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Forerunner, Bezos back Arrived, a startup that lets you buy into single-family rentals for ‘as little as $100’
Arrived has raised $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Forerunner Ventures to give people the ability to buy shares in single-family rentals with “as little as $100.” Returning backers
Vivun is digitizing pre-sales, and just got $75M in new investment
Vivun was built by Matt Darrow, a guy who cut his teeth in pre-sales at Zuora. He believed that pre-sales teams had a lot to offer to the organization, but there really wasn’t any software to ca
With a fresh $46M, Instabug aims to do more than fix your app’s bugs
Instabug, a startup that aims to help mobile developers monitor, identify and fix bugs within apps, has raised $46 million in a Series B funding round led by Insight Partners. The raise comes just ov
Does Elon Musk really even want to buy Twitter?
Things between Musk and Twitter have been rocky, with its potential acquirer taking to the company's service to, variously, complain, prod, and backtrack.
Virtual product placement ads are coming to Amazon Prime Video and Peacock
Announced at this month’s NewFronts, Amazon and Peacock demonstrated new ad formats that use similar virtual product placement (VPP) tools, a post-production technique for inserting a brand into
Snapchat’s stricter policies for anonymous apps and friend finders aren’t yet fully enforced
A small handful of Snap Kit platform developers have not yet complied with the new guidelines around anonymous messaging and friend-finding apps announced in March. The Snapchat maker revamped its dev
Drip aims to provide thrill of live commerce to NFTs, physical collectibles
Drip is "Shopify for livestream commerce,” providing tooling so users can run live stream auctions, drops or buy it now formats via Drip’s existing marketplace.
Greenlight, a $2.3B fintech focused on kids, launches credit card for parents
Greenlight, the Atlanta, GA-based fintech company that pitches parents on kid-friendly bank accounts, is launching a credit card. The Greenlight-branded card, offered through Mastercard, offers up to
Fortis Digital Ventures closing $100 million raise for new crypto fund
The fund aims to make blockchain investing easier through asset allocation, risk management and position sizing in crypto.
Amid crypto’s talent war, Encode Club mints new web3 developers
Crypto-savvy developers are in short supply these days. Blockchain startups and protocols are fighting to onboard and train more engineers — an even tougher undertaking in a world where developi
Pipedream lands $20M to connect disparate apps
Software integrations can be challenging. While serverless functions-as-a-service (FaaS) products like AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and CloudFlare Workers can help ease the complexity, they are
AI-powered construction management platform Buildots lands $60M
In the construction industry, managers can become disconnected from what’s happening on-site — particularly when dealing with pandemic-related disruptions. Among the top hurdles are stayin
Real-time database startup Imply reaches unicorn status with $100M infusion
The desire to extract value from enterprise data has only grown as the pandemic prompts organizations to digitize their operations. But organizations often lack the right set of tools to do so. Accord
Apple adds live captions to iPhone and Mac, plus more accessibility upgrades to come
Apple has released a bevy of new accessibility features for iPhone, Apple Watch, and Mac, including a universal live captioning tool, improved visual and auditory detection modes, and iOS access to Wa
A.Team emerges from stealth with a gig marketplace for product specialists
The gig economy has, to use a well-worn word, disrupted industries from ride-hailing to quick-service restaurants. Contract work has its downsides, namely on the pay and benefits side of the equation.
Banking-as-a-service startup Unit closes on $100M at a $1.2B valuation
Unit, a banking-as-a-service startup, has closed on a $100 million Series C round of funding led by Insight Partners. Existing backers Accel, Better Tomorrow Ventures and Flourish Ventures also partic
Fashinza, a B2B supply chain marketplace for fashion brands, raises $100M
The pandemic has majorly affected the global supply chain, with 60% of U.S. adults in an August 2021 Gallup survey saying that they’ve been unable to get a product they wanted in the past two mo
Red Hat open sources StackRox, the Kubernetes security platform it acquired last year
Last January, Red Hat announced that it was acquiring Kubernetes security startup StackRox, a company that had raised over $65 million since it was founded in 2014. With StackRox, the company acquired
Musk says Twitter deal is dead unless CEO can prove spam stats
In a new tweet fired at Twitter before market open, Elon Musk has reiterated that his $44BN deal to buy the social media platform is on hold over the issue of spambots. But now he’s tacitly accu
Linktree is rolling out new features to allow creators to showcase their NFTs
Link-in-bio platform Linktree is the latest company that is looking to integrate NFTs into its service, as the company has revealed a set of new features that will allow creators to showcase their NFT