Emma Betuel / TechCrunch:
Activ Surgical, which makes hardware-agnostic software for minimally invasive surgical systems, raises $45M Series B led by Cota Capital  —  Activ Surgical, a Boston-based digital surgery company, announced a…

The Economic Times:
CredAvenue, an online marketplace for companies seeking loans, financial institutions, and investors, raises $90M Series A, India’s largest ever, led by Sequoia  —  CredAvenue has raised $90 million in a Series A f…

Emma Court / Bloomberg:
TrialSpark, which wants to leverage its clinical trials management software into drug discovery, closed $156M Series C at a $1B+ valuation earlier this year  —  – TrialSpark expands from clinical trials into d…

Dalvin Brown / Washington Post:
MiamiCoin, a crypto partnership with CityCoins unveiled in August that automatically allocates 30% of newly minted coins to Miami, has made $7.1M for the city  —  The South Florida city is the first mun…

Zoe Schiffer / The Verge:
A look at the rise of employee dissent at Apple, including pushback against returning to the office, fighting for pay equity, and increasing leaks  —  On June 14th, 2021, Apple’s remote work advocacy group se…

Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Zoom says it no longer plans to acquire cloud-based call center software maker Five9, following the FCC’s review of the $14.7B deal on national security grounds  —  – Zoom’s attempted acquisition of cloud contact …

Kim Lyons / The Verge:
Retailer Neiman Marcus says it notified 4.6M customers that their personal info, including credit card numbers, may have been exposed in a May 2020 data breach  —  The retailer told 4.6 million customers their p…

Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Axios:
LinkedIn blocks the profiles of several US journalists on its Chinese platform, citing “prohibited content” without specifying what it was  —  LinkedIn blocked the profiles of several U.S….

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
Forta, a security service aimed at smart contracts being spun out by blockchain cybersecurity startup OpenZeppelin, raises $23M led by a16z  —  Blockchain cybersecurity startup OpenZeppelin this morning anno…

The latest hearing on Instagram and teen mental health was the depressing work of a legislature that can’t legislate.