Spanish Delivery Startup Glovo Raises $530 Million Round - Forbes

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Glovo, the Spanish courier startup that promises to “deliver anything”, has raised a $530 million (€450 million) round to fuel its plan for a super-fast delivery service that will ship food, groceries and prescriptions within 30-minutes.

The Series F round sets a new record in Spain for the largest fundraise to date and comes just over a year since the app claimed unicorn status, with a billion-plus valuation. Glovo said the funds would be used to expand its fast delivery service, which has been dubbed Q-Commerce, to new markets, and its network of ‘dark stores’, Amazon-style fulfilment centers, to 200 city centre locations across Europe.

“Over the last few months, we’ve moved very, very quickly but our vision remains unchanged. This investment will allow us to double-down in our core markets, accelerate our leadership position in places where we are already very strong and continue to expand our excellent Q-Commerce division, as well as bring new innovations to our unique multi-category offering to extend more choice to our customers,” said Oscar Pierre, Glovo c0founder and CEO in a statement. 

Oscar Pierre, co-founder and CEO of the courier company, Glovo has raised $530 million to help expand the startup into Amazon Prime Now-style same-day deliveries.

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Time-poor American shoppers have been able to rely on Amazon Prime Now, Postmates, Instacart and TaskRabbit for years but the concept of instant delivery shopping has got off to a slow start in Europe. Even Amazon only has a presence in a handful of major European countries and only launched into Sweden and Poland in the last year.

Glovo’s push into e-commerce and last-mile delivery comes amid a frenzy of investment into European startups vying to become the continent’s Instacart. Turkish startup Getir, Finland’s Wolt and Germany’s Gorillas have all raised nine-figure rounds since the start of the year to expand into same-hour grocery deliveries.

Unusually Glovo’s latest fundraise was led by a hedge fund Luxor Capital Group and its affiliate Lugard Road Capital. The New York-based hedge fund is better known for its equity investments and short positions but was an early stage investor in Delivery Hero in 2014, and is now one of its largest shareholders, and has also invested in a handful of other delivery and transportation startups like India’s Zomato, Swedish electric truck maker Volta Trucks, and American grocery courier GoPuff. 

Glovo rival and potential suitor Delivery Hero, who joined Frankfurt’s flagship DAX index in August, also invested in the round along with other existing investors. The German delivery giant snapped up Glovo’s Latin American operations in September 2020 in a $272 million deal and in recent years has bought out scores of local delivery startups in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Glovo has been a poster child for Spain’s digital economy, and along with taxi app Cabify, is the country’s only tech unicorn. The startup founded in 2015 by cofounders Pierre and Sacha Michaud raised $120 million from Swiss investment fund Stoneweg in January to buy and build ‘dark stores’ in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Romania.  

While the pandemic has provided a boost for Glovo’s delivery service with many stores and restaurants shuttered by lockdown laws across Europe it faced a legal setback in September with Spain’s Supreme Court ruling its couriers were employees rather than freelancers. The ruling comes amid a continent-wide wave of concern about the rights of workers in the so-called gig economy working as courier and drivers for companies like Glovo, Deliveroo and Uber.

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Dallas-based Haxiot, a provider of low power wide area (LPWA) wireless technology, has been acquired by leading Internet of Things company Digi International. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Haxiot was founded in 2015 to offer end-to-end LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network) solutions, which enables the transmission of small packages of device data across long distances. Its extensive product portfolio includes high performance client modules, intelligent industrial devices, gateways, and a scalable X-ON cloud IoT platform.

The founding power couple behind the local startup, Youyi and Nick Kitson, both worked for tech companies before becoming an entrepreneurial team. The Kitsons rolled out Haxiot’s first hardware when launching in 2015. The company then expanded to IoT software in early 2017.

Now, Haxiot provides wireless, connected solutions for commercial and industrial customers.

The team touts its fully integrated systems, which are able to give a seamless deployment experience for small to large enterprise and network operators in industries like smart utilities, oil and gas, industrial, and supply chain.

Haxiot first announced its X-ON platform in 2018 to supply industrial IoT customers with edge computing capabilities for real-time process control. What sets the company’s technology apart, according to Youyi Kitson, is that it was the first device-to-cloud complete solution, compared to its competitors’ “software only” or “hardware only” products.

LoRaWAN is one of the fastest-growing IoT wireless standards, Kitson previously told Dallas Innovates. “LoRaWAN provides more options for business models needing more coverage and extremely low power,” she said, making the standard “ideally suited for devices that require ultra-low system cost, massive numbers with low message rates.” 

Haxiot’s complete LoRaWAN offering includes embedded modules, gateways, a network server solution, and SaaS offering.

In addition to its LoRaWAN products, Haxiot has industrial IoT capabilities that deliver edge intelligence, field deployment tools and rich data, and value-added services, according to a statement.

With the acquisition, Haxiot will be able to enhance Digi’s embedded systems portfolio and extend its market reach.

“Adding Haxiot’s LoRaWAN platform to our existing portfolio provides customers with a single-source for their embedded systems needs and the ability to get to market faster with the right technology for their applications,” Steve Ericson, general manager and VP of OEM Solutions for Digi International, said in a statement. “We look forward to joining forces with the Haxiot team and expand our business together.”

Minnesota-based Digi International is a leader in IoT connectivity products, services, and solutions. Founded in 1985, the company currently helps customers create next-gen connected products and deploy and manage critical communications infrastructures in demanding environments.

Included in Digi’s offerings is its Digi XBee ecosystem and Digi ConnectCore® system-on-modules. The company said this combination of products allows customers to have a broad set of offerings to choose from when creating full stack IoT applications.

According to both companies, the deal comes at a time when LoRa-based systems are booming. LoRa is predicted to move into the mainstream this year with significant market adoption and an around 40 percent compound annual growth rate over the next few years, according to Semtech, the organization that pioneered the underlying LoRa standard.

“As a seasoned industry leader with a strong track record of success, Digi provides the Haxiot team with the resources and bench strength to fuel further innovation,” Haxiot CEO Nik Kitson said in a statement. “We look forward to joining the Digi team and driving more success with current and future customers.”

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Startup Week Competition winners congratulated by President Barron | Penn State University - Penn State News

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Penn State Startup Week powered by PNC culminated with a celebration of student entrepreneurs and innovators in technology, health, sustainability, the arts, and global impact categories during the virtual student recognition reception on Thursday, March 25.

“Their ideas will make our world safer, easier, faster, better — and maybe even more fun,” said Penn State President Eric Barron. “These students are on their way to being future leaders in entrepreneurship and innovation, whether their startups succeed, or they go on to work for other companies, or choose to serve their communities.”

Eight entrepreneurial student competitions and challenges were hosted as part of Startup Week. Through close collaboration with existing University programs, community partners and Invent Penn State, events throughout the week also introduced participants to the innovation ecosystem and the abundant resources at Penn State and in its surrounding campus communities.

The virtual student recognition reception was hosted by Penn State junior and Schreyer Honors College student Leonardo Girlando. Majoring in finance and Chinese, Girlando is president of Happy Valley Capital and the Global China Connection Penn State Chapter, in addition to being part of the Barron’s in Education Ambassador program.

Below is a list of student competition and challenge winners that were honored by President Barron during the virtual student recognition reception, as well as additional competitions still to be completed.

• Penn State Mont Alto LaunchBox LION Tank Pitch Competition ($3,000 in total prizes): Provides top teams startup funding, access to the Mont Alto LaunchBox and additional services to help them go to market.

Winners: Table Rock Markets, an e-commerce platform that connects consumers to local farmers, received 1^st place and a $1,500 microgrant.

• Start.Me.Up Mini Challenge ($900 in total prizes): Provides students opportunities to work with real companies on real projects and build their resume.

Winner: Krista Chen, a freshman studying advertising in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, created a themed donor campaign designed to inspire target donors and sample campaign posts for Instagram and Facebook for the Student Farm at Penn State.

Winner: SLCKR, which provides premium barber offerings specifically catered to the modern barber.

• Bardusch Family IdeaMakers Challenge (prize is a fully paid trip to an entrepreneurship conference or to visit a well-known startup company): The Bardusch family recently made a gift to establish the Bardusch Family IdeaMakers Challenge Endowment at the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST). The challenge is a competition where students receive mentoring from faculty, industry leaders and experienced entrepreneurs to develop their idea pitching skills for a chance to win prizes that advance their professional network.

Winner: Eclaireur, a website designed to help ballet dancers find training programs and auditions to have a better chance at a successful career.

• VenturePointe "What's your Big Idea?" Challenge sponsored by Penn State Shenango’s VenturePointe Incubator, the e-Center at LindenPointe and Penn Northwest Development Corporation ($500 in total prizes): A challenge where participants submit their ideas for a new or improved product, or a service for-profit business or nonprofit organization.

Finalists: Note on the Go, which is an interactive online agenda app for students to see all upcoming assignments and due dates, and IllumiLIT, a glow-in-the-dark ink that allows a book to be read anywhere in the dark without disturbing others.

Winner: Up-End Ceramics, which provides consumers with affordable, well-designed, and well-crafted handmade ceramic wares.

• Nittany AI Challenge ($50,000 in total prizes): Student teams with diverse talents build working solutions to improve the world in the fields of health, humanitarianism, the environment, and education.

Co-Winner: The Mental Health Project, a tool for mental health professionals to provide faster diagnostics, treatment, and identification of patients. This was built in partnership with IBM Watson and faculty from the Penn State College of Medicine.

Co-Winner: Abundant Connections, a solution to reduce food waste and insecurity by providing food waste producers and the food insecure an AI-based web application to connect and conduct donations of food that would otherwise perish. Abundant Connections was built with the help and guidance from Penn State's Lion's Pantry.

• HackPSU sponsored by the College of Engineering School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science: Penn State's student-run hackathon, where participants can learn to code or compete to build something from scratch.

Winner: Styra, a Chrome extension that helps intelligently and drastically increase personal productivity when surfing the internet while taking care of health and well-being.

• Ag Springboard Competition, sponsored by the College of Agricultural Sciences ($10,000 in total prizes): Teams of students pitch ideas for a new business or nonprofit in food, energy, ecosystems, bioproducts, community development or sustainability. Five finalist teams will present their final pitches on Friday, April 9, as they compete for a $7,500 grand prize and a $2,500 second prize.
• Inc.U Competition ($30,000 in total prizes): This annual competition is managed by PennTAP and aims to fund new undergraduate Penn State student companies. Having six finalist teams, the Inc.U Competition will conclude on Saturday, April 10 with the taping of “The Investment 2021” WPSU television show, which is a “Shark Tank”-style pitch competition. Winners are awarded a share of a no-equity required $30,000 award pool.

• Summer Founders program ($15,000 grants per startup): The Summer Founders program, a signature program of Invent Penn State, is a 13-week entrepreneurial bootcamp that provides Penn State students with $15,000 grants to work full time on their startup, social good, or nonprofit idea during the summer. This year’s applicants hailed from eight campuses and four colleges, as well as the graduate school. Five startup teams were selected to participate in this summer-long program.

The full student recognition reception recording can be viewed here.

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An integral part of the broader Invent Penn State initiative, Startup Week is a university-wide event that connects students with innovative alumni and pioneers who are achieving success in a variety of industries and disciplines. Throughout the week, students discover, explore, experience and celebrate entrepreneurship.

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Strength-training startup Tonal crosses unicorn status after raising $250M - Yahoo Tech

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When the pandemic unfolded last year, demand for at-home fitness equipment skyrocketed, and Tonal was no exception. The maker of a smart home fitness trainer experienced an explosive increase in sales, and now the six-year-old San Francisco-based startup is gearing up for its next stage of growth. Tonal is adding $250 million of new funding in a Series E round valuing the startup at $1.6 billion.

Participants in the round include Dragoneer, Cobalt Capital, L Catterton, Sapphire Ventures, and athlete investors Drew Brees, Larry Fitzgerald, Maria Sharapova, Mike Tyson and Sue Bird. According to Tonal, the new funds will allow it to spend more on marketing its strength-training product to shoppers to increase brand visibility, grow its catalog of streamed fitness classes, and invest further in operations and scaling its business to meet increased demand. To date, the at-home fitness tech startup has raised $450 million.

"We're really getting ready to scale the business: we're pouring a lot more capital into marketing and brand awareness, and we're pouring a lot more capital into scaling our supply chain to get ready for the next phase, which I really think is the next two holiday seasons,” says Orady.

As part of its efforts to increase staffing across the organization, Tonal also added three new executives to its bench: COO Shannon Crespin, a former Johnson & Johnson executive; Chief Strategy Officer Gregory de Gunzburg, who previously served as Head of Corporate Strategy and Development at NBCUniversal; and CTO Bryan James, whose previous employers include Google, Nest, and Apple. Ostensibly, Crespin, de Gunzburg, and James will be crucial to Tonal’s next chapter, as the startup continues to scale on all fronts, including hardware and content production.

This latest round of funding and set of new hires are all steps the startup is taking as part of a slow march towards an IPO, says Orady, although Tonal’s chief executive declined to give a timeline regarding when the startup may go public.

“We’re going to IPO at a time when it’s best for the business, because being a public company can be incredibly distracting,” adds Orady. “I get SPAC offers, or inquiries almost daily, and our answer is consistently ‘no.’ While an IPO Is a great milestone for the business and gives us access to a certain class of capital and liquidity, we also know that you’ve got to do it at the right time.”

Founded in March 2015 by Orady, who was motivated to start Tonal by his own personal quest to shed weight and strength train, Tonal has since carved out a reputation among fitness enthusiasts for an all-in-one design and digital weights system that enables the device to replicate different gym weight stations. Extra Crunch’s EC-1 on Tonal, published earlier this week, offers a unique deep dive into this rapidly growing fitness startup, exploring Tonal’s origin story, product launch, customer engagement strategy, and future outlook.

Tonal’s Series E follows an extremely eventful year-and-a-half for the startup, which saw sales increase 800% from December 2019 to December 2020, causing delivery delays of between 10 to 12 weeks — an issue the company previously told TechCrunch it’s working to address by ramping up production of devices, increasing employee headcount, and air-shipping equipment from Taiwan to the U.S. to meet demand. This March, Tonal also announced a new partnership with Nordstrom, placing 50-square-foot stations in the women’s activewear departments of at least 40 Nordstrom locations across the U.S., bringing the total number of Tonal physical locations to 60 by the end of 2021.

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Have bad credit? Here’s what you can do to help fix it - Fox Business

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Toxic credit is a big stepping stone to financial struggles. Here’s how to fight the good fight and repair bad credit – before it damages your finances. (iStock)

It’s no secret that having bad credit can severely hinder one’s financial experience. The worse the credit score, the worse the experience.

“Bad credit is generally any score under 650, though this can certainly fluctuate depending on credit usage,” said Alex Miller, founder of UpgradedPoints.com, a digital platform that offers financial advice to travelers. “Specifically, bad credit can lead to higher interest rates, less money offered on loans, denial of credit cards, and a more difficult time to get everyday transactions done, such as buying a car, getting a mortgage, or other routine tasks. It can even lead to job denial for jobs that check credit history."

However, that doesn’t need to be the case, not when fixing bad credit is a highly doable proposition.

“There are no shortcuts to fixing a bad credit score, but like many things it can be done with hard work and diligence,” said Matthew Gaffey, certified financial planner at Corbett Road Wealth Management, in McLean, Va.

If improving your credit score is your objective, consider following these steps:

1. Check your credit score
2. Pay off any debts in collection status
3. Consolidate your debt
4. Get under 30% credit utilization
5. Use a credit monitoring tool
6. Dispute an error on your credit report

Not sure where you fit on the credit score spectrum? Then you should start using a credit monitoring service to track changes to your credit score. Credible can get you set up with a free service today.

WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO TACKLE CREDIT CARD DEBT?

1. Check your credit score

The first step toward fixing bad credit is to visit annualcreditreport.com where you can get a free credit report. “The reports are updated weekly, and are for free,” said Clint Lotz, president of TrackStar.ai, a predictive API for the financial sector.

2. Pay off any debts in collection status

Financial consumers looking to repair their credit should enter repayment mode. Debts that are in collections should be a priority, as they make a difference on credit reports.

“We all know that a collection is a bad thing, but if someone with bad credit were to go payoff that collection today and it’s from an emergency room visit three years ago, the 'date of last activity' on the credit report will be updated from three years ago to today,” Lotz said. “This move is all but guaranteed to bring the credit score down substantially.”

3. Consolidate your debt

Another step to start improving your credit score is to consolidate some or all of your debt. “Many banks, credit card companies, and other lenders would love for you to consolidate their debt with their particular company and likely will give you an incentive to do so,” Gaffey said. “For example, some will provide you with 0% interest on that debt for a specific period of time (i.e. for six, 12, or 18 months).”

Visiting Credible can help you compare debt consolidation options to find the best personal loan rates for you, based on your credit score and credit history.

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4. Get under 30% credit utilization

If a consumer has lines of credit where more than 30% of the limit is being used, which is called credit utilization, start paying it down as fast as possible. “Credit utilization accounts for 30% of a credit score and can be one of the quickest ways to raise a credit score,” Lotz said.

5. Use a credit monitoring tool

The benefits of using a credit monitoring tool are numerous.

“First, they provide constant monitoring of all three credit reports, with real-term alerts and notifications of any changes,” said Nicole Kubin, founder of Strategic Divorce Advisory, a financial services firm based in New York. “A credit monitoring firm can flag identity theft issues and may even be able to offer identity insurance to cover expenses required to restore your identity. The reports are particularly useful if you are trying to improve your credit score as they will demonstrate the direct impact of a certain action or inaction on your credit score.”

Consumers should know that some credit monitoring firms charge a monthly fee ($10 to $12 is a common fee range). And some providers, like the main credit scoring agencies and some lenders (credit card providers, in particular), will offer credit monitoring for free.

If you're considering credit monitoring, check out Credible. With a credit monitoring service, you can get instant alerts on late payments, fraudulent activities, credit score changes and more. Check out some of Credible's partners here.

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6. Dispute an error on your credit report

Disputing and fixing errors on your credit report can also help financial consumers to boost their credit scores. “In order to check the accuracy of your credit reports, start by obtaining copies of your credit reports from all three credit bureaus: Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax,” said Kubin. “It will be even easier to compile this information if you use a credit monitoring tool.”

If you find an error on your credit report, contact the credit reporting company by certified mail or online via the firm’s website or mobile app.

“Additionally, if you find any items or accounts in your credit report that you do not remember opening, you might have been the victim of identity theft. Immediately notify your bank and credit card companies, and all lenders,” Kubin added.

Your credit score is typically one of the first things lenders look at when considering you for a loan. To ensure you're staying up-to-date with your credit status, enroll in a credit monitoring service. Credible can help you get started.

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Strength-training startup Tonal crosses unicorn status after raising $250M - TechCrunch

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When the pandemic unfolded last year, demand for at-home fitness equipment skyrocketed, and Tonal was no exception. The maker of a smart home fitness trainer experienced an explosive increase in sales, and now the six-year-old San Francisco-based startup is gearing up for its next stage of growth. Tonal is adding $250 million of new funding in a Series E round valuing the startup at $1.6 billion.

Participants in the round include Dragoneer, Cobalt Capital, L Catterton, Sapphire Ventures, and athlete investors Drew Brees, Larry Fitzgerald, Maria Sharapova, Mike Tyson and Sue Bird. According to Tonal, the new funds will allow it to spend more on marketing its strength-training product to shoppers to increase brand visibility, grow its catalog of streamed fitness classes, and invest further in operations and scaling its business to meet increased demand. To date, the at-home fitness tech startup has raised $450 million.

“We’re really getting ready to scale the business: we’re pouring a lot more capital into marketing and brand awareness, and we’re pouring a lot more capital into scaling our supply chain to get ready for the next phase, which I really think is the next two holiday seasons,” says Orady.

As part of its efforts to increase staffing across the organization, Tonal also added three new executives to its bench: COO Shannon Crespin, a former Johnson & Johnson executive; Chief Strategy Officer Gregory de Gunzburg, who previously served as Head of Corporate Strategy and Development at NBCUniversal; and CTO Bryan James, whose previous employers include Google, Nest, and Apple. Ostensibly, Crespin, de Gunzburg, and James will be crucial to Tonal’s next chapter, as the startup continues to scale on all fronts, including hardware and content production.

