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Oct. 23 — 👀 Exclusive: Period care startup August raising bridge round; 1 Big Meal: Orveon Global's Pascal Houdayer eyes skin care; and period care state of play. Read the newsletter

Oct. 24 — 👀 Exclusive: Attentive pushes IPO timing out; and Fit:Match.ai struck a partnership with The Marena Group. Read the newsletter

Oct. 25 — 👀 Exclusive: Zero Acre Farms prepping Series B; and the IPO window is shrinking. Read the newsletter

Oct. 26 — Neiman not rushing to the exit; and Mars Petcare wants to innovate veterinary service. Read the newsletter

Oct. 27 — Shein-ABG's licensing partnership. Read the story

1.  🛒 Retail 💰

Shoppers line up to shop on the opening day of a Shein pop-up store. Photo: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Oct. 23 — Fintech's seismic shift; and the focus of Money20/20. Read the newsletter

Oct. 24 — Stripe's CRO Eileen O'Mara (above) on her new role and AI; lawsuits could upend the real estate market; and charting Hay's supply. Read the newsletter 

Oct. 25 — A reckoning for sponsor banks; and CRA gets its first update since the 1990s. Read the newsletter

Oct. 26 — 👀 Exclusive: Upfort raises $8m for cyber insurance; and Plaid's open banking response. Read the newsletter

Oct. 27 — SBF's bad afternoon in court. Read the story

2. 💸 Fintech 🧑‍💻

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Photo Illustration: Tiffany Herring/Axios; Photo: Courtesy of Stripe

Oct. 23 — Big names eye commercial nuclear fusion; Chevron buys Hess; and Li-Cycle is pausing construction of a giant production plant. Read the newsletter

Oct. 24 — 👀 Exclusive: Rhizome, which makes software to help utilities navigate climate risks, raised $2.5m; Eden Geopower raised $12m for more sustainable drilling and mining; and unlocking solar minigrids. Read the newsletter

Oct. 25 — 👀 Exclusive: Series B for forklift batteries; $3.6m seed round to fight wildfires with jet engines; and Saudi Arabia is enticing climate tech startups. Read the newsletter

Oct. 26 — 👀 Exclusive: Flexcharging is raising $8m; Faction raised $6m; a long road for new grid batteries; Geothermal energy startup Eavor raised C$182m; and battery grid state of play. Read the newsletter

Oct. 27 — Chante Harris (pictured above) on clearing climate tech bottlenecks. Read the story

3. 🌎 Climate Tech 🌈

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Photo illustration: Gabriella Turrisi/Axios. Photo: Courtesy of Chante Harris

Oct. 23 — 🚨 Scoop: Jezebel is up for sale; and 👀 Exclusive: Digital marketing agency Mod Op has acquired New York-based public relations firm Crenshaw Communications. Read the newsletter

Oct. 24 — Local sports watching is undergoing a massive shift; Hispanic media company Sonoro raised $12.5m in venture funding; and charting NBA viewership. Read the newsletter

Oct. 25 — 1 big meal goes inside the LBG Media-Betches deal (above); and Neon Machine raised $20m in a Series A round that will help the launch of its blockchain-based first-person shooter game. Read the newsletter

Oct. 26 — Endeavor's run as a public company could be over in less than three years; and Her Campus Media acquired Gen Z influencer marketing platform Zfluence. Read the newsletter

4. 📺 Media 🎦

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Photo illustration: Axios Visuals. Photos: Courtesy of LBG Media and Laura Valencia/Betches Media.

Oct. 23 — 👀 Exclusive: Greater Good Health raised a $20m Series A to build its first clinics; and AMN Healthcare acquired staffing business MSDR for $300m. Read the newsletter

Oct. 24 — 👀 Exclusive: PhaseV, a Tel Aviv-based company that uses machine learning to optimize clinical trial design, raised $15m; and OrbiMed raises $4.3B across three funds. Read the newsletter

Oct. 25 — 👀 Exclusive: RadiantGraph raised a $5m seed; and 👀 Exclusive: Elder care hardware and software provider Sage raised $15m in Series A funding. Read the newsletter

Oct. 26 — The risky bet of a General Catalyst Hospital; and digital funding is at 2016 levels. Read the newsletter

5. 💊 Health Tech 💉

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Some weeks have themes — this one doesn't, but they all made me think. Enjoy!

How Anduril Is Fueling VC's Push Into Defense Tech (The Information)

The fight against deepfakes expands to hardware (Axios)

The Internet Cheapened News. AI Will Do the Opposite. (Bloomberg)

A poison pill to force AI developers to license online art (Axios)

Twitter alumni grade Elon's first year (Fast Company)

Warning signs for the U.S. health system are piling up (Axios)

Jarring visual journalism on SAT inequality (New York Times)

Lagging addiction treatment for kids (Axios)

One Year On, Twitter Continues to Burn a Hole Through Bank Balance Sheets (The Wall Street Journal)

The secret experiment behind the Expensify Lounge (Expensify blog)

6. Weekend reading: Worthy of your time

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Javier David, Axios' managing editor of business and markets, provides this classic lighthouse shot from Aquinnah, Martha's Vineyard. 

7. Postcard from Martha's Vineyard

Welcome back to Pro Deals Weekly Digest, where I catch you up quickly on the deals news of the week, offer a selection of weekend reading, and send you on your way.

💻 Miss the Axios BFD in New York this month? We've got the interviews and all our coverage in one easy place. 

🎵 Thanks for reading, but before you go, enjoy this classic Rush tune.

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October 28, 2023

1. 🛒 Retail 💰