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Fast-growing livestream shopping platform Whatnot acquires Pastel Labs, hires VP of engineering

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Livestream shopping platform Whatnot has come a long way from being run out of a garage in Phoenix to now a 120-person company, valued at $1.5 Chang has now become Whatnot’s head of Growth, as a result of the all-stock deal that’s considered more of an “acqui-hire” as it doesn’t involve IP.

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‘How can you understand life if you don’t look at it live?’ — Eikon Therapeutics rakes in $518M

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Eikon Therapeutics, co-founded by Betzig, is a biopharmaceutical company with plans to use super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, the data collected by these high-powered microscopes and a host of other tools to develop new drugs. . On Thursday, the company announced a $517.8 million Series B round. Alfred Freddie Bowie, Jr.,