Techmeme: South Korea-based online grocery startup Kurly, which says it plans to IPO in H1 2022 at a ~$5.8B valuation, raises $210M at a $3.3B valuation (Kate Park/TechCrunch)

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Kate Park / TechCrunch:

South Korea-based online grocery startup Kurly, which says it plans to IPO in H1 2022 at a ~$5.8B valuation, raises $210M at a $3.3B valuation — Just half a year after its last Series F round announcement, Korean online grocery startup Kurly has closed a $210 million in a pre-IPO round …

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:

Berlin-based Vay, a startup that uses remote operators to drive rental cars to a customer's pick-up spot and from their drop-off site, raises a $95M Series B — Vay, a company that is trying to get self-driving car services to market faster by pursuing a teledriven approach …

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

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Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:

Amazon issues an update to fix its Appstore and the issues that left some Android 12 users with apps that didn't work — Amazon has addressed the issue that had left those with Android 12 phones unable to use apps they had downloaded from the company's Appstore.

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Financial Times:

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