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Dashworks is a search engine for your company’s sprawling internal knowledge
1 februari 2022 · 4 min
As a company grows, the amount of important information employees need to keep track of inevitably grows right along with it. And, as your tech stack gets more complicated, that information ends up split up across more places.
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Rise is a new calendar app with a scheduling engine for teams
31 januari 2022 · 4 min
Meet Rise, a new startup working on a calendar app that is specifically designed for team work.
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bloss, which connects expectant parents with experts, raises £1M pre-seed led by Antler
31 januari 2022 · 3 min
bloss is a UK startup that connects would-be or existing parents to pre-vetted parenting experts.
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After QuizUp and Trivia Royale, Thor Fridriksson’s next act is a mobile MMO
28 januari 2022 · 5 min
QuizUp founder Thor Fridriksson is at it again. The Icelandic serial entrepreneur is two-for-two in creating viral mobile games, but has thus far struck out in turning those into viable businesses.
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Singapore-based edtech Cialfo gets $40M led by Square Peg and SEEK
28 januari 2022 · 4 min
Applying to colleges is one of the hardest parts of high school, especially for students who want to study abroad. Cialfo wants to make the process easier.
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Identity verification provider Veriff raises $100M Series C co-led by Tiger Global and Alkeon
27 januari 2022 · 4 min
Identity verification provider Veriff, has raised a $100 million Series C round co-led by Tiger Global and Alkeon. They were joined by existing investors IVP and Accel, bringing Veriff’s total funding to date to $200 million.
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Atrium grabs fresh capital to help sales teams meet their quota
27 januari 2022 · 5 min
Is sales management having a “Money Ball moment?”
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Electric Sheep raises $21.5M to make off-the-shelf lawnmowers autonomous
26 januari 2022 · 3 min
IRobot announced Terra three years ago this week. After making some tough internal decisions to delay launch back in 2020, the robot mower is still MIA.
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Wandelbots raises another $84 million to teach robots without code
26 januari 2022 · 3 min
Dresden, Germany-based Wandelbots has raised a healthy sum in the years since it appeared on our Disrupt Berlin stage, way back in 2017.
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Mark Cuban on his online pharmacy: ‘Our KPI is how much we can reduce the stress of our patients’
25 januari 2022 · 3 min
Mark Cuban’s announcement over the weekend of an online pharmacy selling over a hundred generic drugs at near cost was totally unexpected but will likely be welcomed by millions who struggle to afford medication.
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Cana Technology raises glass to new capital as it readies beverage printer for market
25 januari 2022 · 5 min
Cana focused on identifying the basic set of ingredients, basically deconstructing beverages to figure out what makes it taste like a certain drink.
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AccuWeather acquires air pollution startup Plume Labs
24 januari 2022 · 5 min
Weather forecast company AccuWeather is acquiring French startup Plume Labs —Â terms of the deal are undisclosed. Originally founded in 2014, Plume Labs has gradually expanded its product offering to offer three different products focused on air pollution data.
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Metalenz PolarEyes upgrades digital sensing with polarized light
24 januari 2022 · 6 min
Tech sees differently, and can fuse multiple types of data we can’t even perceive: lidar, IR, ultrasonic, and so on. Metalenz, maker of highly compact “2D” cameras for advanced sensing, hopes to bring polarized light into the mix for security and safety.
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Weavit’s new app wants to be a ‘Shazam for your thoughts’
21 januari 2022 · 5 min
A new app called Weavit wants to be a “Shazam for your thoughts” — that is, it wants to offer people a different way to quickly capture their thoughts in a note-taking tool with a press of a button.
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Tom Brady’s buzzy celebrity NFT startup Autograph banks $170M from Silicon Valley’s top crypto investors
21 januari 2022 · 4 min
Autograph, an NFT agency co-founded by athlete Tom Brady with a particularly deep bench of star power, has banked new funding from crypto investors who hope the platform can bring a new generation of celebrities and their fans into the fold of crypto collectibles.
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Nowsta takes in fresh capital to show some tech love for hourly workforces
20 januari 2022 · 6 min
Nowsta’s web and mobile app rolls workforce management tools into an all-in-one resource that includes an on-demand labor marketplace connecting employers with a skilled pool of workers.
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Ancient8 secures $4M in seed to democratize social and financial access in the metaverse
20 januari 2022 · 5 min
Ancient8, Vietnam’s blockchain gaming guild, develops a community and software platform to enable everyone to play P2E (play-to-earn) games and build the metaverse while earning rewards.
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First EV mass transit bus by Swedish-Kenyan startup Opibus begins operation amidst plans for regional launch by 2023
19 januari 2022 · 4 min
The first electric bus by Swedish-Kenyan EV startup, Opibus, has hit Kenya’s roads marking the beginning of the company’s venture into the mass transit industry. Opibus first announced plans to roll out electric public transport buses last year when it raised $7.5 million in a pre-Series A round.
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Space startup Wyvern raises $4.5M and joins YC’s latest cohort
19 januari 2022 · 5 min
A Canadian startup working at the cutting edge of satellite imaging has raised $4.5 million across a combination of a $2.25 million seed round, and $2.25 million from a combined pre-seed and government funding.
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Spendesk is the fifth French startup to reach unicorn status this month
18 januari 2022 · 6 min
Fintech startup Spendesk is announcing that it has raised an extension to its Series C round. Tiger Global is investing $114 million (€100 million) in the startup.
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Warehouse robotics system Exotec raises $335 million
18 januari 2022 · 5 min
French startup Exotec has raised a $335 million Series D round in a new round of funding led by Goldman Sachs’ Growth Equity business. Following today’s investment, the company has reached a valuation of $2 billion.
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Juro draws $23M into its browser-based contract automation platform
17 januari 2022 · 5 min
London-based legaltech startup Juro has grabbed $23 million in Series B funding for its browser-based contract automation platform. In total the startup has raised $31.5M since being founded back in 2016.
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Payment orchestration platform Gr4vy pulls in another $15M in a Series A extension
17 januari 2022 · 3 min
Retailers often build their own “orchestration” platforms for payment processing and routing, but these can be complex to maintain.
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Meet Paysail, the startup making B2B payments faster using crypto
14 januari 2022 · 5 min
Companies use invoices to pay for many of their major costs, ranging from materials to contract work.
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Tiger Global backs Accrue Savings’ ‘save now, pay later’ approach to consumer purchases
14 januari 2022 · 4 min
When the consumer opens an account and hits savings milestones for products they want to buy from their favorite brands, they can receive cash contributions from the brands.
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Shield bags $15M Series A to address surging demand for its AI-powered communication compliance platform
13 januari 2022 · 5 min
Over the past two years, since the pandemic hit, there has been a sharp rise in financial crime compliance costs, nearing $50 billion in 2021, up 58% compared to 2019, in the U.S. and Canada. Â
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Assemble scores $5M seed to bring order and equity to compensation
13 januari 2022 · 4 min
Every company has to decide what to pay their employees and track that compensation in some way, often in spreadsheets and across disparate payroll, finance and HR systems.
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Headspace Health acquires AI-powered mental health and wellness company Sayana
12 januari 2022 · 5 min
Headspace Health has acquired Sayana, an AI-powered mental health and wellness company, for an undisclosed amount. Headspace Health says the acquisition of the San Francisco-based company will expand its ability to provide personalized self-care to its users.
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Flush with new capital, Foxtrot’s ‘convenience store of the future’ is coming to a location near you
12 januari 2022 · 5 min
Foxtrot is reimagining the convenience store experience by seeking out the best food items by local artisans along with its core offerings of coffee, ready-to-eat cafe meals and wine.
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Arcade launches ‘try before you buy’ demo capabilities with $2.5M in new capital
11 januari 2022 · 6 min
The company's technology makes it easier for companies to create demonstration videos, called “arcades,” that walk people through how their tools work.
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Career Karma lands $40M to evolve into an edtech employee benefit
11 januari 2022 · 4 min
Career Karma raised its first millions off of a pitch that resonates with anyone who has ever googled coding bootcamps: a navigation tool for aspiring students and working professionals.
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Parrot, a tool for digitizing Mexico’s restaurants, takes in $9.5M
10 januari 2022 · 4 min
ParrotConnect is a point-of-sale software for restaurants enabling them to digitize and take advantage of the home delivery boom to accelerate growth.
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FanDuel founder and Sequoia bet on Spanish-language fantasy sports app Draftea
10 januari 2022 · 4 min
Founder Alán Jaime Misrahi grew up devoted to soccer, eventually playing in Mexico’s third division. While he didn’t necessarily make it to the “big leagues” playing the sport, his new company Draftea aims to win over the 350 million sports fans in Latin America.
