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Splashtop, a remote access and support service for businesses, raises $50M led by Sapphire Ventures at a $1B valuation (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

Dating Group, which says it has 73M registered users, acquires Once, a Swiss-based app which leverages AI to provide one match per day to each user, for €14.9M (Charlotte Tucker/EU-Startups)

SEC filing: Figure, which uses blockchain to provide loans and is led by Mike Cagney, ex-CEO of SoFi, plans to raise $250M via a SPAC (Adam Tempkin/Bloomberg)

UK-based quantum cryptography startup PQShield, spun out from Oxford’s research labs, raises a $20M Series A led by Addition (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Swiggy plans to acquire Dineout, a dining out table reservations and events service backed by Times Internet, a source says for $200M in an all-equity deal (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Speaking on Clubhouse, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said his team monitors “Daily Active Shitheads” to make sure Reddit communities don’t spiral out of control (Alex Sherman/CNBC)

Proton.ai, which offers AI-powered tools for wholesale distributors to help sales reps and customers manage products across channels, raises a $20M Series A (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

DeFi Llama: the total value locked across DeFi protocols has dropped to ~$112B, down from ~$195B before UST and LUNA collapsed, amid a broader decline in crypto (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Over Christmas holiday, Apptopia says HBO Max had ~554K app signups; Sensor Tower says Disney+ had ~2.3M global app installations, up 28% from prior weekend (Christopher Palmeri/Bloomberg)

Dagger, a new DevOps service co-founded by Docker’s Solomon Hykes, launches in public beta and announces a $20M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Skate Park ‘Karen’ Arrested for Assault After Altercation with Teens

Lithuania-based kevin., which offers card-less account-to-account payments, raises a $65M Series A led by Accel and says 6K merchants in Europe already use it (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)