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Honeycomb Insurance grabs $36M Series B from solo VC-led Zeev Ventures
8 mei 2024 · 5 min
When Itai Ben-Zaken’s first startup failed in 2018, the former BCG consultant and Wharton MBA spent months trying to understand what he could have done differently during the five years he ran the company.
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Dropbox, Figma CEOs back Lamini, a startup building a generative AI platform for enterprises
7 mei 2024 · 8 min
Lamini, a new startup with funding from Andrew Ng, has emerged from stealth with a generative AI platform aimed at enterprises.
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Iconiq raises $5.15B toward seventh flagship fund
7 mei 2024 · 3 min
Iconiq Capital has raised $5.15 billion across two funds associated with the seventh growth fund family, according to SEC filings.
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Hubble Network makes Bluetooth connection with a satellite for the first time
6 mei 2024 · 4 min
Hubble Network has become the first company in history to establish a Bluetooth connection directly to a satellite — a critical technology validation for the company, potentially opening the door to connecting millions more devices anywhere in the world.
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Freshworks acquires Device42 for $230M, appoints Dennis Woodside new CEO
6 mei 2024 · 4 min
Freshworks, the publicly listed SaaS firm, is acquiring U.S.-based startup Device42 for $230 million, the company disclosed in an SEC filing.
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Digital fraud detection startup BioCatch hits $1.3B valuation as Permira buys majority stake
3 mei 2024 · 4 min
Digital fraud detection company BioCatch has a new majority shareholder in the form of U.K private equity firm Permira.
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ButcherBox acquires ‘Shark Tank’-featured startup Truffle Shuffle
3 mei 2024 · 5 min
Butcherbox is known for grinding its way forward, bootstrapping to more than $600,000 worth of revenue.
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Midi is building a digital platform for an oft-overlooked area of women’s health
2 mei 2024 · 5 min
When Joanna Strober was around 47 she stopped sleeping. While losing sleep is a common symptom of perimenopause, she first had to go to multiple providers, including driving 45 minutes out of San Francisco to pay $750 out of pocket, to get that diagnosis and proper treatment.
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Chicago-based Hyde Park Venture Partners closes $98M Fund IV with two investments made so far
2 mei 2024 · 6 min
Hyde Park Venture Partners is known for having visibility into more than 90% of mid-continent startups and being early backers of companies like ShipBob, FourKites, G2, LogicGate and Dentologie.
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neuroClues wants to put high speed eye tracking tech in the doctor’s office
1 mei 2024 · 7 min
The eyes aren’t just a window into the soul; tracking saccades can help doctors pick up a range of brain health issues.
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Carbonfact is a carbon management platform designed specifically for the fashion industry
1 mei 2024 · 5 min
French startup Carbonfact believes that the best carbon accounting solutions will focus on one vertical.
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Ex-NSA hacker and ex-Apple researcher launch startup to protect Apple devices
30 april 2024 · 5 min
Two veteran security experts are launching a startup that aims to help other makers of cybersecurity products to up their game in protecting Apple devices.
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Ethiopian plastic upcycling startup Kubik gets fresh funding, plans to license out its tech
30 april 2024 · 4 min
Kubik, a plastic upcycling startup, has raised a $1.9 million seed extension, months after announcing initial equity investment.
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Zomato’s quick commerce unit Blinkit eclipses core food business in value, says Goldman Sachs
29 april 2024 · 4 min
Goldman Sachs said in a report late Thursday that Indian food delivery giant Zomato’s quick commerce arm Blinkit is now more valuable than its core food delivery business, as per the bank’s sum-of-the-parts analysis.
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The FTC’s ban on noncompete clauses could be good for startups. But it also might be struck down.
29 april 2024 · 5 min
The Federal Trade Commission voted 3-2 to ban the use of most noncompete agreements on Tuesday.
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Playruo lets you try game demos from your web browser
26 april 2024 · 6 min
It’s still unclear whether cloud gaming will ever become the next big thing.
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Edonia grabs €2M to turn microalgae into less bitter-tasting ground meat alternative
26 april 2024 · 5 min
The company produces plant-based ingredients from raw microalgae biomass, generated from spirulina or chlorella, that it claims is more nutritious than meat.
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Madica, a program by Flourish Ventures, steps up pre-seed investing in Africa
25 april 2024 · 4 min
Madica, an investment program launched by US-based investor Flourish Ventures to back pre-seed startups in Africa, plans to invest in up to 10 ventures by the end of the year, ramping up its funding efforts after closing three initial three deals.
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Parloa, a conversational AI platform for customer service, raises $66M
25 april 2024 · 4 min
Conversational AI platform Parloa has nabbed $66 million in a Series B round of funding, a year after the German startup raised $21 million from a swathe of European investors to propel its international growth.
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Campus, a community college startup, receives $23M Series A extension led by Founders Fund
24 april 2024 · 5 min
Although many students in the United States enter community colleges intending to transfer to four-year universities, only 16% of those students receive bachelor’s degrees within six years
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Two widow founders launch DayNew, a social platform for people dealing with grief and trauma
24 april 2024 · 6 min
After losing their husbands in devastating and unexpected ways, Karine Nissim and Eloise Bune D’Agostino discovered there were no suitable places where people could go to face all the challenges that surface during the grieving process
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Webflow acquires Intellimize to add AI-powered webpage personalization
23 april 2024 · 4 min
Webflow, a web design and hosting platform that’s raised over $330 million at a $4 billion valuation, is expanding into a new sector: marketing optimization.
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Ecosia launches a cross-platform browser, starts an affiliate link program
23 april 2024 · 4 min
Tree planting search engine Ecosia launched a new cross-platform browser today to increase its online footprint.
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Langdock raises $3M with General Catalyst to help companies avoid vendor lock-in with LLMs
22 april 2024 · 3 min
Plenty of large corporations want to join the AI revolution, but many feel it’s too early to be locked into one foundational model.
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Magnus Metal wants to revamp the 4,000-year-old way metal parts are made
22 april 2024 · 4 min
The startup is developing a technology it claims is as fast and energy efficient as 3D printing at a cost that can compete with sand casting.
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Fintech startup Mercury, which is under regulatory scrutiny, expands into consumer banking
19 april 2024 · 7 min
Business banking startup Mercury, founded in 2020, is now launching a consumer banking product.
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Dark Space is building a rocket-powered boxing glove to push debris out of orbit
19 april 2024 · 5 min
Paris-based Dark Space is taking on the dual problems of debris and conflict in orbit with their mobile platform designed to launch, attach to, and ultimately deorbit uncooperative objects in space.
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Vorlon is trying to stop the next big API breach
18 april 2024 · 4 min
Application programming interfaces, or APIs as they’re commonly known, are the bedrock of everything we do online.
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GovDash aims to help businesses use AI to land government contracts
18 april 2024 · 5 min
Tim Goltser and Curtis Mason have been building things together since high school, when the two were the co-captains of their school’s robotics team.
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Finmid raises $24.7M to help SMBs access loans through platforms like Wolt
17 april 2024 · 5 min
finmid is building an embedded finance product that targets that relationship between marketplaces and sellers, and raised a Series A round to further build out its product and enter new markets.
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Quilt rides heat pump heat wave with hefty $33M Series A
17 april 2024 · 5 min
Quilt promises its heat pump will be a sleeker design that can be installed in more places around a room than competitors’ offerings.
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Lawhive raises $12M to expand its legaltech AI platform for small firms
16 april 2024 · 5 min
UK-based legaltech company Lawhive, which offers an AI-based in-house ‘lawyer’ through a software-as-a-service platform targeted at small law firms, has raised £9.5 million ($11.9M) in a seed round to expand the reach of AI-driven services for ‘main street’ law firms.
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Paraform raises $3.6M seed round to connect startups with recruiter networks
16 april 2024 · 4 min
Layoffs usually drive attention and sympathy towards affected employees, but rarely does anyone talk about what happens to the recruiters who are sometimes also asked to leave when companies decide to cut headcount.
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India’s Exponent Energy brings 15-minute charging to passenger three-wheelers
15 april 2024 · 7 min
India is getting an electric three-wheeler passenger vehicle that charges from 0 to 100% in 15 minutes.
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CleanFiber wants to turn millions of tons of cardboard boxes into insulation
15 april 2024 · 4 min
The startup has raised $28 million to help fund a nationwide expansion of its cardboard-based cellulose building insulation.
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Simbian brings AI to existing security tools
12 april 2024 · 6 min
Simbian is a cybersecurity platform that effectively controls other cybersecurity platforms as well as security apps and tooling.
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Voltpost wants to bring curbside charging to a lamppost near you
12 april 2024 · 3 min
The New York City-based startup has been working on a product that retrofits existing street lampposts to enable EV charging.
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Cambium is building a recycled wood supply chain
11 april 2024 · 3 min
The global demand for wood could grow by 54% between 2010 and 2050, according to a study by the World Resources Institute.
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Guesty snaps up $130M at $900M valuation to help property managers list on Airbnb and beyond
11 april 2024 · 5 min
Travel and tourism are very much back on the map for consumers and the business world.
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Multiverse, the apprenticeship unicorn, acquires Searchlight to put a focus on AI
10 april 2024 · 6 min
Multiverse, the U.K. unicorn that builds apprenticeship programs for people to learn technology skills while on the job, has made an acquisition as it aims to skill up itself.
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Sprinto raises $20M to bring automation to security compliance management
10 april 2024 · 5 min
Sprinto, a startup offering a security compliance and risk platform, has raised $20 million in new investment led by Accel.
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Coalesce raises more cash to transform data for Snowflake customers
9 april 2024 · 6 min
Coalesce offers a platform that standardizes data while automating the more repetitive, mundane data transformation processes.
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DataStax acquires the startup behind low-code AI builder Langflow
9 april 2024 · 4 min
DataStax made a name for itself by commercializing the open source Apache Cassandra NoSQL database, but these days, the company’s focus is squarely on using its database chops to build a “one-stop GenAI stack.”
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Belgian computer vision startup Robovision eyes U.S. expansion to address labor shortages
8 april 2024 · 6 min
Robovision has raised $42M to industrialize deep learning tools and make them more accessible to businesses that are not tech companies at their core.
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Varda Space’s orbital drug factory success fuels $90M in new funding
8 april 2024 · 6 min
Varda Space Industries has closed a massive tranche of funding just weeks after its first drug manufacturing capsule returned from orbit.
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Retro, an actually good photo-sharing app for BFFs, launches collaborative journals
6 april 2024 · 5 min
As big social apps are optimizing for maximum engagement using algorithmic feeds and personalized content recommendations, Retro wants to go in the opposite direction.
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Jobs for the Future’s new $50M fund looks to invest in underrepresented founders
5 april 2024 · 6 min
Two years ago, Jobs for the Future, a non-profit dedicated to helping low-wage workers attain upward mobility, established a venture arm, JFFVentures, to back innovative employment tech.
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Hailo lands $120 million to keep battling Nvidia as most AI chip startups struggle
4 april 2024 · 6 min
The funding climate for AI chip startups, once as sunny as a mid-July day, is beginning to cloud over as Nvidia asserts its dominance.
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Full Glass Wine raises $14M to continue acquiring DTC wine marketplaces, buys Bright Cellars
4 april 2024 · 5 min
Full Glass Wine, a brand acquisition management startup that specializes in acquiring wine marketplaces, has raised $14 million in a Series A round.
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Modal raises $25M to train corporate workers on data and AI
3 april 2024 · 4 min
A few years ago, Darren Shimkus, ex-president of Udemy, had a conversation with Dennis Yang about skills building.
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