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Employment Hero raises $181M AUD at $1.25B AUD valuation, acquires KeyPay 16.02.2022 2:57

Human resources platform Employment Hero announced today it has raised $181 million AUD (or about $129 million USD), putting it at unicorn valuation in Australian dollars of $1.25 billion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Scrona has big manufacturing plans for its tiny 3D printing 16.02.2022 3:20

Scrona AG caused a minor splash all the way back in 2015 when it snagged a Guinness World Record for the “smallest inkjet-printed color image.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tropic takes in more capital as demand for software procurement savings continues 15.02.2022 4:04

Tropic’s technology brings a click-and-approve approach to buying and managing all of that software. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Insify is modernizing insurance, but this time for SMEs 15.02.2022 3:33

Meet Insify, an insurtech startup that raised a $17 million (€15 million) Series A round led by Accel. The company wants to modernize the insurance market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lung-health startup Respira Labs inhales $2.8M to help respiration patients breathe easier 14.02.2022 4:10

Respira Labs, a medical technology company specializing in respiratory care, which first unveiled its product to the world last year, successfully raised $1 million in funding and an additional $1.8 million in grants to continue building its acoustic resonance technology to assess lung function and changes therein. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

RedRoute wants answering customer service calls to be as easy as using ‘Alexa’ 14.02.2022 4:54

It takes as little as 30 minutes to get RedRoute set up, and customers can try the software with zero upfront costs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Remote work and events startup twine acquires YC-backed Glimpse to launch on Zoom 11.02.2022 4:24

Twine, a company that provides networking tools for virtual events and remote teams, will soon bring its services to Zoom thanks to its just-closed acquisition of the Y Combinator-backed startup, Glimpse, which had developed a “speech matching” platform designed for virtual events. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Neo.tax raises $10M to help startups access R&D tax credits 11.02.2022 6:08

For most people, mention of the word “taxes” conjures up unpleasant things like tedious processes, mountains of paperwork and shelling out a lot of money to the government. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Republic’s metaverse real estate arm spins off, rebrands as Everyrealm 10.02.2022 4:17

Over $500 million worth of real estate was sold on the top four metaverse platforms in 2021, data shows. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Shift5 raises $50M to defend transport networks from cyberattacks 10.02.2022 3:29

You might not think much about the train or the airplane that gets you from one place to another, but behind any transportation link is a vast sprawling network of electronics, devices, and data that keep trains on the tracks and planes in the sky. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cooks Venture, the chicken company with big dreams, eats up $50M 09.02.2022 3:52

Chicken is the most consumed meat in the United States and the world. And yet, the system in place to breed and feed and raise all this chicken is incredibly detrimental to our overall wellbeing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Silvr wants to bring revenue-based financing to Europe 09.02.2022 3:16

French startup Silvr has raised a $20.6 million (€18 million) Series A funding round and has opened a $128 million (€112 million) debt line for its activities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Endgame grabs another cash infusion as product-led growth momentum builds 08.02.2022 4:58

Endgame connects the dots between product usage and sales opportunities to put employees in the driver's seat of the software they like to use instead of a top-down approach. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bumble makes its first acquisition with deal for French Gen Z dating app, Fruitz 08.02.2022 4:16

Dating app company Bumble, Inc. is making its first acquisition with today’s news that it’s adding the fast-growing French dating app Fruitz to its family of applications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

GM Ventures invests in startup building fast charge-capable battery tech 07.02.2022 3:18

Soelect, a battery technology startup based in North Carolina, has closed an $11 million Series A round. It plans to use the fresh capital to scale its fast charge-capable anode technologies that might enable the next generation of batteries for electric vehicles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Over 500 mobile apps are now using the term ‘metaverse’ to attract new users 07.02.2022 4:50

A true “metaverse” may not yet exist, but that hasn’t stopped marketers from adopting the buzzword to promote their apps and games on mobile app stores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

No plastic clamshells here: Zero Grocery aims to eliminate unnecessary plastic in grocery delivery 04.02.2022 4:59

Even small changes made by individuals to reduce plastic waste can add up to a big positive impact on the environment, founder and CEO Zuleyka Strasner said. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Scale AI gets into the synthetic data game 04.02.2022 4:39

Scale AI’s path to becoming a $7.3 billion company was paved in real data from images, text, voice and video. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Waldo raises $15 million for its automated mobile testing service 03.02.2022 4:45

Waldo has raised $15 million for its ‘no code’ automated testing tool. Mobile development teams using Waldo can set up tests without writing a line of scripting code. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Whose Your Landlord raises $2.1M for its rental review and data service 03.02.2022 4:33

Whose Your Landlord,1 or WYL, announced a $2.1 million seed round today led by Black Operator Ventures, better known as BlackOps Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Framework looks to expand repairability beyond the laptop 02.02.2022 3:49

Last November, Apple announced the launch of Self Service Repair — a surprising addition for a company that has notoriously lacked such capabilities. Those changes didn’t happen in a vacuum, of course. The president and Congress have both been pushing to open the so-called right to repair. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jellyfish aims to ‘do for engineering what Salesforce did for sales’ 02.02.2022 3:47

Jellyfish essentially pioneered the term “engineering management” to provide a software tool for insight into engineering organizations, including what they are working on and how they operate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

VendorPM raises $6M to scale its marketplace for property managers and service vendors 01.02.2022 4:13

VendorPM, a Toronto-based marketplace that connects property managers with reputable vendors, has raised $6 million in seed funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dashworks is a search engine for your company’s sprawling internal knowledge 01.02.2022 3:34

As a company grows, the amount of important information employees need to keep track of inevitably grows right along with it. And, as your tech stack gets more complicated, that information ends up split up across more places. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rise is a new calendar app with a scheduling engine for teams 31.01.2022 4:18

Meet Rise, a new startup working on a calendar app that is specifically designed for team work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices