Startups
AppOmni raises $70M to find and secure vulnerabilities in SaaS app stacks
3:03 am PDT • June 6, 2022
As more enterprises migrate apps and workloads into the cloud, so grows the need for more sophisticated tech to secure that activity. That’s resulted in a strong run of funding…
Startups
JupiterOne raises $70M at a $1B+ valuation to help track, manage and secure complex cyber assets
4:59 am PDT • June 2, 2022
One of the by-products of today’s IT environments — which can involve multiple clouds and data warehouses, on-premise servers, thousands or even millions of connected devices and users, a multitude…
Enterprise
Hourly.io banks $27M for its new approach to providing workers’ comp and payroll for hourly wage workers
5:28 am PDT • June 1, 2022
We’ve seen a boom in the last several years around tech built for front-line, service, manual and other workforces typically paid on an hourly wage. In one of the latest…
Startups
Coralogix streams $142M into its coffers to expand its production analytics into a full-stack observability platform
3:59 am PDT • June 1, 2022
We’ve long documented the challenges that DevOps and operations teams in specific areas like security face these days when it comes to data observability: A wide range of services across…
Startups
Odilo raises $64M as its white-label e-learning library passes 8,500 customers and 170M users
12:34 am PDT • June 1, 2022
E-learning — whether it’s in the form of a supplement to physical materials or live lessons; or the primary or even only medium being used — is now an indelible…
Enterprise
Seemplicity emerges from stealth with $32M to consolidate security notifications and speed up response times
4:59 am PDT • May 31, 2022
Cybersecurity continues to grow in complexity due to the ever-increasing threat landscape — more services in the cloud, more digital operations and more devices mean more attack surfaces and variations…
Brainly says it’s been blocked in Russia after refusing to remove community content about the war in Ukraine
10:41 am PDT • May 25, 2022
Russia’s crackdown on news media, and specifically sites that present the country’s government in a critical light, has been well documented, but less so the impact that this censorship is…
Startups
Getir, the $12B instant delivery startup, plans to axe 14% of staff globally and cut aggressive expansion plans
8:00 am PDT • May 25, 2022
It continues to be a very rough week for e-commerce companies in Europe. In the latest development, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Getir — the $12 billion quick commerce upstart…
Paddle acquires ProfitWell for $200M to bring analytics and retention tools to its SaaS payments platform
3:24 am PDT • May 25, 2022
On the back of Paddle raising $200 million at a $1.4 billion valuation the other week, the London startup is making a key acquisition to bring more functionality to its…
Stripe launches App Marketplace, scripts and tools incorporating third-party SaaS apps that work alongside Stripe
9:13 am PDT • May 24, 2022
Stripe, the payments upstart now valued at $95 billion, has been launching a number of new products to expand beyond the API that helped make its name, to build out…
Startups
Anduril is raising up to $1.2B, sources say at a $7B pre-money valuation, for its defense tech
8:32 am PDT • May 24, 2022
Technology built to improve state resilience — be it in the form of cybersecurity, energy independence, national defense or something else entirely — has come into stronger focus in the…
Robotics are playing a growing role in the world of e-commerce logistics and fulfillment — where they are seen not just as a way to speed up operations but to…
Startups
Berlin’s Gorillas lays off 300, explores ‘strategic options’ in 4 countries as funds dry up for its $3B instant grocery play
3:02 am PDT • May 24, 2022
It’s crunch time in the world of instant grocery delivery, with the latest turn representing a big blow specifically in Europe. Berlin-based Gorillas, which raised nearly $1 billion dollars at…
Enterprise
Data intelligence startup Near, with 1.6B anonymized user IDs, lists on Nasdaq via SPAC at a $1B market cap; raises $100M
8:30 am PDT • May 19, 2022
The IPO window has all but closed for technology companies in the wake of a massive downturn in the market, but an opening still remains for some, in the form…
Enterprise
Stripe expands its infrastructure play with Data Pipeline to sync financial data with Amazon and Snowflake
9:20 am PDT • May 18, 2022
Stripe — the payments giant valued at $95 billion — is on a product sprint to expand its services and functionality beyond the basic payments that form the core of…
