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USA/Russia – Putin’s Power Play Foiled by Biden’s Punch-and-Placate Tactics (The Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel K. Baev An extraordinary sequence of oscillating hostile and conciliatory steps between the United States and Russia was initiated by President Joseph Biden’s phone...

Climate Leadership Should Include Foreign Assistance (CSIS)

Erol Yayboke April 22 is Earth Day. It also marks a major opportunity for the Biden-Harris administration to increase U.S. credibility and ambition by hosting...

USA – The Intelligence Community’s Annual Threat Assessment and the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Worldwide Threats Hearing (CSIS)

Emily Harding The intelligence community (IC) last week made a rare foray into public view to explain the top threats facing the United States. https://www.csis.org/analysis/intelligence-communitys-annual-threat-assessment-and-senate-intelligence-committees

Cusp Capital launches with a $361M fund for early stage startups in Germany and Europe (TechCrunch)

Mike Butcher In the past ten years, an investment team led by Christian Winter, Jan Sessenhausen, Helmut Klawitter and Wilken Engelbracht worked principally with German family offices, investing...

Qapita, a developer of equity management software for startups, raises $5M led by MassMutual Ventures (TechCrunch)

Catherine Shu Qapita, a Singapore-based fintech that provides capitalization table and employee stock ownership plans (ESOP) management software, has raised $5 million in pre-Series A...

Huawei is not a carmaker. It wants to be the Bosch of China (TechCrunch)

Rita Liao One after another, Chinese tech giants have announced their plans for the auto space over the last few months. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/19/huawei-auto-strategy/

European e-scooter and micromobility startup Dott raises $85 million (TechCrunch)

Romain Dillet Dott has raised a new $85 million Series B funding round — this round is a mix of equity and asset-backed debt financing. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/19/european-e-scooter-and-micromobility-startup-dott-raises-85-million/

Singapore-based fintech STACS raises $3.6M to develop blockchain platforms for financial institutions (TechCrunch)

Catherine Shu Singapore-based fintech Hashstacs Pte Ltd (STACS) announced today it has raised $3.6 million USD in pre-Series A funding. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/19/singapore-based-fintech-stacs-raises-3-6m-to-develop-blockchain-platforms-for-financial-institutions/

Indonesian edtech CoLearn gets $10M Series A led by Alpha Wave Incubation and GSV Ventures (TechCrunch)

Catherine Shu Indonesian startup CoLearn started as a chain of physical tutoring centers and was in the process of shifting to a hybrid offline-online model when the...

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