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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

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

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

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

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’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 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,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

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 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, 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

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

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 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

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

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, 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

Is sales management having a “Money Ball moment?” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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

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’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 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

Weather forecast company AccuWeather is acquiring French startup Plume Labs — 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

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

A new app called Weavit wants to be a “Shazam for your thoughts” — that is, it wants to offer people a different way to quickly capture their thoughts in a note-taking tool with a press of a button. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices