London-based Sedna, a service that analyzes emails and chats to perform actions mentioned within them, raises $34M Series B led by Insight Partners (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
London-based Sedna, a service that analyzes emails and chats to perform actions mentioned within them, raises $34M Series B led by Insight Partners  —  Many have tried, but email refuses to die... although in the process it might be (figuratively speaking) killing some of us with the workload it brings on to triage and use it.

Tencent says it is temporarily suspending WeChat user registrations in China as it upgrades its systems to comply with new security regulations (Reuters)

Reuters:
Tencent says it is temporarily suspending WeChat user registrations in China as it upgrades its systems to comply with new security regulations  —  Tencent's (0700.HK) WeChat has temporarily suspended registration of new users in mainland China as it undergoes a technical upgrade …

Indonesia-based grocery delivery app HappyFresh raises $65M Series D led by Naver Financial Corporation and Gafina B.V. (Catherine Shu/TechCrunch)

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
Indonesia-based grocery delivery app HappyFresh raises $65M Series D led by Naver Financial Corporation and Gafina B.V.  —  HappyFresh, the on-demand grocery app based in Indonesia, announced today it has raised a $65 million Series D. The round was led by Naver Financial Corporation and Gafina B.V. …

FCC challenges a bid won by SpaceX for $886M in rural broadband subsidies, concerned some of the spending may be wasteful, duplicative, or headed for other uses (Todd Shields/Bloomberg)

Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
FCC challenges a bid won by SpaceX for $886M in rural broadband subsidies, concerned some of the spending may be wasteful, duplicative, or headed for other uses  —  - Company is among 197 winning bidders to get letters from FCC  — Agency says it's cleaning up results from auction last year

South Africa-based Yoco, which offers offline and online payment solutions for SMEs, raises $83M Series C led by Dragoneer, bringing total raised to $107M (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)

Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch:
South Africa-based Yoco, which offers offline and online payment solutions for SMEs, raises $83M Series C led by Dragoneer, bringing total raised to $107M  —  Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) contribute heavily to the economic success of many countries, particularly those in the developing world.

Element, a messaging app built on top of decentralized protocol Matrix, raises $30M Series B from Protocol Labs and others, bringing total raised to $48M (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Element, a messaging app built on top of decentralized protocol Matrix, raises $30M Series B from Protocol Labs and others, bringing total raised to $48M  —  All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now.  Watch now.  —  Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey!