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Welcome to the蹤獲弝け News Weekend Update. An email form of this post went out Saturday morning. Happy reading!

While journalists strive for objectivity, oftentimes the subjective sits in between the lines of the stories we pursue, the voices we elevate, and the noise we clarify. For me, my most recent story onimmigration and how it impacts the Valleys workforcehas a close-to-home undertone: both of my parents left India to come to the United States.

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This kind of perspective might make journalism professors cringe, but Im firmly in the camp that the stories we care about are the stories that we tell the best.

More of this in our mini Podcast series, , but after that, grab yournon-WeWork fruit waterand lets look at what else has happened in venture capital.

A handful of the news team was at TechCrunch Disrupt, a startup conference, for the week, giving us information onBrexs newest product泭硃紳餃泭Impossible Meats steak in the future.泭also walked us through anine-figure round scored by a scooter startup. Its been a while, we know.

Putzing around the conference reminded me about how much is truly happening outside the Valley. And our coverage matched. This week, we got into Atlantasrise泭硃紳餃泭challengesas a startup hub, howNebraska is turning into a Silicon Prairie, and howTaiwan is manufacturing the next wave of entrepreneurs.

Moving into some healthy funding rounds, aTokyo-based startup raised $42.9 millionto diagnose gastric cancer early anda fertility product startup raised $5 millionin a seed round. Of course, theres more inLast Week In Venture.

From the fund side, we covered howBrazil-based ONEVC closed a $38 million fundto invest across the border, and howSoftBank has dealt in tenth of worldwide VC dollar volume so far in 2019.

Also, to address the elephant in the coworking space:WeWork officially pulled its IPO. Check outour timeline of the implosion.

As always, thank you for reading,

Natasha

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