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Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley steps back from the company
29 juni 2021 · 4 min
Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley has announced that he is stepping back of his full-time role at the company. During the first seven years of the company, he was the startup’s Chief Executive Officer. In 2016, Crowley moved to an executive chairman position. He’s also been running the Foursquare Labs R&D group since then.
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Real estate tech startup Side raises $50M more at a $2B valuation as it preps for an IPO
29 juni 2021 · 5 min
Side, a real estate technology company that works to turn agents and independent brokerages into boutique brands and businesses, has raised “$50 million-plus” in a funding round that doubles its valuation to $2 billion. The latest financing comes just three months after the San Francisco-based startup raised $150 million in a Series D funding round […]
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PayMaya owner Voyager Innovation raises $167M from KKR, Tencent and IFC, to launch digital bank in the Philippines
28 juni 2021 · 4 min
Voyager Innovations, the Manila-based owner of PayMaya, one of the Philippines’ most popular payment and financial services apps, announced today it has raised $167 million in new funding to launch more financial services, including a digital bank. The raise includes $121 million in new funding, and $46 million from previously committed funds. Voyager announced in […]
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Mercuryo raises $7.5M for crypto-focused cross-border payments after crossing $50M in ARR
28 juni 2021 · 6 min
Mercuryo, a startup that has built a cross-border payments network, has raised $7.5 million in a Series A round of funding. The London-based company describes itself as “a crypto infrastructure company” that aims to make blockchain useful for businesses via its “digital asset payment gateway.” Specifically, it aggregates various payment solutions and provides fiat and […]
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Circle wants to help companies access DeFi lending markets with new API
25 juni 2021 · 4 min
Cryptocurrency company Circle has announced that it plans to launch a new API for companies using Circle accounts to manage crypto assets — and in particular USDC stablecoins. The new API will let companies access decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols starting with Compound lending pools. Circle is better known as one of the founding members of […]
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Env0 lands $17M Series A as infrastrucure as code control plane gains traction
25 juni 2021 · 4 min
As companies deliver code ever faster, they need tooling to provide some semblance of control and governance over the cloud resources being used to deliver it. Env0, a startup that is helping companies do just that, announced a $17 million Series A today. M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, led the round with participation from previous investors […]
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Revolut revenue grew by 57% in 2020
24 juni 2021 · 6 min
Fintech startup Revolut has filed some financial results and is sharing details with the press. In 2020, the company reported $361 million in revenue (£261 million) — that’s a 57% increase compared to 2019 revenue of $229 million (£166 million). Interestingly, those revenue figures have been adjusted to include fair value gains on cryptocurrency assets […]
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Autonomous trucking startup Embark to go public in $5.2B SPAC deal
24 juni 2021 · 4 min
Five-year old self-driving truck startup Embark Trucks Inc. said Wednesday it would merge with special purpose acquisition company Northern Genesis Acquisition Corp. II in a deal valued at $5.2 billion. Embark takes a different approach to autonomous trucking: As opposed to manufacturing and operating a fleet of trucks themselves, which is the route rival TuSimple […]
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These Forge cofounders just raised $5 million to work on a new, still-stealth investing startup
23 juni 2021 · 5 min
Sohail Prasad and Samvit Ramadurgam are cofounders who met during Y Combinator’s 2012 summer batch and went on to cofound Forge, which helps accredited investors and institutions buy and sell private company shares and which most recently raised $150 million in new funding in May.
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Vantage raises $4M to help businesses understand their AWS costs
23 juni 2021 · 5 min
Vantage, a service that helps businesses analyze and reduce their AWS costs, today announced that it has raised a $4 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. A number of angel investors, including Brianne Kimmel, Julia Lipton, Stephanie Friedman, Calvin French Owen, Ben and Moisey Uretsky, Mitch Wainer and Justin Gage, also participated in this […]
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Fintech veteran Jitendra Gupta is ready for his new inning — now he is going after banks in India
22 juni 2021 · 6 min
For most people in India, having to engage with banks doesn’t instill a sense of joy. Banks in the South Asian market are notorious for making unannounced spam calls to upsell customers loans and credit cards, even when they have been explicitly asked not to do so. Moreover, when a customer does reach out to […]
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Uber to become the sole owner of grocery delivery startup Cornershop
22 juni 2021 · 4 min
Uber has reached a deal to become the sole owner of Latin American delivery startup Cornershop, just one year after acquiring a majority stake in the company. The ride-hailing giant said in a regulatory filing Monday that it will purchase the remaining 47% interest in Cornershop in exchange for 29 million shares.
