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Fitness ring maker Oura raises $100M 05.05.2021 3:52

It’s been a wild couple of years for Oura. Last year, in particular, proved to be a major driver for the wearable fitness manufacturer. With the pandemic bringing professional sports to a screeching halt in 2020, a number of major leagues have adopted the ring, including the NBA, WNBA, UFC and NASCAR. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

alt.bank, Brazil’s latest fintech targeting the unbanked, raises $5.5M 04.05.2021 4:36

It looks like everyone and their mother is trying to reinvent the Brazilian banking system. Earlier this year we wrote about Nubank’s $400 million Series G, last month there was the PicPay IPO filingÂ and today, alt.bank, a Brazilian neobank, announced a $5.5 million Series A led by Union Square Ventures (USV). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hangry, an Indonesian cloud kitchen startup with plans to become a global F&B company, closes $13M Series A 04.05.2021 4:33

Hangry, an Indonesian cloud kitchen startup that wants to become a global food and beverage company, has raised a $13 million Series A. The round was led by returning investor Alpha JWC Ventures, and included participation from Atlas Pacific Capital, Salt Ventures and Heyokha Brothers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Y Combinator-backed Uiflow wants to accelerate no-code enterprise app creation 03.05.2021 4:29

TechCrunch recently caught up with recent Y Combinator graduate Uiflow, a startup that is building a no-code enterprise app creation service. If you are thinkingÂ wait, don’t a number of companies already do that?, the answer is yes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cloud gaming service Shadow taken over by OVHcloud founder 03.05.2021 3:22

Blade, the French startup behind cloud gaming service Shadow, has been acquired by Octave Klaba’s fund following a commercial court order. Klaba is better known as the founder of OVHcloud, a French cloud hosting company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Firstbase raises $13M to make remote work suck less 30.04.2021 4:44

The chance that I am ever willing to commute on a regular basis again in the future is zero. It’s too inefficient. And while workers and employers are somewhat split on where they stand on the question of remote toil, the COVID-19 pandemic has permanently shaken up the working world; we’re not going back to […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Splitwise raises $20M Series A to help everyone in the world divvy expenses 29.04.2021 5:07

This morning Splitwise, a Providence, Rhode Island-based startup announced that it has closed a $20 million Series A. The company builds consumer fintech software that helps users split expenses. But Splitwise isn’t a Venmo or Paytm clone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Botpress nabs $15M Series A to help developers build conversational apps 29.04.2021 4:22

Botpress, a Montreal-based early stage startup, wants to make it easier for developers to build conversational-based apps, meaning humans interact with the app by speaking instead of typing, clicking or tapping. Today it announced an $15 million Series A from Decibel and Inovia Capital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ivorian startup Afrikrea partners with DHL and Visa to launch SaaS e-commerce platform ANKA 28.04.2021 6:10

In 2016, Ivorian e-commerce startup Afrikrea started as a marketplace for African-based and inspired clothing, accessories, arts, and crafts. Over the past five years, Afrikrea has served more than 7,000 sellers from 47 African countries and buyers from 170 countries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Canada’s newest unicorn: Clio raises $110M at a $1.6B valuation for legal tech 28.04.2021 5:42

Clio, a software company that helps law practices run more efficiently with its cloud-based technology, announced Tuesday it has raised a $110 million Series E round co-led by T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. and OMERS Growth Equity. The round propels the Vancouver, British Columbia-based company to unicorn status, valuing it at $1.6 billion. Clio last […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podc...

Tellius announces $8M Series A to build ML-fueled business data query tool 27.04.2021 4:00

Getting actionable business information into the hands of users who need it has always been a challenge. If you have to wait for experts to help you find the answers, chances are you’re going to be too late. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dating app S’More bets on celebrity content with S’More TV 27.04.2021 4:00

Dating startup S’More has launched a new feature called S’More TV, which CEO Adam Cohen-Aslatei said could give users new ways to talk to each other. It also bringing the startup closer to his goal of becoming not just a dating app, but “a lifestyle brand.” The videos on S’More TV may be familiar to […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mighty Networks raises $50M to build a creator economy for the masses 26.04.2021 6:19

Mighty Networks, a platform designed to give creators and brands a dedicated place to start and grow communities, has closed on $50 million in a Series B funding round led by Owl Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Introvoke raises $2.7M to power online events that can be embedded anywhere 26.04.2021 4:38

While there’s been plenty of attention and money lavished on virtual event platforms over the past year, Introvoke co-founder and CEO Oana Manolache predicted that we’re only at the beginning of a “third wave of digital transformation.” In her framing, the first wave came at the beginning of the pandemic, when everyone was using video […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/...

Hyundai invests in teleoperations startup Ottopia as part of $9M round 23.04.2021 5:18

After spending much of his career in mission-critical environments, including the Israeli Air Force, Israeli Intelligence and leading development of a cybersecurity product at Microsoft, Amit Rosenzweig turned his attention to autonomous vehicles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Queenly raises $2.3M for its dress marketplace 23.04.2021 5:19

One of our favorite companies from the most recently Y Combinator batch has closed a seed round. This morning Quenly announced that it has closed a $2.262 million round, following its $800,000 pre-seed raise. TechCrunch covered the company in February, noting that the company was building something akin to the StockX for women’s formal wear. […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoic...

MasterClass co-founder’s Outlier.org raises $30M for affordable, virtual college courses 22.04.2021 5:26

Outlier.org — a startup offering intro-level college courses online and at a relatively affordable price — is announcing that it has raised $30 million in Series B funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Figma introduces a whiteboard tool called FigJam 22.04.2021 3:44

Figma spent years in stealth before launching its web-based collaborative design tool. Since coming into the light, the company has been iterating quickly. Today, Figma launches its biggest product update to date. Meet FigJam, Figma’s new whiteboarding tool. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tom Brady and Salesforce Ventures pour millions into Class, a Zoom-friendly edtech startup 21.04.2021 4:51

Class, an edtech startup that integrates exclusively with Zoom to make remote teaching more elegant, has raised $12.25 million in new financing. The round brings Salesforce Ventures, Sound Ventures and Super Bowl champion Tom Brady onto its capital table. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Druva raises $147M at a valuation north of $2B as the cloud rush continues 21.04.2021 5:23

Druva, a software company that sells cloud data backup services, announced today that it has closed a $147 million round of capital. Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), a group that manages Quebec’s pension fund, led the round, which also saw participation from Neuberger Berman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a decade of bootstrapping, Octopus Deploy raises $172.5M from Insight Partners 20.04.2021 3:48

Founded almost a decade ago, Octopus Deploy has grown to serve 25,000 organizations, including Microsoft, NASA, Xero, Disney and Stack Overflow, through bootstrapping. Today the company announced its first outside investment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Zoom launches $100M Zoom Apps investment fund 20.04.2021 4:17

When Zoom launched Zoom Apps and the Marketplace as a place to sell them last year, it was a big signal that the company wanted to be more than just a popular video conferencing application. It wanted to be a platform, which developers could use to build applications on top of Zoom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Squarespace files for a direct listing on the NYSE 19.04.2021 5:31

Today Squarespace, a well-known software-and-hosting provider for SMB websites, released its S-1 filing. The company is pursuing a direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange, or NYSE. It will trade under the ticker symbol “SQSP.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Level raises $27M from Khosla, Lightspeed ‘to rebuild insurance from the ground up’ 19.04.2021 4:42

Level, a startup that aims to give companies a more flexible way to offer benefits to employees, has raised $27 million in a Series A funding round led by Khosla Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Operator Collective and leading angels also participated in the financing, along with previous backers First Round Capital and Homebrew. The […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoi...

Sunday raises $24 million seed round to build a fast restaurant checkout flow 16.04.2021 5:52

Meet Sunday, a new startup that is going to attract some headlines as it has raised a $24 million seed round at a $140 million post-money valuation. That’s a lot of money for a company that started just a few months ago but that’s because Sunday wants to move quickly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices