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London-based Sokin, which develops tech for B2B cross-border payments, raised a $50M Series B led by Prysm Capital at a $300M valuation (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/12/01/cross-border-payment-fintech-sokin-lands-50m-funding-round/…

Cross-border payment fintech Sokin lands $50M funding round
Cross-border payment fintech Sokin has received $50m in a funding round, valuing the UK fintech at $300m.UK-headquartered Sokin says it will use the funding to speed up overseas expansion and on product development.The Series B funding round was led by US investment firm Prysm Capital, with Watershed Ventures participating. Existing investors, including investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and Aurum Partners, also participated.Founded in 2019 and headquartered in London…

I just received my shipment of fine #art by @… from Japan👌🖼️✨

178 Meter langer Tunnelbohrer für Münchner S-Bahn-Strecke im Zusammenbau
Die Tunnelbohrmaschine für die Münchner S-Bahn-Strecke wird in Baden-Württemberg für die Abnahme montiert, danach zerlegt und in München wieder aufgebaut.

I'm digging through quite some photos of this visit of the lakeshore recently. — Just some days ago I asked myself "why do I take all those photos when I'm not _doing_ anything with them?"
I'm not posting a lot of them, nor printing them or so, I just take them, edit them ...
I felt a bit sad until it struck me again "it is my hobby - there is no *need* for any other prupose than to just make my time pleasant. And this is what the whole process of tak…

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge,
after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
-- Lex Menamin
https://bsky.app/profile/lexi…

Lex McMenamin (they/them) (@leximcmenamin.com)
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

MH370: Unterwasserroboter sollen über elf Jahre vermisstes Flugzeug aufspüren
Eine Suchaktion mit Unterwasserrobotern soll das Wrack des seit elfeinhalb Jahren vermissten malaysischen Flugzeugs des Fluges MH370 aufspüren.

Paris-based CRM unicorn Brevo, formerly known as Sendinblue, raised €500M and says it surpassed €200M in ARR in 2025 (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/new-unicorn-brevo-raises-583m-to-challenge-crm-giants/

New unicorn Brevo raises $583M to challenge CRM giants | TechCrunch
Brevo, a customer relationship management company headquartered in Paris, is now a unicorn.

Israeli startup Zafran, an AI-native threat exposure management service, raised a $60M Series C led by Menlo Ventures, bringing its total funding to $130M (Globes)
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-israeli-startup-zafran-security-raises-60m-100152808…

Israeli startup Zafran Security raises $60m
Zafran has also launched its agentic exposure management suite, positioning it to complete the entire end-to-end lifecycle across asset inventory, vulnerability detection, risk assessment, and autonomous remediation workflows.

Alabama-based Linq, which pivoted to programmatic messaging APIs in February 2025, raised a $20M Series A to build AI assistants that work within messaging apps (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/linq-raises-20m-to…

Linq raises $20M to enable AI assistants to live within messaging apps | TechCrunch
Linq offers an API that lets companies offer their AI assistants via iMessage, RCS and SMS.