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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, 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, 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. Â Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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

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

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 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

French startup PhotoRoom has raised a $19 million Series A funding round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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

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, 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

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

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 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

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

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, 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’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

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

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

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, 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 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

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

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