This latest round of funding and set of new hires are all steps the startup is taking as part of a slow march towards an IPO, says Orady, although Tonal’s chief executive declined to give a timeline regarding when the startup may go public.

“We’re going to IPO at a time when it’s best for the business, because being a public company can be incredibly distracting,” adds Orady. “I get SPAC offers, or inquiries almost daily, and our answer is consistently ‘no.’ While an IPO Is a great milestone for the business and gives us access to a certain class of capital and liquidity, we also know that you’ve got to do it at the right time.”

Founded in March 2015 by Orady, who was motivated to start Tonal by his own personal quest to shed weight and strength train, Tonal has since carved out a reputation among fitness enthusiasts for an all-in-one design and digital weights system that enables the device to replicate different gym weight stations. Extra Crunch’s EC-1 on Tonal, published earlier this week, offers a unique deep dive into this rapidly growing fitness startup, exploring Tonal’s origin story, product launch, customer engagement strategy, and future outlook.

Tonal’s Series E follows an extremely eventful year-and-a-half for the startup, which saw sales increase 800% from December 2019 to December 2020, causing delivery delays of between 10 to 12 weeks — an issue the company previously told TechCrunch it’s working to address by ramping up production of devices, increasing employee headcount, and air-shipping equipment from Taiwan to the U.S. to meet demand. This March, Tonal also announced a new partnership with Nordstrom, placing 50-square-foot stations in the women’s activewear departments of at least 40 Nordstrom locations across the U.S., bringing the total number of Tonal physical locations to 60 by the end of 2021.

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By now you’ve probably heard of ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) ratings for companies, or ratings for their carbon footprint. Well, now a UK company has come up with a way of rating the ‘ethics’ social media companies. 
  
EthicsGrade is an ESG ratings agency, focusing on AI governance. Headed up Charles Radclyffe, the former head of AI at Fidelity, it uses AI-driven models to create a more complete picture of the ESG of organizations, harnessing Natural Language Processing to automate the analysis of huge data sets. This includes tracking controversial topics, and public statements.

Frustrated with the green-washing of some ‘environmental’ stocks, Radclyffe realized that the AI governance of social media companies was not being properly considered, despite presenting an enormous risk to investors in the wake of such scandals as the manipulation of Facebook by companies such as Cambridge Analytica during the US Election and the UK’s Brexit referendum.

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The idea is that these ratings are used by companies to better see where they should improve. But the twist is that asset managers can also see where the risks of AI might lie.

Speaking to TechCrunch he said: “While at Fidelity I got a reputation within the firm for being the go-to person, for my colleagues in the investment team, who wanted to understand the risks within the technology firms that we were investing in. After being asked a number of times about some dodgy facial recognition company or a social media platform, I realized there was actually a massive absence of data around this stuff as opposed to anecdotal evidence.”

He says that when he left Fidelity he decided EthicsGrade would out to cover not just ESGs but also AI ethics for platforms that are driven by algorithms.

He told me: “We’ve built a model to analyze technology governance. We’ve covered 20 industries. So most of what we’ve published so far has been non-tech companies because these are risks that are inherent in many other industries, other than simply social media or big tech. But over the next couple of weeks, we’re going live with our data on things which are directly related to tech, starting with social media.”

Essentially, what they are doing is a big parallel with what is being done in the ESG space.

“The question we want to be able to answer is how does Tik Tok compare against Twitter or Wechat as against WhatsApp. And what we’ve essentially found is that things like GDPR have done a lot of good in terms of raising the bar on questions like data privacy and data governance. But in a lot of the other areas that we cover, such as ethical risk or a firm’s approach to public policy, are indeed technical questions about risk management,” says Radclyffe.

But, of course, they are effectively rating algorithms. Are the ratings they are giving the social platforms themselves derived from algorithms? EthicsGrade says they are training their own AI through NLP as they go so that they can automate what is currently very human analysts centric, just as ‘sustainalytics’ et al did years ago in the environmental arena.

So how are they coming up with these ratings? EthicsGrade says are evaluating “the extent to which organizations implement transparent and democratic values, ensure informed consent and risk management protocols, and establish a positive environment for error and improvement.” And this is all achieved, they say, all through publicly available data – policy, website, lobbying etc. In simple terms, they rate the governance of the AI not necessarily the algorithms themselves but what checks and balances are in place to ensure that the outcomes and inputs are ethical and managed.

“Our goal really is to target asset owners and asset managers,” says Radclyffe. “So if you look at any of these firms like, let’s say Twitter, 29% of Twitter is owned by five organizations: it’s Vanguard, Morgan Stanley, Blackrock, State Street and ClearBridge. If you look at the ownership structure of Facebook or Microsoft, it’s the same firms: Fidelity, Vanguard and BlackRock. And so really we only need to win a couple of hearts and minds, we just need to convince the asset owners and the asset managers that questions like the ones journalists have been asking for years are pertinent and relevant to their portfolios and that’s really how we’re planning to make our impact.”

Asked if they look at content of things like Tweets, he said no: “We don’t look at content. What we concern ourselves is how they govern their technology, and where we can find evidence of that. So what we do is we write to each firm with our rating, with our assessment of them. We make it very clear that it’s based on publicly available data. And then we invite them to complete a survey. Essentially, that survey helps us validate data of these firms. Microsoft is the only one that’s completed the survey.”

Ideally, firms will “verify the information, that they’ve got a particular process in place to make sure that things are well-managed and their algorithms don’t become discriminatory.”

In an age increasingly driven by algorithms, it will be interesting to see if this idea of rating them for risk takes off, especially amongst asset managers.

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A Swiss crop-trading blockchain startup has piloted the use of technology that will allow grain to be traded using virtual tokens.

Cerealia SA created a non-fungible token backed by 30,000 metric tons of Mexican white corn, according to Filipe Pohlmann Gonzaga, chief operating officer of the Pully, Switzerland-based company. The token was issued by Mercanta for grain stored at the Triple T terminal, both owned by Mexico’s Grupo Ceres.

Token deals could help eliminate paperwork and costs associated with many grain transactions that take place over the counter. Trade houses and other grain holders can issue tokens for their supply, which would then be traded on Cerealia’s blockchain platform without the need for physical documents that still underpin the bulk of commodity deals.

“The token can be easily traded,” Pohlmann said in a phone interview. “It also opens up trading to other players including hedge funds, banks and other investors.”

Cerealia’s platform, which has attracted offers and buying interest for about 6 million tons of grain since its launch in November, currently supports only bilateral deals between physical grain traders. The next step is to start a system that allows financial institutions and speculators to take part without having to take physical delivery of the grain, he said.

Blockchain startups have mushroomed in agriculture markets as companies seek to cut costs and boost efficiency. The technology also offers greater transparency in supply chains as consumers become more interested in where their food comes from. Crop giants including Bunge Ltd., Cargill Inc. and Viterra have teamed up to start their own ledger system Covantis SA.

Cerealia started off with grain deals in the Black Sea region, but has expanded to markets including Brazil and Egypt. The company, also present in Ukraine, will soon have a representative in Singapore and is targeting sub-Saharan Africa next. It has clients in almost 30 countries, with the latest Mexican deal helping to broaden its reach, Chief Executive Officer Andrei Grigorov said.

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“Star Wars” fans won’t have to wait much longer for the franchise’s next television series: “Star Wars: The Bad Batch” is set to premiere on Disney+ on May 4. Disney released a trailer for the upcoming animated series on Tuesday.

“Star Wars: The Bad Batch” follows the elite and experimental clones of the Bad Batch (first introduced in “The Clone Wars”) as they find their way in a rapidly changing galaxy in the immediate aftermath of the Clone War. Members of Bad Batch — a unique squad of clones who vary genetically from their brothers in the Clone Army — each possess a singular exceptional skill that makes them extraordinarily effective soldiers and a formidable crew.

The upcoming series is executive produced by Dave Filoni (“The Mandalorian,” “Star Wars: The Clone Wars”), Athena Portillo (“Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” “Star Wars Rebels”), Brad Rau (“Star Wars Rebels,” “Star Wars Resistance”) and Jennifer Corbett (“Star Wars Resistance,” “NCIS”) with Carrie Beck (“The Mandalorian,” “Star Wars Rebels”) as co-executive producer and Josh Rimes as producer (“Star Wars Resistance”). Rau is also serving as supervising director with Corbett as head writer.

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“Star Wars: The Bad Batch” will premiere with a special 70-minute premiere, followed by new episodes every Friday starting on May 7.

The series will mark the franchise’s second animated show to premiere exclusively on Disney+ following the seventh and final season of “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” which premiered on the streaming service in February 2020. “Star Wars” offerings serve as one of Disney+’s key marketing points; the platform found an early audience via “The Mandalorian,” which wrapped its second season in late 2020 and is slated to return for a third season. The second season of “The Mandalorian” brought back legendary bounty hunter Boba Fett (Temeura Morrison), who will reprise the role in the live-action “The Book of Boba Fett,” which will premiere on Disney+ in December.

A handful of other “Star Wars” projects are in the works at Disney+, including an Ewan McGregor-led Obi-Wan Kenobi series and a series centered around ex-Jedi Ahsoka Tano.

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INDIANAPOLIS — They danced, they laughed, Kelvin Sampson gave his kids hugs. Houston was one band of happy Cougars to be back in the Final Four this week. Of course, the program has been there before, quite some time ago.

It didn’t end well.

Five times it didn’t end well. In fact, you could make the case that few programs have had a more star-crossed Final Four history than Houston, which now has a chance to vastly improve on that situation. Illinois and Oklahoma are the only other schools who have been to as many as five Final Fours and are yet to win a title. If the current Cougars lose next weekend, they will stand alone at six.

And it’s just not the record, but how it's happened. They have had meaty roles for two of the most famous Final Four games in history — as the victims. In their five past trips they somehow managed to run into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar . . . and Michael Jordan . . . and Patrick Ewing. A wall of Hall of Famers for Houston to beat its collective heads against.

