Ontario-based Avidbots, which makes autonomous floor cleaning robots for commercial settings, raised a $70M Series C, bringing its total funding to $107M (Meagan Simpson/BetaKit)

Meagan Simpson / BetaKit:
NFT startup Dapper Labs, the company behind CryptoKitties, confirms it laid off ~134 employees or 22% of its workforce; Dapper Labs raised $600M to date  —  Vancouver tech startups Dapper and Hootsuite both made layoffs this week.  —  Dapper Labs has laid off around 22 percent of its staff, BetaKit has learned.

Josh Scott / BetaKit:
Calgary-based Attabotics, which makes warehouse automation robots, raised a $71.7M Series C-1 led by Export Development Canada, bringing total funding to $165M  —  With new robot built, Attabotics CEO says “the hard part’s done.”  —  Over the past six and a half years …

Charles Mandel / BetaKit:
Goldsky, a crypto infrastructure startup helping companies aggregate and process on-chain data, raised a $20M seed led by Felicis Ventures and Dragonfly Capital  —  Goldsky is living up to its lux name, announcing a $20 million seed round less than a year after the startup’s founding in 2021.

Brandy Betz / CoinDesk:
Blockchain intelligence startup TRM Labs raised a $70M Series B extension led by Thoma Bravo, bringing the round to $130M  —  Goldman Sachs, PayPal Ventures, Amex Ventures, and Citi Ventures also participated.  —  Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs has raised $70 million …

Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk:
Bankruptcy filing: Celsius says it expects ~$70M of “proceeds from the repayment of USD denominated loans”, which could help it operate through the end of 2022  —  The extra cash from loan repayments, previously believed to be in stablecoins, means a much needed boost for the cash-strapped lender.

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:
Internal email: autonomous delivery startup Nuro is laying off 300 people, or 20% of its workforce, to preserve cash, and says it has $1B on its balance sheet  —  Nuro, the autonomous vehicle delivery startup backed by Softbank, Google and Tiger Global Management, is laying off about 300 people …