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Oceans may cover more than 70% of the Earth’s surface, but we have better maps of the moon than we do the seabed. There are good reasons for that: The ocean floor is obscured, and the harsh environment makes it hard to send humans down to get a closer look. But as robots improve, we may finally get a clearer picture of the deep abyss. 

There are a number of startups racing to map the ocean in greater detail, but the latest to snag fresh funding is Bedrock Ocean, which recently closed a $25 million Series A-2 round led by Primary and Northzone,…

Linear, an enterprise software maker that competes with many of Atlassian’s products, on Tuesday announced that it raised $82 million in a Series C funding round led by Accel.

The round, which also had participation from 01A, Sequoia, Seven Seven Six, and Designer Fund, values Linear at $1.25 billion and brings the company’s total raised to $134.2 million, according to Crunchbase.

Linear, based in San Francisco, builds products designed to help developers triage software bugs and feature requests, manage product development, and tap AI…