Keep Financial raises $9M led by a16z to help employers offer forgivable loans as a retention tool
9:01 am PDT • May 18, 2022
Employee churn is one of the biggest challenges facing organizations working in competitive environments. Today a startup is launching with a new product to add to the artillery of tools…
Startups
Gopuff, the instant delivery upstart, taps ex-Disney head Bob Iger as its newest investor and advisor
5:46 am PDT • May 18, 2022
Gopuff, the instant delivery giant valued at $15 billion, made a name for itself courting consumers wanting groceries and other essentials with an app that lets them order and get…
Storyblok raises $47M to build out its headless CMS aimed at non-technical users like marketers
12:07 am PDT • May 17, 2022
The world of web development continues to become increasingly more democratized — and more creative — thanks to innovations in “headless” systems that give more flexibility around how a site…
Flink, the German instant grocery upstart, snaps up France’s Cajoo for ~$93M, takes fresh Carrefour funding, sources say at $5B valuation
8:12 am PDT • May 16, 2022
Instant grocery startups sprang up and grew like weeds during COVID-19, fueled by consumers opting to practice social distancing and ready to order their food and sundries at the tap…
Startups
Optibus taps $100M at a $1.3B valuation for its AI-based mass transit operations platform
5:59 am PDT • May 16, 2022
Mass transit has made a rebound with the return of city life post-COVID 19, and today a startup that’s building tech to help it run more smoothly is announcing a…
Startups
Token.io raises $40M to expand open banking-based account-to-account payments in Europe
5:03 am PDT • May 12, 2022
The rise of digital payments has changed the nature of how people do business with each other; and open banking — a movement in banking where incumbents are finally adopting…
Startups
Nexi, the Italian payments giant, buys Germany’s Orderbird for $140-150M to expand its SMB strategy
1:23 am PDT • May 12, 2022
More consolidation is apace in the world of payments: Nexi, the Italian fintech that scooped up rivals Danish-based Nets and then Italy’s SIA to create a $12.5 billion European payments…
Startups
Nexite raises $67M for its new approach to tagging and tracking merchandise in physical stores
3:04 am PDT • May 11, 2022
When it comes to commerce innovation, physical retail often feels like it gets the short end of the development stick against newer, faster-growing, more quantifiable (and still far from perfect)…
Hardware
reMarkable, maker of a focus-friendly e-paper tablet, says it closed funding at a $1B+ valuation after selling 1M devices
5:59 am PDT • May 10, 2022
Hardware, as the saying goes, is hard; but there remains an opportunity for startups that focus on specific niches to build viable businesses. In the latest example, reMarkable, the Oslo,…
Bookaway books $35M to scale up its ground transportation booking platform
1:31 am PDT • May 10, 2022
Travel and tourism are coming back online in the wake of COVID-19 restrictions getting relaxed, and today a startup tackling one part of the equation for getting from home to…
Byrd nabs $56M to grow its European e-commerce logistics and fulfillment network as an alternative to Amazon
12:02 am PDT • May 10, 2022
Shopify put a spotlight on the role and significance of logistics and fulfillment in e-commerce when it snapped up Deliverr for $2.1 billion last week to gain its own, direct…
Enterprise
Paddle, the company that wants to take on Apple in IAP, raises $200M at a $1.4B valuation to supercharge SaaS payments
10:06 pm PDT • May 9, 2022
Software as a service has become the default for how organizations adopt and use apps these days, thanks to advances in cloud computing and networking, and the flexibility of pay-as-you-use…
Fintech
Stripe flexes its fintech muscle with Financial Connections to pull banking data automatically
8:59 am PDT • May 4, 2022
Stripe, the payments behemoth valued at $95 billion a year ago and now reportedly inching closer to an IPO, today announced a new product that fills in some significant gaps…
Fintech
Just Eat Takeaway takes away chairman, investigates COO, weighs Grubhub sale as meal delivery cools down
5:58 am PDT • May 4, 2022
The food delivery business, and tech companies leading the charge, were hot commodities at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic as people stayed indoors and turned to apps to fill…
Startups
Edge Delta rakes in $63M for its distributed approach to data observability
8:53 am PDT • May 3, 2022
Databases are growing at an exponential rate these days, and so when it comes to real-time data observability, organizations are often fighting a losing battle if they try to run…
