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Welcome to the聽SA国际传媒 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 on聽immigration and how it impacts the Valley鈥檚 workforce聽has 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 I鈥檓 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 your聽non-WeWork fruit water聽and let鈥檚 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 on聽Brex鈥檚 newest product听补苍诲听Impossible Meat鈥檚 鈥渟teak鈥� in the future.听聽also walked us through a聽nine-figure round scored by a scooter startup. It鈥檚 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 Atlanta鈥檚聽rise听补苍诲听challenges聽as a startup hub, how聽Nebraska is turning into a Silicon Prairie, and how聽Taiwan is manufacturing the next wave of entrepreneurs.

Moving into some healthy funding rounds, a聽Tokyo-based startup raised $42.9 million聽to diagnose gastric cancer early and聽a fertility product startup raised $5 million聽in a seed round. Of course, there鈥檚 more in聽Last Week In Venture.

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

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

As always, thank you for reading,

Natasha

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