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Cococart sweetens the process for e-commerce companies to take orders immediately
Cococart's tools enable merchants to set up an online store in minutes with no code, no design and no app downloads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
AnyRoad helps brands measure customer experiences
Brands don’t often know everyone who is attending their big events, which leads to limited return on investment and actionable insights. AnyRoad provides that insight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
With mission to modernize data streaming, Redpanda snares $50M Series B
When Redpanda launched in 2019, company founder and CEO Alexander Gallego thought a startup devoted to modernizing streaming data should have an appropriately nerdy name. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Vendr acquires Blissfully, combining its SaaS buying services with management tools
Vendr, a startup that aims to help its customers buy software products faster and at a lower cost, announced this morning it has acquired Blissfully, a startup that builds SaaS management tooling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
thatDot launches Quine, a streaming graph engine
ThatDot, a Portland, Oregon-based startup that focuses on streaming event processing, today announced the launch of Quine, a new MIT-licensed open-source project for data engineers that combines event streaming with graph data to create what the company calls a ‘streaming graph.’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Last mile delivery e-bike supplier Zoomo tacks on $20M to Series B
Zoomo, an Australian startup that builds utility e-bikes for delivery workers, has raised an additional $20 million in equity to close out its Series B round. In November, the company raised $60 million in equity and debt for its Series B, which it used to fund further software development and more vehicles to expand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Agility Robotics and Playground Global join TechCrunch Live to speak on fundraising robotic delivery
Delivery has become one of the fastest growing verticals for robotics investments amid pandemic-related shutdowns. There’s been plenty of interest in the category over the years, but Covid-19 has accelerated interest on all sides of the equation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sweden’s Volta raises $260M at a $490M valuation to get its all-electric trucks into production by the end of this year
Volta Trucks — the Swedish electric vehicle startup that believes it can build better urban delivery vehicles and other trucks that are safer and take up a smaller carbon footprint than their gas-guzzling, more clumsy, existing counterparts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Voltron Data grabs $110M to build startup based on Apache Arrow project
Voltron Data was launched last year by former employees from NVidia, Ursa Computing, BlazingSQL and the co-founder of Apache Arrow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
ICON raises $185M in Tiger-led round to build more homes with its 3D printing tech, now approaching $2B valuation
ICON, which creates homes using 3D printing, has raised an additional $185 million in a round led by Tiger Global Management, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ibex Investors’ newest fund is betting on a mobility revolution
When Ibex Investors founder and CEO Justin Borus looks at the transportation industry — and the technological changes that are coming — he sees one of the biggest opportunities in a lifetime. And with a fresh $113 million fund focused on early stage mobility companies, his firm is tapping into it. “There will be more […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Actual, which renders company ESG data in a SimCity-like platform, raises $5M seed
Trying to deal with the huge amount of data associated with how companies are going to transition to a “net zero” economy is an uphill task. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dutch raises $20M to scale its telemedicine platform for pets
Virtual veterinarian care platform Dutch has raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Forerunner Ventures and Eclipse Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Genesis raises $200M in Tiger-led round to grow its finance-focused low-code application platform
Genesis, which has built a low-code/no-code application platform specifically for the financial markets, announced today it has landed a $200 million investment led by Tiger Global Management. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Employment Hero raises $181M AUD at $1.25B AUD valuation, acquires KeyPay
Human resources platform Employment Hero announced today it has raised $181 million AUD (or about $129 million USD), putting it at unicorn valuation in Australian dollars of $1.25 billion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Scrona has big manufacturing plans for its tiny 3D printing
Scrona AG caused a minor splash all the way back in 2015 when it snagged a Guinness World Record for the “smallest inkjet-printed color image.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Tropic takes in more capital as demand for software procurement savings continues
Tropic’s technology brings a click-and-approve approach to buying and managing all of that software. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Insify is modernizing insurance, but this time for SMEs
Meet Insify, an insurtech startup that raised a $17 million (€15 million) Series A round led by Accel. The company wants to modernize the insurance market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Lung-health startup Respira Labs inhales $2.8M to help respiration patients breathe easier
Respira Labs, a medical technology company specializing in respiratory care, which first unveiled its product to the world last year, successfully raised $1 million in funding and an additional $1.8 million in grants to continue building its acoustic resonance technology to assess lung function and changes therein. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
RedRoute wants answering customer service calls to be as easy as using ‘Alexa’
It takes as little as 30 minutes to get RedRoute set up, and customers can try the software with zero upfront costs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Remote work and events startup twine acquires YC-backed Glimpse to launch on Zoom
Twine, a company that provides networking tools for virtual events and remote teams, will soon bring its services to Zoom thanks to its just-closed acquisition of the Y Combinator-backed startup, Glimpse, which had developed a “speech matching” platform designed for virtual events. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Neo.tax raises $10M to help startups access R&D tax credits
For most people, mention of the word “taxes” conjures up unpleasant things like tedious processes, mountains of paperwork and shelling out a lot of money to the government. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Republic’s metaverse real estate arm spins off, rebrands as Everyrealm
Over $500 million worth of real estate was sold on the top four metaverse platforms in 2021, data shows. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Shift5 raises $50M to defend transport networks from cyberattacks
You might not think much about the train or the airplane that gets you from one place to another, but behind any transportation link is a vast sprawling network of electronics, devices, and data that keep trains on the tracks and planes in the sky. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Cooks Venture, the chicken company with big dreams, eats up $50M
Chicken is the most consumed meat in the United States and the world. And yet, the system in place to breed and feed and raise all this chicken is incredibly detrimental to our overall wellbeing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Silvr wants to bring revenue-based financing to Europe
French startup Silvr has raised a $20.6 million (€18 million) Series A funding round and has opened a $128 million (€112 million) debt line for its activities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Endgame grabs another cash infusion as product-led growth momentum builds
Endgame connects the dots between product usage and sales opportunities to put employees in the driver's seat of the software they like to use instead of a top-down approach. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Bumble makes its first acquisition with deal for French Gen Z dating app, Fruitz
Dating app company Bumble, Inc. is making its first acquisition with today’s news that it’s adding the fast-growing French dating app Fruitz to its family of applications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
GM Ventures invests in startup building fast charge-capable battery tech
Soelect, a battery technology startup based in North Carolina, has closed an $11 million Series A round. It plans to use the fresh capital to scale its fast charge-capable anode technologies that might enable the next generation of batteries for electric vehicles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Over 500 mobile apps are now using the term ‘metaverse’ to attract new users
A true “metaverse” may not yet exist, but that hasn’t stopped marketers from adopting the buzzword to promote their apps and games on mobile app stores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
No plastic clamshells here: Zero Grocery aims to eliminate unnecessary plastic in grocery delivery
Even small changes made by individuals to reduce plastic waste can add up to a big positive impact on the environment, founder and CEO Zuleyka Strasner said. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Scale AI gets into the synthetic data game
Scale AI’s path to becoming a $7.3 billion company was paved in real data from images, text, voice and video. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Waldo raises $15 million for its automated mobile testing service
Waldo has raised $15 million for its ‘no code’ automated testing tool. Mobile development teams using Waldo can set up tests without writing a line of scripting code. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Whose Your Landlord raises $2.1M for its rental review and data service
Whose Your Landlord,1 or WYL, announced a $2.1 million seed round today led by Black Operator Ventures, better known as BlackOps Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Framework looks to expand repairability beyond the laptop
Last November, Apple announced the launch of Self Service Repair — a surprising addition for a company that has notoriously lacked such capabilities. Those changes didn’t happen in a vacuum, of course. The president and Congress have both been pushing to open the so-called right to repair. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jellyfish aims to ‘do for engineering what Salesforce did for sales’
Jellyfish essentially pioneered the term “engineering management” to provide a software tool for insight into engineering organizations, including what they are working on and how they operate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
VendorPM raises $6M to scale its marketplace for property managers and service vendors
VendorPM, a Toronto-based marketplace that connects property managers with reputable vendors, has raised $6 million in seed funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dashworks is a search engine for your company’s sprawling internal knowledge
As a company grows, the amount of important information employees need to keep track of inevitably grows right along with it. And, as your tech stack gets more complicated, that information ends up split up across more places. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Rise is a new calendar app with a scheduling engine for teams
Meet Rise, a new startup working on a calendar app that is specifically designed for team work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
bloss, which connects expectant parents with experts, raises £1M pre-seed led by Antler
bloss is a UK startup that connects would-be or existing parents to pre-vetted parenting experts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
After QuizUp and Trivia Royale, Thor Fridriksson’s next act is a mobile MMO
QuizUp founder Thor Fridriksson is at it again. The Icelandic serial entrepreneur is two-for-two in creating viral mobile games, but has thus far struck out in turning those into viable businesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Singapore-based edtech Cialfo gets $40M led by Square Peg and SEEK
Applying to colleges is one of the hardest parts of high school, especially for students who want to study abroad. Cialfo wants to make the process easier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Identity verification provider Veriff raises $100M Series C co-led by Tiger Global and Alkeon
Identity verification provider Veriff, has raised a $100 million Series C round co-led by Tiger Global and Alkeon. They were joined by existing investors IVP and Accel, bringing Veriff’s total funding to date to $200 million. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Atrium grabs fresh capital to help sales teams meet their quota
Is sales management having a “Money Ball moment?” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Electric Sheep raises $21.5M to make off-the-shelf lawnmowers autonomous
IRobot announced Terra three years ago this week. After making some tough internal decisions to delay launch back in 2020, the robot mower is still MIA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Wandelbots raises another $84 million to teach robots without code
Dresden, Germany-based Wandelbots has raised a healthy sum in the years since it appeared on our Disrupt Berlin stage, way back in 2017. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mark Cuban on his online pharmacy: ‘Our KPI is how much we can reduce the stress of our patients’
Mark Cuban’s announcement over the weekend of an online pharmacy selling over a hundred generic drugs at near cost was totally unexpected but will likely be welcomed by millions who struggle to afford medication. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Cana Technology raises glass to new capital as it readies beverage printer for market
Cana focused on identifying the basic set of ingredients, basically deconstructing beverages to figure out what makes it taste like a certain drink. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
AccuWeather acquires air pollution startup Plume Labs
Weather forecast company AccuWeather is acquiring French startup Plume Labs —Â terms of the deal are undisclosed. Originally founded in 2014, Plume Labs has gradually expanded its product offering to offer three different products focused on air pollution data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Metalenz PolarEyes upgrades digital sensing with polarized light
Tech sees differently, and can fuse multiple types of data we can’t even perceive: lidar, IR, ultrasonic, and so on. Metalenz, maker of highly compact “2D” cameras for advanced sensing, hopes to bring polarized light into the mix for security and safety. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices