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Startups
Mio raises $8.7M Series A to make enterprise messaging interoperable
6:45 am PST • December 9, 2021
Mio, a startup that helps enterprise teams collaborate across messaging services like Zoom Chat, Microsoft Teams, Slack and Cisco’s Webex, today announced that it has raised an $8.7 million Series…
Transportation
Europe lays out a plan to flip the odds on gig economy exploitation
6:36 am PST • December 9, 2021
EU lawmakers have formally proposed legislation for the gig economy they hope will improve conditions for platform workers across the bloc — including by establishing a framework to tackle the…
Media & Entertainment
Meta rolls out a suite of new features and discovery tools for Facebook Live creators
6:27 am PST • December 9, 2021
Meta (formerly Facebook) today is introducing a number of Facebook Live updates that will allow creators to engage with fans during their live broadcasts, including new features like Polls, support…
Fintech
Rho raises $75 million Series B for its one-stop corporate spend and cash management solution
6:00 am PST • December 9, 2021
Corporate spend and cash management company Rho today announced that it has raised a $75 million Series B funding round, alongside a redesign and rebranding.
Usage-based pricing (UBP) has quickly gone from fringe to mainstream in SaaS. Converts to UBP are drawn to the promise of accelerated revenue growth and a more efficient land-and-expand business…
Enterprise
Shabodi aims to make developing apps in 5G a piece of cake; takes in $3M
5:30 am PST • December 9, 2021
Like what Square did for payments, Shabodi aims to demystify 5G by providing APIs so developers can build Industry 4.0 applications without unexpected costs, complexity and domain disparity.
Enterprise
E-commerce aggregator Merama gets its horn after just 12 months in business
5:01 am PST • December 9, 2021
The company touts this new round of funding as “the largest Series B round ever raised in Latin America.”
Media & Entertainment
Pod Foods bags additional funding to overhaul the grocery supply chain
5:00 am PST • December 9, 2021
The company offers a data-driven approach to streamlining the retailer procurement process with brands while connecting consumers to a wider variety of products.
Startups
Affirm spinout Resolve raises $25M in Insight Partners-led round to grow B2B buy now, pay later offering
5:00 am PST • December 9, 2021
Resolve, which specializes in “buy now, pay later” capabilities for B2B transactions, announced today that it has raised $25 million in equity funding. The investment comes just months after the…
Vercel, the well-funded front-end development platform from the team behind Next.js, today announced that it has acquired Turborepo, a high-performance build system for JavaScript and TypeScript monorepos, an increasingly popular…
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Media & Entertainment
Italy fines Amazon $1.3 billion for abusing its market position
4:57 am PST • December 9, 2021
Italy’s competition authority announced that it had fined Amazon €1.129 billion, or roughly $1.3 billion at today’s exchange rate. According to the antitrust watchdog, Amazon has abused its dominant market…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has blasted off with NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer satellite, capable of measuring the polarization of X-rays that come from cosmic sources like black holes.
Startups
UK’s Atom Learning picks up $25M from SoftBank for an AI-based online learning platform aimed at elementary school-aged students
4:04 am PST • December 9, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a new chapter for virtual learning, giving a boost of attention to existing tools and spurring the creation of new services and use cases as…
Startups
Petra emerges from stealth with $30M raised for tunnel-boring robot, Swifty
2:00 am PST • December 9, 2021
Petra emerged from stealth this week, announcing a $30 million Series A. The round, led by DCVC, brings the robotics company’s funding up to $33 million, with additional participation from…
Startups
African edtech startup uLesson raises $15M, backed by Nielsen Ventures and Tencent
1:00 am PST • December 9, 2021
As many edtech companies benefited from the disruption of the pandemic, attracting wads of cash from investors globally, it did feel like African startups were left out. Well, not anymore:…
Startups
Mambu nabs $266M at a $5.5B valuation to double down on embedded financial service and banking APIs
12:49 am PST • December 9, 2021
Embedded finance — where companies tap into APIs to integrate banking and other financial tools without having to build everything themselves from the ground up — has been one of…
Startups
Egyptian fintech Sympl raises $6M for its ‘save now, pay later’ service
12:05 am PST • December 9, 2021
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) offerings have existed for a long time, but increased in popularity as the pandemic made more people shop online and conserve cash. Though BNPL has…
Meet Collective, a French startup that wants to redefine what it means to work as a freelancer in development, product design, digital marketing, data strategy and more. The company has…
Startups
India’s Razorpay launches faster checkout feature, tops $60 billion TPV
10:31 pm PST • December 8, 2021
Razorpay is making it more convenient for users to pay businesses with a faster checkout option as the leading Indian payments infrastructure giant pushes to win a bigger slice of…
Media & Entertainment
Klarna launches browser extension with payments and coupons
10:30 pm PST • December 8, 2021
Fintech startup Klarna is launching a desktop browser extension that provides many of the features that you can find in the company’s mobile app — but on your computer. In…
