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  1. Infrastructure is broken, Gecko is using robotics to help fix it

    8 maart 2022 · 3 min

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    Gecko Robotics’ mission statement is “To protect today’s critical infrastructure, and give form to tomorrow’s.”
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  2. Environmental, social and governance tracking gets easier with ESGgo

    7 maart 2022 · 5 min

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    You can’t swing an ethically sourced, locally produced, sustainably raised dead fish these days without hitting a set of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals in a company’s board meetings or annual reports.
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  3. Volocopter raises $170M, now valued at $1.87B, to fuel the first commercial launches of its flying taxi fleet

    7 maart 2022 · 6 min

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    Volocopter, the startup out of southern Germany (Bruchsal) that has been developing electric VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aircraft and a business model for operating them in taxi-style fleets in urban areas, has picked up another big round of funding as it inches closer to its first commercial launches.
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  4. YC-backed Blocknom wants to become the “Coinbase Earn of Southeast Asia”

    4 maart 2022 · 3 min

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    Blocknom, a crypto-earning platform in Y Combinator’s current batch, has aspirations to become the “Coinbase Earn for Southeast Asia.” Today the company announced it has raised $500,000 in pre-seed funding from Y Combinator, Number Capital and Magic Fund.
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  5. Shares raises $40 million for its social investment app

    4 maart 2022 · 3 min

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    Shares has closed a $40 million Series A funding round led by Valar Ventures. The company has been working on a mobile app that lets you easily buy and sell shares, but with a social twist.
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  6. Microsoft partners with VCs, accelerators to back 10,000 startups in Africa

    3 maart 2022 · 3 min

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    Microsoft has today announced plans to support 10,000 startups in Africa over the next five years through a series of initiatives including partnerships with accelerators and incubators across the continent.
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  7. After raising $4 million, Emtech supports central banks across Africa, the Caribbean to deploy regulatory sandboxes

    3 maart 2022 · 6 min

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    For fintechs to thrive in such a way that they remain meaningful to economies, a synergy between them and regulatory bodies is inevitable.
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  8. Enterpret launches with $4.4M, NLP technology to decipher customer feedback

    2 maart 2022 · 4 min

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    Enterpret is building and deploying customer-specific models, based on customer feedback, for product development teams.
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  9. Live near an ocean? Kin Insurance’s data aims to more accurately predict home risk

    2 maart 2022 · 5 min

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    By using data and technology to accurately price the risk, Kin Insurance is able to remove some of the costs of traditional insurance firms, like agents.
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  10. Payhawk becomes a unicorn as it extends its Series B

    1 maart 2022 · 4 min

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    European spend management startup Payhawk has added $100 million to its Series B round that I already covered back in November.
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  11. Flashfood raises $12.3M to scale its grocery app that helps tackle retail food waste

    1 maart 2022 · 5 min

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    Toronto-based Flashfood, a mobile marketplace that provides customers with access to discounted food nearing its best-by date, has raised $12.3 million in Series A funding led by S2G Ventures.
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  12. Better Dairy slices into new funding for animal-free cheeses

    28 februari 2022 · 4 min

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    Better Dairy is using precision fermentation to produce cheeses that are molecularly identical to traditional dairy.
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  13. Singapore-based micromobility startup Beam secures $93M Series B, enters new markets

    28 februari 2022 · 5 min

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    Beam, a Singaporean shared micromobility operator, announced today that it has raised $93 million in a Series B round to accelerate growth into new countries in Asia.
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  14. Cococart sweetens the process for e-commerce companies to take orders immediately

    25 februari 2022 · 5 min

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    Cococart's tools enable merchants to set up an online store in minutes with no code, no design and no app downloads.
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  15. AnyRoad helps brands measure customer experiences

    25 februari 2022 · 6 min

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    Brands don’t often know everyone who is attending their big events, which leads to limited return on investment and actionable insights. AnyRoad provides that insight.
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  16. With mission to modernize data streaming, Redpanda snares $50M Series B

    24 februari 2022 · 5 min

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    When Redpanda launched in 2019, company founder and CEO Alexander Gallego thought a startup devoted to modernizing streaming data should have an appropriately nerdy name.
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  17. Vendr acquires Blissfully, combining its SaaS buying services with management tools

    24 februari 2022 · 5 min

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    Vendr, a startup that aims to help its customers buy software products faster and at a lower cost, announced this morning it has acquired Blissfully, a startup that builds SaaS management tooling.
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  18. thatDot launches Quine, a streaming graph engine

    23 februari 2022 · 4 min

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    ThatDot, a Portland, Oregon-based startup that focuses on streaming event processing, today announced the launch of Quine, a new MIT-licensed open-source project for data engineers that combines event streaming with graph data to create what the company calls a ‘streaming graph.’
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  19. Last mile delivery e-bike supplier Zoomo tacks on $20M to Series B

    23 februari 2022 · 4 min

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    Zoomo, an Australian startup that builds utility e-bikes for delivery workers, has raised an additional $20 million in equity to close out its Series B round. In November, the company raised $60 million in equity and debt for its Series B, which it used to fund further software development and more vehicles to expand.
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  20. Agility Robotics and Playground Global join TechCrunch Live to speak on fundraising robotic delivery

    22 februari 2022 · 3 min

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    Delivery has become one of the fastest growing verticals for robotics investments amid pandemic-related shutdowns. There’s been plenty of interest in the category over the years, but Covid-19 has accelerated interest on all sides of the equation.
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  21. Sweden’s Volta raises $260M at a $490M valuation to get its all-electric trucks into production by the end of this year

    22 februari 2022 · 7 min

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    Volta Trucks — the Swedish electric vehicle startup that believes it can build better urban delivery vehicles and other trucks that are safer and take up a smaller carbon footprint than their gas-guzzling, more clumsy, existing counterparts.
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  22. Voltron Data grabs $110M to build startup based on Apache Arrow project

    21 februari 2022 · 5 min

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    Voltron Data was launched last year by former employees from NVidia, Ursa Computing, BlazingSQL and the co-founder of Apache Arrow.
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  23. ICON raises $185M in Tiger-led round to build more homes with its 3D printing tech, now approaching $2B valuation

    21 februari 2022 · 5 min

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    ICON, which creates homes using 3D printing, has raised an additional $185 million in a round led by Tiger Global Management, TechCrunch has learned exclusively.
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  24. Ibex Investors’ newest fund is betting on a mobility revolution

    18 februari 2022 · 4 min

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    When Ibex Investors founder and CEO Justin Borus looks at the transportation industry — and the technological changes that are coming — he sees one of the biggest opportunities in a lifetime. And with a fresh $113 million fund focused on early stage mobility companies, his firm is tapping into it. “There will be more […]
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  25. Actual, which renders company ESG data in a SimCity-like platform, raises $5M seed

    18 februari 2022 · 4 min

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    Trying to deal with the huge amount of data associated with how companies are going to transition to a “net zero” economy is an uphill task.
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  26. Dutch raises $20M to scale its telemedicine platform for pets

    17 februari 2022 · 4 min

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    Virtual veterinarian care platform Dutch has raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Forerunner Ventures and Eclipse Ventures.
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  27. Genesis raises $200M in Tiger-led round to grow its finance-focused low-code application platform

    17 februari 2022 · 5 min

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    Genesis, which has built a low-code/no-code application platform specifically for the financial markets, announced today it has landed a $200 million investment led by Tiger Global Management.
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  28. Employment Hero raises $181M AUD at $1.25B AUD valuation, acquires KeyPay

    16 februari 2022 · 3 min

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    Human resources platform Employment Hero announced today it has raised $181 million AUD (or about $129 million USD), putting it at unicorn valuation in Australian dollars of $1.25 billion.
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  29. Scrona has big manufacturing plans for its tiny 3D printing

    16 februari 2022 · 3 min

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    Scrona AG caused a minor splash all the way back in 2015 when it snagged a Guinness World Record for the “smallest inkjet-printed color image.”
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  30. Tropic takes in more capital as demand for software procurement savings continues

    15 februari 2022 · 4 min

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    Tropic’s technology brings a click-and-approve approach to buying and managing all of that software.
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  31. Insify is modernizing insurance, but this time for SMEs

    15 februari 2022 · 4 min

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    Meet Insify, an insurtech startup that raised a $17 million (€15 million) Series A round led by Accel. The company wants to modernize the insurance market.
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  32. Lung-health startup Respira Labs inhales $2.8M to help respiration patients breathe easier

    14 februari 2022 · 4 min

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    Respira Labs, a medical technology company specializing in respiratory care, which first unveiled its product to the world last year, successfully raised $1 million in funding and an additional $1.8 million in grants to continue building its acoustic resonance technology to assess lung function and changes therein.
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  33. RedRoute wants answering customer service calls to be as easy as using ‘Alexa’

    14 februari 2022 · 5 min

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    It takes as little as 30 minutes to get RedRoute set up, and customers can try the software with zero upfront costs.
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  34. Remote work and events startup twine acquires YC-backed Glimpse to launch on Zoom

