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Here's your daily crunch. Another startup is taking on Google.

While we await the launch of Niva's subscription search alternative,

a company called Brave has put its own search offering

into the market.

The short gist is that it's a non-tracking search engine built on top of an independent

index and touted as a privacy-safe alternative to surveillance tech products like Google Search.

Now let's see what's going on in the world of startups.

Dutch startup Mali is now worth $6.5 billion dollars after raising nearly 1 billion dollars in a single round.

The startup provides a way for businesses to integrate payments into sites, documents, and other services by way of an API.

Oyster is now a half unicorn.

That's what we learned when the startup focused on supporting employees outside of the company's

home country raised a $50 million series B that valued it at nearly $500 million.

Choosing software is a big deal for a company and it can be tricky to choose what software to leverage.

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