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Redwood Materials partners with Toyota to recycle batteries in US
21 juni 2022 · 4 min
Redwood Materials, the lithium-ion battery recycling startup founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, is partnering with Toyota to collect, refurbish and recycle batteries and battery materials that can be sent to the Japanese automaker’s upcoming North Carolina battery plant.
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Mono aims to be ‘first bankingless bank’ for Latin America’s small businesses
21 juni 2022 · 5 min
Mono is building a fully digital bank with accounts that can be opened in around 15 minutes versus an average of two weeks at an incumbent bank.
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Marc Lore’s food delivery startup Wonder raises $350M at a $3.5B valuation
20 juni 2022 · 4 min
New York-based Wonder, a mobile restaurant delivery service led by Marc Lore, has raised $350 million in Series B funding. The company is now worth about $3.5 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Brain data startup Rune Labs gets FDA clearance for Apple Watch-based Parkinson’s tracker
20 juni 2022 · 5 min
Rune Labs, a precision neurology company in San Francisco, announced that its StrivePD software ecosystem for Parkinson’s disease has been granted 510(k) clearance by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin using the Apple Watch to collect and measure data from Parkinson’s patients.
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Indian esports fantasy startup FanClash raises $40 million
17 juni 2022 · 5 min
Millions of Indians each year assemble virtual sports teams, placing their hopes on the players they pick to perform exceedingly well in real-world matches.
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Zoovu lands $169M to drive online product discovery experiences
17 juni 2022 · 7 min
The competition in ecommerce has become fiercer as the pandemic drives shoppers online. At the same time, customers have grown to expect better experiences. According to helpdesk software vendor HiverHQ, 32% of consumers want customer service to be both more responsive and empathetic.
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Tabnine raises $15.5M for AI that autocompletes code
16 juni 2022 · 7 min
Tabnine, a startup creating an “AI-powered assistant” for software developers, today closed a $15.5 million funding round co-led by Qualcomm Ventures, OurCrowd, and Samsung NEXT Ventures with participation from existing backers Khosla Ventures and Headline Ventures.
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Edtech company Pok Pok raises $3M to expand its digital play experiences for kids
16 juni 2022 · 5 min
Pok Pok, a Toronto-based edtech company, has announced that it raised $3 million in seed funding to expand its play-based learning experiences for kids.
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Cube, which wants to help finance teams plan better and faster, lands $30M after seeing 400% ARR growth
15 juni 2022 · 5 min
Cube, a startup that wants to help companies “plan their financial future,” has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Battery Ventures.
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Onymos raises $12M to provide plug-in features for apps
15 juni 2022 · 5 min
Onymos, a “feature-as-a-service” platform for app development, today announced that it closed a $12 million Series A round led by Great Point Ventures with participation from Benhamou Global Ventures, Engineering Capital, and Industry Ventures.
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EV SPAC Faraday Future now has the attention of the DOJ
14 juni 2022 · 3 min
Amid an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission into inaccurate statements to investors, Faraday Future has received a preliminary request for information from the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Boulder Care takes in funding as its opioid telehealth program yields industry-leading retention rates
14 juni 2022 · 5 min
The company is serving several thousand patients and growing its footprint as a value-add employee benefit.
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Charm Therapeutics applies AI to complex protein interactions, locking down $50M A round
13 juni 2022 · 6 min
The world of AI-powered drug discovery keeps expanding as the capabilities of machine learning grow. One approach that seemed unthinkable just a few years ago is simulating the complicated interplays of two interlocking molecules.
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Maze raises $40M to help facilitate software product research
13 juni 2022 · 6 min
Product research generally involves determining whether an idea for a new product might be successful and how to best develop and sell that product. It’s a straightforward process, in theory, but the basic definition belies the barriers that can crop up.
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Luminai (formerly DigitalBrain) gets $16M investment for customer support RPA-like tool
10 juni 2022 · 4 min
The founders of DigitalBrain have quite a back story, a pair of immigrants living in a hacker house in San Francisco, the two paid bills for a time by competing at hackathons and winning.
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HYCU locks down additional funding to grow its cloud data protection business
10 juni 2022 · 6 min
Hybrid Cloud Up Time (HYCU), a self-described “backup-as-a-service” company for customers managing hybrid and multi-cloud environments, today announced that it raised $53 million in a “majority equity” Series B round led by Acrew Capital with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Atlassian Ventures, and Cisco Investments.
