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Fringe, an HR tech startup enabling companies to offer customizable perks and benefits to employees, today announced that it raised $17 million in a funding round led by Origin Ventures and Felton Group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Navina, a company developing AI-powered assistant software for physicians, today announced that it raised $22 million in Series B funding led by ALIVE with participation from Grove Ventures, Vertex Ventures Israel and Schusterman Family Investments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Twitter’s stock will be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange and become a private company on November 8, according to a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cinchy, a startup that provides a data management service for enterprise customers, today announced that it raised $14.5 million in Series B funding led by Forgepoint Capital with participation from IVP, SUV, Techstars and Mars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The daughter of divorced parents herself, Uber alum Jacklyn Rome founded Onward to help co-parents more easily manage their shared expenses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Google, DuckDuckGo, and other search engines help you find information from the web. But it’s hard to find documents, messages, meetings, and emails from your own accounts. You need to go to different applications to find things that might be related to one project. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Valence Security, a company securing business app infrastructure, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series A round led by M12, Microsoft’s corporate venture arm, with participation from YL Ventures, Porsche Ventures, Akamai Technologies, Alumni Ventures and former Symantec CEO Michael Fey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duolingo is launching its math app to the public, and months after a beta version joined the app store. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

WhatsApp is used by more than two billion around the world, and is an important tool for many small businesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Several years ago, Fabrizio Del Maffeo and a core team from Imec, a Belgium-based nanotechnology lab, teamed up with Evangelos Eleftheriou and a group of researchers at IBM Zurich Lab to develop a computer chip. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the midst of the pandemic, Pantheon Design, a maker of industrial 3D printers from Vancouver, BC, suddenly found itself getting orders from factories in the Midwest, the center of heavy industries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Maro has developed a platform that helps families and schools navigate tough conversations about mental health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sensat, a platform that helps physical infrastructure companies map and visualize all their data, has raised $20.5 million in a Series B round of funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Many qualified workers are failed by the current model of work in the United States, where jobs are either part-time or full-time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Banyan, a platform for product purchase data that allows customers such as banks, fintechs, hotels and merchants to automate expense management and more, today announced that it raised $43 million in a Series A funding round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Challenger bank N26 is launching a new trading feature in its app — N26 Crypto. Users will be able to easily trade crypto assets using money in their N26 account. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 2018, Neil D’Souza, a software engineer by trade and previously the VP of product development at Thinkstep, came to the realization that his ten-plus-year effort to solve enterprise product challenges in the areas of sustainability, compliance and risk were having little impact. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When Quddus Pativada was 14, he wished that he had an app that could summarize his textbooks for him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

RisingWave Labs, a company developing a platform for data stream processing, today announced that it raised $36 million in a Series A funding round led by Yunqi Partners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Businesses usually plot their growth strategies on spreadsheets, but Drivetrain wants to provide a faster alternative for financial planning and decision making. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Synonym is developing designs and underwriting for its fermentation farms so that companies can more easily utilize them for bioproduct production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Beyond Meat expects the job cuts to be completed by the end of the year.  Beyond Meat to cut 19% of its workforce amid sales slump by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Being in the business of convincing people that they deserve a vacation is hard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Even the largest landfills in Indonesia are at (or nearing) capacity, and the government has set an ambitious target of 30% waste reduction by 2025. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pillow aspires to be an all-in-one platform that helps even newbie users save, spend and invest in crypto currency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices