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US investment giant Tiger Global leads $40 million raise into Australian-based digital broker Stake

Tiger Global led a $40 million round into Stake, an Australian zero-brokerage trading platform, with DST Global partners joining. Previously bootstrapped, the company will use the capital to expand internationally.

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Ignition Lane's Weekly Wrap: VC investment peaks, cowtech as bro, Big Tech earnings soar

Weekly roundup covering Main Sequence's second-fund close, operating partner hires at Blackbird and AirTree, raises by Sea Forest, Adventus.io, Halter and others, acquisitions by Equiem, Stripe and Toyota, plus Big Tech earnings.

Ignition Lane's Weekly Wrap: Tiger is the new Softbank, Accel's 40x, more marketplaces, Zooming into VC

Ignition Lane's weekly column rounds up Australian raises including Octopus Deploy, Neara, Mr Yum and Archistar, ThinkTilt's sale to Atlassian, Latitude's ASX listing, and US moves by Tiger Global, UiPath and Squarespace.

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Fresh funding values Clubhouse at US$4 billion, even as Facebook and Reddit unveil rival platforms

Audio app Clubhouse has reportedly closed a Series C round valuing it at US$4 billion, just as Facebook and Reddit launch competing live-audio products and Twitter expands Spaces.

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Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap: Canva’s rise, Clubhouse plays Twitter, Slack’s Australian slog

Ignition Lane's weekly roundup covers Canva's US$71 million raise, several Australian payments acquisitions and mergers, local raises by Cyble, Enboarder, Rendr and Basiq, plus overseas deals including Plaid, Box, Ramp and Coinbase's listing.

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Your 90-second guide to the day in tech

Roundup of overseas tech news: Deliveroo's London debut disappoints, Spotify acquires sports-audio firm Betty Labs, Apple posts record quarterly revenue, and Cameo's Series C makes it a unicorn.

Ignition Lane’s Weekly Wrap: Airtasker lists, Culture Amp revenue jumps, Spotify’s $5bn payout, Andreessen Horowitz bets on NFT

Ignition Lane's weekly technology roundup: Seequent and Neto acquisitions, imminent listings for AirTasker and MadPaws, large venture rounds at Stripe, Yotpo, PatSnap, SecurityScorecard, Appfire and OpenSea, plus new fund plans and ecosystem news.

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Your 90-second guide to the day in tech

Daily roundup reporting Databricks' billion-dollar Series G, Robinhood's emergency raise during the trading saga, DesignCrowd's $10 million pre-IPO funding, Xinja's wind-up vote, and record Australian venture capital in 2020.

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5 things you should know about tech today

News roundup covering Uber's all-stock purchase of delivery rival Postmates, Luckin Coffee's delisting after fraud, a VC training program, NASA's toilet prize, VCs feuding with journalists, and Murdoch's Theranos stake sale.