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Robots as a service: pay per harvested kilo When will you be ready to buy a robot to replace your workers? Not there yet? Well, youre not alone. In order to help build the trust growers have in harvest robots, the company Tortuga looks to offer their harvest robot on a robots-as-a-service basis: you pay for what the robots harvest. With this vision and their earlier released strawberry robot, they just completed a $20 million Series A round led by Lewis & Clark AgriFood.  After four years of r...

Fueled by the pandemic, Daily raises $15M Series A for its real-time video platform Daily, the makers of a developer platform for real-time audio and video, has been booming in recent months — in part, due to the pandemic’s impact on remote work, virtual events, telehealth and more. Over the past year, Daily saw around a 20x increase in the number of paying customers and a 30x increase in revenue, it says. Though the team was initially hesitant to raise funds in light of this growth, they h...

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Eyebrows raised and stammering. That’s how the Airbnb CEO reacted on live TV when he found out the company’s shares had skyrocketed 113 percent to $144.7 during its stock market debut Thursday. “That’s the first time I’ve heard the number,” he managed to say. “Um, that is, that’s … I … I don’t know what else to say.” Ahead of its IPO, which raised $3.5 billion, Airbnb priced shares at $68. Even without a pop, that was already a remarkable feat given a volatile year that ...