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Cubby, which makes software for self-storage operators, raised a $63M Series A led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/22/exclusive-cubby-raises-63-million…

Exclusive: Cubby raises $63 million in Goldman Sachs-led funding to scale self-storage software
Cubby just raised a $63 million Series A, led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Fortune has exclusively learned.

Minnesota receives federal approval on their final BEAD
(Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment) proposal
-- Christopher Terry
https://blandinonbroadband.org/2025/12/20/minnesota-…

Minnesota receives federal approval on their final BEAD (Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment) proposal
Broadband Breakfast reports… Five more states have received federal approval on their final spending plans under the $42.45 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program. Idaho, Ma…

Sanders Slams Private Equity Scrooges Ending Paid Holidays for Walgreens Workers | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-walgreen-workers

Members of UK performing arts union Equity vote overwhelmingly in favor of refusing to be scanned while on set to prevent their likeness being used by AI (Lanre Bakare/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2

Israel-based Chargeflow, whose AI tech automates chargeback disputes for online merchants, raised a $25M Series A led by Viola Growth, and a $10M debt round (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bk00v9g9e11g

Chargeflow raises $35 million to fight the surge in transaction denials
Fintech startup secures equity and debt funding as e-commerce fraud grows to $100B a year. 

Oracle says final negotiations on an equity deal for its Michigan data center project are "on schedule" and Related Digital will be its development partner (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Oracle Says Equity Deal on Michigan Data Center ‘On Schedule’
Oracle Corp. said final negotiations on an equity deal for the company’s data center project in Michigan is “on schedule” and going according to plan.

The state department is proposing to suspend 38 universities including Harvard and Yale
from a federal research partnership program because they engage in diversity, equity and inclusion hiring practices,
according to an internal memo and spreadsheet obtained by the Guardian.
The memo, dated 17 November, recommends excluding institutions from
the Diplomacy Lab – a program that pairs university researchers with state department policy offices
– if they “openly en…

Marketing tech startup Applecart raised $100M in a minority funding round led by Blackstone's growth equity business, a source says at a ~$700M valuation (Myles Miller/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

General Atlantic purchases a $96M minority stake in Japanese HR software unicorn SmartHR, marking the PE firm's first growth equity investment in Japan (Lisa Du/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-…

Sources: OneTrust, which sells privacy and compliance software and was last valued at $4.5B in 2023, is exploring a sale, possibly to private equity buyers (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/onetrus…

OneTrust, Privacy Startup Last Valued at $4.5 Billion, Discusses Private Equity Sale
OneTrust, a nine-year-old startup that benefited from a wave of European and U.S. laws regulating how companies collect and share website data, is exploring a sale—possibly to private equity buyers, according to people familiar with the discussions. The Atlanta-based startup, which sells privacy ...