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Acquired by HSBC in an emergency sale for just £1 in March as SVB was melting down, SVB UK is now getting a rebrand and expansion under its new owner.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

U.K.-based cultivated meat startup Higher Steaks has raised $30 million in a Series A round of funding and revealed that it’s changing its name to Uncommon.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Green Coffee is a consolidated arabica coffee farming company, headquartered in the U.S., with operations in Colombia that span 9,000 acres across 14 farms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Amsterdam-based insurtech startup Insify has completed its Series A funding round with another €10 million ($10.7 million at today’s exchange rate).  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT-4 are powerful, paradigm-shifting tools that promise to upend industries.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With the new fund, Positive Ventures intends to invest in between 20 and 25 companies at the pre-seed and seed levels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

BOND's founders say their approach to livestream shopping is creator and content first so that the “creator in the driver's seat and at the forefront of the experience.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

OurX has seven products currently for tightly textured hair, and the average regimen of products offered is between $115 and $130. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

French startup Escape has raised a $3.9 million (€3.6 million) funding round shortly after ending Y Combinator’s winter 2023 cohort.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As companies look to update their databases, especially in a cloud native context, with so many different databases out there, it’s a huge challenge for developers when migrating from one environment to another. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

PropTech firm Aurum is acquiring NestAway, a once high-flying Indian startup operating in the same space, for up to $10.9 million, in a deal that marks a near complete erosion in value for the startup’s investors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Stripe wants to make it easier for businesses to access credit.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Working in customer support often means navigating disjointed tools to find data and solve issues. However, many of these actions are routine and repeatable, making them ideal candidates for automation.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Measurabl, a startup developing a platform for environmental, social and governance (ESG) data in the real estate space, today announced that it raised $93 million in a Series D funding tranche co-led by Energy Impact Partners and Sway Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The full-stack insurance carrier is targeting Latin America’s growing middle class that may have previously been unable to obtain financial protection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Taxfix leaped to a $1 billion valuation in 2022 on the back of a popular mobile app used by consumers help with tax returns.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Strive Health works with local providers to form an integrated care delivery system that follows a patient from chronic kidney disease to end-stage kidney disease.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Wellplaece’s takes in a client’s ordering data and then enables the customer to make those specific purchasing behaviors across a large network of suppliers via one shopping cart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Carrum Health CEO Sach Jain noted that 2022 “was a big year for us” that included nearly doubling its book of business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As developers work with an increasing number of third-party APIs, they need a tool that mocks those APIs for testing purposes without actually firing the API gateway.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We’ve all been there. Shopping online and desperately searching for a promo code so that you can save some money on a purchase. Well, at least I’ve been there. Enter Checkmate.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nymbus, a startup that partners with banks to migrate their legacy stack and launch neobanks to attract new customers, today announced that it raised $70 million in a Series D round led by Insight Partners.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kapital's platform gives small and medium-sized businesses across Latin America a way to see their finances in one place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Arc, the jobs platform created especially for software developers looking for remote positions, wants to make recruitment easier with the launch of HireAI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Generation Prime, a startup that wants to make IVF and other fertility services more accessible to patients in Asia, is launching its first two clinics in Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices