Wyden, a long-standing critic of dragnet surveillance, is backing a range of legislative efforts that would end bulk phone records acquisition and revamp the foreign intelligence surveillance (Fisa) court, which grants the NSA legal authorization for its mass collection.
In addition to Tiger Global, which has been on a spree backing a range of India's top tech companies since raising $2.5 billion for new deals last year, existing investors Bertelsmann India Investments, Steadview Capital, Liberty Media, and Mousse Partners took part.
Car companies like GM, Volkswagen, Daimler and many others are putting billions of dollars towards backing a range of startups that are building technology and services for that brave new automotive future (a small handful of examples: GM investing $1 billion in Lyft, Volkswagen investing $180 million in smart car tech maker Mobvoi, and Ford pumping $1 billion into Argo AI for self-driving tech).
Rodenbeck writes that it is "misleading to assert that 'the Arab regimes have implicitly or explicitly backed a range of terrorist groups.' Pray, which Arab governments does [Pollack] mean, and which groups is he talking about?" Can Rodenbeck really not know that the governments of Libya, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria and the U.A.E.
MEPs backed a range of measures aimed at putting young people off smoking.
During his time at BGF Ventures, the firm backed a range of tech startups, including Gousto, Streetbees, Triptease, Paddle and Roli.
CircleUp, a crowdfunding platform for consumer brands to raise money from accredited investors, has closed a $22 million fund of its own to back a range of brands on the platform.
Fruition Partners, a Chicago-based startup that helps enterprises get their under-the-hood, IT operations into the cloud, has picked up $12 million in funding from Trident Capital, the VC that has backed a range of tech companies ranging from consumer plays like Kayak to more enterprise-focused startups like Qualys.
Led by partners Chris Schaepe, Herry Han and James Mi, the China operation has backed a range of unicorns, including the aforementioned Meituan, which raised more than $4 billion via a Hong Kong IPO last year, and Pinduoduo, which raised $1.6 billion via a U.S. listing in 2018.
While Rockwell pushed his hatred of Jews to frothy extremes, Muhammad backed a range of racist theories, including the hoax that the Jews had financed the slave trade.
Bausch & Lomb, a troubled leader in the eye care industry, said yesterday that it had accepted a $4.5 billion takeover offer from investment groups controlled by Warburg Pincus, a private equity firm known for backing a wide range of health care companies.
