Leading today's briefing is news that Urban Company, a tech-enabled home services marketplace, plans to go public in the next 18-24 months after it announced a fresh $255 million funding round Wednesday. Also in the programme, Clubhouse hires FB's Aarthi Ramamurthy; Locus raises $50 million; and Probir Roy Chowdhury, a partner at the law firm J Sagar Associates, says cryptocurrency regulation in India will take time, but there is a groundswell of expectation that a ban won't happen