Ingrid Lunden
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TrustRadius, a customer-generated B2B software review platform, raises $12.5M
Customer reviews play a key role in helping people decide what to buy on consumer-focused marketplaces like Amazon or app stores, and the same tendency exists in the B2B world, where nearly half a tri
UK challenger bank Atom raises another £50M from BBVA and more at £530M valuation
Another hopeful among Europe’s so-called challenger banks — startups taking on the big names in consumer banking by targeting niche groups of users with a more modern set of tools to manag
Sennder raises $70M on $300M valuation to take on the freight-forwarding industry
Logistics and the movement of freight from point A to B (and C and beyond) is one of the more antiquated, and less-understood, aspects of the world of commerce. But one look at Amazon and how it has g
UVeye snaps up $31M for its hyper-detailed, AI-based drive-thru vehicle-scanning platform
The race is on for the car of the future, equipped with self-driving capabilities, on-board personalised information and entertainment and an ever-smaller carbon footprint. Today, however, comes news
InCountry raises $15M for its cloud-based private data storage-as-a-service solution
The rise of data breaches, along with an expanding raft of regulations (now numbering 80 different regional regimes, and growing) have thrust data protection — having legal and compliant ways of
AlphaSense, a search engine for analysis and business intel, raises $50M led by Innovation Endeavors
Google and its flagship search portal opened the door to the possibilities of how to build a business empire on the back of organising and navigating the world’s information, as found on the int
Workplace, Facebook’s service for business teams, is raising its prices for the first time since launch
Three years into its life with 2 million paying users signed up, Workplace — Facebook’s platform for businesses and other organizations to build internal communities and communications 
Flybits nabs $35M to build consumer recommendation engines for the financial sector
Financial service companies like banks have seen some of their business cannibalised over the years with the rise of digital-based alternatives — often in the form of apps — that provide l
Near raises $100M for an AI that merges online and offline behavior to build consumer profiles
One of the Holy Grails in the world of advertising and marketing has been finding a way to accurately capture and understand what consumers are doing throughout the day, regardless of whether it’
Yandex-Uber JV MLU acquires regional rival Vezet for shares and $71.5M in cash
On-demand transportation giant Uber made its name in part by aggressively entering new markets on a path of organic growth, but in recent times, it has shown itself more amenable to the concept of exp
WPP sells 60% of market research giant Kantar to Bain, valuing Kantar at $4B
Some M&A is afoot in the world of market research and analysis, underscoring just how much of our media consumption and consumer habits revolve around digital platforms. WPP today announced that i
OneTrust raises $200M at a $1.3B valuation to help organizations navigate online privacy rules
GDPR, and the newer California Consumer Privacy Act, have given a legal bite to ongoing developments in online privacy and data protection: it’s always good practice for companies with an online
Signavio raises $177M at a $400M valuation for its business process automation solutions
Robotic Process Automation has been the name of the game in enterprise software lately — with organizations using advances in machine learning algorithms and other kinds of AI alongside big-data
Amazon expands Transparency anti-counterfeit codes to Europe, India and Canada
Amazon is no stranger to the nefarious forces of e-commerce: fake reviews, counterfeit goods and scams have all reared their heads on its marketplace in one place or another. Some even accuse it of tu
Remitly raises $220M to expand from money transfers to financial services, now at ~$1B valuation
When it comes to financial services in emerging markets, remittances — people sending money to each other across international borders, often not to established bank accounts — continues t
Signpost nabs $52M to help SMBs collect reviews and marketing collateral like bigger rivals
Creating products aimed at smaller business users is a promising but challenging category in the area of enterprise software — they make up the vast majority of businesses today, but collectivel
15Five raises $30.7M to expand its employee development toolkit
Technology has been used to improve many of the processes that we use to get work done. But today, a startup has raised funding to build tech to improve us, the workers. 15Five, which builds software
Uber rival Bolt has closed about $67M in funding at a $1B+ valuation
Uber and Lyft going public may have put closer public scrutiny on the economics of ridesharing, but it hasn’t had a chilling effect on the level of competition in the space. In the latest develo
UK’s ICO fines British Airways a record £183M over GDPR breach that leaked data from 500,000 users
The U.K.’s Information Commissioner is starting off the week with a GDPR bang: This morning, it announced that it has fined British Airways and its parent International Airlines Group (IAG) £
Ola gets a taxi license in London and plans to launch services in September
London is one of the world’s biggest markets for consumers who travel using ride-hailing services. Is it now also becoming one of the most crowded when it comes to the companies offering the tra