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TestBox nabs $10M seed to expand platform for software purchase testing
9 juni 2022 · 4 min
TestBox, an early stage startup, has a goal of making it easier to test software you want to purchase in your own environment. What’s more, it comes pre-populated with synthetic data that is similar to yours.
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Proper raises $4.3M seed round to help other fintechs wrangle data
9 juni 2022 · 5 min
What’s one of the hottest areas within fintech today? Funny enough, it’s fintech for fintechs (say that a few times fast). Fintech startups have absolutely proliferated in the past few years.
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Former Better.com exec alleges company misled investors ahead of SPAC
8 juni 2022 · 5 min
One of Better.com’s former executives has filed a lawsuit against the online mortgage lender, alleging that the company and its CEO Vishal Garg misled investors when it attempted to go public via a SPAC, reports the Wall Street Journal.
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Magical makes $35M appear to move data between webpages
8 juni 2022 · 6 min
It’s the belief of some analysts that the market for robotic process automation, which leverages AI to automate certain software tasks, is headed toward consolidation.
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Child care startup Kinside raises $12M Series A in a round led by mothers
7 juni 2022 · 5 min
Finding and affording child care is one of the biggest challenges parents face. Kinside makes the process easier by not only providing a marketplace of verified carers, but also helping parents tap into their flexible spending accounts (FSA) and other benefits to afford care.
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Opal secures $10M for dynamic access management
7 juni 2022 · 4 min
Opal, a platform that decentralizes access management for enterprise customers, today announced that it raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by Greylock.
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Agtech robotics firm FarmWise just raised another $45 million
6 juni 2022 · 3 min
The rest of the startup universe may be struggling to bring in funds, but it’s still a good time to get a robotic raise.
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Temasek’s Pavilion Capital backs South Korean AI chip maker Rebellions with $50M investment
6 juni 2022 · 5 min
Global venture capital firms are pouring money into the semiconductor startups developing the next generation of chips.
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Mexico City’s Kolors wants to disrupt intercity busing in Latin America
3 juni 2022 · 5 min
Kolors, a Mexico City-based startup, says its platform that connects intercity bus riders with bus drivers is like “if Uber and Southwest Airlines had a baby.”
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Sanlo, a startup that offers app and game developers access to financial tools and capital, raises $10M
3 juni 2022 · 5 min
Sanlo, a San Francisco-based fintech startup that offers small to medium-sized game and app companies access to tools to manage their finances and capital to fuel their growth, has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Konvoy.
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Chainguard raises $50M to guard supply chains
2 juni 2022 · 5 min
Chainguard, a startup that focuses on securing software supply chains, announced today that it has raised a $50 million Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital.
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Chick-fil-A taps Refraction AI for autonomous delivery pilot
2 juni 2022 · 5 min
When Refraction AI was founded in 2019, its goal was to use robotics to bring down the cost of last-mile delivery.
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Car-sharing startup Turo expands to New York and France
1 juni 2022 · 3 min
Peer-to-peer car sharing company Turo is expanding to New York State and France in June, the company said on Wednesday.
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One AI raises $8M to curate business-specific NLP models
1 juni 2022 · 6 min
Whether to power translation to document summarization, enterprises are increasing their investments in natural language processing (NLP) technologies.
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Strong Compute raises $7.8M seed round to speed up ML training pipelines
31 mei 2022 · 5 min
Strong Compute, a Sydney, Australia-based startup that helps developers remove the bottlenecks in their machine learning training pipelines, today announced that it has raised a $7.8 million seed round.
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Meta and Google’s Gradient back LatAm startup OlaClick
31 mei 2022 · 4 min
More than 80% of food delivery orders in Latin America are still made over phone calls and settled with cash.
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Betastore gets $2.5M to solve stock-outs, financing challenges for informal retailers in West and Central Africa
31 mei 2022 · 6 min
About 80% of household retail in sub-Saharan Africa is delivered through informal channels, which perennially face several challenges like stockouts, leading to an instability in earnings, and a lack of attractiveness to financiers.
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Mintlify taps AI to automatically generate documentation from code
31 mei 2022 · 5 min
Mintlify, a startup developing software to automate software documentation tasks, today announced that it raised $2.8 million in a seed round led by by Bain Capital Ventures with participation from TwentyTwo Ventures and Quinn Slack, Sourcegraph’s co-founder.
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Foursquare founder banks funding for mystery 3D social network startup
27 mei 2022 · 4 min
The excitement around web3 and the metaverse have pulled plenty of entrepreneurs who defined the first generation of native mobile apps to begin questioning what’s next.
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SoftBank leads $150M round for Firework’s shoppable video
27 mei 2022 · 4 min
Firework provides tools for retailers and consumer brands to tap into their own customer data to build engaging video experiences across their own digital properties and social channels.
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Hugging Face collaborates with Microsoft for new AI-powered Azure service
27 mei 2022 · 4 min
Fresh off a $100 million funding round, Hugging Face, which provides hosted AI services and a community-driven portal for AI tools and data sets, today announced a new product in collaboration with Microsoft.
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Bowery opens a new vertical farm in Pennsylvania
27 mei 2022 · 3 min
When I wrote my big TC1 on Bowery Farming late last year, there was a lot of talk of the company’s third commercial farming site in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
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Astroforge raises $13M seed round for asteroid mining ambitions
27 mei 2022 · 5 min
Although we’ve long understood that asteroids are not simply the rubble of the universe, but potentially profitable stores of precious minerals, humanity has never been able to unlock this value.
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MainStreet’s valuation could fall 60% to $200 million amid investor recapitalization pursuit
25 mei 2022 · 5 min
Weeks after laying off about 30% of its staff, MainStreet is said to be raising another round of funding at a $200 million valuation, sources tell TechCrunch.
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Klarna lays off 10% of its workforce
24 mei 2022 · 4 min
Swedish payment giant Klarna is going to cut hundreds of jobs in the coming days. Today’s news comes a few days after the Wall Street Journal reported that the company was going to cut its valuation in order to raise fresh capital.
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Carbon capture is headed for the high seas
23 mei 2022 · 4 min
Unless you live near a port, you probably don’t think much of the tens of thousands of container ships tearing through the seas, hauling some 1.8 billion metric tons of stuff each year.
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FloorFound grabs more capital to grow its oversized recommerce business
23 mei 2022 · 5 min
What makes FloorFound stand out from its competitors is its approach to putting retailers, which often struggle with how to effectively do returns, at the center of recommerce.
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Dig emerges from stealth to help organizations secure their data in public clouds
20 mei 2022 · 4 min
Dig, a Tel Aviv-based cloud data security startup, has emerged from stealth with an $11 million investment to help organizations protect data stored in public cloud environments.
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ChargeLab’s software layer to power ABB’s EV chargers in North America
20 mei 2022 · 5 min
ChargeLab, a Toronto-based startup that builds software to operate and optimize electric vehicle charging equipment for fleets and commercial customers, has raised a $15 million Series A round.
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Joby Aviation acquires Avionyx to accelerate aerospace software certification
19 mei 2022 · 5 min
Joby Aviation, a California-based company developing electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (eVTOL) for commercial passenger service, announced the acquisition of Avionyx, an aerospace software engineering firm, on the TechCrunch Sessions: Mobility stage on Wednesday.
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Jungle Ventures closes a $600M fund, bringing its total assets under management to over $1B
19 mei 2022 · 4 min
Singapore-based venture firm Jungle Ventures is digging deeper into Southeast Asia and India with the close of its fourth fund.
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Palette sells a sales commission tool for modern sales teams
18 mei 2022 · 4 min
Meet Palette, a software-as-a-service startup that is going to be particularly interesting if you’re also running a software-as-a-service startup.
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Fashinza, a B2B supply chain marketplace for fashion brands, raises $100M
18 mei 2022 · 7 min
The pandemic has majorly affected the global supply chain, with 60% of U.S. adults in an August 2021 Gallup survey saying that they’ve been unable to get a product they wanted in the past two months because of shortages.
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A.Team emerges from stealth with a gig marketplace for product specialists
17 mei 2022 · 9 min
The gig economy has, to use a well-worn word, disrupted industries from ride-hailing to quick-service restaurants. Contract work has its downsides, namely on the pay and benefits side of the equation.
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