Reach Power, which is developing products to wirelessly transmit electricity to power IoT and other devices, raised a $30M Series B led by DCVC (Jane Lanhee Lee/Reuters)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
MotherDuck, which plans to commercialize its lightweight database DuckDB, raised $47.5M across a seed and Series A led by Redpoint and a16z, respectively  —  Jordan Tigani — a founding engineer at Google BigQuery, Google’s fully managed data analysis platform — was working as the chief product officer …

Ellen Huet / Bloomberg:
How angel investing became a pastime and a way of socializing in Silicon Valley, with investors betting small amounts in friends’ startups  —  Maia Bittner is an angel investor, and she has a lot of friends who’ve founded startups.  Sometimes they ask her if she wants to put money into their companies.

Jane Lanhee Lee / Reuters:
Nvidia is offering Chinese customers the A800 GPU, which it says meets US export control rules, as an alternative to its A100 chip that the US banned for export  —  U.S. chip maker Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) said on Monday it is offering a new advanced chip in China that meets recent export control rules aimed …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Netherlands-based Axelera AI, which is developing AI acceleration cards, systems, and software, raised a $27M Series A led by Innovation Industries  —  Several years ago, Fabrizio Del Maffeo and a core team from Imec, a Belgium-based nanotechnology lab, teamed up with Evangelos Eleftheriou …

Nancy Scola / Politico:
A Q&A with CA Rep. Ro Khanna about Elon Musk, being mentioned in the “Twitter Files”, passing antitrust and privacy laws, cryptocurrencies, FTX, and more  —  A longtime creature of the tech world, it’s perhaps not surprising that Rep. Ro Khanna makes an appearance in the latest Silicon Valley scandal.

Nancy Scola / Politico:
A Q&A with CA Rep. Ro Khanna about Elon Musk, being mentioned in the “Twitter Files”, passing antitrust and privacy laws, cryptocurrencies, FTX, and more  —  A longtime creature of the tech world, it’s perhaps not surprising that Rep. Ro Khanna makes an appearance in the latest Silicon Valley scandal.