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Two startups decline Web Summit funding after ex-CEO’s Israel remarks

Israeli startups Lasso Security and Ask-AI are trying to back out of deals to accept money from Web Summit’s venture capital arm, after the tech events company co-founder and then-CEO Paddy Cosgrave suggested Israel had committed war crimes in its retaliation to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack. (The Information)

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