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“Yuno, the LatAm Fintech Phenomenon: Reaches $150M Valuation Thanks to Support from DST, Tiger, and a16z in Just 2 Years”

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A couple of years ago, payments orchestration was a foreign term to many large companies Juan Pablo Ortega would speak to. Today, Yuno has facilitated transactions in over 40 countries worldwide and is working with enterprise clients like McDonald’s, Rappi, Avianca and inDrive. The global payments orchestration market is forecasted to reach nearly $7 billion in value by 2032. Many of Yuno’s competitors focus on solving payment orchestration for small and medium businesses, and not many were building the infrastructure for large enterprises, Ortega says. That new round of capital gives Yuno a valuation of $150 million, Ortega said.

Miruku Secures Additional Funding for Successful Implementation of Plant-Based Dairy Technology

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While the food tech investment sector figured itself out last year, Miruku, a New Zealand-based food tech company, was busy getting ahead of molecular farming technology. Since the seed round, the company made advancements in its proprietary dairy seed system. Initially, Miruku focused on programming plants to produce dairy proteins that could be extracted from seeds. That approach has since expanded to leverage interactions between recombinant dairy casein and native plant proteins, with or without improved fatty acid profiles. It was led by Motion Capital and included seed round investor Movac and new investor NZVC.

“The Fourth Successful Launch of Firefly’s Alpha Rocket to Orbit”

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Firefly Aerospace sent its Alpha rocket to orbit this morning, with the company carrying a payload from Lockheed Martin to space. Today’s launch marks the fourth-ever flight of Firefly’s Alpha rocket. The rocket was carrying Lockheed’s demonstrator payload, called the Electronically Steerable Antenna (ESA) technology demonstrator, to low Earth orbit. From there, the Lockheed Martin payload should have been deployed. For that mission, Firefly had just 24 hours to complete final launch preparations, encapsulate the payload and mate it to the rocket.

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