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Former teen model co-created app Frich to help Gen Z be more realistic about finances
As a teen model, Katrin Kaurov became financially independent at a young age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
YoLa Fresh, a GrubMarket for Morocco, digs up $7M to connect farmers with food sellers
YoLa Fresh works with over a thousand retailers across Morocco and records up to $1 million in gross merchandise volume. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
OneScreen.ai brings startup ads to billboards and NYC’s subway
When Alex Ewing was a kid growing up in Purcell, Oklahoma, he knew how close he was to home based on which billboards he could see out the car window. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Exactly.ai secures $4M to help artists use AI to scale up their output
Exactly.ai says it uses generative AI to help artists retain legal ownership of their art while being able to reproduce their designs faster and at scale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Tech startup Odyssey goes on journey to help states implement school choice programs
The company's public fund disbursement and e-commerce platform makes accepting school tuition and enabling educational enrichment more accessible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Kinnect’s new app aims to help families record and store generational memories
A new startup called Kinnect aims to help people privately save generational memories, traditions, recipes, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ledger starts shipping its high-end hardware crypto wallet
Ledger, a French startup mostly known for its secure crypto hardware wallets, has started shipping new wallets nearly 18 months after announcing the latest Ledger Stax devices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Cloover wants to speed solar adoption by helping installers finance new sales
Small operations can lose customers by not offering financing, something the Berlin-based startup wants to change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Doly lets you generate 3D product videos from your iPhone
AniML, the French startup behind a new 3D capture app called Doly, wants to create the PhotoRoom of product videos, sort of. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Indian EV startup Zypp Electric secures ENEOS backing to fund expansion to Southeast Asia
Indian startup Zypp Electric plans to use fresh investment from Japanese oil and energy conglomerate ENEOS to take its EV rental service into Southeast Asia early next year, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Auggie’s new app helps parents find community and shop
A new startup called Auggie is aiming to give parents a single platform where they can shop for products and connect with each other. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Bugcrowd, the crowdsourced white-hat hacker platform, acquires Informer to ramp up its security chops
On the heels of raising $102 million earlier this year, Bugcrowd is making good on its promise to use some of that funding to make acquisitions to strengthen its security chops. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Autonomous shipping startup Orca AI tops up with $23M led by OCV Partners and MizMaa Ventures
If you thought autonomous driving was just for cars, think again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Unify helps developers find the best LLM for the job
When developers have a particular job that AI can solve, it’s not typically as simple as just pointing an LLM at the data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Hydrolix seeks to make storing log data faster and cheaper
In 2008, Marty Kagan, who’d previously worked at Cisco and Akamai, co-founded Cedexis, a (now-Cisco-owned) firm developing observability tech for content delivery networks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Patronus AI is off to a magical start as LLM governance tool gains traction
These days every company is trying to figure out if their large language models are compliant with whatever rules they deem important, and with legal or regulatory requirements Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Rollup wants to be the hardware engineer’s workhorse
Hard tech startups generate a lot of buzz, but there’s a growing cohort of companies building digital tools squarely focused on making hard tech development faster, more efficient, and — well, a whole lot more like software development. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Zen Educate raises $37M and acquires Aquinas Education as it tries to address the teacher shortage
Zen Educate, an online marketplace that connects schools with teachers, has raised $37 million in a Series B round of funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
CyberArk snaps up Venafi for $1.54B to ramp up in machine-to-machine security
CyberArk — one of the army of larger security companies founded out of Israel — is acquiring Venafi, a specialist in machine identity, for $1.54 billion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Agora raises $34B Series B to keep building the Carta for real estate
Since he was very young, Bar Mor knew that he would inevitably do something with real estate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Thoma Bravo’s LogRhythm merges with Exabeam in more cybersecurity consolidation
Private equity giant Thoma Bravo has announced that its security information and event management (SIEM) company LogRhythm will be merging with Exabeam, a rival cybersecurity company backed by the likes of Cisco and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Spoor uses AI to save birds from wind turbines
Wind is the largest source of renewable energy in the U.S., according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, but wind farms come with an environmental cost as wind turbines can wreak havoc on bird populations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Embedded accounting startup Layer secures $2.3M toward goal of replacing Quickbooks
So did investors laugh them out of the room when they explained how they wanted to replace Quickbooks? Kind of. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Meet PayHOA, a profitable and once-bootstrapped SaaS startup that just landed a $27.5M Series A
PayHOA, a previously bootstrapped Kentucky-based startup that offers software for self-managed homeowner associations is an example of how real-world problems can translate into opportunity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Orange Charger thinks a $750 outlet will solve EV charging for apartment dwellers
Charging has long been the Achilles’ heel of electric vehicles. One startup thinks it has a better way for apartment dwelling EV drivers to charge overnight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aplazo is using buy-now-pay-later as a stepping stone to financial ubiquity in Mexico
Four-year-old Mexican BNPL startup Aplazo facilitates fractionated payments to offline and online merchants even when the buyer doesn't have a credit card. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sona, a frontline workforce management platform, raises $27.5M with eyes on US expansion
Sona, a workforce management platform for frontline employees, has raised $27.5 million in a Series A round of funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Retell AI lets companies build ‘voice agents’ to answer phone calls
Call centers are embracing automation. There’s debate as to whether that’s a good thing, but it’s happening — and quite possibly accelerating. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Bluesky now lets you personalize its main Discover feed using new controls
The social network has announced an updated version of its app that lets you offer feedback about its algorithmic feed so you can better customize it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Blackboard founder transforms Zoom add-on designed for teachers into business tool
When Class founder Michael Chasen was in college, he and a buddy came up with the idea for Blackboard, an online classroom organizational tool. His original company was acquired for $1.64 billion in 2011. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Triomics raises $15M Series A to automate cancer clinical trials matching
For cancer patients, medicines administered in clinical trials can help save or extend lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Lucid Bots secures $9M for drones to clean more than your windows
Cleaning the outside of buildings is a dirty job, and it’s also dangerous Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Checkfirst raises $1.5M pre-seed to apply AI to remote inspections and audits
We’ve all seen them. The inspector with a clipboard, walking around a building, ticking off the last time the fire extinguishers were checked, or if all the lights are working. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Meati Foods bites into another $100M amid growth to 7,000 retail locations
Meati Foods is adding 2,000 retail locations within Kroger’s family of stores by April. Three products will be available, including the Classic cutlet as well as Classic and Carne Asada steaks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
After a $20M Series A funding, Germany’s Insempra plans eco-friendly lipid production
Insempra plans to turn oil yeast in lipids on an industrial scale using yeast fermentation factories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Samsung Medison to acquire French AI ultrasound startup Sonio for $92.7M
The French startup's AI assistant is aimed at helping obstetricians and gynecologists with the evaluation and documentation of ultrasound exams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
DocuSign acquires AI-powered contract management firm Lexion
As DocuSign reportedly explores a sale to private equity, it’s acquiring a company itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Honeycomb Insurance grabs $36M Series B from solo VC-led Zeev Ventures
When Itai Ben-Zaken’s first startup failed in 2018, the former BCG consultant and Wharton MBA spent months trying to understand what he could have done differently during the five years he ran the company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dropbox, Figma CEOs back Lamini, a startup building a generative AI platform for enterprises
Lamini, a new startup with funding from Andrew Ng, has emerged from stealth with a generative AI platform aimed at enterprises. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Iconiq raises $5.15B toward seventh flagship fund
Iconiq Capital has raised $5.15 billion across two funds associated with the seventh growth fund family, according to SEC filings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Hubble Network makes Bluetooth connection with a satellite for the first time
Hubble Network has become the first company in history to establish a Bluetooth connection directly to a satellite — a critical technology validation for the company, potentially opening the door to connecting millions more devices anywhere in the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Freshworks acquires Device42 for $230M, appoints Dennis Woodside new CEO
Freshworks, the publicly listed SaaS firm, is acquiring U.S.-based startup Device42 for $230 million, the company disclosed in an SEC filing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Digital fraud detection startup BioCatch hits $1.3B valuation as Permira buys majority stake
Digital fraud detection company BioCatch has a new majority shareholder in the form of U.K private equity firm Permira. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
ButcherBox acquires ‘Shark Tank’-featured startup Truffle Shuffle
Butcherbox is known for grinding its way forward, bootstrapping to more than $600,000 worth of revenue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Midi is building a digital platform for an oft-overlooked area of women’s health
When Joanna Strober was around 47 she stopped sleeping. While losing sleep is a common symptom of perimenopause, she first had to go to multiple providers, including driving 45 minutes out of San Francisco to pay $750 out of pocket, to get that diagnosis and proper treatment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chicago-based Hyde Park Venture Partners closes $98M Fund IV with two investments made so far
Hyde Park Venture Partners is known for having visibility into more than 90% of mid-continent startups and being early backers of companies like ShipBob, FourKites, G2, LogicGate and Dentologie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
neuroClues wants to put high speed eye tracking tech in the doctor’s office
The eyes aren’t just a window into the soul; tracking saccades can help doctors pick up a range of brain health issues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Carbonfact is a carbon management platform designed specifically for the fashion industry
French startup Carbonfact believes that the best carbon accounting solutions will focus on one vertical. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ex-NSA hacker and ex-Apple researcher launch startup to protect Apple devices
Two veteran security experts are launching a startup that aims to help other makers of cybersecurity products to up their game in protecting Apple devices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ethiopian plastic upcycling startup Kubik gets fresh funding, plans to license out its tech
Kubik, a plastic upcycling startup, has raised a $1.9 million seed extension, months after announcing initial equity investment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices