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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!

Boston is the city where I grew up journalistically. It鈥檚 where I learned the difference between a Seed investment and a Series A round (remember this for later), and where I landed my first real byline. For these reasons and聽, my return to Beantown was extra special () this week, and reminded me of two important things:

• Boston doesn鈥檛 want to be the next Silicon Valley. It just wants to be Boston, but known a little more within the venture and startup community as a hub for all things entrepreneurship
• 滨迟鈥檚听more than a home for biotech companies.

Those thoughts fell into stories, like a piece on one of the city鈥檚聽most valuable startups starting a lending program, or a data pull on how聽Boston has historically progressed in funding female founders.

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Speaking of important progress for underrepresented founders,聽Austin created a new network to help women in tech connect聽and lift each other up. And a final note on diversity on inclusion, our very own will be moderating panels in Finland next week,聽.

Jumping to our bread and butter, we covered everything from a startup working聽to make homebuyers鈥� lives easier聽to reports that a SoftBank-funded food delivery company聽may be eyeing a supergiant round at a $12.6 billion valuation.

Further outside the Bay Area,聽Austin鈥檚 LawnStarter raised $10.5 million in green聽the mowing startup doesn鈥檛 want to get rid of. And New York鈥檚 Hive, a work productivity startup, raised $10.5 million to聽not聽be a Slack clone.

We also stumbled upon some news from Toronto-based 1Password earlier this week. The password manager startup聽raised $200 million in a Series A from Accel, in its first funding in 14 years. Remember above when I nodded to Boston as the city where I learned the difference between a seed and Series A rounds? Toronto, as I noted above, is giving me a run for my — understanding of — money.

That鈥檚 all I got for you all this week. Now, I鈥檓 on to spending some time in Philly with聽聽and even greater people.

Cheers,
Natasha