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DigitalOcean enhances serverless capabilities with Nimbella acquisition
8 september 2021 · 4 min
As developers look for ways to simplify how they create software, serverless solutions, which enable them to write code without worrying about the underlying infrastructure required to run their applications, is becoming increasingly popular. DigitalOcean announced today that it is enhancing its existing offering in this area with the acquisition of serverless startup Nimbella. The […]
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Playbyte’s new app aims to become the ‘TikTok for games’
7 september 2021 · 6 min
A startup called Playbyte wants to become the TikTok for games. The company’s newly launched iOS app offers tools that allow users to make and share simple games on their phone, as well as a vertically scrollable, fullscreen feed where you can play the games created by others. Also like TikTok, the feed becomes more […]
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Barbershop technology startup theCut sharpens its platform with new $4.5M round
7 september 2021 · 4 min
The mobile app that provides information and reviews on barbers for potential customers while also managing appointments, mobile payments and pricing on the back end for barbers.
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Customer experience startup Clootrack raises $4M, helps brands see through their customers’ eyes
6 september 2021 · 4 min
Clootrack is a real-time customer experience analytics platform that helps brands understand why customers stay or churn
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Challenger bank Bunq rolls out Spanish IBANs
6 september 2021 · 3 min
Amsterdam-based challenger bank Bunq is updating its service with a handful of new features. In addition to Dutch, German and French bank account numbers, existing and new users in Spain can now get a Spanish IBAN. European IBANs are supposed to work across Europe.
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VanMoof raises $128 million to become the world’s leading e-bike brand
3 september 2021 · 5 min
Amsterdam-based startup VanMoof has raised a $128 million Series C funding round. The company designs and sells electric bikes that are quite popular in some markets. It now wants to become the world’s leading e-bike brand by iterating at a faster pace. Asia-based private equity firm Hillhouse Investment is leading the round, with Gillian Tans, […]
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Pancake aims to make customers flip for its virtual home design platform
3 september 2021 · 4 min
Pancake is democratizing interior design services to make it accessible to everyone.
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Pixalate tunes into $18.1M for fraud prevention in television, mobile advertising
2 september 2021 · 5 min
Pixalate provides fraud protection, privacy and compliance analytics for connected television and mobile advertising.
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Tribe and Arkam back Jar app to help millions in India start their savings journey
2 september 2021 · 6 min
Even as hundreds of millions of people in India have a bank account, only a tiny fraction of this population invests in any financial instrument. Fewer than 30 million people invest in mutual funds or stocks, for instance.
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Cheeterz Club wants to make reading glasses hip
1 september 2021 · 6 min
Can reading glasses actually be cool? A new eyewear company called Cheeterz Club thinks so. The startup is working to change the perception of reading glasses from being just cheap, disposable items you pick up from a rotating display rack at your local drug store to being something you’d actually be proud to wear.
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Dance launches its e-bike subscription service in Berlin
1 september 2021 · 4 min
German startup Dance is launching its subscription service in its hometown Berlin. For a flat monthly fee of €79 (around $93 at today’s exchange rate), users will get a custom-designed electric bike as well as access to an on-demand repair and maintenance service. Founded by the former founders of SoundCloud and Jimdo, the company managed […]
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As 5G demand grows, Sitenna helps telcos find more cell tower locations, faster
31 augustus 2021 · 4 min
The buildout of 5G networks continues apace, with wide-scale deployments across much of the developed world. Yet, one of the largest challenges with closing the gaps in coverage maps are constraints on 5G transmissions.
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Stipop offers developers and creators instant access to a huge global sticker library
30 augustus 2021 · 5 min
With more than 270,000 stickers, Stipop’s library of colorful, character-driven expressions has a little something for everyone. The company offers keyboard and social app stickers through ad-supported mobile apps on iOS and Android, but it’s recently focused more on providing stickers to developers, creators and other online businesses. “We were able to gather so many […]
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Accounting platform Synder raises $2M to automate e-commerce bookkeeping
30 augustus 2021 · 4 min
The company bills itself as an easy accounting platform for e-commerce businesses.
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Job offer management platform Compa emerges from stealth with $3.9M
27 augustus 2021 · 5 min
The offer management platform provides “deal desk” software for recruiters to easily manage compensation strategies.
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Celebrity chef Michael Chernow whips up new lifestyle brand, Kreatures of Habit, raises $2.2M
27 augustus 2021 · 5 min
Michael Chernow is already known as a restaurateur, chef, television host and entrepreneur, but now he can also add lifestyle and wellness guru to that list.
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Shares is a new stock trading app with a focus on social features
26 augustus 2021 · 4 min
Meet Shares, a new European startup that wants to add a social twist to financial investment —Â in that case, the company means ‘social’ as in ‘social network’. The startup has been developing its product under the radar for a few months already. It is also moving at a fast pace.
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Forward Kitchens cooks up $2.5M to transform existing kitchens into digital storefronts
26 augustus 2021 · 3 min
Forward Kitchens provides a turnkey tool for restaurants to set up an online presence.
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testRigor scores $4M seed to turn a list of actions into a QA testing script
25 augustus 2021 · 4 min
Imagine typing out of a series of steps in plain English that would reflect a list of actions a human QA tester would undertake to test an app, then turning that list into an automated testing script. That’s exactly what testRigor, a member of the Y Combinator Summer 2021 cohort has done.
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NoRedInk raises $50 million Series B to help students become better writers
25 augustus 2021 · 5 min
“In order to become a better writer, read your written words out loud.” That’s one of the first, and best, writing tips I ever received. I always found the advice ironic because it required me to change the medium of my writing to become a better writer. Still, all these years later, it’s true: vocalizing […]
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Elastic acquires build.security for security policy definition and enforcement
24 augustus 2021 · 4 min
Less than a year after raising its $6 million seed funding round, Tel Aviv and Sunnyvale-based startup Build.security is being acquired by Elastic. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed at this time. The deal is expected to close in Elastic’s Q2 FY22, ending Oct. 31, 2021.
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Givz raises $3M in seed funding to make donations a marketing tool for businesses
24 augustus 2021 · 5 min
Givz, which has developed an API-powered platform that gives brands a way to convert discounts into donations, has raised $3 million in seed funding. Eniac and Accomplice co-led the financing for the New York-based startup. Additional investors include Supernode Ventures, Claude Wasserstein of Fine Day, Phoenix Club and Dylan Whitman. Givz was founded in 2017 […]
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Y Combinator-backed Adra wants to turn all dentists into cavity-finding ‘super dentists’
23 augustus 2021 · 4 min
Adra is bringing AI into the dentist's day-to-day workflow so they can spend less time finding cavities and more time with patients.
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Rutter comes out of stealth with $1.5M in funding for its e-commerce API
23 augustus 2021 · 5 min
Rutter is developing a unified e-commerce API that enables companies to connect with data across any platform.
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Diamond Age raises $8M to speed up home construction with 3D printing and robot arms
20 augustus 2021 · 3 min
Bay Area-based Diamond Age this week announced that it has raised $8 million. The seed round is led by Prime Movers Lab and Alpaca VC and features a slew of additional firms, including Dolby Family Ventures, Calm Ventures, Gaingels, Towerview Ventures, GFA Venture Partners and Suffolk Construction. The startup looks to put a slew of […]
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Split.io announces $50M Series D to continue growing feature flag platform
20 augustus 2021 · 5 min
As developers build applications, they often want to test new functionality on a limited set of users to blunt any possible negative impact or to gauge user reaction to the change before rolling it out more broadly. They use a technique called a feature flag, and Split.io, a startup that has built a platform to […]
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FloodMapp wants to predict where water goes before it washes away your home
19 augustus 2021 · 5 min
Floods are devastating. They rip asunder communities, wipe out neighborhoods, force the evacuation of thousands of people every year, and recovering them can take years — assuming recovery is possible at all. The U.S. government estimates that floods in recent decades (exclusive of hurricanes and tropical storms) have caused an estimated $160 billion in damage […]
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Mealworm farming company Beta Hatch raises $10M
19 augustus 2021 · 3 min
Last time I was in Hong Kong, a startup gave me a jar of mealworms as a snack. They were crunchy and a bit odd looking (as one might expect from a jar full of baked larvae). They really didn’t offer much in the way of flavor, though, so maybe supply your own seasoning.
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Food conglomerate Forward Foods becomes Starday, raises $4M
18 augustus 2021 · 4 min
Forward Foods, creating healthy and sustainable food products, changed its name to Starday and raised $4 million in seed funding to take on “big food” incumbents.
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Apple’s sustainability-focused Impact Accelerator invites first 15 Black- and brown-owned companies
18 augustus 2021 · 3 min
Among Apple’s more recent social good initiatives is the Impact Accelerator, an effort launched about a year ago intended to find and elevate minority-owned small businesses taking on sustainability and climate change. The program now has its first 15 participants, gathered from all over the country for a three-month program and a shot at an […]
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Tropic picks up $25M to streamline software procurement experiences
17 augustus 2021 · 5 min
The pandemic was a catalyst for showing companies looking to cut costs, just how much they were spending on their software tools.
