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  1. Equals secures $15M investment to supercharge spreadsheets

    10 november 2022 · 4 min

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    Equals, a New York-based startup ambitiously aiming to challenge Excel’s dominance with a supercharged spreadsheet, today announced that it raised $16 million in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from Craft Ventures, Box Group, Worklife and Combine.
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  2. Kuda takes digital banking play to the U.K. with its remittance product

    10 november 2022 · 6 min

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    Kuda, the London-based and Nigerian-operating startup taking on incumbents in the country with a mobile-first and personalized set of banking services, is expanding to the U.K. by offering a remittance product to Nigerians in the diaspora.Â
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  3. Beekeeper, which helps companies engage with their ‘deskless’ frontline workforce, raises $50M

    9 november 2022 · 5 min

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    Beekeeper, a platform for businesses to engage with frontline workers, has raised $50 million in a Series C round of funding.
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  4. Eliyan raises $40M from Intel and Micron to build chiplet interconnects

    9 november 2022 · 5 min

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    Increasingly, as Moore’s law rears its ugly head, computer chip developers are adopting “chiplet” architectures to scale their hardware’s processing power.
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  5. Security automation startup Veriti launches out of stealth with $18.5M

    8 november 2022 · 5 min

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    Veriti, a platform for unifying cybersecurity infrastructure, today emerged from stealth with $18.5 million in funding, a combination of $12 million from Insight Partners and a $6.5 million round led by NFX and Amiti.
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  6. Twitter said to delay verification check mark rollout until after US midterm elections

    8 november 2022 · 4 min

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    Twitter is reportedly delaying the rollout of verification check marks to subscribers as the social network attempts to steer clear of possible impact to Tuesday’s midterm elections.
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  7. After 40 million app downloads, PhotoRoom raises $19 million

    7 november 2022 · 4 min

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    French startup PhotoRoom has raised a $19 million Series A funding round.
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  8. Sacca’s Lowercarbon doubles down on startup bringing solar modules to Indian rooftops

    7 november 2022 · 6 min

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    Chris Sacca’s Lowercarbon is doubling down on a startup that is racing to bring solar modules to rooftops in India.
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  9. Spend management startup Pleo lays off 15% of its workforce

    4 november 2022 · 4 min

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    Danish startup Pleo has announced that it plans to lay off around 15% of the company’s workforce.
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  10. Dropit picks up $25M to digitize brick-and-mortar stores and unify inventories

    4 november 2022 · 6 min

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    Dropit, a retail technology platform that bridges the digital divide by unifying merchants’ online and in-store inventories, has raised $25 million in a Series C round of funding.
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  11. Bump builds a central hub for all your APIs

    3 november 2022 · 4 min

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    Meet Bump, a French software-as-a-service startup that wants to help you maintain and use APIs across your organization.
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  12. Former Yext CEO launches Roam to provide a virtual HQ for distributed teams

    3 november 2022 · 6 min

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    Roam, which bills itself as a “cloud HQ” for distributed, remote companies, today emerged from stealth with $30 million in Series A funding led by IVP with participation from undisclosed angel investors.
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  13. Microsoft backs web3 game developer Wemade

    2 november 2022 · 4 min

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    Microsoft has backed Wemade, a popular video game developer that has made aggressive bets on blockchain in recent years, the latest sign of tech giants’ showing growing interest in web3.
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  14. Digital card and gifting platform Givingli nabs $10M

    2 november 2022 · 5 min

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    Three years ago, Ben and Nicole Green were planning their wedding and decided to go digital with registries to save on money and materials.
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  15. HR employee benefits platform Fringe raises $17M to offer customizable perks

    1 november 2022 · 5 min

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    Fringe, an HR tech startup enabling companies to offer customizable perks and benefits to employees, today announced that it raised $17 million in a funding round led by Origin Ventures and Felton Group.
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  16. Navina secures $22M to process and summarize medical data for clinicians

    1 november 2022 · 5 min

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    Navina, a company developing AI-powered assistant software for physicians, today announced that it raised $22 million in Series B funding led by ALIVE with participation from Grove Ventures, Vertex Ventures Israel and Schusterman Family Investments.
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  17. Twitter will be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange on November 8

    31 oktober 2022 · 4 min

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    Twitter’s stock will be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange and become a private company on November 8, according to a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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  18. Integration platform Cinchy lands fresh cash to connect data sources

    31 oktober 2022 · 6 min

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    Cinchy, a startup that provides a data management service for enterprise customers, today announced that it raised $14.5 million in Series B funding led by Forgepoint Capital with participation from IVP, SUV, Techstars and Mars.
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  19. Uber alum rakes in $9.7M to curb finance-related fights between co-parents

    28 oktober 2022 · 5 min

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    The daughter of divorced parents herself, Uber alum Jacklyn Rome founded Onward to help co-parents more easily manage their shared expenses.
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  20. Needl wants to become the search engine for your accounts

    28 oktober 2022 · 5 min

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    Google, DuckDuckGo, and other search engines help you find information from the web. But it’s hard to find documents, messages, meetings, and emails from your own accounts. You need to go to different applications to find things that might be related to one project.
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  21. Valence Security raises fresh capital to secure the SaaS app supply chain

    27 oktober 2022 · 6 min

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    Valence Security, a company securing business app infrastructure, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series A round led by M12, Microsoft’s corporate venture arm, with participation from YL Ventures, Porsche Ventures, Akamai Technologies, Alumni Ventures and former Symantec CEO Michael Fey.
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  22. Duolingo’s owl will now shout fractions at you

    27 oktober 2022 · 5 min

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    Duolingo is launching its math app to the public, and months after a beta version joined the app store.
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  23. WATI, a CRM tool built for WhatsApp, raises $23M led by Tiger Global

    26 oktober 2022 · 5 min

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    WhatsApp is used by more than two billion around the world, and is an important tool for many small businesses.
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  24. AI chip startup Axelera lands $27M in capital to commercialize its hardware

    26 oktober 2022 · 6 min

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    Several years ago, Fabrizio Del Maffeo and a core team from Imec, a Belgium-based nanotechnology lab, teamed up with Evangelos Eleftheriou and a group of researchers at IBM Zurich Lab to develop a computer chip.
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  25. Pantheon Design alleviates supply chain uncertainty with factory-grade 3D printing

    25 oktober 2022 · 4 min

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    In the midst of the pandemic, Pantheon Design, a maker of industrial 3D printers from Vancouver, BC, suddenly found itself getting orders from factories in the Midwest, the center of heavy industries.
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  26. Maro’s new app looks to help schools screen kids for depression and anxiety

    24 oktober 2022 · 4 min

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    Maro has developed a platform that helps families and schools navigate tough conversations about mental health.
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  27. Sensat raises $20.5M to build digital twins for infrastructure companies

    24 oktober 2022 · 4 min

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    Sensat, a platform that helps physical infrastructure companies map and visualize all their data, has raised $20.5 million in a Series B round of funding.
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  28. Handoff is creating a more equitable workforce through job sharing

    21 oktober 2022 · 4 min

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    Many qualified workers are failed by the current model of work in the United States, where jobs are either part-time or full-time.
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  29. Banyan raises $43M to grow its network of item-level purchase data

    21 oktober 2022 · 5 min

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    Banyan, a platform for product purchase data that allows customers such as banks, fintechs, hotels and merchants to automate expense management and more, today announced that it raised $43 million in a Series A funding round.
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  30. N26 adds crypto trading with new Bitpanda integration

    20 oktober 2022 · 4 min

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    Challenger bank N26 is launching a new trading feature in its app — N26 Crypto. Users will be able to easily trade crypto assets using money in their N26 account.
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  31. Makersite lands $18M to help companies manage product supply chains

    20 oktober 2022 · 5 min

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    In 2018, Neil D’Souza, a software engineer by trade and previously the VP of product development at Thinkstep, came to the realization that his ten-plus-year effort to solve enterprise product challenges in the areas of sustainability, compliance and risk were having little impact.
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  32. DigestAI’s 19-year-old founder wants to make education addictive

    19 oktober 2022 · 5 min

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    When Quddus Pativada was 14, he wished that he had an app that could summarize his textbooks for him.
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  33. Streaming data processing platform RisingWave lands $36M to launch a cloud service

    19 oktober 2022 · 6 min

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    RisingWave Labs, a company developing a platform for data stream processing, today announced that it raised $36 million in a Series A funding round led by Yunqi Partners.
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  34. Drivetrain is the “Google Maps for business growth”

    18 oktober 2022 · 5 min

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    Businesses usually plot their growth strategies on spreadsheets, but Drivetrain wants to provide a faster alternative for financial planning and decision making.
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  35. Andreessen Horowitz backs Synonym’s bio-manufacturing facilities

    18 oktober 2022 · 5 min

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    Synonym is developing designs and underwriting for its fermentation farms so that companies can more easily utilize them for bioproduct production.
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  36. Beyond Meat to cut 19% of its workforce amid sales slump

    17 oktober 2022 · 4 min

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    Beyond Meat expects the job cuts to be completed by the end of the year. Beyond Meat to cut 19% of its workforce amid sales slump by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
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  37. Getaway launches a way for you to enjoy, and own, vacation homes

    17 oktober 2022 · 5 min

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    Being in the business of convincing people that they deserve a vacation is hard.
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  38. Waste4Change is building a circular economy in Indonesia

    14 oktober 2022 · 6 min

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    Even the largest landfills in Indonesia are at (or nearing) capacity, and the government has set an ambitious target of 30% waste reduction by 2025.
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  39. Pillow wants to make crypto saving and investing easy for new users

    14 oktober 2022 · 7 min

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    Pillow aspires to be an all-in-one platform that helps even newbie users save, spend and invest in crypto currency.
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  40. Analytics operating system Redbird makes data more accessible to non-technical users

    13 oktober 2022 · 5 min

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    Data engineers have a big problem.
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  41. Noom lays off more employees amid CFO departure

    13 oktober 2022 · 5 min

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    Noom, a health coaching platform valued at $3.7 billion last year, is laying off a portion of staff for the second time in a matter of months, TechCrunch has learned from sources.
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  42. Homa raises another $100 million for its data-driven mobile gaming tools

    12 oktober 2022 · 3 min

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    French startup Homa has raised a $100 million Series B funding round. Quadrille Capital and Headline are leading the round.
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  43. Insite AI raises $19M to help consumer brands figure out their in-store strategies

    12 oktober 2022 · 6 min

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    Insite AI, a platform for consumer packaged goods companies that uses AI to provide recommendations on how to price, distribute and promote their products in physical stores, today launched out of stealth with $19 million in Series A capital from NewRoad Capital and M12, Microsoft’s corporate venture arm.
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  44. Singapore-based staffing platform Workmate acquired by Persol Asia Pacific

    11 oktober 2022 · 3 min

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    Workmate, a Singapore-based on-demand staffing platform, has been acquired by Persol Asia Pacific, one of the region’s largest HR service providers.
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  45. Trendsi secures $25M to help sellers and manufacturers predict demand

    11 oktober 2022 · 6 min

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    In the traditional business-to-business world, sellers often don’t know how much of a product they should order.
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  46. Real estate investing app Fintor raises $6.2M at $80M valuation

    10 oktober 2022 · 4 min

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    Fintor, a fintech startup making it easier for non-accredited investors to invest in real estate properties, has just launched its mobile app for both iOS and Android.
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  47. Jiko wants to help companies park their cash in T-Bills as everyone yield hunts

    10 oktober 2022 · 5 min

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    Jiko started its life as a mobile bank for consumers. But over time, the fintech startup has evolved its model – mostly fueled by demand – and is now making a push into corporate money storage.
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  48. SaaS platform klikit saves restaurant kitchens from “tablet hell”

    7 oktober 2022 · 6 min

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    The proliferation of delivery services give customers many options, but means chaos for busy restaurants that need to manage orders across multiple apps and channels.
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  49. Identity security platform Oort bags new cash to grow its product

    7 oktober 2022 · 5 min

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    Oort, an identity threat detection and response platform, today announced that it raised $11.5 million in a Series A round co-led by .406 Ventures and Energy Impact Partners with participation from Cisco Investments.
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  50. Techstars unveils sustainability-focused acceleration program in Paris

    6 oktober 2022 · 4 min

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    Techstars, a network of startup accelerators and an investment company, is launching a new accelerator in Paris called Techstars Sustainability Paris.
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