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Vietnamese financial services app MFast gets $1.5M pre-Series A led by Do Ventures
21 juni 2021 · 3 min
MFast, a mobile app that lets Vietnamese users in remote areas access financial services, announced it has raised a $1.5 million pre-Series A today. The round was led by Do Ventures, with participation from JAFCO Asia. Launched in 2019 by fintech company Digipay, MFast says it has been used by 600,000 people to date. It […]
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Mediflash is a freelancer marketplace for health professionals
21 juni 2021 · 4 min
Meet Mediflash, a new French startup that wants to improve temp staffing in healthcare facilities, such as nursing homes, clinics and mental health facilities. The company positions itself as an alternative to traditional temp staffing agencies. They claim to offer better terms for both caregivers and institutions.
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Neo4j raises Neo$325m as graph-based data analysis takes hold in enterprise
18 juni 2021 · 6 min
Databases run the world, but database products are often some of the most mature and venerable software in the modern tech stack. Designers will pixel push, frontend engineers will add clicks to make it more difficult to drop out of a soporific Zoom call, but few companies are ever willing to rip out their database.
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Twine raises $3.3M to add networking features to virtual events
18 juni 2021 · 7 min
Twine, a video chat startup that launched amid the pandemic as a sort of “Zoom for meeting new people,” shifted its focus to online events and, as a result, has now closed on $3.3 million in seed funding. To date, twine’s events customers have included names like Microsoft, Amazon, Forrester, and others.
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Construction robotics firm Dusty raises $16.5M
17 juni 2021 · 3 min
It certainly follows then that some leading construction robotics companies are able to strike while the iron is hot with some healthy raises. Today, Bay Area-based Dusty Robotics announced a $16.5 million Series A.
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Messaging social network IRL hits unicorn status with SoftBank-led $170M Series C
17 juni 2021 · 8 min
Social calendar app IRL has been busy building a messaging-based social network, or what founder and CEO Abraham Shafi calls a “WeChat of the West.” Following its pandemic-fueled growth and further push into the social networking space with group chat and other features, IRL is today announcing a sizable $170 million Series C growth round, […]
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Europe’s tech leaders define a strategy to create tech giants
16 juni 2021 · 5 min
A group of 200 startup founders, investors, associations and government members are backing a manifesto and a set of recommendations in order to create the next wave of tech giants in Europe. Today, French President Emmanuel Macron is hosting an event in Paris with some of the members of this group called Scale-Up Europe.
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BookClub checks out a shiny new $20 million Series A
16 juni 2021 · 5 min
Serial edtech entrepreneur David Blake, who co-founded Degreed and launched LearnIn, is living the dream of any book worm. He reads at least one book a week, talks to the authors behind it and unpacks his biggest questions around the subtlest of passages. And it’s all thanks to his latest startup, BookClub, which first launched […]
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Klaxoon introduces whiteboard-focused conference room for hybrid work
15 juni 2021 · 4 min
French startup Klaxoon is announcing a product update for its whiteboard collaboration platform as well as a new hardware product. With Hybridity, the company is going to sell ready-to-use conference rooms that optimize hybrid meetings between people currently in the office and people on the go. Let’s start with the software update.
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Fraud protection startup nSure AI raises $6.8M in seed funding
15 juni 2021 · 3 min
The round will help the company bolster the predictive AI and machine learning algorithms that power nSure AI’s “first of its kind” fraud protection platform.
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Anrok raises $4.3M to solve sales tax for SaaS companies
14 juni 2021 · 4 min
It’s easier than ever to build a product and sell it around the United States, or the world. But if you want to do so without incurring the wrath of any particular state, or nation-state, you’d best have your tax matters in order.
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Lydia partners with Cashbee to add savings accounts
14 juni 2021 · 3 min
French startup Lydia is better known as the dominant app for peer-to-peer payments. But the company has been adding more features, such as a debit card, account aggregation, donations, money pots and more. This week, the company is adding savings accounts thanks to a partnership with French fintech startup Cashbee.
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Money Minx aims to build a ‘Personal Finance’ OS for the everyday investor
11 juni 2021 · 4 min
New regulations are making it easier to invest in alternative assets via crowdfunding, and the recent explosion of crypto and NFTs means that investors are more diversified than ever. Keeping up with such a variety of investments may prove difficult to those who want to handle managing their investment portfolios on their own. Money Minx, […]
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Slintel scores $20M Series A as buyer intelligence tool gains traction
11 juni 2021 · 4 min
One clear outcome of the pandemic was pushing more people to do their shopping online, and that was as true for B2B as it was for B2C. Knowing which of your B2B customers are most likely to convert puts any sales team ahead of the game. Slintel, a startup providing that kind of data, announced […]
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Recorded Future launches its new $20M Intelligence Fund for early-stage startups
10 juni 2021 · 4 min
Threat intelligence company Recorded Future is launching a $20 million fund for early-stage startups developing novel data intelligence tools.
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Stacey Abrams co-founded fintech company Now raises $9.5M
10 juni 2021 · 4 min
After co-founding Insomnia Consulting, Stacey Abrams and Lara O’Connor Hodgson started Nourish to address a personal problem. “We were at a meeting, I think for one of my campaigns,” explains Abrams, the Georgia-based lawyer and politician whose voting rights work became a focal point for the country in 2020.
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Pennylane raises $18.3 million for its accounting service
9 juni 2021 · 3 min
French startup Pennylane has raised a new $18.3 million funding round (€15 million). Interestingly, this is Sequoia Capital’s first investment in France after they announced ambitious expansion plans in Europe. If you’re not familiar with Pennylane, the startup has been developing an accounting platform that improves accounting for both clients and their accountants.
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Kafene raises $14M to offer buy now, pay later to the subprime consumer
9 juni 2021 · 5 min
The buy now, pay later frenzy isn’t going anywhere as more consumers seek alternatives to credit cards to fund purchases. And those purchases aren’t exclusive to luxuries such as Pelotons (ahem, Affirm) or jewelry someone might be treating themselves to online.
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Nuggs creator Simulate raises $50M
8 juni 2021 · 3 min
New York-based Simulate today announced a $50 million fundraise. Led by Alexis Ohanian’s 776, the Series B brings the meat alternative’s total funding to north of $60 million and values it at $260 million.
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Astra to acquire electric in-space propulsion company Apollo Fusion
8 juni 2021 · 3 min
Astra, the space launch startup with plans to go public via a SPAC merger, will acquire electric propulsion maker Apollo Fusion, the company said Monday.
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Rebranded Toyota Ventures invests $300 million in emerging tech and carbon neutrality
7 juni 2021 · 5 min
Toyota AI Ventures, Toyota’s standalone venture capital fund, has dropped the “AI” and is reborn as, simply, Toyota Ventures. The fund is commemorating its new identity by investing an additional $300 million in emerging technologies and carbon neutrality via two early-stage funds: the Toyota Ventures Frontier Fund and the Toyota Ventures Climate Fund.Â
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Indonesian healthcare startup Prixa raises $3M led by MDI and TPTF
7 juni 2021 · 3 min
Indonesian healthcare startup Prixa has raised $3 million led by MDI Ventures and the Trans-Pacific Technology Fund (TPTF), with participation from returning investors including Siloam Hospitals Group. This brings Prixa’s total raised to $4.5 million since it launched in 2019. Co-founder and chief executive officer James Roring M.D., told TechCrunch in an email that the […]
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Gong going gangbusters, grabs $250M Series E on $7.25B valuation
4 juni 2021 · 4 min
Gong, the revenue intelligence startup, has been raising capital at a rapid pace, and today the company announced another $250 million on a $7.25 billion valuation, a number that triples its previous valuation from last summer.
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One Concern raises $45M from SOMPO to scale its disaster resilience platform across Japan
4 juni 2021 · 3 min
Climate change is intensifying across the globe, and one of the most challenging cases is Japan. In addition to lying on a major fault, the archipelago is increasingly inundated from rising sea levels that make the country more prone to disasters.
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Lightyear is a new stock trading app from early Wise employees
3 juni 2021 · 4 min
Meet Lightyear, a new London-based startup coming out of stealth today. The company is building a stock trading app with a focus on creating a truly commission-free app. In addition to waving account fees and trading fees, Lightyear doesn’t charge foreign exchange fees either — up to a certain point.
