💻 Bye-bye, brokers: LP-led secondaries deals have traditionally been brokered by, well, a broker. But that system is opaque and restrictive for smaller LPs who can't pay lofty broker fees. Palico's new online platform wants to make these deals open and transparent for all. Read more
🍼 Care conundrum: Today the FTC told Care.com that it has to pay $8.5 million in refunds for deceptive practices that made it difficult for users to cancel their members and for misleading potential applicants. Considering that child care and eldercare are industries built on trust, yikes. Read more
🗺️ New features at Niantic: Niantic, the company known best for its Pokémon GO game, is releasing an update for its Scaniverse app. The new updates will allow users to take higher-quality scans of the world around them, which will help Niantic with its quest for building a virtual map of the world. Read more
🤑 How do you do, fellow kids? Investing in free apps is out. Backing the care economy is in. Dominic-Madori Davis catches up with venture capital's youngest entrants to learn about what trends they are interested in at the moment and which ones they think are past their prime. Read more
🛴 Ghost ride: E-scooter company Beam Mobility has apparently been underreporting the number of shared scooters it has in cities in Australia and New Zealand to skirt paying higher registration fees to local governments. Read more
🗂️ Here's who is hiring: In today's market it feels like we hear more about companies looking to decrease headcount as opposed to expand. But many companies are of course still hiring. Mary Ann Azevedo takes a look at the fintech startups looking to build their teams. Read more
