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Former Stripe engineer raises $4M for Beam, a fintech startup out to help contractors get paid faster
Beam, a five-month-old startup out to more easily help general contractors pay subcontractors and get paid themselves, has raised $4 million in a seed funding round led by Accel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Britive, which helps secure public clouds, lands $20.5M investment
Proving that there’s still plenty of venture money in cybersecurity, cloud identity security platform Britive today announced that it raised $20.5 million in a Series B funding round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Reselling marketplace Kream’s valuation rises to $742M with $168M Series C
The startup funding environment is more challenging right now, but some companies and industries still draw investors’ attention and money. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Clerk is simplifying identity for front-end web developers
Developers building front-end Jamstack web applications often struggle to build identity with traditional API tools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Cultivated meat is closer to our plate now that Good Meat also gets FDA blessing
This means that Good Meat’s cultivated chicken was accepted as a product safe for humans to eat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Duolingo is working on a music app
Duolingo, a language learning app with over 500 million users, is working on a music app, TechCrunch has learned. The Pittsburgh-based tech company currently has a small team working on a music product and is hiring a learning scientist who is an “expert in music education who combines both theoretical knowledge of relevant learning science […]Duolingo is working on a music app by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Pickle launches its truck unloading robot arm
Somewhere along the way, ProMat turned into a robotics show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Consumer electronics reseller Reebelo adds to Series A as it lays down roots in US
Reebelo has added embedded financial services, including a buyback program and device upgrade options, while its warranty program, ReebeloCare, grew 330% year over year.Consumer electronics reseller Reebelo adds to Series A as it lays down roots in US by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Pull Systems launches out of Up.Labs-Porsche partnership to tackle EV performance
When Porsche partnered with venture studio Up.Labs, the mission was to create six startups over three years all designed to solve the German automaker’s biggest problems and be compelling enough as a standalone business it that can attract other customers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Cast AI raises $20M to help companies reduce cloud spend
Cloud costs remain a top concern for organizations. According to a recent Anodot survey, 50% of businesses are struggling to control them, in part because they lack visibility into their cloud usage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Anonymous app Sidechat picks up rival Yik Yak…and users aren’t happy
Sidechat, the anonymous posting platform that began blowing up last year on college campuses, appears to have acquired a rival anonymous social platform, Yik Yak. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Zed raises $10M for a code editor built for collaboration
Code editors are complex and demanding pieces of software, but from a business standpoint, they’re notoriously difficult to monetize. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
ADIA invests $500 million in Lenskart
Lenskart has signed a definitive agreement to raise $500 million from the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, they said Wednesday, at the height of the market slump as the Indian eyewear retailer bulks up its offerings and scales to international markets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
LexxPluss expands into US with its warehouse robots
When Masaya Aso worked on autonomous driving technology at Bosch in Japan and Germany, he realized that “many tasks were still manual as over 85% of warehouses have almost no automation at all.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Medwing, a recruitment marketplace for Europe’s healthcare workforce, raises $47M
Medwing, a European startup building a recruitment marketplace for healthcare workers, has raised €44 million ($47 million) in a Series C round of funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
AG5 throws a lifeline to a manufacturing industry drowning in spreadsheets
You’d think that an industry like manufacturing had its own software stack, but in a lot of cases, a huge amount of getting-things-made is managed through Excel spreadsheets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Cloud security vendor Mitiga lands $45M, valuing the company at over $100M
Companies moved en masse to the cloud during the pandemic, under pressure to digitally transform. According to a 2021 survey from O’Reilly, cloud adoption steadily rose across industries, with 90% of organizations using cloud computing compared to 88% in 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Deel makes over $120M of its own cash available to support customers affected by SVB crisis
Global payroll provider Deel plans to provide $120 million of its own cash off its balance sheet to support startups’ payroll operations in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank shutting down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
After SVB failure, regulators close crypto-friendly bank Signature Bank
Signature Bank is the second casualty of the ongoing banking crisis in the U.S. The New York-based financial institution stopped operating abruptly on Sunday — customers will be made whole. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Bach, an app for planning bachelorette trips and group travel experiences, raises $9M
Bach, an app for planning bachelorette trips and group travel experiences, has announced $9 million in Series A funding led by Pritzker Group Venture Capital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Synctera raises $15M to help companies launch embedded banking products in Canada
Synctera, a banking-as-a-service startup, has raised an additional $15 million as it expands into Canada. NAventures, the corporate venture arm of National Bank of Canada, led the financing, which brings Synctera’s total raised to $60 million since its June 2020 inception. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
MentorcliQ raises over $80 million to grow its employee mentoring software and services
For years, Phil George was the executive sponsor of a mentoring program at McMaster-Carr, an industrial hardware supplier, where he spent weeks trying to match program participants with only scant information about them to go on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
E-bike maker Cowboy raises new funding round and launches AdaptivePower
Brussels-based startup Cowboy has been in the news lately for its cash burn rate. But the company wants to control its narrative again with some product and business news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Threecolts raises $90M to build out its toolkit for third parties selling on marketplaces like Amazon
Amazon rules the roost when it comes to e-commerce, with its marketplace outpacing everyone else when it comes to gross merchandise value, reach and market capitalization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Consensus raises $110M to inject automation into SaaS product demos
Garin Hess, a tech entrepreneur based in Utah, experienced what he calls the “demo bottleneck” at a previous software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup while pitching to potential customers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Growfin’s AI-based cash collection SaaS expands further to US and Asia
Cash management — tracking who needs to pay an invoice and whether it’s been done — can make or break a business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Assured Allies secures $42.5M Series B to help Americans ‘successfully age’
The company uses machine learning and predictive analytics along with science-of-aging and essential human support to offer retirement products and programs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Behavioral marketing platform Wunderkind nabs $76M
Wunderkind, a platform that enables brands to target web visitors through emails, texts and other digital advertising formats, today announced that it raised $76 million in a Series C round led by Neuberger Berman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Attio raises $23.5M to build a next-gen CRM platform
While a partner at a VC firm, Nicolas Sharp took on the project of finding customer relationship management (CRM) software for the firm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Japan’s Geniee acquires AdPushup-operator Zelto for $70 million
Japanese marketing tech firm Geniee, part of the SoftBank Group, has paid about $70 million in cash to acquire the revenue optimization platform Zelto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
SpotDraft shows that contract lifecycle management remains profitable, raises $26M
VCs see a rich opportunity in tools to manage the contract lifecycle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Hexa raises $20.5M to turn images into 3D objects for VR, AR and more
Hexa, a 3D asset visualization and management platform, today announced that it closed a $20.5 million Series A round from Point72 Ventures, Samurai Incubate, Sarona Partners and HTC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
8VC raises $880M in new fund that aims “to fix a broken world”
Austin-based venture firm 8VC, led by controversial Palantir founder Jon Lonsdale, has raised $880 million in its fifth fund. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
StudentFinance nabs $41M to help Europeans upskill for in-demand jobs
StudentFinance, a European fintech that funds educational programs for individuals through so-called income share agreements, has raised €39 million ($41 million) in a Series A round of funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
E-commerce aggregator Una Brands lands $30M just five months after its Series B
Una Brands, a Singapore-based e-commerce aggregator, has raised $30 million in pre-Series C financing just five months after announcing its $30 million Series B funding that was raised in September of last year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Cycle is a new product management hub that centralizes all customer feedback
Meet Cycle, a French startup that is building a collaboration tool for product managers where they can collect data from various tools, work on the next product iterations and close the feedback loop with the most engaged customers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Pagos raises $34M as the demand for ‘payment intelligence’ rises
With global digital payments revenue expected to reach $14.79 trillion by 2027, payment infrastructure has arguably never been more critical. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Born of drone tech, InsureTech Flock raises $38M Series B to nudge commercial drivers towards safety
It’s only human nature. If you tell a driver their insurance premium will go down if they drive more safely, then – it turns out – they will probably drive more safely. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Earthly wants to reinvent continuous integration to make it faster and cheaper
Continuous integration and continuous delivery, aka CI/CD, is a modern development concept where code is being constantly updated and delivered to a central repository, rather than waiting for a set of features to be completed and releasing it all at once. It’s a fairly recent construct, but Earthly Technologies, an early stage startup, believes that […]Earthly wants to reinvent continuous integration to make it faster and cheaper by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Source.ag raises $23M to raise the bar on raising crops with AI
Based in the Netherlands, blossoming agtech startup Source.ag has announced a $23 million Series A funding round to help grow its business, less than a year after its previous, $10 million round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Rebuy is out to change the customer buying experience, one personalization at a time
Merchants can use Rebuy to create personalized shopping experiences for their customers through upsells, cross-sells and post-purchase follow-ups.Rebuy is out to change the customer buying experience, one personalization at a time by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Trust & Will secures $15M after doubling revenue
Drafting a will and planning for what happens to your estate once you pass away is well, not exactly fun. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Byju’s has discussed shutting down coding platform WhiteHat Jr
Byju’s is weighing whether to wind down WhiteHat Jr, a coding platform that it acquired over two years ago at an enterprise value of $300 million, as the edtech group looks to cut expenses and eliminate a business unit that has drawn considerable criticism to the firm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Scoot lands $12M to inject customization into videoconferencing
While much of the white-collar workforce has adjusted to the new norm of videoconferencing from home, that doesn’t mean that they — or their bosses — necessarily like it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Finch lands $40M to connect disparate HR systems with a single API
Finch, a platform that helps companies connect to various HR apps, services and systems, today announced that it raised $40 million in a Series B round co-led by General Catalyst and Menlo Ventures with participation from QED Investors, Altman Capital and PruVen Capital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Strive gets backing from Y Combinator to show kids that coding is fun
Strive is an online learning platform that teaches kids to code, but it wants to do more than just that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Accel, Square Peg back Chronicle’s tool for presentations that won’t put you to sleep
You would expect the co-founder of a startup that improves on traditional slide presentations to hate tools like PowerPoint. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The entire fintech industry is not in distress – here’s who is hiring
With so many fintechs laying off staff, it can be easy to assume that the entire industry is in distress. But that’s not the case. In fact, some companies are finding opportunity in the masses of layoffs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Carbon Maps helps the food industry reduce their climate impact
Meet Carbon Maps, a new French startup that raised $4.3 million (€4 million) just a few weeks after its inception. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Planetarians grabs $6M to get its plant-based protein into foodservice orbit
Planetarians' plant-based whole cuts of protein have a umami-like flavor and are made with two ingredients: the oil cakes and brewer's yeast.Planetarians grabs $6M to get its plant-based protein into foodservice orbit by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices