Gm.  Wednesdays aren't real. They're a figment of our imagination.

FRESH POWDER

Looking at three funds that recently topped up their coffers. 

WORLD NEWS 

Vamos Argentina

Last Sunday was the World Cup final between Argentina and France, and it was the best damn soccer game this uncultured burger has ever seen. 

I’ll never get to see Jordan and Lebron play each other, but I imagine it’d look a lot like Messi vs Mbappe on Sunday. 

In honor of Argentina’s win, here’s the breakdown on five exciting Argentinian startups.

Tiendanude

• An e-commerce storefront for businesses.

• Provides businesses with a one-stop shop for everything they need to build an online store: design, product management, payment, marketing, and delivery. 

• Has raised $628.4 million in total funding, and is a Unicorn startup. 

Uala

• Fintech startup that allows you to manage all your finances from an app and a card.

• Allows users to make purchases, take out loans, make transfers, invest, and buy and sell crypto. 

• Has raised $544 million and is valued at $2.45 billion. 

Satellogic

• Provider of satellite-based real-time earth-imaging solutions.

• Makes data from space easily accessible so governments and enterprises can make better decisions on the ground.

• Has raised $373.8 million, and plans to have over 200 satellites in orbit by 2025. 

Mural

• Cloud-based whiteboard platform provider.

• Provides an interface where teams can collaborate in an intuitive, flexible, and inclusive space.

• Has raised $192.3 million, and is valued at more than $2 billion. 

Taranis

• Provider of analytical solutions for crop protection.

• Uses AI-driven insights and satellite imagery to analyze crop threats such as nutrient deficiency, detection of pests, and uneven emergence.

• Recently raised a $40 million Series D led by climate tech fund Inven Capital. 

Vamos, Vamos, Argentina!

— Stephen Flanders (@SteveFlanders22)

QUICK HITS

Seed Round

Stat: 57.5%: The percentage of people who voted for Elon to step down as Twitter CEO. It appears that he's more than down to oblige, as apparently he's been hunting for a replacement for a while now. 

Story We're Watching: Amazon has agreed to stop using non-public data on independent sellers for its retail business in Europe as part of its settlement in an antitrust investigation. Amazon avoids a potential $47 billion dollar fine by doing so, but it will be interesting to see how this affects their business in Europe. 

Rabbit hole: What China, Marvel, and Avatar Tell Us About the Future of Blockbuster Franchises (Matthew Ball)

WHAT ELSE IS GOING ON

• Crypto exchange Binance is buying the bankrupt crypto lender Voyager's assets for a smooth $1.022 billion. 

• FTX is nicely asking all politicians who received SBF's fraud money to please return it.

• Let us pour one out for all the startups we lost in 2022. Gone, but never forgotten.

• In the least surprising news of all time, Netflix's 'Basic with Ads' tier has been its least popular option through the first month of its existence.

THREE LIES AND A HEADLINE

News is so weird these days. Three of these headline are fake stories from The Onion while one is actually true. Can you spot the truth amongst the fakes?

A. Meryl Streep Dropped By Agent After Failing To Develop Massive TikTok Following

B. Elon Musk Receives Experimental Neuralink Implant

C. Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People

D. Are Mushrooms The Future Of Alternative Leather?

FOUNDERS CORNER

The best resources we came across that will help you become a better founder, builder, or investor.

💻 Comma AI founder George Hotz resigned from his Twitter internship. His reasoning is a lesson for all founders on how to keep 10x engineers on the payroll.

🔬 Check out the free SSRN Research Paper database. This is where I found the research papers that I wrote viral threads on.

🐦 See everyone posting Twitter screenshots on LinkedIn? There's an app for that.

THREE HEADLINES ANSWER

D.