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Founded in March 2010 by Ben Silbermann, Evan Sharp, and Paul Sciarra, Pinterest has grown to become what it describes as “the world’s catalog of ideas.” As of June 2021, the platform had over 454 million users worldwide.
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Founded in 2007, MongoDB has now become the most valuable open-source company. Through this model, the company puts its code available for free to third parties who then build their own solutions around the existing code.
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Yandex took over Uber's stake in its self-driving group and its interests in Yandex.Eats, Yandex.Lavka and Yandex.Delivery. It spent $ 1B on it and gave the Russian company 100% ownership over these four business segments.
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SoFi Plunges, A Buying Opportunity?
SoFi Technologies reported a net loss of $ 165m, down from last year's profit of $ 7.8m. However, adjusted net revenue grew 74% year over year as member growth accelerated to 113%.
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Naked Raises Fresh Cash From Naspers
South African insurtech startup, Naked, has raised $ 11m from Naspers. The platform was founded in 2018 by Alex Thomson, Sumarie Greybe and Ernest North.
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Fortinet, Cybersecurity Leader
Founded back in 2000 by Ken Xie and Michael Xie, and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) has grown to become one of the largest automated cybersecurity solutions providers globally.
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Invest In China? Today?
The Chinese Government has taken extraordinary measures to keep its tech giants in check. It started with Alibaba and Jack Ma and has now expanded to Tencent, DiDi, Meituan and many other tech leaders.
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Robinhood, An Overlooked Opportunity?
The online brokerage began trading at $38 per share, the low end of its range which valued the company at about $32 billion. After dropping as much as 10% Robinhood's market capitalization closed down at $29 billion.
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