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Montonio is building the payment and checkout solution to rule them all
Meet Montonio, an e-commerce checkout solution created by a small startup based in Tallinn, Estonia. The company just raised a $12 million Series A funding round (€11 million) led by Index Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Bosch picks up Five.ai after the self-driving startup pivoted to B2B and then put itself up for sale
Consolidation is moving ahead in the world of autonomous driving, with the latest development coming out of Europe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
ProtonMail buys email alias startup SimpleLogin
Proton, the Geneva, Switzerland-based startup behind the eponymous E2E encrypted webmail service ProtonMail, has acquired French startup SimpleLogin, which offers a freemium, open source service for creating email aliases to let people shield their actual email address when they sign up for digital services. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Windmill wants to drag window AC units, kicking and screaming, into 2022
It’s hard to think of a product category that is less sexy than window air conditioning units. Windmill begs to differ, bringing a breath of fresh air to an industry that’s been steadfastly clunking away in the corner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Lilt raises $55M to bolster its business-focused AI translation platform
Lilt, a provider of AI-powered business translation software, today announced that it raised $55 million in a Series C round led by Four Rivers, joined by new investors Sorenson Capital, CLEAR Ventures and Wipro Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Airbyte acquires data synchronization service Grouparoo
Airbyte, the well-funded open-source data integration platform, today announced that it has acquired Grouparoo, an open-source startup that focuses on helping businesses sync data between their data warehouses and cloud-based tools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Parentinc raises $22M led by East Ventures for its parenting community and D2C brand
The Parentinc, a Singapore-based startup that runs a parenting community and direct-to-consumer product line, announced today it has raised $22 million. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Fanatics raises $1.5B at a $27B valuation as it evolves into a ‘digital sports platform’
Fanatics’ latest raise shows there is tremendous value in appealing to sports fans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Affirm is giving job offers to the ‘vast majority’ of Fast engineers
Fast, a one-click speedy checkout platform, is shutting down today. In conjunction with that decision, Fast is giving a “vast majority” of its engineers the chance to join Affirm, a public fintech company in the buy now, pay later space, according to Affirm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Lightning Labs raises funding to enable stablecoin transfers through Bitcoin network
Lightning Labs is building infrastructure that would enable users to send money across the world almost instantaneously and at a low cost through the Bitcoin network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sweep helps corporations live up to their lofty carbon promises
There’s coming hard out of the gates with a new company, and then there’s Sweep. The company was founded in 2020, then raised a $22 million Series A round a few months ago, following by a $73 million Series B round announced today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Crowdcube brings its equity crowdfunding platform to France
If you live in the U.K. or the U.S., you may already be quite familiar with equity crowdfunding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Craving ‘wild’ foods? Foraged’s marketplace uncovers all that and more
The community marketplace for wild and specialty foods provides foragers with a place to sell food items they dig up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation
It wasn’t that long ago that Docker looked like it was on the ropes. In 2019, it sold its enterprise business and decided to focus strictly on a developer audience with a set of commercial and open source tools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Yelp expands restaurant health ratings in partnership with food tech startup Hazel Analytics
Yelp is broadening its partnership with Seattle-based food tech startup Hazel Analytics to expand health ratings on its platform, the company announced on Thursday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Womens leadership network Chief surges to unicorn status
As Ariana Grande would say, god is a woman. So it should come as no surprise that Chief, the network designed to develop the leadership skills of women, has hit a $1.1 billion valuation in a matter of three years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Quantum Machines acquires QDevil to build out its full-stack quantum orchestration platform
Quantum Machines, the well-funded Israeli startup that specializes in building control systems for quantum computers, today announced that it has acquired QDevil, a well-known Danish company that specializes in building control hardware for quantum systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Flux Marine revs up its electric outboard business with $15M A round
The race is certainly on in the electrification of boating… even if everyone is jockeying for position before the market materializes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Wing Security launches its end-to-end SaaS security platform, raises $26M
As businesses increasingly rely on an ever-growing number of SaaS products, it has become imperative for security teams to get a better understanding of which applications a company’s employees are actually using and the risks associated with those. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Cyberpion raises $27M Series A for its external attack surface management platform
It’s no secret that digital supply chains are increasingly under attack as hackers look to use this vector to get access to company networks and confidential information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Smart electric panel company Span gets a $90M jolt of cash
The lowly breaker panel has been around for a century without getting much love, and along comes Span. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Singapore-based esports startup Ampverse lands $12M
Singapore-headquartered esports startup Ampverse has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by Falcon Capital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Australian fintech Zepto raises $25M Series A to enhance payment infrastructure
Zepto, an Australian real-time account-to-account (A2A) merchant payments platform, said Monday it has raised a $25 million Series A co-led by AirTree Ventures and Decade Partners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Freelancer marketplace Malt acquires consulting marketplace Comatch
It’s consolidation time in the freelancer marketplace industry. French startup Malt is acquiring Comatch, a competing marketplace focused on consultants and industry experts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oslo-based Unleash nabs $14M Series A to build open source feature management tool
As developers build new features into software, they have to be sure that the new functionality doesn’t break what’s already there. So they often will roll it out slowly and see what happens using a technique of placing feature flags in the code. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Rental car delivery startup Kyte is growing its fleet to 10,000 vehicles
