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Fintech giant Stripe is getting into the credit game
Stripe wants to make it easier for businesses to access credit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
8Flow.ai raises $6.6M to automate customer support workflows
Working in customer support often means navigating disjointed tools to find data and solve issues. However, many of these actions are routine and repeatable, making them ideal candidates for automation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Measurabl, an ESG platform for real estate, raises $93M
Measurabl, a startup developing a platform for environmental, social and governance (ESG) data in the real estate space, today announced that it raised $93 million in a Series D funding tranche co-led by Energy Impact Partners and Sway Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Olé Life wants to make buying life insurance for Latin Americans easier
The full-stack insurance carrier is targeting Latin America’s growing middle class that may have previously been unable to obtain financial protection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Taxfix, the $1B German accounting startup, slashes 120 jobs amid funding crunch
Taxfix leaped to a $1 billion valuation in 2022 on the back of a popular mobile app used by consumers help with tax returns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Strive Health grabs $166M to provide end-to-end kidney care
Strive Health works with local providers to form an integrated care delivery system that follows a patient from chronic kidney disease to end-stage kidney disease. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Wellplaece wants to put a smile on dentists’ face with new supply procurement marketplace
Wellplaece’s takes in a client’s ordering data and then enables the customer to make those specific purchasing behaviors across a large network of suppliers via one shopping cart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
OMERS Growth Equity leads Carrum Health’s $45M Series C to expand cancer care
Carrum Health CEO Sach Jain noted that 2022 “was a big year for us” that included nearly doubling its book of business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
WireMock lands $6.5M to help developers build and test on mock APIs
As developers work with an increasing number of third-party APIs, they need a tool that mocks those APIs for testing purposes without actually firing the API gateway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Celebrity investors pile into consumer savings startup Checkmate
We’ve all been there. Shopping online and desperately searching for a promo code so that you can save some money on a purchase. Well, at least I’ve been there. Enter Checkmate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nymbus lands $70M to help banks digitally transform
Nymbus, a startup that partners with banks to migrate their legacy stack and launch neobanks to attract new customers, today announced that it raised $70 million in a Series D round led by Insight Partners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Kapital gets more of its own capital to help LatAm businesses monitor cash flow
Kapital's platform gives small and medium-sized businesses across Latin America a way to see their finances in one place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Arc launches HireAI to make finding software developers easier
Arc, the jobs platform created especially for software developers looking for remote positions, wants to make recruitment easier with the launch of HireAI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Generation Prime launches to make fertility services more accessible in Asia
Generation Prime, a startup that wants to make IVF and other fertility services more accessible to patients in Asia, is launching its first two clinics in Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Daylight, the LGBTQ+ neobank, calls it quits
Daylight, an LGBTQ+ banking platform, is shutting down. Its operations will cease on June 30, according to embattled co-founder and CEO Rob Curtis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode Six raises $48M to streamline payment processes
Episode Six, a global payments and banking infrastructure provider, today announced that it raised $48 million in a Series C funding round led by Avenir with participation from Anthos Capital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Modular app-building platform Buildier.ai raises $250 million Series D funding
It was only recently that we reported Buildier.ai had signed a strategic collaboration with and undisclosed investment from Microsoft. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Restaurant365 gobbles up $135M to supersize its software for the food service industry
The price of food continues to go up and up, but surprisingly that hasn’t (yet?) played out as pressure on the wider restaurant industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
With government backing, Ireland’s Elkstone closes first VC fund at $108M for early-stage startups
Yet another early-stage VC fund has closed in Europe this week, as Elkstone finalized a €100 million ($108 million) pot aimed at Irish startups. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
SoftBank rebrands Opportunity Fund, will invest $150 million in Black and Latino-led startups
The new fund hopes to deploy the $150 million within three years, and has appointed Paul Judge as its managing partner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Stability AI open sources its AI-powered design studio
Stability AI, the AI startup behind the text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, this week announced the release of StableStudio, an open source version of DreamStudio, Stability AI’s commercial AI-powered design suite. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Union AI raises $19.1M Series A to simplify AI and data workflows with Flyte
Union AI, a Bellevue, Washington–based open source startup that helps businesses build and orchestrate their AI and data workflows with the help of a cloud-native automation platform, today announced that it has raised a $19.1 million Series A round from NEA and Nava Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Swiggy’s food delivery business reaches profitability
India’s Swiggy said on Thursday that its food delivery business has become profitable, eclipsing its publicly-listed rival Zomato on another key metric a day before the firm is set to report its quarterly earnings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Wefox secures new funding at $4.5 billion valuation as it aims for profitability
Wefox, the German insurtech startup, has closed a new funding round from existing investors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Insurtech bolttech gets $196M at $1.6B valuation from investors like MetLife
Embedded insurtech is still hot, as the $196 million in funding landed by bolttech proves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This UK startup plans to radically shake-up the antiquated word of COPD measurement
