Bezos, Benioff invest in Seattle real estate startup Arrived

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More startup funding news: - [Super.AI raises $12M:]( The data process automation startup, led by veterans of MIT, AWS, Google, Microsoft, and SAP, helps companies automate tasks using artificial intelligence. - [Candidate raises $4M:]( The Seattle startup, which launched out of beta, pays people between $2,400 and $6,000 for referring friends and peers for open job positions. Prime Day preview: With Amazon's big sales event coming up next week, the lingering impact of the pandemic is complicating the event and raising the stakes for Amazon and its partners. It’s also creating some new wrinkles for deal-hunters. On a new episode of Day 2, GeekWire’s podcast about everything Amazon, [we go behind the scenes of Prime Day with two e-commerce vets](. New limits on food delivery services: The Seattle City Council voted to require third-party services such as DoorDash and Uber Eats to have agreements with restaurants before allowing their users to order food for takeout. The move comes after restaurants complained that delivery services were posting their menus online without permission and then picked up and delivered the food with little effort at quality control. [Read more](. Amazon giving $100M for Seattle-area housing: The tech giant’s commitment is part of its $2 billion Housing Equity Fund and this time it’s [partnering with Sound Transit to help create up to 1,200 affordable housing units]( on the agency’s surplus properties near light rail stations. Return of the ‘murder hornet’? Less than a year after the Washington State Department of Agriculture located and eradicated a dangerous nest of Asian giant hornets in the northwestern part of the state, [entomologists have confirmed the first report of one of the insects]( for 2021. But the dead specimen’s origin is puzzling to scientists. Thanks for reading, and have a great day. — GeekWire managing editor Taylor Soper, taylor@geekwire.com, GeekWire reporter Kurt Schlosser, kurt@geekwire.com. 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