Eric Schuster said.
Schuster is one of many budding academics reflecting what could become a significant American brain drain,
sending the brightest minds in the country to flee the US and take their…
Arabic news channel Alhurra has replaced its programming with an image accusing the USAGM of illegally withholding Congress-approved funding for its parent MBN (Matthew Keys/The Desk)
https://thedesk.net/2025/06/alhurra-calls-out-usagm-funding-cuts/
Kann eins nicht genügend empfehlen: Den Podcast Büchners Welt mit Luise und Peter Brunner; in der aktuellen, achten Episode (ab ca 33:30) erzählt Peter Brunner von der Entdeckung von Klaus Kroner, gemäß der in einem erhaltenen Exemplar des Hessischen Landboten die bekannte Parole am Ende sich durch ein entscheidendes Satzzeichen unterscheidet: "Friede den Hütten! Krieg den Palästen ?":
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Berlin-based Knowunity, an AI-powered learning platform with 20M users in 15 countries, raised a €27M Series B led by XAnge, bringing its total funding to €45M (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/13/knowunity-raises-eur…
Every $1 in NIH funding in 2024 generated $2.56 in economic activity (PDF):
https://www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/UMR_NIH-Role-in-Sustaining-US-Economy-FY2024-2025-Update.…
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Robert Reich here, with breaking news:
The House of Representatives has voted to take back a whopping $1.1 billion in federal funding for public broadcasting.
These are huge, crippling cuts,
and if passed by the Senate, they'll be a fatal blow to public radio and television stations around the country.
It's all part of Donald Trump's ongoing war on the free press.
He knows that independent journalism is one of the biggest obstacles to his authorita…
Miami-based Guardz, which offers a detection and response service for managed service providers protecting SMBs, raised a $56M Series B led by ClearSky (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-softw