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Bedding startup Boll - Branch raises $100MThe company sells sustainably sourced sheets, pillows, mattresses and towels.
Until now, it had only raised $12 million in outside capital.This new funding comes from L Catterton.
CEO Scott Tannen compared Boll - Branch to the firms previous investments The Honest Company and Peloton companies that have become the winner in the startup competition and are ready to really become household names.2.
Nvidia and VMware team up to make GPU virtualization easierNvidia today announced that it has been working with VMware to bring its virtual GPU technology to VMwares vSphere and VMware Cloud on AWS.3.
Megvii, the Chinese startup unicorn known for facial recognition tech, files to go public in Hong KongFounded by three Tsinghua University graduates in 2011, Megvii is among Chinas leading AI startups, with its peers (and rivals) including SenseTime and Yitu.
Its clients include Alibaba, Ant Financial, Lenovo, China Mobile and Chinese government entities.4.
Watch the first look at Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker from Disneys big fan eventThis video goes really heavy on the nostalgia.5.
Experimental US Air Force space plane breaks previous record for orbital spaceflightThe Boeing-built X-37B space plane commissioned and operated by the United States Air Force has now broken its own record for time spent in space.
Its latest mission has lasted 719 days as of today.6.
Is Knotel poised to turn WeWork from a Unicorn into an Icarus?Knotel has reversed the WeWork co-working model.
Instead of WeWork branding everywhere, Knotel simply leases buildings, takes a small office for its staff and then kits out the space in a way where a company can just move straight in and call it their own.
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This weeks TechCrunch podcastsJohn Vrionis of Unusual Ventures joins Equity to talk about why he thinks stage-agnostic investing doesnt make any sense.
And on Original Content, we review the Netflix movie The Red Sea Diving Resort.