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HSBC | January 18, 2017

HSBC has allegedly helped provide billions of pounds in funding for companies that destroy natural forests to make way for palm oil plantations - despite the bank promising to not finance deforestation....

Caavo | February 15, 2017

A startup called Caavo thinks it has a solution to the too-much-TV problem, with a device that brings together all the different streaming boxes and TV services you subscribe to. The company, which has raised $15 million in funding, provides a universal remote with voice control and a unified TV interface so users can search and discover all the TV content available to them....

Flipkart | February 22, 2017

Under the new leadership of Kalyan Krishnamurthy, who replaced Binny Bansal last month, Flipkart has approached investors in a new round of funding of up to $1.5 billion. Flipkart is in talks with Microsoft Corporation, eBay Inc., PayPal Holdings Inc, Google Capital and Chinese gaming and messaging company Tencent Holdings Ltd. In the previous round of funding, Flipkart raised $700 million, largely from existing investors Tiger Global Management and Qatar Investment Authority....

Virta | March 08, 2017

The company has so far pulled in $37 million in funding from VC firms Venrock, Allen & Company, Ev Williams’ Obvious Ventures, Redmile Group, and PayPal and Affirm founder Max Levchin’s Scifi VC to study new treatment options that could reverse the disorder....