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Medwing, a recruitment marketplace for Europe’s healthcare workforce, raises $47M 15.03.2023 4:26

Medwing, a European startup building a recruitment marketplace for healthcare workers, has raised €44 million ($47 million) in a Series C round of funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

AG5 throws a lifeline to a manufacturing industry drowning in spreadsheets 15.03.2023 4:50

You’d think that an industry like manufacturing had its own software stack, but in a lot of cases, a huge amount of getting-things-made is managed through Excel spreadsheets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cloud security vendor Mitiga lands $45M, valuing the company at over $100M 14.03.2023 6:04

Companies moved en masse to the cloud during the pandemic, under pressure to digitally transform. According to a 2021 survey from O’Reilly, cloud adoption steadily rose across industries, with 90% of organizations using cloud computing compared to 88% in 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Deel makes over $120M of its own cash available to support customers affected by SVB crisis 14.03.2023 5:56

Global payroll provider Deel plans to provide $120 million of its own cash off its balance sheet to support startups’ payroll operations in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank shutting down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After SVB failure, regulators close crypto-friendly bank Signature Bank 13.03.2023 4:22

Signature Bank is the second casualty of the ongoing banking crisis in the U.S. The New York-based financial institution stopped operating abruptly on Sunday — customers will be made whole. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bach, an app for planning bachelorette trips and group travel experiences, raises $9M 13.03.2023 5:06

Bach, an app for planning bachelorette trips and group travel experiences, has announced $9 million in Series A funding led by Pritzker Group Venture Capital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Synctera raises $15M to help companies launch embedded banking products in Canada 10.03.2023 5:34

Synctera, a banking-as-a-service startup, has raised an additional $15 million as it expands into Canada. NAventures, the corporate venture arm of National Bank of Canada, led the financing, which brings Synctera’s total raised to $60 million since its June 2020 inception. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

MentorcliQ raises over $80 million to grow its employee mentoring software and services 10.03.2023 6:03

For years, Phil George was the executive sponsor of a mentoring program at McMaster-Carr, an industrial hardware supplier, where he spent weeks trying to match program participants with only scant information about them to go on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

E-bike maker Cowboy raises new funding round and launches AdaptivePower 09.03.2023 4:43

Brussels-based startup Cowboy has been in the news lately for its cash burn rate. But the company wants to control its narrative again with some product and business news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Threecolts raises $90M to build out its toolkit for third parties selling on marketplaces like Amazon 09.03.2023 7:18

Amazon rules the roost when it comes to e-commerce, with its marketplace outpacing everyone else when it comes to gross merchandise value, reach and market capitalization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Consensus raises $110M to inject automation into SaaS product demos 08.03.2023 5:02

Garin Hess, a tech entrepreneur based in Utah, experienced what he calls the “demo bottleneck” at a previous software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup while pitching to potential customers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Growfin’s AI-based cash collection SaaS expands further to US and Asia 08.03.2023 6:39

Cash management — tracking who needs to pay an invoice and whether it’s been done — can make or break a business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Assured Allies secures $42.5M Series B to help Americans ‘successfully age’ 07.03.2023 4:33

The company uses machine learning and predictive analytics along with science-of-aging and essential human support to offer retirement products and programs. Â Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Behavioral marketing platform Wunderkind nabs $76M 07.03.2023 5:01

Wunderkind, a platform that enables brands to target web visitors through emails, texts and other digital advertising formats, today announced that it raised $76 million in a Series C round led by Neuberger Berman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Attio raises $23.5M to build a next-gen CRM platform 06.03.2023 4:50

While a partner at a VC firm, Nicolas Sharp took on the project of finding customer relationship management (CRM) software for the firm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Japan’s Geniee acquires AdPushup-operator Zelto for $70 million 06.03.2023 3:49

Japanese marketing tech firm Geniee, part of the SoftBank Group, has paid about $70 million in cash to acquire the revenue optimization platform Zelto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

SpotDraft shows that contract lifecycle management remains profitable, raises $26M 03.03.2023 6:37

VCs see a rich opportunity in tools to manage the contract lifecycle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hexa raises $20.5M to turn images into 3D objects for VR, AR and more 03.03.2023 6:02

Hexa, a 3D asset visualization and management platform, today announced that it closed a $20.5 million Series A round from Point72 Ventures, Samurai Incubate, Sarona Partners and HTC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

8VC raises $880M in new fund that aims “to fix a broken world” 02.03.2023 4:52

Austin-based venture firm 8VC, led by controversial Palantir founder Jon Lonsdale, has raised $880 million in its fifth fund. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

StudentFinance nabs $41M to help Europeans upskill for in-demand jobs 02.03.2023 5:33

StudentFinance, a European fintech that funds educational programs for individuals through so-called income share agreements, has raised €39 million ($41 million) in a Series A round of funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

E-commerce aggregator Una Brands lands $30M just five months after its Series B 01.03.2023 3:37

Una Brands, a Singapore-based e-commerce aggregator, has raised $30 million in pre-Series C financing just five months after announcing its $30 million Series B fundingÂ that was raised in September of last year. Â Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cycle is a new product management hub that centralizes all customer feedback 01.03.2023 4:06

Meet Cycle, a French startup that is building a collaboration tool for product managers where they can collect data from various tools, work on the next product iterations and close the feedback loop with the most engaged customers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pagos raises $34M as the demand for ‘payment intelligence’ rises 28.02.2023 6:46

With global digital payments revenue expected to reach $14.79 trillion by 2027, payment infrastructure has arguably never been more critical. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Born of drone tech, InsureTech Flock raises $38M Series B to nudge commercial drivers towards safety 28.02.2023 4:32

It’s only human nature. If you tell a driver their insurance premium will go down if they drive more safely, then – it turns out – they will probably drive more safely. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Earthly wants to reinvent continuous integration to make it faster and cheaper 27.02.2023 4:08

Continuous integration and continuous delivery, aka CI/CD, is a modern development concept where code is being constantly updated and delivered to a central repository, rather than waiting for a set of features to be completed and releasing it all at once. It’s a fairly recent construct, but Earthly Technologies, an early stage startup, believes that […]Earthly wants to reinvent continuous integra...