In 1846, London surgeon John Hutchinson invented the spirometer, a thing you blow hard into, to measure the volume of air inspired and expired by the lungs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jenfi raises more funding for its “growth capital as a service” platform
Jenfi, a “growth-capital-as-a-service” platform, can provide online businesses with revenue-based financing in a little as a day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Everseen raises over $70M for AI tech to spot potential retail theft
In 2007, Alan O’Herlihy, who previously worked with large SAP installations as well as retail, set out to find a way to help retailers minimize “shrinkage,” or where a store has fewer items in stock than in its recorded inventory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Pale Blue Dot continues investing in its climate vision, with a second, $100M fund
Sweden-based VC fund Pale Blue Dot bounced onto the scene in 2020 with a €53 million fund to help climate-focused startups. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
AMP Robotics attracts investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund
AMP Robotics, a Denver, Colorado-based startup creating robotic systems that can automatically sort recyclable material, today announced that it extended its Series C round to $99 million, thanks to an investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
SLAIT pivots from translating sign language to AI-powered interactive lessons
Millions of people use sign language, but methods of teaching this complex and subtle skill haven’t evolved as quickly those for written and spoken languages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
AudiencePlus wants to help every company run its own media platform
It used to be that having a corporate blog and some paid content was the gist of your marketing department’s content efforts, and that was enough. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Cable wants to help banks cut financial crime through automated assurance
Cable enables banks and fintechs to monitor all of their accounts — not just a fraction as before — to know, in real time, if failure controls are working as expected to combat breaches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Prewave pulls in $20M as supply chain tech investments remain on VC radars
Despite the investor caution narrative permeating the startup world throughout the economic downturn, certain startup-types have been a little more impervious to market conditions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ascend raises $25 million for pre-seed AI startups in the Pacific Northwest
Investing in artificial intelligence (AI) startups is the latest bandwagon VCs are piling onto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Invesco cuts Indian food delivery giant Swiggy’s valuation to $5.5 billion
Invesco, which led Swiggy’s previous round, has marked down the Indian food delivery giant’s valuation in its holding to about $5.5 billion, according to a filing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
PermitFlow advances construction permitting automation with $5.5M in new capital
PermitFlow has software for developers and general contractors to streamline the construction permit application and management processes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Antimetal is putting AI to work to root out cloud cost inefficiencies
One constant theme we’ve been hearing from the big cloud infrastructure vendors this year is helping customers increase the efficiency of their cloud spend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Go1 snaps up speed reading app Blinkist to expand in enterprise learning
After raising $100 million at a valuation of over $2 billion last year, the Australian ed-tech startup Go1 is making an acquisition and getting some investment to expand its reach and technology to serve the market of corporate online learning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Slash aims to corner the Gen Z market with business-focused banking features
Around two years ago, Victor Cardenas and Kevin Bai built a fintech platform called Slash that lets users create shareable virtual cards to split recurring expenses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
AI-powered supply chain startup Pando lands $30M investment
Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando, a startup developing fulfillment management technologies, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to $45 million. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Green-Got is a neobank for climate-conscious customers
French startup Green-Got is building an alternative to your traditional bank account with a focus on climate change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mercu meets deskless workers where they are
Many employee engagement and retention tools were created with the assumption that workers spent most of their time at desks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Fiverr Enterprise aims to streamline managing large groups of freelancers
In 2021, gig marketplace Fiverr acquired Stoke Talent, a startup developing freelance management tools for employers, for $95 million. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Hackajob matches technical talent with companies looking to hire
Even today with all of the layoffs we have seen in the tech industry over the last year, there is still a shortage of technical talent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Citymapper lowers the paywall for premium features but keeps monthly subscription for removing ads
Citymapper is lowering the paywall around its premium features and introducing a new subscription plan purely for removing ads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Simpplr raises $70M for its AI-powered intranet platform
Several years ago, entrepreneur Dhiraj Sharma’s first company, a software consultancy, was hired by an HR tech firm to develop an app to improve the employee onboarding experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
AI platform to analyze creative advertising raises $5.1M from investors, including a16z
In this increasingly AI-driven era, creative and media teams will probably need to employ the technology to up their game on analyzing their creative assets and A/B testing — or someone else will simply beat them to the punch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Once-hot photo-sharing social app Poparazzi is shutting down
Poparazzi, the once-hot photo-sharing app that hit the top of the App Store in 2021, is shutting down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chunk Foods close to opening factory to produce ‘millions’ of plant-based steaks
The company develops whole cuts of alternative proteins using fermentation technology and food-grade microorganisms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices