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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!

As we all begin attending holiday parties, here鈥檚 a not so subtle reminder that your tipped-over champagne glass and dropped hors d’oeuvres don鈥檛 clean themselves. Someone has to pick it up, so be mindful while you鈥檙e celebrating.

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Now let鈥檚 get festive with a company we covered this week that wants you to swap that whole milk in your peppermint latte with some DNA-sequenced fungi. Perfect Day Foods, a Berkeley-based startup,聽raised $140 million for its dairy-free milk protein.

Other funding continued with Zeus,聽a corporate housing startup that got an investment from Airbnb聽among other founders. There was also Ride Home Media, which raised聽$1 million to build a podcast network, and聽a drone startup that netted $32 million. Bigger rounds included Charlotte-based聽Passport鈥檚 $65 million Series D, and聽Hometap鈥檚 $100 million to get a stake in customers鈥� homes. More on funding in聽Last Week in Venture.

From the M&A front,聽Apple bought Spectral Edge听补苍诲听Credit Karma bought Haven Money. And from the new fund side,聽Operator Collective raised its debut $45 million聽from over 100, well, operators. Meanwhile聽Piva closed a first fund at $250 million to focus on the energy industry.

Plus, Builders VC chatted with us to share聽how it invests in 鈥渘onsexy鈥� industries.

In the latest turn of events with the scooter industry saga, which we all thought (and I hoped), was over,聽we saw signs of consolidation within the once highly saturated market. And that reminds me, despite momentum, one report showed that聽investor confidence as a whole is down.

Finally, Bill.com may seem like a boring IPO compared to its controversial ride-hailing predecessors, but聽its debut on the public market was impressive.

To close on a more cheerful note than we began, I鈥檒l leave you with one of my favorite holiday drinks (and hacks) of all time: Trader Joes鈥櫬�. Thank me later.

Cheers,
Natasha

<em>Illustration: <a href=”https://www.behance.net/user/?username=DomGuzman”>Dom Guzman</a></em>