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Daylight, the LGBTQ+ neobank, calls it quits 25.05.2023 4:22

Daylight, an LGBTQ+ banking platform, is shutting down. Its operations will cease on June 30, according to embattled co-founder and CEO Rob Curtis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode Six raises $48M to streamline payment processes 24.05.2023 4:37

Episode Six, a global payments and banking infrastructure provider, today announced that it raised $48 million in a Series C funding round led by Avenir with participation from Anthos Capital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Modular app-building platform Buildier.ai raises $250 million Series D funding 24.05.2023 3:04

It was only recently that we reported Buildier.ai had signed a strategic collaboration with and undisclosed investment from Microsoft. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Restaurant365 gobbles up $135M to supersize its software for the food service industry 23.05.2023 6:02

The price of food continues to go up and up, but surprisingly that hasn’t (yet?) played out as pressure on the wider restaurant industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With government backing, Ireland’s Elkstone closes first VC fund at $108M for early-stage startups 22.05.2023 4:59

Yet another early-stage VC fund has closed in Europe this week, as Elkstone finalized a €100 million ($108 million) pot aimed at Irish startups. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

SoftBank rebrands Opportunity Fund, will invest $150 million in Black and Latino-led startups 22.05.2023 4:53

The new fund hopes to deploy the $150 million within three years, and has appointed Paul Judge as its managing partner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Stability AI open sources its AI-powered design studio 19.05.2023 4:26

Stability AI, the AI startup behind the text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, this week announced the release of StableStudio, an open source version of DreamStudio, Stability AI’s commercial AI-powered design suite. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Union AI raises $19.1M Series A to simplify AI and data workflows with Flyte 19.05.2023 5:36

Union AI, a Bellevue, Washington–based open source startup that helps businesses build and orchestrate their AI and data workflows with the help of a cloud-native automation platform, today announced that it has raised a $19.1 million Series A round from NEA and Nava Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Swiggy’s food delivery business reaches profitability 18.05.2023 3:35

India’s Swiggy said on Thursday that its food delivery business has become profitable, eclipsing its publicly-listed rival Zomato on another key metric a day before the firm is set to report its quarterly earnings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Wefox secures new funding at $4.5 billion valuation as it aims for profitability 18.05.2023 5:36

Wefox, the German insurtech startup, has closed a new funding round from existing investors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Insurtech bolttech gets $196M at $1.6B valuation from investors like MetLife 17.05.2023 5:06

Embedded insurtech is still hot, as the $196 million in funding landed by bolttech proves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This UK startup plans to radically shake-up the antiquated word of COPD measurement 17.05.2023 4:55

In 1846, London surgeon John Hutchinson invented the spirometer, a thing you blow hard into, to measure the volume of air inspired and expired by the lungs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jenfi raises more funding for its “growth capital as a service” platform 16.05.2023 5:21

Jenfi, a “growth-capital-as-a-service” platform, can provide online businesses with revenue-based financing in a little as a day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Everseen raises over $70M for AI tech to spot potential retail theft 16.05.2023 7:51

In 2007, Alan O’Herlihy, who previously worked with large SAP installations as well as retail, set out to find a way to help retailers minimize “shrinkage,” or where a store has fewer items in stock than in its recorded inventory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pale Blue Dot continues investing in its climate vision, with a second, $100M fund 15.05.2023 3:59

Sweden-based VC fund Pale Blue Dot bounced onto the scene in 2020 with a €53 million fund to help climate-focused startups. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

AMP Robotics attracts investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund 15.05.2023 5:17

AMP Robotics, a Denver, Colorado-based startup creating robotic systems that can automatically sort recyclable material, today announced that it extended its Series C round to $99 million, thanks to an investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

SLAIT pivots from translating sign language to AI-powered interactive lessons 12.05.2023 5:21

Millions of people use sign language, but methods of teaching this complex and subtle skill haven’t evolved as quickly those for written and spoken languages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

AudiencePlus wants to help every company run its own media platform 12.05.2023 4:28

It used to be that having a corporate blog and some paid content was the gist of your marketing department’s content efforts, and that was enough. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cable wants to help banks cut financial crime through automated assurance 11.05.2023 5:09

Cable enables banks and fintechs to monitor all of their accounts — not just a fraction as before — to know, in real time, if failure controls are working as expected to combat breaches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Prewave pulls in $20M as supply chain tech investments remain on VC radars 11.05.2023 5:55

Despite the investor caution narrative permeating the startup world throughout the economic downturn, certain startup-types have been a little more impervious to market conditions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ascend raises $25 million for pre-seed AI startups in the Pacific Northwest 10.05.2023 5:32

Investing in artificial intelligence (AI) startups is the latest bandwagon VCs are piling onto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Invesco cuts Indian food delivery giant Swiggy’s valuation to $5.5 billion 10.05.2023 3:55

Invesco, which led Swiggy’s previous round, has marked down the Indian food delivery giant’s valuation in its holding to about $5.5 billion, according to a filing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

PermitFlow advances construction permitting automation with $5.5M in new capital 09.05.2023 3:08

PermitFlow has software for developers and general contractors to streamline the construction permit application and management processes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Antimetal is putting AI to work to root out cloud cost inefficiencies 09.05.2023 4:48

One constant theme we’ve been hearing from the big cloud infrastructure vendors this year is helping customers increase the efficiency of their cloud spend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Go1 snaps up speed reading app Blinkist to expand in enterprise learning 08.05.2023 6:26

After raising $100 million at a valuation of over $2 billion last year, the Australian ed-tech startup Go1 is making an acquisition and getting some investment to expand its reach and technology to serve the market of corporate online learning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices