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Moove, which provides vehicle financing to ride-hailing drivers in Africa, the UK, India, and the UAE, raises $76M in equity and debt at a $550M valuation (Will Louch/Financial Times) 10-08-2023

Will Louch / Financial Times: Moove, which provides vehicle financing to ride-hailing drivers in Africa, the UK, India, and the UAE, raises $76M in equity and debt at a $550M valuation  —  Vehicle financing start-up aims to raise $76mn in equity and debt from investor group that includes BlackRock Lees verder op Tech Meme

Y00ts, once among the top Solana-based NFT projects and which moved to Polygon in 2022, says it is migrating to Ethereum and will return the $3M Polygon grant (Rosie Perper/CoinDesk) 10-08-2023

Rosie Perper / CoinDesk: Y00ts, once among the top Solana-based NFT projects and which moved to Polygon in 2022, says it is migrating to Ethereum and will return the $3M Polygon grant  —  The popular project, which started out on Solana and migrated to Polygon earlier this year, said it would return 100% of the grant money it received. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Fireblocks discloses BitForge, a set of zero-day flaws affecting widely-used crypto wallet providers; Coinbase, Binance, and Zengo have patched BitForge flaws (Tom Mitchelhill/Cointelegraph) 10-08-2023

Tom Mitchelhill / Cointelegraph: Fireblocks discloses BitForge, a set of zero-day flaws affecting widely-used crypto wallet providers; Coinbase, Binance, and Zengo have patched BitForge flaws  —  Fireblocks said the vulnerabilities affecting Coinbase, Binance and Zengo have since been fixed and has reached out to more than 12 others still at risk. Lees verder op Tech Meme

PE firm Symphony Technology Group agrees to acquire media editing software maker Avid for ~$1.4B, with the transaction expected to close in Q4 2023 (Reuters) 10-08-2023

Reuters: PE firm Symphony Technology Group agrees to acquire media editing software maker Avid for ~$1.4B, with the transaction expected to close in Q4 2023  —  Private equity firm Symphony Technology Group (STG) on Wednesday agreed to buy media editing software maker Avid Technology Inc (AVID.O) for about $1.4 billion, including debt. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meta rolls out the ability to let users verify their Threads profile on other social media platforms, like Mastodon, using “rel=me” links (Jay Peters/The Verge) 10-08-2023

Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta rolls out the ability to let users verify their Threads profile on other social media platforms, like Mastodon, using “rel=me” links  —  To be clear, this isn’t a free way to get a blue checkmark next to your Threads name; you’ll probably need to pay Meta to get one of those. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Berlin-based Deepset, which helps companies build “complex LLM applications” and add NLP to apps, raised $30M led by Balderton, taking its total funding to $46M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) 10-08-2023

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Berlin-based Deepset, which helps companies build “complex LLM applications” and add NLP to apps, raised $30M led by Balderton, taking its total funding to $46M  —  Deepset, a platform for building enterprise apps powered by large language models akin to ChatGPT … Lees verder op Tech Meme