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Extra Crunch Live: Join a live Q&A with Max Levchin today at 1pm PDT/4pm EDT
Money makes the world go round, as the saying goes. But how and where we spend it are still very much up for grabs. One person who has been pondering that question and providing answers very successfu
Mode raises $33M to supercharge its analytics platform for data scientists
Data science is the name of the game these days for companies that want to improve their decision making by tapping the information they are already amassing in their apps and other systems. And today
Rippling nabs $145M at a $1.35B valuation to build out its all-in-one platform for employee data
Big news today the world of IT startups targeting businesses. Rippling, the startup founded by Parker Conrad to take on the ambitious challenge of building a platform to manage all aspects of employee
Yotpo raises $75M for its e-commerce marketing cloud
“Marketing cloud” has become an increasingly popular concept in the world of marketing technology — used by the likes of Salesforce, Adobe, Oracle and others to describe their digita
Extra Crunch Live: Join fintech legend Max Levchin for a live Q&A on August 6 at 4pm ET/1pm PT
We’ve got a great Extra Crunch Live chat coming up on Thursday, August 4, that you won’t want to miss. The one and only Max Levchin, is Silicon Valley icon and entrepreneur extraordinaire,
Remitly raises $85M at a $1.5B valuation, says money transfer business has surged
Remittances — when people send money internationally to family and friends, or as a payment — has long been one of the most important levers for getting funds to people in developing econo
True Link taps $35M for financial services tailored for elderly, disabled and recovering consumers
A lot of tech is built on the premise of services that can target the widest or most lucrative pools of users (and they’re a blockbuster when they can do both). But that leaves out a number of c
Nanox raises $59M for low-cost, downsized scanning tech to replace X-rays
Israeli startup Nanox has big ambitions to take on the world of medical imaging and imaging analytics with hardware that reduces the size and cost of scanning equipment, plus software that improves th
ComplyAdvantage nabs $50M for an AI platform and database to detect and stop financial crime
The growth of digital banking has opened up a wealth of opportunities for making the world of finance more accessible and transparent to a greater number of people. But the darker underbelly is that i
Facebook raises its Zoom game, lets Messenger Rooms broadcast via Live
Zoom has run away with the prize in the last few months for becoming the video calling platform of choice for people confined to their homes, whether they are making work calls or friend calls. No one
StuffThatWorks nabs $9M for crowdsourced insights on health conditions
Waze upended the world of navigation when it took the approach of blending basic mapping data with crowdsourced feedback on the best routes, annoying traffic and other road conditions. Now, one of the
Twitter Q2 misses on sales of $683M, loss per share of $0.16 as COVID-19 takes its toll
On the back of a major security breach last week that saw a bitcoin scam ripple through some of the highest profile accounts on Twitter, the company today reported Q2 earnings that point to the ongoin
Quantexa raises $64.7M to bring big data intelligence to risk analysis and investigations
The wider field of cybersecurity — not just defending networks, but identifying fraudulent activity — has seen a big boost in activity in the last few months, and that’s no surprise.
UK’s Selina Finance raises $53M for its SMB loans platform based on home equity
When you need a loan, the cost and speed of getting it can be as critical to get right as the financing itself, a principle that might be even more relevant today in our shaky pandemic-hit economy tha
Scalable Capital raises $58M at a $460M valuation for its robo-investment platform
Startups building tech-based platforms to help make investments continue to be in high demand, building on an expanding market of investors getting more confident to rely on technology to undercut bro
Adevinta acquires eBay’s Classifieds business unit in $9.2B deal
Consolidation continues apace in the world of e-commerce, and today it was the turn of the classified ads market. Today, eBay announced it had reached a deal to sell off its Classifieds business unit
Gett raises $100M more to double down on its B2B on-demand ride business
A number of on-demand ride hailing companies are feeling the strain from reduced business, with many consumers still reluctant to travel, and especially to travel in surroundings that might increase t
From Twenty Minute VC to 20VC, Harry Stebbings launches a micro VC off the back of his popular podcast
Podcasts are becoming big business — in part because of how well they can attract and keep audiences at a time when so many other media formats are finding it hard to pin down that elusive metri
UK’s Drover raises $26M to take its car subscription marketplace to Europe
The future of transportation is in flux, and that continues to provide opportunities for tech companies to build solutions to provide new ways for us to get from A to B. In the latest development, a s
Emergence’s Jason Green thinks some of the tech backlash is justified, but the B2B opportunities still outweigh the challenges
Jason Green, co-founder and partner at Emergence, is one of the leading VCs investing in enterprise startups at the moment. But even with the focus on B2B, many of their companies have become househol