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California Lets Aurora Operate Driverless Cars

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Aurora, with logistical operations currently in Palo Alto, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco, has approximately a dozen self-driving vehicles used for testing on American public roads. 620 million has been financed to date, with Sequoia Capital, Amazon, and T. Rowe Price Associates contributing.

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Square Capital Distributed 76K PPP Loans Totaling $820M

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Square Capital LLC processed more than $820 million in Small Business Administration (SBA) Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) forgivable loans in six weeks, the firm reported. The San Francisco-based division of Square Inc., Last year, Square Capital did $2.3 billion in business loan volume. months’ worth of that volume.

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On-Demand Delivery Service Munchery Ceases Operations

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In May Munchery said it was planning to focus on its largest market, which was San Francisco, in an effort to become profitable. Its venture capital investors included Greycroft, ACME Ventures (formerly known as Sherpa Capital), Menlo Ventures, e.Ventures, Cota Capital, M13 and others, noted reports.

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Personal finance app Tally raises $50m to grow its platform business

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The Series C funding round, led by Andreessen Horowitz, will help the San Francisco-based company hire more engineers to help build out more products, according to Erica Dorfman, Tally’s head of finance and operations. […].

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Ex-Uber Exec To File $250M SPAC IPO Backed By Former Google CEO

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2) for DPCM Capital Inc. , There’s a real need for quick, confidential capital and price certainty and for sponsorship in the markets,” he said. Michael’s experience also includes a role as chief operating officer of Klout, an online personal influence measurement tool that was sold in 2014, the report stated.

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Citigroup Back To NY Federal Court Over $900M Error

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While many firms returned the money at Citi’s request, the bank said in court documents, a dozen have been sued after what the bank called an “operational error” caused it to transfer $900 million of its own funds to Revlon creditors one day after the troubled cosmetics company was sued over its restructuring tactics. On Tuesday (Aug.

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Menlo Ventures Closes New Early Stage $450M Fund

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Menlo Ventures , the Silicon Valley venture capital firm, closed a new $450 million venture capital fund aimed at investing in early stage companies focused in the consumer, enterprise and so-called frontier technologies markets. The move is designed to put the VCs closer to where the action is.