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Born in the pandemic, Moonfire’s first $60M Seed fund will combine remote investing with big data During the pandemic, we’ve seen the rise of ‘Zoom investing’ – where VCs literally use remote video conference tools like Zoom and Google Meet to take pitches from entrepreneurs. Now a new European Seed fund plans to leverage that emerging behavior and bake it into their model. Mattias Ljungman, the former co-founder of Atomico formed Moonfire when he left in December 2019, but few details were revealed about his new operation. Today Moonfire reveals it will be a $60 million seed-stage ...

AOC is pushing for $10 billion taxpayer-funded 'climate corps' made up of 1.5m Americans to help boost support for her Green New Deal Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is pushing a new program called the 'Civilian Climate Corps' to create 1.5 million jobs to combat climate change All employees would be paid at least $15 per hour, according to the bill The program would cost $10 billion as part of President Joe Biden's $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan   Progressives are branding the new program like that of FDR's  New Deal creating the Civilian Conservation Corps to create jobs during the Grea...

'It was terrible... but at least we could nap': Fifth grade students give Joe and Jill Biden their very honest opinions of virtual learning during tour of fully-reopened Virginia elementary school President Joe Biden is in Yorktown, Virginia, as his administration starts a blitzkrieg to sell its $4.1 trillion in federal spending package  Jill Biden joins him as they visit two schools - an elementary one and college They talked to fifth graders about home schooling versus in-classroom learning They also stopped the motorcade to take pics with students  Trip is part of a massive push by admin...

President Biden argued he isn't raising taxes to pay for his ambitious $2.1 trillion plans on infrastructure and social programs but is asking wealthy and corporations to 'pay their fair share.'

Responding to these shifting trends, food tech funding flowed into related services. Food tech companies raised around $17.3 billion across 631 deals for the year. Sixty-eight percent of that went to e-commerce and delivery businesses. Meal kits alone raised $6.2 billion, and e-commerce companies raised $5.3 billion within the food tech category. The largest deal last year was an $800 million round of funding for the Chinese group-buying app for groceries, Xingsheng Youxuan. The world also saw how a crisis could disrupt the normal production, processing and distribution of food. Farmers had t...