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Denim, the fintech platform for freight and logistics formerly known as Axle Payments, today announced that it raised $126 million in a Series B funding round led by Pelion Venture Partners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tech-talent marketplace MVP Match has raised €5 million ($5 million) seed funding from Stage 2 Capital to double down its strategy for pairing companies with talent from across the globe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The U.S healthcare system is infamously labyrinthine, with a lengthy claims process that results in frequent errors and high administrative costs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Its technology is a way to grow and control cells without the need for any of those expensive recombinant proteins for cell production. Cultured meat startup Prolific Machines unveils its ‘Henry Ford approach’ to cell growth by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

French biotech company WhiteLab Genomics has raised $10 million in funding for an AI platform designed to aid the discovery and development of genomic therapies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In recent years, a cottage industry has sprung up around the industrial internet of things (IoT) landscape — and the data generated by it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

HotelOnline, a Kenyan-based travel technology scale-up that fashions itself as an e-commerce and digital marketing enabler in the hospitality industry, has acquired HotelPlus, a software provider with clients in 22 countries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 2017, three entrepreneurs — Chris Hazard, Mike Resnick and Mike Capps — came together to launch a platform for building AI and machine learning tools geared toward the enterprise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Data needs to be stored somewhere. However, data storage costs keep growing, and the data people keep producing and consuming can’t keep up with the available storage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The app was designed with Gen Z in mind, a generation that will grow up with the blockchain and most likely own some kind of digital assets. Stack.io banks $2.7M to teach teens, parents about crypto by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cloud storage is expensive (especially in this economy), but many companies often over-provision, cutting their full return on investment. Lucidity was created to help them manage block storage more efficiently with a set of automated tools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

London-based regulatory technology (RegTech) startup SteelEye has raised $21 million in a series B round of funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A lot of important data gets lost along the sales pipeline because sales teams use multiple tools, including email, Zoom and WhatsApp, to talk with buyers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The vegan food market was pegged as a $27 billion industry last year, a figure that’s expected to more than double within a decade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The company currently works with 50 public defender agencies and has around 60 clients who are private criminal defense attorneys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

My phone buzzes as I get a text from a friend who’s a partner at a VC firm. It’s a screenshot of a Venmo notification that just came in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

India’s financial crime fighting agency searched the offices of fintech unicorns Paytm and Razorpay as well as Cashfree on Friday as part of an ongoing investigation into fraudulent Chinese loan apps, it said Saturday, the latest in a series of probes in recent months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Companies tend to divide their procurement spending into two main buckets. The first is large purchases over $500,000 with some starting $1 million, depending on the size of the organization. Anything below that figure falls under a category known as “tail spend.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I’ve been tracking PsycApps, a startup that came up with a gamified mental health game ‘eQuoo’, since 2016, and this company – and its founder – is nothing if not persistent in ‘pivoting into the wind’. T Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You know the feeling; you’re on a dating app, and you start a conversation with someone, and things don’t seem like they add up completely. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Falkon, a sales analytics platform that uses AI to attempt to show where successful product sales are occuring in an organization, today announced that it raised $16 million in a funding round led by OMERS Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

MEDU aims to reduce hospital garment waste and replace single-wear items with its line of sustainable, virus-resistant reusable pieces. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The process of finding job candidates often entails a lot of tedious manual work for recruiters, like sending versions of the same email over and over again. That’s Kula was created. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The first major subsidy contract under the U.K. Government’s £5 billion ($5.9 billion) Project Gigabit scheme has officially been awarded, with Wessex Internet securing £6 million ($7 million) to connect remote properties in South West England to high-speed broadband. Â Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices