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Friday!

How’s that for brevity in publication introductions? Let’s get to it so we will crack open a Liquid Dying and let the week sag off into the murky distance of reminiscence sooner reasonably than later. — Christine and Haje

The TechCrunch High 3

• Uh-oh: Binance, one of many world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, confirmed that it discovered a blockchain bridge breach the place hackers made off with $100 million. Carly has extra.
• Evolving elephants to unicorns: Annie reviews that Kenya’s tourism-focused startup studio Purple Elephant Ventures raises $1 million pre-seed funding to carry some modernization to the trade.
• What till you see the image: Amazon’s Scout makes you simply wish to go as much as it and provides it a pat. Sadly, you won’t get an opportunity to. After three years unveiling the robotic, the supply large stated that it’s slicing again this system, Brian reviews.

Startups and VC

Wildfires have grow to be an ever-increasing risk as homes are constructed nearer collectively and the rising impacts of local weather change wreak havoc on pure landscapes. Entrepreneurs, in response, have began to develop tech meant to reduce the dimensions and injury of those pure disasters. Convective Capital is a brand new VC agency trying to again them, and it raised $35 million to take action, Becca reviews.

Haje obtained actually bored of startups taking liberties with its market sizing, complaining that if you’re a automotive dealership, your whole serviceable market isn’t the worth of the vehicles you promote (that’s the SOM for the automotive producer). Your SOM is the full worth of the gross sales commissions, service plans, aftermarket items and providers and every thing else you possibly can truly become profitable on.

And we’ve got 5 extra for you:

7 buyers talk about how agtech can remedy agriculture’s largest issues

Of all international industries, maybe none is extra inclined to the risks of local weather change than agriculture.

There’s a consensus amongst respected scientists that the quantity of CO2 we’re placing within the environment is aggravating excessive climate occasions. How is that impacting the way in which agtech VCs function throughout a downturn?

To study extra, we surveyed:

• Brett Brohl, managing director of Techstars Farm to Fork, and managing associate at Bread and Butter Ventures
• Monica Varman, associate at G2 Enterprise Companions
• Jinesh Shah, managing associate at Omnivore
• Adam Anders, managing associate at Anterra Capital
• Ting Ting Liu, investor, and Ashutosh Sharma, India head at Prosus Ventures
• Camila Petignat, associate at The Yield Lab

Three extra from the TC+ workforce:

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Large Tech Inc.

Google plans to open its first information middle in Japan by 2023, Ivan writes. The middle is a part of a $730 million infrastructure fund and would be the search engine large’s third one within the area.

In the meantime, Kyle and Amanda checked out synthetic intelligence–powered music turbines and its place in an trade the place it typically pays to have the ability to use your pure, human talents.

And one other 5 extra for you:

• Sharing is caring: A brand new Twitter function encourages customers to share the tweet versus taking a screenshot of it after which posting to different social media, Ivan writes.
• Press pause: A decide dominated that the Musk vs. Twitter trial will be placed on maintain briefly whereas the 2 events work out a deal, Amanda reviews.
• It’s Marioooooo: Amanda provides you an inside take a look at the brand new “The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film,” the place she writes, “To this point, Chris Pratt’s Mario appears extra like Andy Dwyer than Star-Lord, and we love that for him.”
• Making tweaks: Shopify has agreed so as to add some client security options to its app in Europe that features a sooner and simpler manner for nationwide client authorities to report issues, Natasha L reviews.
• Crack open a chilly one: Pepsi is on the entrance of the road to get a number of the first Tesla Semi deliveries, Kirsten writes.