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Startups at CES showed that age-tech can help everyone
7 januari 2022 · 5 min
Age-tech startups at this year’s CES demonstrated the potential breadth of the sector. If tech can help an older person live more comfortably, it can also help out a lot of other people.
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Zuddl raises $13M for its simple but powerful virtual events platform
7 januari 2022 · 5 min
Will the world ever go back to big in-person events? Of course. Eventually. CES already moved in that direction this year, for better or worse.
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Doosan announces $33.7M raise, as it introduces a robotic camera system at CES
6 januari 2022 · 3 min
Doosan Robotics this week announced $33.7 million in funding, led Praxis Capital Partners and Korea Investment Partners. The fundraising news arrives as the Seoul-based company shows off its wares at CES in Las Vegas.
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New pet tech at CES treats dogs and cats like the complex beings they are
6 januari 2022 · 6 min
There’s always fun tech for pet owners at CES, and 2022 is no different.
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DriveU.auto to power remote piloting of EasyMile’s autonomous shuttles, Coco’s sidewalk robots
5 januari 2022 · 6 min
Autonomous shuttle company EasyMile and sidewalk robot delivery startup Coco are integrating DriveU.auto’s teleoperation and connectivity platform into their operations, DriveU.auto, an Israeli startup that came out of stealth last year, they announced at CES.
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Refinery Ventures’ second fund aimed at getting startups to Series A
5 januari 2022 · 4 min
Refinery focuses on “early scale” companies, a term the firm uses to describe companies that secured a seed, but need that “oomph” to get it to Series A.
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Smart contact lens startup Mojo Vision partners with Adidas and other sports brands
4 januari 2022 · 3 min
For the past few years, Mojo Vision has had a small presence at CES, offering up glimpses into the potential of its augmented reality contact lenses. Every year, the picture seems a little closer, if still far away.
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Smarter Health gets $5.15M SGD to reduce healthcare costs in Southeast Asia
4 januari 2022 · 3 min
Organizing information from providers, insurers and patients not only takes a lot of time, but increases private healthcare costs.
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AIMMO bags $12M Series A to advance data labeling technology
3 januari 2022 · 5 min
Most artificial intelligence models are trained through supervised learning, meaning that humans must label raw data. Data labeling is a critical part of automating artificial intelligence and machine learning model, but at the same time, it can be time-consuming and tedious work.
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Southeast Asian startups to watch in 2022
3 januari 2022 · 7 min
As someone who covers Southeast Asia startups and funding stories, the best word I can think of to describe 2021 is “whoa!”
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Voyant raises $15M to scale production of its tiny, inexpensive lidar tech
31 december 2021 · 6 min
The future of lidar is uncertain unless, as Voyant hopes to do, its price and size are reduced to fractions of their current values.
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Tech-led biofuel startup Koko Networks launches new consumer goods business in Kenya
30 december 2021 · 5 min
Koko Networks, a Kenya-based bio-fuel technology enterprise has extended its business to cover other fast-moving consumer goods, through a new tech platform that will capitalize on its established distribution networks in low-income neighborhoods.
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TuSimple completes its first driverless autonomous truck run on public roads
30 december 2021 · 7 min
Autonomous trucking startup TuSimple has completed its first autonomous truck run on open public roads without a human in the vehicle, according to the company.
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India’s GlobalBees joins unicorn club for its Thrasio-like house of brands
29 december 2021 · 5 min
GlobalBees, which raised one of the largest Series A financing rounds in India earlier this year, has entered the unicorn club as the New Delhi-headquartered firm scales its Thrasio-like house of brands.
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Nigerian edtech startup Teesas secures $1.6 million in pre-seed round, to launch tutor marketplace, expand in East, Southern, Francophone Africa in 2022
29 december 2021 · 5 min
After seven years in the production of electronic gadgets, under his company Imose Technologies, Osayi Izedonmwen took leave to explore an idea that he had toyed with for some time.
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Indian neobank Jupiter raises $86 million to launch lending and wealth management services
28 december 2021 · 4 min
Industry veteran Jitendra Gupta’s consumer-focused neobank Jupiter has raised about $86 million in a new financing round as the Bangalore-based startup gears up to offer its customers lending and wealth management services.
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Automation Anywhere expands into process discovery with FortressIQ acquisition
27 december 2021 · 4 min
Automation Anywhere, which is best known for its robotic process automation (RPA) software, plans to expand the platform. This morning, the company announced that it intends to acquire process discovery startup FortressIQ.
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