But let’s start at the beginning.

1967 — Timing is everything, and the Cougars didn’t have it. They advanced to their first Final Four and who should be waiting for them but one of the greatest teams in history; unbeaten UCLA with Lew Alcindor – later Abdul-Jabbar -- in his first season of steamrolling college basketball.

The Houston players had an idea of what they were in for the day prior to the game, when they were sitting in their hotel lobby pretty much to themselves and in strolled the Bruins, surrounded by a gaggle of fans and media. UCLA arrived like rock stars, while the Cougars, Don Chaney would say years later, “felt like country bumpkins.”

The next day, Alcindor had 19 points and 20 rebounds and UCLA breezed to a 15-point victory.

1968 — Houston ended UCLA’s 47-game winning streak by two points in the Astrodome in a made-for-TV January spectacular that was instantly billed The Game of the Century. Two months later they were together again in the Final Four in Los Angeles, with the Cougars unbeaten and No. 1 and the Bruins with only that one loss. It was the rematch everyone wanted, and the nation settled back to watch college basketball’s version of Frazier vs. Ali.

What the nation got was more like an accountant vs. Ali. The first bad sign for Houston was when its student manager – selling leftover tickets from the team allotment outside the arena as coach Guy Lewis had requested – was arrested by LA police, taken to jail and charged with scalping.

It wasn’t any more pleasant inside the building for the players. Alcindor had a scratched cornea in the January meeting but was at full speed for the rematch, and he and the rest of the Bruins had a message to send. It ended 101-69. Houston star Elvin Hayes, who had vexed the Bruins with 39 points in January, was held to 10, nearly 28 points under his average.

Lewis called it then “the greatest exhibition of basketball I have ever seen in my life.” A lot of people could say that.

1982 — More than 61,000 people were in the Superdome audience when Houston took on North Carolina, which included stars such as Sam Perkins and James Worthy, and a freshman named Jordan. As was their custom back then, the Tar Heels got the lead and then four-cornered the Cougars into oblivion, 68-63.

1983 — The one that haunts the most. Phi Slama Jama was all the rage, as the high-flying Cougars soared into the national championship game by beating Louisville in a 94-81 dunkathon in the semifinals. The media immediately dubbed that game 21st century basketball, and all that was left for No. 1 Houston was to finish off a 10-loss team from North Carolina State that barely eked into the tournament.

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The Wolfpack dictated a slow tempo in this pre-shot clock era, but the Cougars put together a 17-2 run for a late seven-point lead. Then Houston started missing free throws, North Carolina State rallied and had the ball in the final seconds in a 52-52 tie. Guard Dereck Whittenburg put up a desperation 30-foot shot with four seconds left that was way short and . . . you might know the rest. They do in Houston. Lorenzo Charles was waiting under the basket to grab the errant shot and slammed it home with one second left. Phi Slama Jama had lived by the dunk, and died by the dunk. The scene of North Carolina State coach Jim Valvano running wildly around the court gets replayed every spring as an iconic and wonderful tournament moment – except for the team he had just beaten.

For hollow consolation, Houston’s Akeem later-to-be-Hakeem Olajuwon was named Most Outstanding Player, and 38 years later, is still the last member of a losing team to be so.

1984 — There was enough left over of Phi Slama Jama — especially Olajuwon — that Houston returned to the national title game. But the Cougars ran into Ewing and Georgetown’s defense and lost 84-75. The golden days were over. Houston would not win another NCAA tournament game for 34 years.

The Cougars’ special brand of Final Four pain can be measured with numbers. They are one of only four programs to go to three consecutive Final Fours and not win any of them. UCLA, Ohio State and North Carolina are also in that club, but those three all have national championships from other years. Houston is also one of four programs to lose consecutive title games — with Cincinnati, Michigan and Butler.

But maybe another number explains how tough it has been for the Cougars, because the opponent has a lot to do with fate. Take away the North Carolina State fairy tale, and the four other teams Houston lost to in the Final Four had a combined record of 118-6 when they met.

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So now here the Cougars are again 37 years later, and Sampson is telling stories about how much he wishes his parents were alive to see this. And about the Sweet 16 in 2002 when he was coaching at Oklahoma, and how he was in the hospital until 4 a.m. the day of the game waiting for his father to come out of surgery with a brain aneurysm. Those Sooners would eventually get to the Final Four. And how his old boss at Oklahoma, athletics director Joe Castiglione sent Sampson a big package when he got the job at Houston. Inside the package was a ladder to both symbolize Sampson’s career climb and the hope he would be needing it to cut down nets in the future.

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This Houston team has nothing like the glamour of Phi Slama Jama or the Elvin Hayes bunch that took down UCLA in the middle of the Astrodome. "We may not have the brightest lights," Sampson said, "but our lights shine as bright as anybody else's."

These Cougars now have a chance to do what those Houston teams could not. And if it doesn’t turn out, if there is defeat at the end for a sixth time?

Well, it’s not a bad legacy for a program to have, losing lots of Final Four games.

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Clone Force 99 is ready for action…and on the run.

Following their literally explosive introduction in the final season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Clone Force 99, a.k.a. the Bad Batch, will soon step into the spotlight. Star Wars: The Bad Batch arrives May the 4^th on Disney+, starring our new favorite squad of elite clones as they find their way in the immediate aftermath of the Clone War. Today saw the arrival of a new trailer for the series, and it’s filled with action, drama, and some big surprises — in other words, everything we’d expect from this rough-and-tumble crew. Gear up and check out five highlights below.

1. “A test is in order.”

The cold and calculating Tarkin opens the trailer, praising the Bad Batch’s skills while expressing concern about their individuality. Meanwhile, the Bad Batch seem to enjoy their droid-destroying workout. Taken together, it’s a great setup for the series and personalities involved: the uniformity and fascism of the soon-to-be Empire, and how that brushes up against the rebellious nature of Clone Force 99.

2. Meet the team.

A child, on what looks to be the cloning world of Kamino, meets the Bad Batch and, by proxy, introduces them to us. We see Hunter, Echo, Tech, Wrecker, and Crosshair doing what they do best, and it’s glorious mayhem. If you love action in your Star Wars, it looks like you’ll love this series and this crew. The only question is…who’s your favorite?

3. Band on the run.

Tarkin officially names the Bad Batch as enemies of the state. These elite soldiers are now truly on their own…

4. Those cameos!

It looks like the Bad Batch will have some famous company. Both Fennec Shand (voiced by Ming-Na Wen, reprising her role from The Mandalorian) and a young-but-scarred Saw Gerrera (played once again by Andrew Kishino, who originally brought the soldier to life in Star Wars: The Clone Wars) make appearances. Saw raises the central question for the Bad Batch: with the Clone War over, what will they choose to be? While we can’t wait to see how they respond, we’re just happy to see Fennec and Saw again.

5. “Strap in, kid.”

The trailer ends with some more trademark Bad Batch action — explosions and good ol’ fashioned droid beating, you know the drill — but with the promise of a new kind of Star Wars adventure. Take Hunter’s advice: strap in and enjoy the ride.

Dan Brooks is Lucasfilm’s senior content strategist of online, the editor of StarWars.com, and a writer. He loves Star Wars, ELO, and the New York Rangers, Jets, and Yankees. Follow him on Twitter @dan_brooks where he rants about all these things.

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Air taxi startup Lilium to go public via SPAC

Lilium, a German aviation startup developing an electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle for regional travel, announced it is planning to go public in the U.S. through a merger with a blank-check acquirer, Qell Acquisition Corp. The special purpose acquisition company was founded by former General Motors executive Barry Engle. The proposed transaction values the combined company at an approximately $3.3 billion pro forma equity value.

Founded in 2015, Lilium has previously raised at least $376 million in known venture funding, per Crunchbase data.

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Funding rounds

Staffbase raises $145M for communication tools: Germany’s Staffbase, provider of a platform for companies to quickly communicate with employees, raised $145 million in a funding round led by General Atlantic. Founded in 2014, Staffbase offers a suite of tools around internal communications.

— Joanna Glasner

HYCU lands $87.5M for cloud backup: Boston-based HYCU, a provider of multicloud data backup and recovery tools, raised $87.5 million in a Series A round led by Bain Capital Ventures. Founded in 2017, HYCU says it currently serves over 2,000 customers in more than 75 countries.

— Joanna Glasner

Health care

• BrightInsight lands $101M for digital health: San Jose-based BrightInsight closed on a Series C financing of $101 million led by General Catalyst to bring its total raise to $166 million since being founded in 2017, according to Crunchbase data. The funding will go toward expanding its team, as well as technology and product development. BrightInsight’s platform leverages data to lead to better outcomes, develop more personalized therapies, improve provider-patient engagement, and enable speedier development of treatments. In the past year, the company launched three digital health products that include a Software-as-a-Medical-Device algorithm.
• Ecovative snags $60M for mushroom technology: Ecovative, a New York-based biotechnology company focused on commercializing mycelium technology, announced a $60 million Series D round of financing led by Viking Global Investors. The new round brings Ecovative’s total capital raised to $100 million since the company was founded in 2007. Mycelium is the root structure of mushrooms and can be leveraged to grow materials that self-assemble into complex, fully-formed structures for areas such as textiles, packaging and food. The new funding will be used for Ecovative’s Mycelium Foundry and to support another 10x boost in production.
• Cleo inks $40M for family health care: Family benefits platform Cleo brought in a $40 million Series C toward growth and scaling for new Fortune 500 employer customers. Transformation Capital led the round, which brings San Francisco-based Cleo’s total funding to $83 million since it was founded in 2016, the company said. Cleo is currently working with more than 100 employers to drive better health outcomes for working parents in over 55 countries. In the last year, the company saw an 8x membership growth and more than 100 percent increase in revenue.
• SteadyMD raises $25M for telehealth: St. Louis-based telehealth provider SteadyMD raised $25 million in Series B funding led by Lux Capital. Founded in 2016, the company provides an on-demand physician workforce, legal and regulatory guidance, as well as customized technology to support primary care, behavioral health, digital pharmacy, medical device, at-home lab and other telehealth operations. The new funding gives SteadyMD a total of $35 million in venture-backed investments to date, according to Crunchbase data.

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