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Zepto, an Australian real-time account-to-account (A2A) merchant payments platform, said Monday it has raised a $25 million Series A co-led by AirTree Ventures and Decade Partners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s consolidation time in the freelancer marketplace industry. French startup Malt is acquiring Comatch, a competing marketplace focused on consultants and industry experts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As developers build new features into software, they have to be sure that the new functionality doesn’t break what’s already there. So they often will roll it out slowly and see what happens using a technique of placing feature flags in the code. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kyte, the startup that delivers rental cars to customers’ doors, has raised $200 million in asset-backed credit financing from Goldman Sachs and Ares Global Management, money the company will use to pay for new vehicles that will fuel its expansion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s been a little less than a year since we first noted Rugged Robotics. The Houston-based startup developed a robot that prints building layouts on the floor of construction sites, so workers know where — and where not — to build. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I would put window washing fairly high (so to speak) on the list of jobs it makes sense to automate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

ShopThing, a live shopping marketplace focused on luxury brands, has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Origin Ventures, with participation from Pritzker Group and Interplay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With its self-serve platform, Datagen now has a much more scalable way to help clients themselves generate the visual data that they need to train their computer vision applications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Wealth gives you a one-stop shop where your entire financial portfolio can live and accumulate in real-time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The comics world has seemingly been waiting for a digital revolution since the birth of the internet. Launched in 2007, ComiXology has come the closest to delivering such a play to the medium, so naturally, Amazon went and purchased the service and messed it up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kenya-based agritech Apollo Agriculture, which helps farmers access high-quality farm inputs, financing and markets, plans to double the number of farmers it is serving by the end 2022 and to introduce other products that deliver more value per acre of land. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When it comes to data-intensive applications, setting up the infrastructure is expensive and time-consuming. You’re often paying for resources you aren’t using, even in the cloud. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Expert, which provides video consultations with top designers, expands into e-commerce to become what co-founder Leo Seigal referred to as “Farfetch for home.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hence Technologies, a Kigali and London based startup that uses data and AI technologies to match companies with external legal service providers is set to scale its precision matching engine after raising $1.8million in seed funding from various institutions and angel investors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Security companies typically start by focusing on one particular problem, but the biggest ones like Palo Alto Networks, FireEye and Symantec have shifted to a horizontal approach typically gaining functionality over time through acquisition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The company is building web-based tools that can turn a 2D sketch into a 3D representation so that someone can design anything from a small building to a skyscraper. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TruEra, a startup that offers an AI quality management solution to optimize, explain and monitor machine learning models, today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series B round led by Menlo Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Plantish aims to get its salmon product into the first five restaurants by December 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Meet Motto, a new French startup that plans to offer electric bikes in Paris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Employee sentiment can be hard to gauge, even at smaller businesses. This can lead to burnout and attrition, when managers least expect it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pareto’s team of data experts offer actionable insights on everything from TikTok influencers to qualifying B2B sales leads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

French startup Fleet wants to become your IT department’s best friend by managing hardware as a service. Fleet clients can rent computers and smartphones for a flat monthly fee. If there’s a hardware issue, the startup handles returns and repairs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Boston-based Zeta Surgical comes out of stealth this week, with the announcement of a $5.2 million seed round. The funding, led by Innospark Ventures, follows a $250,000 pre-seed featuring Y Combinator and Plug and Play Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Stilt, which started its life as a provider of financial services for immigrants, has raised $14 million in Series A funding led by Link Ventures as it expands its focus to include a B2B offering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Despite the fact that we spend more on healthcare per capita, the U.S. leads the wealthy world in maternal mortality. And health inequity plays a big part. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices