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Keerthi Vedantam

Keerthi Vedantam is a reporter at 91精品 News covering venture investment in the life sciences, from biotech and medtech to health care and agriculture. She previously covered biotech and health at dot.LA and enterprise technology at Business Insider.

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Fintech & e-commerce

E-Commerce Company Boxed Files For Bankruptcy As Online Grocery Struggles

Keerthi Vedantam

April 3, 2023

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Job market • Layoffs

Analysis: Layoffs At Big Tech Companies, Brutal As They Are, Have Walked Back Only 8% Of Pandemic Growth聽

Keerthi Vedantam

April 3, 2023

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Agriculture & foodtech • Artificial intelligence • Robotics • Startups • Venture

VCs Plow Money Into Indoor Farming, But Open Fields Might Be More Ripe For Innovation

Keerthi Vedantam

March 31, 2023

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Agriculture & foodtech • Artificial intelligence

Greenlabs Nabs $38.4M As The Farming Sector Grapples With Climate Change

Keerthi Vedantam

March 30, 2023

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Cloud computing • Fintech & e-commerce • Media & entertainment tech • Transportation & Logistics

E-Commerce Giant Alibaba Will Become 6 Different Entities

Keerthi Vedantam

March 28, 2023

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Health, Wellness & Biotech • Startups • Venture

Why Do So Few Biotech Startups Want To Be The Next Big Pharma Company?

Keerthi Vedantam

March 24, 2023

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Retail and Direct To Consumer

Kream Raises $168M As Secondhand Retail Sees Its Best Funding Year Yet

Keerthi Vedantam

March 23, 2023

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Health, Wellness & Biotech • Venture

Flare Therapeutics Raises $123M To Update Drug Discovery Targets

Keerthi Vedantam

March 22, 2023

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Startups

eToro Hooks $250M After SPAC Deal Fails

Keerthi Vedantam

March 21, 2023

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Job market • Layoffs

With 9,000 New Cuts, Amazon Leads With Most Tech Layoffs

Keerthi Vedantam

March 20, 2023

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Agriculture & foodtech • AI Robotics • Artificial intelligence • Robotics

Here Are 3 Big Areas Where AI Is Cropping Up In Agtech

Keerthi Vedantam

March 17, 2023