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What happened to vertical farming unicorn Infarm? Miriam Partington dig some digging to find out

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SCOOP: Gorillas founder Kağan Sümer raises pre-seed round for secret healthtech startup

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We want to speak to founders who've exited their business and then found life on the other side tough.

Is it you? Please get in touch with Kai (confidentially!) He's writing a feature about the exit blues.

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“No one does tech for good — especially not in fintech”

Freya Pratty sat down with a shoeless Peter Sunde — the man who founded Pirate Bay (and spent 8 months in prison because of it).

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As a two time victim of bed bugs, I've longed for the day I could get some revenge on the critters for all the lost nights of sleep and sanity they've cost me.

Today, it comes in the form of a startup that's out to get them. Trigger warning: icky read.

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“Some of the business models that were rationally backable in the past now aren't,” says Dan Chaplin, partner at Dawn — which has just raised a $620m flagship fund to back B2B software startups in Europe. It's also raised an $80m follow-on fund.

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Another eye-watering raise in the AI sector...

Poolside AI wants to create a ChatGPT-like tool that can write software code, and has just upped sticks from its US base and moved to France.

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SCOOP: Troubled UK healthtech Babylon is hoping to secure a buyer by Friday — less than three weeks after it announced it's proposed merger with MindMaze collapsed — according to a letter sent to prospective buyers that Sifted has seen.

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Telehealth giant Babylon is searching for a buyer after a potentially business-saving deal with MindMaze collapsed last week.

From insurance giants like Bupa to tech scaleups like Kry — and even Parsa himself, Sifted finds out who could be in contention.

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🚨 NEWS 🚨 Babylon's merger with MindMaze has collapsed, leaving the company on the brink of bankruptcy

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Too many cooks? By Hopin's Series D round, it counted 60 institutional investors as backers.

It's become a fable of the FOMO-fuelled excess of 2021 — but is it really such a failure?

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Hopin — the fastest European startup to hit unicorn status — has sold off its original virtual events platform and replaced its CEO following a post-pandemic dip in fortunes.

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Sifted finds out what goes on behind the closed doors of an investment committee...

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The number of employees working for a stealth startup on LinkedIn has more than tripled in the past two years...

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VCs are spending thousands on wellness programmes for their portfolio founders — but are they anything more than a sticking plaster for a bigger issue?

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Door-to-door goodie bags and fridges to auction... what's happening at speedy grocery scaleup Getir as it scrambles to patch major cashflow problems.

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Data suggests a lot more founders are staying in stealth mode this year... 🥷

Why do you think that is?

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While it might seem like most founders want to shout from the rooftops when they've raised funds — more than two thirds choose to keep it under their hats.

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