It is Tuesday! Hope yours is off to a good start.:)

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Top News in the A.M.

Microsoft is holding a big hardware event right now. You can check out a live stream here.

Europe’s highest court just struck down an international agreement that could make it a lot harder for global technology giants like Amazon and Facebook to collect and mine online information from their millions of users in the 28-member European Union.

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A Survey on Diversity, of Lack of It, at Venture Firms

The Venture Capital industry is stuck in yesteryear – the same people, living the same lives and having the same experiences making largely the same decisions. This sameness may have been a strength but is now creating blind spots. For every idea we fund, how many great ideas don’t even get a sounding board because we can’t relate to the problem or the entrepreneur? How much better off would we be if we had a larger lens from which to take bets on a broader class of entrepreneurs and ideas? My suspicion is greatly.

So begins an op-ed by venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya about some research that his firm,Social + Capital, has just produced in concert with The Information on the state of diversity in venture capital.

You may think the results can’t possibly surprise you, given venture capital’s stubbornly persistent reputation as a bastion of largely white, privileged men who’ve attended top universities and gone on to land plum operating assignments or start their own venture-backed companies on their path to becoming VCs.

You’ll still be taken aback.

According to the organizations’ conclusions, fully 92 percent of senior investment team members at top venture firms are men, and 78 percent of them are white. More shockingly, fully 21 of the 71 most active U.S. venture firms – that’s 30 percent — employ only white “leaders,” as they’re called in the study.

Even compared with tech giants — many of which have been called out for terrible gender and diversity numbers — the venture firms look lousy in this rendering.

Take Microsoft, where just 17 percent of employees are women. That puts Microsoft behind Facebook, Amazon, and Apple, where 23 percent, 25 percent, and 28 percent of employees are women, respectively. Meanwhile, at venture firms, just 8 percent of senior VCs are women.

As for ethnicity, venture firms don’t score quite as terribly, as long as you’re willing to overlook that the 71 firms employ just four black people who happen to be men. (Given that 12 percent of the American population is African-American, you should not overlook this.)

Says Palihapitiya in his op-ed, “The bottom line is that the VC community is an increasingly predictable and lookalike bunch that just seems to follow each other around from one trivial idea to another.” To “fund the big ideas of our day,” he continues, “we need to improve the decision making — or change the decision makers within our industry.”

For a link to the diversity data collected from VCs; the rankings; and Palihapitiya’s full op-ed,click here.

To download an Excel file of all the data, click here.

If you want to complain to Palihapitiya about these findings, which, it should be noted, rank Social + Capital as the most diverse venture firm among those managing more than $1 billion in assets, you can find him here on Twitter.

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New Fundings

90min, a four-year-old, London-based contributor-driven football media platform (it relies largely on unpaid, volunteer writers), has raised $15 million in new funding from the German media group ProSiebenSat.1 Media, with participation from earlier backers Battery Ventures, Dawn Capital and Gemini Ventures. The company has now raised $39 million altogether. TechCrunch has more here.

Breakout Labs, the three-year-old, San Francisco-based program of Peter Thiel’s philanthropic organization, the Thiel Foundation, has announced funding for four new companies owing to their discoveries in biomedical, chemical engineering, and nanotechnology. You can see the list here.

Canva, a three-year-old, Sydney, Australia-based online design platform that makes creating quality professional graphics easier for non-technical users, has raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Felicis Ventures. The deal values the startup at $165 million. TechCrunch has more here.

Code42, the 14-year-old, Minneapolis-based developer of the Crashplan enterprise backup tool, has raised $85 million in new funding co-led by JMI Equity and New Enterprise Associates, with participation from earlier backers Accel Partners and Split Rock Partners. The company has now raised $137.5 million over two rounds. TechCrunch has more here.

EverCharge, a three-year-old, San Francisco-based smart electric vehicle charging company for multi-tenant properties, has raised $1.4 million in seed funding led by the hardware-focused venture fund Bolt. More here.

ezCater, an eight-year-old, Boston-based online marketplace for business catering, has raised $28 million in Series C funding led by Insight Venture Partners, with participation from earlier backers. The round brings ezCater’s total funding to $35 million. More here.

Flixel, a four-year-old, Toronto-based company that enables users to create cinemagraphs (a still photo with a portion of seamless and infinitely looping motion), has raised $2.2 million in seed funding led by Extreme Venture Partners, with Cranson Capital Securities and business angels also participating. TechCrunch has more here.

Frame.io, a 1.5-year-old, New York-based startup that improves the collaboration process around video production, has raised $2.2 million in seed funding led by Accel Partners. TechCrunch has more here.