    11 februari 2022 · 4 min

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    Twine, a company that provides networking tools for virtual events and remote teams, will soon bring its services to Zoom thanks to its just-closed acquisition of the Y Combinator-backed startup, Glimpse, which had developed a “speech matching” platform designed for virtual events.
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  35. Neo.tax raises $10M to help startups access R&D tax credits

    11 februari 2022 · 6 min

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    For most people, mention of the word “taxes” conjures up unpleasant things like tedious processes, mountains of paperwork and shelling out a lot of money to the government.
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  36. Republic’s metaverse real estate arm spins off, rebrands as Everyrealm

    10 februari 2022 · 4 min

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    Over $500 million worth of real estate was sold on the top four metaverse platforms in 2021, data shows.
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  37. Shift5 raises $50M to defend transport networks from cyberattacks

    10 februari 2022 · 3 min

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    You might not think much about the train or the airplane that gets you from one place to another, but behind any transportation link is a vast sprawling network of electronics, devices, and data that keep trains on the tracks and planes in the sky.
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  38. Cooks Venture, the chicken company with big dreams, eats up $50M

    9 februari 2022 · 4 min

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    Chicken is the most consumed meat in the United States and the world. And yet, the system in place to breed and feed and raise all this chicken is incredibly detrimental to our overall wellbeing.
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  39. Silvr wants to bring revenue-based financing to Europe

    9 februari 2022 · 3 min

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    French startup Silvr has raised a $20.6 million (€18 million) Series A funding round and has opened a $128 million (€112 million) debt line for its activities.
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  40. Endgame grabs another cash infusion as product-led growth momentum builds

    8 februari 2022 · 5 min

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    Endgame connects the dots between product usage and sales opportunities to put employees in the driver's seat of the software they like to use instead of a top-down approach.
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  41. Bumble makes its first acquisition with deal for French Gen Z dating app, Fruitz

    8 februari 2022 · 4 min

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    Dating app company Bumble, Inc. is making its first acquisition with today’s news that it’s adding the fast-growing French dating app Fruitz to its family of applications.
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  42. GM Ventures invests in startup building fast charge-capable battery tech

    7 februari 2022 · 3 min

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    Soelect, a battery technology startup based in North Carolina, has closed an $11 million Series A round. It plans to use the fresh capital to scale its fast charge-capable anode technologies that might enable the next generation of batteries for electric vehicles.
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  43. Over 500 mobile apps are now using the term ‘metaverse’ to attract new users

    7 februari 2022 · 5 min

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    A true “metaverse” may not yet exist, but that hasn’t stopped marketers from adopting the buzzword to promote their apps and games on mobile app stores.
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  44. No plastic clamshells here: Zero Grocery aims to eliminate unnecessary plastic in grocery delivery

    4 februari 2022 · 5 min

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    Even small changes made by individuals to reduce plastic waste can add up to a big positive impact on the environment, founder and CEO Zuleyka Strasner said.
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  45. Scale AI gets into the synthetic data game

    4 februari 2022 · 5 min

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    Scale AI’s path to becoming a $7.3 billion company was paved in real data from images, text, voice and video.
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  46. Waldo raises $15 million for its automated mobile testing service

    3 februari 2022 · 5 min

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    Waldo has raised $15 million for its ‘no code’ automated testing tool. Mobile development teams using Waldo can set up tests without writing a line of scripting code.
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  47. Whose Your Landlord raises $2.1M for its rental review and data service

    3 februari 2022 · 5 min

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    Whose Your Landlord,1 or WYL, announced a $2.1 million seed round today led by Black Operator Ventures, better known as BlackOps Ventures.
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  48. Framework looks to expand repairability beyond the laptop

    2 februari 2022 · 4 min

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    Last November, Apple announced the launch of Self Service Repair — a surprising addition for a company that has notoriously lacked such capabilities. Those changes didn’t happen in a vacuum, of course. The president and Congress have both been pushing to open the so-called right to repair.
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  49. Jellyfish aims to ‘do for engineering what Salesforce did for sales’

    2 februari 2022 · 4 min

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    Jellyfish essentially pioneered the term “engineering management” to provide a software tool for insight into engineering organizations, including what they are working on and how they operate.
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  50. VendorPM raises $6M to scale its marketplace for property managers and service vendors

    1 februari 2022 · 4 min

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    VendorPM, a Toronto-based marketplace that connects property managers with reputable vendors, has raised $6 million in seed funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners.
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