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        <title><![CDATA[Ivan Levingston]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Guillaume Pousaz, European Tech’s Booster]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[His electronic-payments company, Checkout.com, raised $1 billion in January, giving it a $40 billion valuation and making it Europe’s most valuable startup.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ivan Levingston]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2022 10:54:21 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Israeli Investor Vintage Raises $631 Million to Fund Venture Capitalists]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2022 11:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bain Capital Raises $2 Billion for Latest Tech Fund With Eyes on Europe]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2022 15:50:56 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Uber Partners With Supermarket Iceland to Offer Rapid Delivery]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2022 23:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A fresh fruit stall at Surrey Street Market outside an Iceland Food Ltd. supermarket in Croydon, UK, on Monday, July 25, 2022. UK inflation running at the fastest pace since the early 80s.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Coinbase Hires Fintech Executive to Lead European Expansion]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2022 06:48:14 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lightrock Raises €860 Million for First Climate Impact Fund]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2022 23:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Former NSO CEO, Ex-Austrian Chancellor Start Cyber Firm]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:02:09 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Delivery Startup Getir in Advanced Talks to Buy Gorillas]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2022 12:00:22 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A bicycle delivery courier for Gorillas Technologies GmbH collects orders from their warehouse in Shoreditch in London, U.K., on Thursday, May 20, 2021. German food delivery company Delivery Hero SE plans to invest in grocery startup Gorillas as part of a $1 billion funding round, according to people familiar with the matter.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Venture Capital Giant NEA Appoints Its First European Partner]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2022 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[MuleSoft Founder Seeks Backing for London-Based Venture Fund]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:08:31 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Deliveroo Opens Brick-and-Mortar Grocery Shop in Central London]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2022 10:06:13 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Swiss Dropout Has Moved His Startup Further Away From Porn]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Guillaume Pousaz built Checkout.com into a force in electronic payments and is now poised to become a tech rainmaker.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2022 04:00:21 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Venture Capital Firm 83North Raises $400 Million for Latest Fund]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2022 10:59:06 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[UK Has ‘No Chance in Hell’ of Making Its Own Tech Champs: ARM Founder]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ivan Levingston]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2022 09:38:24 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ex-Citadel Securities Duo Unveils Crypto High-Speed Trading Firm]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Yueqi Yang]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2022 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Checkout.com Will Eliminate About 5% of Employees in Latest Cuts]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ivan Levingston]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2022 11:01:43 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A Checkout.com logo on a laptop computer arranged in London, U.K., on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. Payments business Checkout.com has become Europe&apos;s largest startup after a fundraising round led by Tiger Global Management that nearly tripled its valuation to $15 billion. Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Startups Are Borrowing More as the Easy Venture Capital Money Vanishes]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The companies are taking on more debt, bringing new risks and dynamics to an industry emerging from a decade-long boom.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Abhinav Ramnarayan]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2022 09:00:06 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Checkout.com Fires Staff Over Harassment Claims From Cyprus Trip]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2022 08:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[JPMorgan Weighs Investment in Fintech Startup Yapily]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jan-Henrik Foerster]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2022 13:50:33 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Uber Plans to Supply 10,000 More Electric Cars in London]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ivan Levingston]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2022 23:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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