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Itstill quite hard to buy physical goods using bitcoins or ethers. Coinbase plans to (partially) solve that issue with a new partnership with WeGift. Coinbase customers in Europe and Australia can now convert their tokens on their Coinbase account into digital gift cards for popular stores.

For instance, you&ll be able to buy gift

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Recruiting, hiring and retention can be one of the most costly parts of a companyentire operation, and therea class of startups and companies that are increasingly getting funded to try to optimize one or more of those problems all at once — including a new big round for employee education platform Guild Education.

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ClassPass today announced the close of an $85 million Series D financing round led by Temasek, the same firm that led the startupSeries C financing. L Catterton, a private equity firm that has also invested in the likes of Peloton, Equinox, and Pure Barre, also participated in the round.

As part of the deal, L CattertonMichael

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Grubhub announced this morning that itagreed to acquire LevelUp for $390 million cash.

Founder and CEO Matt Maloney told me that while previous Grubhub acquisitions like Eat24 were designed to give the companydelivery business more scale, &This is kind of a different acquisition. Ita product and strategic

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Christie Lagally spent half of a decade working on planes as an aerospace engineer — but now shetrying to attack the food industry head-on with a hopeful attempt to change the way we eat chicken.

Thatthe aim of Seattle Food Tech, which looks to create what effectively looks and feels like a chicken nugget out of plant-based

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Half a decade after its founding, Peloton became a unicorn. During its short existence, the company has found tremendous success riding the wave of successful spin classes that includes the likes of SoulCycle and Flywheel.

Peloton offered a unique take on the space, harnessing technology to provide a state of the art version of the phenomenon from

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