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Digital card and gifting platform Givingli nabs $10M
Three years ago, Ben and Nicole Green were planning their wedding and decided to go digital with registries to save on money and materials. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
HR employee benefits platform Fringe raises $17M to offer customizable perks
Fringe, an HR tech startup enabling companies to offer customizable perks and benefits to employees, today announced that it raised $17 million in a funding round led by Origin Ventures and Felton Group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Navina secures $22M to process and summarize medical data for clinicians
Navina, a company developing AI-powered assistant software for physicians, today announced that it raised $22 million in Series B funding led by ALIVE with participation from Grove Ventures, Vertex Ventures Israel and Schusterman Family Investments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Twitter will be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange on November 8
Twitter’s stock will be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange and become a private company on November 8, according to a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Integration platform Cinchy lands fresh cash to connect data sources
Cinchy, a startup that provides a data management service for enterprise customers, today announced that it raised $14.5 million in Series B funding led by Forgepoint Capital with participation from IVP, SUV, Techstars and Mars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Uber alum rakes in $9.7M to curb finance-related fights between co-parents
The daughter of divorced parents herself, Uber alum Jacklyn Rome founded Onward to help co-parents more easily manage their shared expenses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Needl wants to become the search engine for your accounts
Google, DuckDuckGo, and other search engines help you find information from the web. But it’s hard to find documents, messages, meetings, and emails from your own accounts. You need to go to different applications to find things that might be related to one project. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Valence Security raises fresh capital to secure the SaaS app supply chain
Valence Security, a company securing business app infrastructure, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series A round led by M12, Microsoft’s corporate venture arm, with participation from YL Ventures, Porsche Ventures, Akamai Technologies, Alumni Ventures and former Symantec CEO Michael Fey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Duolingo’s owl will now shout fractions at you
Duolingo is launching its math app to the public, and months after a beta version joined the app store. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
WATI, a CRM tool built for WhatsApp, raises $23M led by Tiger Global
WhatsApp is used by more than two billion around the world, and is an important tool for many small businesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
AI chip startup Axelera lands $27M in capital to commercialize its hardware
Several years ago, Fabrizio Del Maffeo and a core team from Imec, a Belgium-based nanotechnology lab, teamed up with Evangelos Eleftheriou and a group of researchers at IBM Zurich Lab to develop a computer chip. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Pantheon Design alleviates supply chain uncertainty with factory-grade 3D printing
In the midst of the pandemic, Pantheon Design, a maker of industrial 3D printers from Vancouver, BC, suddenly found itself getting orders from factories in the Midwest, the center of heavy industries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Maro’s new app looks to help schools screen kids for depression and anxiety
Maro has developed a platform that helps families and schools navigate tough conversations about mental health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sensat raises $20.5M to build digital twins for infrastructure companies
Sensat, a platform that helps physical infrastructure companies map and visualize all their data, has raised $20.5 million in a Series B round of funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Handoff is creating a more equitable workforce through job sharing
Many qualified workers are failed by the current model of work in the United States, where jobs are either part-time or full-time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Banyan raises $43M to grow its network of item-level purchase data
Banyan, a platform for product purchase data that allows customers such as banks, fintechs, hotels and merchants to automate expense management and more, today announced that it raised $43 million in a Series A funding round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
N26 adds crypto trading with new Bitpanda integration
Challenger bank N26 is launching a new trading feature in its app — N26 Crypto. Users will be able to easily trade crypto assets using money in their N26 account. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Makersite lands $18M to help companies manage product supply chains
In 2018, Neil D’Souza, a software engineer by trade and previously the VP of product development at Thinkstep, came to the realization that his ten-plus-year effort to solve enterprise product challenges in the areas of sustainability, compliance and risk were having little impact. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
DigestAI’s 19-year-old founder wants to make education addictive
When Quddus Pativada was 14, he wished that he had an app that could summarize his textbooks for him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Streaming data processing platform RisingWave lands $36M to launch a cloud service
RisingWave Labs, a company developing a platform for data stream processing, today announced that it raised $36 million in a Series A funding round led by Yunqi Partners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Drivetrain is the “Google Maps for business growth”
Businesses usually plot their growth strategies on spreadsheets, but Drivetrain wants to provide a faster alternative for financial planning and decision making. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Andreessen Horowitz backs Synonym’s bio-manufacturing facilities
Synonym is developing designs and underwriting for its fermentation farms so that companies can more easily utilize them for bioproduct production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Beyond Meat to cut 19% of its workforce amid sales slump
Beyond Meat expects the job cuts to be completed by the end of the year. Beyond Meat to cut 19% of its workforce amid sales slump by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Getaway launches a way for you to enjoy, and own, vacation homes
Being in the business of convincing people that they deserve a vacation is hard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Waste4Change is building a circular economy in Indonesia
Even the largest landfills in Indonesia are at (or nearing) capacity, and the government has set an ambitious target of 30% waste reduction by 2025. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Pillow wants to make crypto saving and investing easy for new users
Pillow aspires to be an all-in-one platform that helps even newbie users save, spend and invest in crypto currency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Analytics operating system Redbird makes data more accessible to non-technical users
Data engineers have a big problem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Noom lays off more employees amid CFO departure
Noom, a health coaching platform valued at $3.7 billion last year, is laying off a portion of staff for the second time in a matter of months, TechCrunch has learned from sources. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Homa raises another $100 million for its data-driven mobile gaming tools
French startup Homa has raised a $100 million Series B funding round. Quadrille Capital and Headline are leading the round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Insite AI raises $19M to help consumer brands figure out their in-store strategies
Insite AI, a platform for consumer packaged goods companies that uses AI to provide recommendations on how to price, distribute and promote their products in physical stores, today launched out of stealth with $19 million in Series A capital from NewRoad Capital and M12, Microsoft’s corporate venture arm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Singapore-based staffing platform Workmate acquired by Persol Asia Pacific
Workmate, a Singapore-based on-demand staffing platform, has been acquired by Persol Asia Pacific, one of the region’s largest HR service providers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Trendsi secures $25M to help sellers and manufacturers predict demand
In the traditional business-to-business world, sellers often don’t know how much of a product they should order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Real estate investing app Fintor raises $6.2M at $80M valuation
Fintor, a fintech startup making it easier for non-accredited investors to invest in real estate properties, has just launched its mobile app for both iOS and Android. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jiko wants to help companies park their cash in T-Bills as everyone yield hunts
Jiko started its life as a mobile bank for consumers. But over time, the fintech startup has evolved its model – mostly fueled by demand – and is now making a push into corporate money storage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
SaaS platform klikit saves restaurant kitchens from “tablet hell”
The proliferation of delivery services give customers many options, but means chaos for busy restaurants that need to manage orders across multiple apps and channels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Identity security platform Oort bags new cash to grow its product
Oort, an identity threat detection and response platform, today announced that it raised $11.5 million in a Series A round co-led by .406 Ventures and Energy Impact Partners with participation from Cisco Investments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Techstars unveils sustainability-focused acceleration program in Paris
Techstars, a network of startup accelerators and an investment company, is launching a new accelerator in Paris called Techstars Sustainability Paris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Gourmey grabs $48 million to keep working on lab-grown foie gras
French startup Gourmey just raised a Series A funding round led by Earlybird Venture Capital. In total, the company banked $48 million (€48 million). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
IriusRisk lands $29M to automate threat modeling for apps
IriusRisk, a threat modeling platform, today announced that it raised $29 million in a Series B funding round led by Paladin Capital Group with participation from BrightPixel Capital, SwanLab Venture Factory, 360 Capital and Inveready. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Humaans raises $15M to simplify HR tasks like onboarding
The role of HR professionals grew in scope during the pandemic as companies were forced to navigate major workplace changes, like working from home. Unsurprisingly, those professionals have had some of the highest burnout rates over the past two years, particularly as HR departments remain under-resourced. According to an August survey from Workvivo, an employee […]Humaans raises $15M to simplify HR tasks like onboarding by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Vodafone confirms merger talks with Three UK in a “no cash” deal to scale up in 5G
Another major piece of mobile M&A appears to be in the works in the UK. Today, Vodafone confirmed that it was in merger discussions with Three UK, a carrier owned by CK Hutchison, to accelerate their 5G rollout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Web3 banking platform Juno raises $18 million, launches tokenized loyalty program
Juno, a startup that provides checking accounts to crypto enthusiasts and allows them to take their paychecks in digital tokens, has raised a new funding round as it expands its offerings to include a tokenized loyalty program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
With $17M in funding, Immerok launches cloud service for real-time streaming data
In 2011, the Apache Software Foundation released Flink, a high-throughput, low-latency engine for streaming various data types. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TestGrid is a “one-stop shop” for testing apps at scale
Created by developer who needed to test apps at scale, TestGrid is an on-demand platform that lets users run tests on websites and apps across browsers, operating systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Arcade scores $7.5M seed to make it simple to build a product demo
Software product marketers typically are charged with creating demos for potential customers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Lunio raises $15M to combat click fraud with algorithms
The digital ads market is robust, with Statista predicting that worldwide spend will reach nearly $900 billion by 2026. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Pigment raises another $65M to build the modern business planning platform
French startup Pigment has raised a new round of funding less than a year after raising a $73 million Series B round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Firehawk’s rocket engines and 3D-printed fuel hit testing milestones ahead of first launch
Although today’s rocket engines are advanced and powerful, they tend to rely on traditional — and naturally volatile — fuels like hydrazine or liquid oxygen and kerosene. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Stockly raises another $12 million to sell out-of-stock items via other retailers
French startup Stockly is raising a $12 million Series A round (€12 million) from Eurazeo, Daphni and several business angels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
AmazeVR wants to scale its virtual concert platform with $17M funding
AmazeVR, a Los Angeles-based virtual concert platform, said Tuesday it has raised a $17 million funding round to create immersive music experiences through virtual reality (VR) concerts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices