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Perfekto bags $1.1M to find homes for imperfect produce in Mexico
Perfekto's customers can personalize their subscription box of imperfect produce, of which the company says 1 million pounds have been rescued from landfills since 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
With new capital, Adapty is betting it can help app devs make more money
Adapty hopes to help developers earn more from their apps. So far, it has been doing this mostly by powering A/B testing for paywalls, but it has a broader road map.With new capital, Adapty is betting it can help app devs make more money by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Equals secures $15M investment to supercharge spreadsheets
Equals, a New York-based startup ambitiously aiming to challenge Excel’s dominance with a supercharged spreadsheet, today announced that it raised $16 million in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from Craft Ventures, Box Group, Worklife and Combine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Kuda takes digital banking play to the U.K. with its remittance product
Kuda, the London-based and Nigerian-operating startup taking on incumbents in the country with a mobile-first and personalized set of banking services, is expanding to the U.K. by offering a remittance product to Nigerians in the diaspora. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Beekeeper, which helps companies engage with their ‘deskless’ frontline workforce, raises $50M
Beekeeper, a platform for businesses to engage with frontline workers, has raised $50 million in a Series C round of funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Eliyan raises $40M from Intel and Micron to build chiplet interconnects
Increasingly, as Moore’s law rears its ugly head, computer chip developers are adopting “chiplet” architectures to scale their hardware’s processing power. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Security automation startup Veriti launches out of stealth with $18.5M
Veriti, a platform for unifying cybersecurity infrastructure, today emerged from stealth with $18.5 million in funding, a combination of $12 million from Insight Partners and a $6.5 million round led by NFX and Amiti. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Twitter said to delay verification check mark rollout until after US midterm elections
Twitter is reportedly delaying the rollout of verification check marks to subscribers as the social network attempts to steer clear of possible impact to Tuesday’s midterm elections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
After 40 million app downloads, PhotoRoom raises $19 million
French startup PhotoRoom has raised a $19 million Series A funding round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sacca’s Lowercarbon doubles down on startup bringing solar modules to Indian rooftops
Chris Sacca’s Lowercarbon is doubling down on a startup that is racing to bring solar modules to rooftops in India. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Spend management startup Pleo lays off 15% of its workforce
Danish startup Pleo has announced that it plans to lay off around 15% of the company’s workforce. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dropit picks up $25M to digitize brick-and-mortar stores and unify inventories
Dropit, a retail technology platform that bridges the digital divide by unifying merchants’ online and in-store inventories, has raised $25 million in a Series C round of funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Bump builds a central hub for all your APIs
Meet Bump, a French software-as-a-service startup that wants to help you maintain and use APIs across your organization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Former Yext CEO launches Roam to provide a virtual HQ for distributed teams
Roam, which bills itself as a “cloud HQ” for distributed, remote companies, today emerged from stealth with $30 million in Series A funding led by IVP with participation from undisclosed angel investors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Microsoft backs web3 game developer Wemade
Microsoft has backed Wemade, a popular video game developer that has made aggressive bets on blockchain in recent years, the latest sign of tech giants’ showing growing interest in web3. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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