Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: VC funding for Web3 startups fell 81% YoY from $9.1B in Q1 2022 to $1.7B in Q1 2023; the number of public deals fell from 770 to 333, the lowest since Q4 2020  —  Editor’s Note: For more Web3 coverage, please visit Crunchbase’s Web3 Tracker, a site to look at startups, investors … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anthony Vargas / AdExchanger: Montreal-based Optable, which provides a data collaboration and clean room service, raised a $20M Series A, bringing its total funding to $23.6M  —  Clean rooms are all the rage right now – and investors are noticing.  —  On Tuesday, data collaboration and clean room platform Optable announced $20 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Google announces Google DeepMind, a new unit combining the DeepMind team and the Brain team from Google Research, with DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis as CEO  —  As Google looks to maintain pace in AI with the rest of the tech giants, it’s consolidating its AI research divisions. Lees verder op Tech Meme