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Keep Labs’ smart storage redefines medication management

TechCrunch

Keep Labs built a lockable storage container for medicine, and it doesn’t matter if the meds come in bottles, boxes or dime bags. The company launched in 2019, won — and lost — an innovation award at CES 2020, and this week started […] The Keep is designed to hold them safely and track their use.

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The Week’s Biggest Funding Rounds: Data Storage And Lots Of Biotech

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DDN , $300M, data storage: Data is the big-money game right now. Private equity giant Blackstone Group is making a $300 million strategic investment into DDN , valuing the Chatsworth, California-based data storage company at $5 billion. Founded in 2019, Whatnot has raised approximately $746 million, per the company.

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Clutter merges with MakeSpace to add scale to the business of moving and storage

TechCrunch

Some consolidation is afoot in the world of moving and storage startups: Clutter and MakeSpace, two erstwhile rivals in the market, are merging to form a single company, which will operate under the Clutter brand, serving some 6,500 towns in the U.S. It acquired The Storage Fox in 2019 for $152 million also as part of that strategy.

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Ro is in talks to acquire at-home sperm storage startup Dadi

TechCrunch

Ro , a direct-to-consumer health company valued by its investors at $5 billion, is nearing a deal to acquire at-home sperm storage upstart Dadi, per multiple sources familiar with the unicorn’s business. The deal would be Ro’s fourth acquisition in the past 12 months, along with Workpath, Kit and Modern Fertility.

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MGA Thermal raises $8M AUD led by Main Sequence for its modular energy storage blocks

TechCrunch

MGA Thermal wants to help utility companies transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources with shoebox-sized thermal energy storage blocks. The modular blocks also make it easier to convert infrastructure, like coal-fired power plants, into grid-scale energy storage. MGA Thermal’s modular energy storage blocks.

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Internxt gets $1M to be ‘the Coinbase of decentralized storage’

TechCrunch

Valencia-based startup Internxt has been quietly working on an ambitious plan to make decentralized cloud storage massively accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. We’ve kind of democratized storage.” “We leverage and use the space provided by professionals and individuals.

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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

TechCrunch

Fungible was launched in 2016 by Bertrand Serlet, a former Apple software engineer who sold a cloud storage startup, Upthere, to Western Digital in 2017, alongside Krishna Yarlagadda and Jupiter Networks co-founder Pradeep Sindhu. Nvidia acquired DPU maker BlueField in 2019, while AMD snatched up Pensando late last year.

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