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Shopistry bags $2M to provide ‘headless commerce without the headaches’
17 augustus 2021 · 5 min
Shopistry enables customers to create personalized commerce experiences accessible to all.
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ThirdAI raises $6M to democratize AI to any hardware
16 augustus 2021 · 4 min
ThirdAI is building tools to speed up deep learning technology without the need for hardware like graphics processing units.
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Kiddom grabs early revenue amid $35M Series C funding
16 augustus 2021 · 4 min
Kiddom, a platform that offers a digital curriculum that fits the core standards required by states, announced today that it has raised a $35 million Series C round led by Altos Ventures, with participation from Owl Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Outcomes Collective. The financing came nearly three years after Kiddom’s Series B, a $15 million […]
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Talkdesk’s valuation jumps to $10B with Series D for smart contact centers
13 augustus 2021 · 5 min
Talkdesk uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve customer service for mid-market and enterprise businesses.
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Motivo raises $12.5M Series A to speed up chip design with AI
13 augustus 2021 · 5 min
Chip design is a long slog of trial and error, taking years to bring a design to market. Motivo, a five year old startup from a chip industry veteran is creating software to speed up chip design from years to months using AI. Today the company announced a $12.5 million Series A.
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Consumer goods software company Aforza bags $22M to open US headquarters
12 augustus 2021 · 5 min
Built on Salesforce and Google Cloud platforms, consumer goods companies can use Aforza to digitally transform product distribution and customer engagement.
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Space manufacturing startup Varda inks deal with Rocket Lab for three spacecraft
12 augustus 2021 · 4 min
Orbital manufacturing startup Varda Space Industries is moving fast. Only a few weeks after announcing a $42 million Series A, Varda has signed a deal with launch company Rocket Lab for three Photon spacecraft to support the startup’s initial missions. The first spacecraft will be delivered in the first quarter of 2023, with the second […]
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Bite Ninja scoops up pre-seed funding to reimagine restaurant working environments
11 augustus 2021 · 4 min
The company's remote hiring technology enable restaurants to fill last-minute drive-thru or cashier shifts.
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The art of startup storytelling with Julian Shapiro
11 augustus 2021 · 6 min
"Signal is more important than frequency in an era where we're overloaded with content."
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WoodSpoon’s food delivery service cooks up support for home chefs with $14M round
10 augustus 2021 · 4 min
The co-founders reached out to local home chefs and gathered them together in a marketplace where they could share their culture and passion of food with others.
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Canopy raises $15M Series A after posting 4.5x customer growth in H1 2021
10 augustus 2021 · 6 min
Canopy's leaders expect focused fintech products to win out over large bundles of services.
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CommandBar raises $4.8M to make web-based apps searchable
9 augustus 2021 · 4 min
James Evans and his co-founders at CommandBar were working on a different software product when they hit a wall while trying to find certain functionalities within the software.
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The first Zambian startup to get into YC is developing Africa’s first card-issuing API
9 augustus 2021 · 6 min
More than 40 African startups from a handful of countries have gone through YC over the past decade. Zambia joins that list today, and its entrant, Union54, is a worthy first entry. Union54 (54 is a nod to the number of African countries) is a fintech company founded by Perseus Mlambo and Alessandra Martini. The […]
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Micromobility startup Voi raises $45 million to end sidewalk riding, improve safety
6 augustus 2021 · 3 min
Micromobility startup Voi has raised $45 million, funds it says will be used to research and develop technology that will improve safety, keep users from riding on sidewalks and ensure scooters are properly parked.
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3 invaluable founder lessons I learned on my immigration journey
6 augustus 2021 · 12 min
In my journey to the U.S., I became good at three things: accepting uncertainty, building resilience and maintaining a positive mental attitude. I needed them all to get my startup off the ground.
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Bluecore lands $125M Series E on $1B valuation as e-commerce personalization grows
5 augustus 2021 · 4 min
During the pandemic, especially when we were in lock down, just about every retailer had to build its online presence and do it quickly. As people move to shop online in larger numbers, being able to personalize that experience has become more crucial.
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Robinhood is now a stonk
5 augustus 2021 · 4 min
The wild swing in the price of Robinhood today appears from our vantage point to be another stonk moment.
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Buildots raises $30M to put eyes on construction sites
4 augustus 2021 · 5 min
Buildots' technology automatically validates images captured by hardhat-mounted 360-degree cameras, detecting any gaps between the original design and what's actually happening on construction sites.
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Why Draper Esprit doubled down on its status as a publicly listed VC
4 augustus 2021 · 12 min
Draper Esprit, another British venture capital firm, moved from the AIM to the LSE proper, with a secondary listing on Euronext Dublin.
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