Barcelona-based Seqera Labs, which provides data orchestration and workflow software for life sciences, has raised a €22M Series A led by Lee Fixel’s Addition (Dan Taylor/Tech.eu)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Milan-based Satispay, an independent payments network that bypasses banks and credit card companies, raised a €320M Series D led by Addition at a €1B+ valuation  —  More signs that the economy is slowing down in Europe, and that costs are going up, are driving merchants and consumers …

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.

Mike Truppa / The Block:
Matter Labs, which develops the Ethereum scaling protocol zkSync, raised a $200M Series C led by Blockchain Capital and Dragonfly, bringing its funding to $458M  —  – Matter Labs has raised $200 million in a Series C round led by Blockchain Capital and Dragonfly.

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Munich-based Holidu, which runs a search engine and booking website for vacation rentals, raised a €104M Series E led by 83North, with €75M equity and €25M debt  —  Munich-based software and services vacation rental startup, Holidu, has topped up its coffers …

Reuters:
South Korea’s privacy regulator fines Google $50M and Meta $22M for failing to obtain users’ consent when collecting behavioral information to show custom ads  —  South Korea levied fines running into millions of dollars on Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google and Meta Platforms (META.O) …

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 …