Older paper but worth reading: "Our findings reveal that mechanisms embedded in modern E2EE messaging architectures – such as delivery receipts and multi-device support – can have significant implications on user privacy. Consequently, it is essential to balance functional requirements, usability and convenience with privacy and security, particularly in E2EE applications that are inherently privacy-sensitive per design."
Micromobility delivery startup Also, a Rivian spinoff, raised $200M led by Greenoaks at a $1B valuation and enters a multiyear partnership with DoorDash (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
While staying vigilant, we’re embracing the chance to catch our breath and to start healing. The city right now has a bit of the feeling of the days after a natural disaster: there is so much damage to repair. Thousands of people are still sheltering at home, understandably reluctant to go to work and/or school. Thousands are facing imminent eviction when March rent comes due.
There’s organizing around rent relief, talk of a rent strike. Food delivery is still in full swing. Mutual aid is not letting up.
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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…
Drone delivery startup Zipline raised an additional $200M, including from Paradigm, bringing Zipline's Series H, originally announced in January, to $800M (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/zipline-snaps-up…
Bengaluru-based Swish, which offers a 10-minute food delivery service, raised a $38M Series B at a $139M post-money valuation, bringing its total raised to $54M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/bengaluru-f…
Drone delivery startup Zipline raised $600M , boosting its valuation to $7.6B, and says it has now completed 2M commercial deliveries of 20M different items (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01…
NY-based Blossom Health, which makes an "AI copilot" to augment psychiatrists' clinical decisions and automate office tasks, raised $20M in seed and Series A (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/26/exclusive-blossom-…