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Bolt Threads is raising $106 million from Foundation Capital and Formation 8 Our spidey senses are tingling over here. According to an SEC filing, TechCrunch has learned Bolt Threads, the biotech company spinning microbes into spider silk, is raising a whopping $ 106 million in Series D financing. Bolt Threads has been on a meteoric rise since it first told TC about its ... Startups – TechCrunch

One of Europe’s biggest stock portfolios is overseen by someone who once declared finance his “enemy.”Number of companies in which France owns stakes1,800The French government has about 100 billion euros ($106 billion) of holdings in more than 1,800 public and private companies from EDF to Air France. The stakes have been amassed over almost a century of successive nationalizations in the name of protectionism, strategic interest or taxpayer profit.Elections will put a new boss at the head of these investments: reformist candidates Emmanuel Macron and Francois Fillon want to overhaul and prune the portfolio to spend cash elsewhere; iconoclasts Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Melenchon might end up enlarging it through populist takeovers. Sovereign Stock Market France held some €77 billion of… FULL STORY

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