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Stemma launches with $4.8M seed to build managed data catalogue
3 juni 2021 · 4 min
As companies increasingly rely on data to run their businesses, having accurate sources of data becomes paramount. Stemma, a new early stage startup, has come up with a solution, a managed data catalogue that acts as an organization’s source of truth.
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Kabuto releases a larger version of its smart suitcase
2 juni 2021 · 3 min
Kabuto, the French startup that designs and sells smart suitcases, is releasing a new suitcase today. Called the Kabuto Trunk, this is the company’s biggest suitcase to date. Unlike smart suitcases from other brands, this isn’t just a suitcase with a battery in it.
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Ditto raises $1.5 million to help teams collaborate on copy
2 juni 2021 · 4 min
Even as remote software uptake has boomed during the pandemic, certain workflows have gotten prioritized for specialized toolsets while other team members have been left piecemealing their productivity.
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Singapore-based D2C dental brand Zenyum raises $40M Series B from L Catterton, Sequoia India and other investors
1 juni 2021 · 5 min
Zenyum, a startup that wants to make cosmetic dentistry more affordable, announced today it has raised a $40 million Series B. This includes $25 million from L Catterton, a private equity firm focused on consumer brands.
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June makes product analytics more accessible
1 juni 2021 · 3 min
Meet June, a new startup that wants to make it easier to create analytics dashboards and generate reports even if you’re not a product analytics expert. June is built on top of your Segment data. Like many no-code startups, it uses templates and a graphical interface so that non-technical profiles can start using it.
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By working with home entrepreneurs, Jakarta-based DishServe is creating an even more asset-light version of cloud kitchens
31 mei 2021 · 7 min
Cloud kitchens are already meant to reduce the burden of infrastructure on food and beverage brands by providing them with centralized facilities to prepare meals for delivery.
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Anthropic is the new AI research outfit from OpenAI’s Dario Amodei, and it has $124M to burn
31 mei 2021 · 5 min
As AI has grown from a menagerie of research projects to include a handful of titanic, industry-powering models like GPT-3, there is a need for the sector to evolve — or so thinks Dario Amodei, former VP of research at OpenAI, who struck out on his own to create a new company a few months […]
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Café helps hybrid organizations schedule in-office time
28 mei 2021 · 4 min
Meet Café, a new French startup founded by two brothers that wants to help companies switch to a hybrid remote-and-office workplace model. Café isn’t a traditional desk-booking tool. Instead, the company helps you see when people in your team are coming to the office so that you can plan when you should go to the […]
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Engine Biosciences expands its digital drug discovery pipeline with $43M round
28 mei 2021 · 5 min
Drug discovery is a large and growing field, encompassing both ambitious startups and billion-dollar Big Pharma incumbents. Engine Biosciences is one of the former, a Singaporean outfit with an expert founding crew and a different approach to the business of finding new therapeutics, and it just raised $43 million to keep growing. Digital drug discovery […]
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Parametrix Insurance raises $17.5 million to offer cloud downtime insurance
27 mei 2021 · 3 min
Insurtech is picking up steam in a big way, but startup Parametrix thinks there is still plenty of room left to innovate. The company, which today announced the close of a $17.5 million funding round, offers insurance policies for companies who rely on third-party cloud providers, ecommerce services, payment gateways and CRM systems. In essence, […]
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Tractive raises $35M as it expands GPS pet tracking to the US
27 mei 2021 · 3 min
Another sizable raise for a pet (cats and dogs) tracking company this morning. Austria-based Tractive has announced a $35 million Series A, led by Guidepost Growth Equity. The round is the company’s first since 2013, when its GPS-based tracker first hit the market. Along with the funding round, the company is also announcing its official […]
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Aurora Solar aims to power the growing solar industry with a $250M round C
26 mei 2021 · 6 min
Aurora Solar had one of those pitches that seemed obvious in retrospect. Instead of going to a house and measuring its roof manually for a solar panel installation, why not use aerial scans and imagery of the whole region?
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Call it a comeback: Turntable.fm raises $7.5M
26 mei 2021 · 3 min
Earlier this year, Turntable.fm’s founder Billy Chasen dusted off the old site and resurrected it for the pandemic age. I know I wasn’t the only one feeling a wistful pang of nostalgia for the service during the long, dull days of sheltering in place. And while March 2020 would have been the best time for […]
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