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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!

Fall in San Francisco looks like聽,听coffee-robot tension,听,听cannabis funding, and聽esports. Last fall, while I was still in Boston, I would鈥檝e said that this month felt like meeting old friends,听, and the leaves actually changing colors.

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Adjustment aside, let鈥檚 get into the latest headlines with an IPO update. In this week鈥檚 line up, we had debuts from聽Datadog听补苍诲听Ping Identity,听funding for Postmates, and a聽set-the-record-straight moment from Airbnb听(补苍诲听WeWork).

Then there鈥檚 the still-private, but equally big companies. A Brazilian online home goods platform,听MadeiraMadeira, raised $110 million; payments company聽Stripe raised $250 million; and WordPress owner聽Automattic landed $300 million.

We also covered two industries that have been traditionally slow to adopting new technologies but seem to be coming around. Fieldwire, which has developed a聽cloud-based task management tool aimed at those working in the construction field, raised $33.5 million. And Biproxi, which aims to be the聽鈥淶illow of commercial real estate,鈥�聽brought in $10 million in a seed round.

Through scouring filings, we also got a look at the latest venture funds. Deep-tech investor DCVC聽landed $725 million for Fund V; March Capital Partners is聽eyeing $410 million for Fund III; Revolution Ventures聽closed $215 million for its third fund, and Precursor Ventures is聽raising $10 million for an opportunity fund. As part of the Seed Series, Gen茅 Teare interviewed聽#Angels on its investment taste buds. Mary Ann also looked into聽Goldman Sachs鈥� startup investing spree.

Finally, here are some big topics in the late-stage and public markets you should understand: a theory behind聽Slack鈥檚 market repricing,听the trend of supergiant seed rounds, and why, if you care about Andreessen Horowitz,听you should probably care about the J-Curve.

After all of this, I guess one thing has stayed the same between the move from Boston to San Francisco: September will always be a little nerdy after all.

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