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French aerospace company Gama raises $2M to develop a solar sail spacecraft

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The aerospace company was founded in 2020 by Louis de Gouyon Matignon, Thibaud Elziere and Andrew Nutter, whose goal is to develop a low-cost solar sail that would use light as a means of propulsion for spacecraft. Now multiple organizations apart from Gama are developing new solar sail missions.

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There’s nothing Automattic about balancing commercial growth with an open source developer community

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To get there, Automattic has to shepherd and evolve its developer community even as it empowers more and more of its open source contributors to take leadership roles in the future of the WordPress ecosystem. That proportion is actually lower for WordPress, where only about a third of developers are believed to be sponsored.

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Use RevOps to develop a customer-led approach to B2B sales

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Back around 2010, the thinking was, generally: “Let’s bring tech into our business and make it more efficient.” Optimizing your unique path to better connect with customers requires having a cross-discipline team that’s focused solely on that objective and sees the client as their guiding star. We call that RevOps.

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The next decade for health tech may look a lot like the last decade for fintech

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After the 2008 financial crisis, a new slate of regulations aimed at protecting consumers and businesses opened the floodgates for a surge of fintech companies to develop into household names over the last decade. Now, it might be healthcare’s turn.

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MOLOCO raises $150M Series C led by Tiger Global at a $1.5B valuation

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Its clients range in size from mobile developers who have less than 100,000 users to more than a billion, Ahn said in an email, with some spending more than $1 million a month through MOLOCO Cloud, its demand-side platform (DSP). MOLOCO’s customers include King Digital, Playrix and Netmarble.

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Bending Spoons acquires Evernote, marking the end of an era

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Evernote, the note-taking and task management app founded over 20 years ago, has been acquired by Milan-based app developer Bending Spoons. Between 2010 and 2015, Evernote raised hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital from investors including Sequoia, Meritech Capital and Japanese media company Nikkei.

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The Week’s Biggest Funding Rounds: Fleetio And Mercury Nab Massive Rounds

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Fleetio , $450M, fleet management: Fleet optimization software platform developer Fleetio locked up a $450 million round to finance the acquisition of maintenance authorization platform Auto Integrate. Island , $250M, cybersecurity: Dallas-based enterprise browser developer Island raised a $250 million Series E at a $4.8

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