U.S. President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging tariff hikes are already resulting in rel=”nofollow” href=”https://news.sky.com/story/tariffs-to-blame-for-slowed-global-economic-growth-oecd-says-13330768″>growth forecasts being cut amid an rel=”nofollow” href=”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/trump-tariffs-recession-poll”>uncertain public mood — all of which will inevitably impact the technology sector, too. On Tuesday, however, one food e-commerce startup, GrubMarket, seemed impervious to these macroeconomic concerns: it announced a new equity round of $50 million on a raised valuation of over $3.5 billion — underscoring how some tech businesses are not slowing down their expansion plans despite the high level noise.
The funding round — a…

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