Kyte, the startup that delivers rental cars to customers’ doors, has raised $200 million in asset-backed credit financing from Goldman Sachs and Ares Global Management, money the company will use to pay for new vehicles that will fuel its expansion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Rugged’s construction layout robots land $9.4M
It’s been a little less than a year since we first noted Rugged Robotics. The Houston-based startup developed a robot that prints building layouts on the floor of construction sites, so workers know where — and where not — to build. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Skyline scores $6.5M to wash windows with robot arms
I would put window washing fairly high (so to speak) on the list of jobs it makes sense to automate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
ShopThing raises $10M to scale its live video shopping marketplace
ShopThing, a live shopping marketplace focused on luxury brands, has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Origin Ventures, with participation from Pritzker Group and Interplay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Datagen raises $50 million Series B to empower computer vision teams
With its self-serve platform, Datagen now has a much more scalable way to help clients themselves generate the visual data that they need to train their computer vision applications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Wealth poised to make estate planning accessible to all
Wealth gives you a one-stop shop where your entire financial portfolio can live and accumulate in real-time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
With $9.3M in fresh funding, Zestworld plans a newsletter service for creator-owned comics
The comics world has seemingly been waiting for a digital revolution since the birth of the internet. Launched in 2007, ComiXology has come the closest to delivering such a play to the medium, so naturally, Amazon went and purchased the service and messed it up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Kenya-based agritech Apollo raises $40 million in Softbank-led round, joined by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, CDC
Kenya-based agritech Apollo Agriculture, which helps farmers access high-quality farm inputs, financing and markets, plans to double the number of farmers it is serving by the end 2022 and to introduce other products that deliver more value per acre of land. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Upstash snags $1.9M seed to build serverless data platform for Redis and Kafka
When it comes to data-intensive applications, setting up the infrastructure is expensive and time-consuming. You’re often paying for resources you aren’t using, even in the cloud. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Expert jumps into home goods e-commerce
The Expert, which provides video consultations with top designers, expands into e-commerce to become what co-founder Leo Seigal referred to as “Farfetch for home.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Hence secures $1.8M seed to grow its legal services sourcing technology
Hence Technologies, a Kigali and London based startup that uses data and AI technologies to match companies with external legal service providers is set to scale its precision matching engine after raising $1.8million in seed funding from various institutions and angel investors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
SentinelOne scoops up Attivo Networks for $617M
Security companies typically start by focusing on one particular problem, but the biggest ones like Palo Alto Networks, FireEye and Symantec have shifted to a horizontal approach typically gaining functionality over time through acquisition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Arcol aims to do for building design what Figma did for UI design
The company is building web-based tools that can turn a 2D sketch into a 3D representation so that someone can design anything from a small building to a skyscraper. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TruEra raises $35M for its AI analytics and monitoring platform
TruEra, a startup that offers an AI quality management solution to optimize, explain and monitor machine learning models, today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series B round led by Menlo Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Plantish fishes for restaurant partners to try plant-based salmon filets
Plantish aims to get its salmon product into the first five restaurants by December 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Motto to launch a new electric bike subscription service in Paris
Meet Motto, a new French startup that plans to offer electric bikes in Paris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
inFeedo gets $12M to help employers find out how their workforce really feels
Employee sentiment can be hard to gauge, even at smaller businesses. This can lead to burnout and attrition, when managers least expect it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Pareto thinks it shouldn’t be so hard to collect lead-generation data
Pareto’s team of data experts offer actionable insights on everything from TikTok influencers to qualifying B2B sales leads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Fleet thinks companies should rent laptops instead of buying them
French startup Fleet wants to become your IT department’s best friend by managing hardware as a service. Fleet clients can rent computers and smartphones for a flat monthly fee. If there’s a hardware issue, the startup handles returns and repairs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Zeta Surgical comes out of stealth with a $5.2M raise for image-guided surgery
Boston-based Zeta Surgical comes out of stealth this week, with the announcement of a $5.2 million seed round. The funding, led by Innospark Ventures, follows a $250,000 pre-seed featuring Y Combinator and Plug and Play Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Stilt secures $114M in debt & equity to help fintechs and neobanks launch credit offerings with its API
Stilt, which started its life as a provider of financial services for immigrants, has raised $14 million in Series A funding led by Link Ventures as it expands its focus to include a B2B offering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Zaya Care partners with payers to bring the European model of maternal care to the States
Despite the fact that we spend more on healthcare per capita, the U.S. leads the wealthy world in maternal mortality. And health inequity plays a big part. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Blink looks to simplify cloud operations management with $26M investment
Blink’s co-founders have been working in security and automation for a number of years, and they observed that there was a strong overlap between developer operations (DevOps) and security operations (SecOps) when it came to managing cloud infrastructure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Kodiak Robotics is moving autonomous freight for Ceva Logistics
Autonomous trucking startup Kodiak Robotics has partnered with Ceva Logistics to deliver freight autonomously between Dallas-Forth Worth and Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth and Oklahoma City, the company said on Wednesday, marking its first publicly announced customer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sneaker e-commerce platform Kicks Crew raises $6M Series A
The global thirst for an up-charged pair of Yeezy’s or limited edition Jordan’s combined with a growth in a digital ecosystem is creating new opportunities, particularly in the sneaker resale market, for companies like Kicks Crew, a Los Angeles- and Hong Kong-based sneaker and apparel platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices