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Peek raises $80M as its travel experiences software and marketplace business passes $2B in bookings
Travel and tourism are slowly starting to move again in the wake of COVID-19 crashing over the world and sending us to shelter in place. Today a company focused on experiences — museum visits, s
Kettle books $25M for its reinsurance platform against fire and other catastrophes
One of the most noticeable — and noted — effects of climate change has been its impact on how other events in the environment — be they natural or man-made occurrences — play o
Flytrex raises $40M to build its drone-based delivery service across suburbs in the US
Flytrex, the Israeli startup working with Walmart, Chili’s, and others in North Carolina in pilots for a drone-based delivery service targeting suburban consumers, has picked up $40 million in f
Formstack raises $425M for a no-code platform that helps businesses automate their customer and internal workflows
Platforms that bring more automation to the working environment, and platforms that are empowering more people to get involved in building tools to help themselves work, have equally seen a huge rise
OTA Insight books $80M for its hospitality business intelligence tools, used by 55K hotel properties globally
Travel and tourism, two of the hardest-hit industries in the COVID-19 pandemic, are slowly starting to show some signs of recovery. Now, OTA Insight — a company that builds business intelligence
Airwallex raises $100M at a $5.5B valuation to expand its business banking and payments platform globally
E-commerce and other online businesses are becoming increasingly global in their operations and customer bases, and a startup called Airwallex — which has built a banking solution that addresses
Workiz raises $40M on a surge of interest for productivity tools aimed at home service teams
We may hear a lot about how big businesses are undergoing digital transformation, but the trend isn’t exclusively limited to them, and today a startup that’s building better productivity t
Public cloud security startup Laminar emerges from stealth with $37M
The cloud may be the direction that much of enterprise IT is moving today, but it still remains a major source of security issues, with some 98% of all enterprises in a recent survey reporting that th
Balderton closes $600M fund, its biggest yet earmarked for early-stage investments
Funding for European startups is at a record-high so far for this year, with €73.7 billion raised in the first three quarters, and the full year on track for more than 8,000 deals, according to rese
AnyDesk, a maker of remote desktop software, raises $70M at a $660M+ valuation
Remote and hybrid working are the order of the day, and now a startup called AnyDesk that helps enable that to be pulled off smoothly — regardless of the architecture of a company’s networ
Heyday raises $555M to buy up and scale more D2C brands in the Amazon marketplace universe
Consolidation to have better economies of scale is one of the biggest themes in the world of e-commerce, and today a player in the world of online retail is announcing a large round of funding to doub
EasySend raises $55.5M for a no-code platform to build online interactions with customers
No-code continues to permeate the many layers of enterprise IT, where traditionally non-technical workers have had to rely on technical experts to get things done, and startups building these tools ar
Conductor raises $150M at a $525M valuation to build out its search-based, organic marketing technology
Conductor — a marketing technology company that was snapped up by WeWork at the height of the latter company’s expansion ambitions, only then to buy itself out in the wake of WeWork’
Pigment raises $73M to take on Excel and generic spreadsheet players in the world of business planning and forecasting
The last 20 months of living in the midst of COVID-19, with all its unexpected developments, have been a challenge for many organizations when it comes to planning for the future. But that has also pr
Blink, a productivity app aimed at frontline workers, raises $20M at a $100M valuation
Apps catering to frontline workers are seeing a surge of interest in the market these days, as businesses finally start to wake up to using tech to better connect with these employees, and investors e
ControlUp nabs $100M to monitor and improve desktop computing performance across disparate work environments
Remote and hybrid work have become the norm in business, and today a startup that’s building tools to improve how desktop computers behave in those scenarios is announcing a round of growth fund
Workato storms to a $5.7B valuation after raising $200M for its enterprise automation platform
The race to automate the world of business is on, and today one of the bigger players in the market has picked up another major round of funding to meet that demand to speed up work, reduce some of th
Vimeo snaps up AI video startup Wibbitz and ‘shoppable’ video tech maker Wirewax to expand its enterprise video tools
Vimeo, the B2B video platform that spun out from IAC earlier this year, has made a pair of acquisitions aimed at building out the suite of features and tools it offers to businesses to create and run
Fullscript raises $240M to expand its B2B integrative medicine marketplace
The market for complementary and alternative medicine — a wide-ranging area that includes practice-based work like yoga as well as a huge range of supplements and everything in between — h
Jackpocket raises $120M to expand its lottery app into mobile gaming
Apps that let people do virtually what they would have previously had to carry out in person have seen a boom in the last 20 months of pandemic living, and one of them today is announcing a big fundra