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Startups
‘Instant needs’ delivery startup goPuff raises $1.15B at an $8.9B valuation
7:00 am PDT • March 23, 2021
Last fall, delivery startup goPuff made a big splash by raising $380 million in funding and acquiring West Coast beverage retailer BevMo shortly afterwards. Just a few months later, the Philadelphia-based…
Media & Entertainment
Facebook will bring back F8 on June 2 as a pared-back, single-day, virtual-only conference for developers
6:50 am PDT • March 23, 2021
After a few twists and turns and then ultimately cancelling its F8 developer conference last year over Covid-19 concerns, Facebook today announced a return of the event in a virtual-only…
Enterprise
Trace announces $8M seed to help companies coordinate budgets
6:32 am PDT • March 23, 2021
Trace, an early startup that wants to bring a taste of SaaS to the finance side of the house, announced an $8 million seed round today led by Greylock and…
Venture
Planting seed investments on tech’s frontiers nets KdT Ventures $50 million for its latest fund
6:05 am PDT • March 23, 2021
Like other venture investors over the past year, Cain McClary, co-founder of the investment firm KdT Ventures, recently made the jump to Austin. But unlike the rest of them, he…
Biotech & Health
Bill Gates wants Western countries to eat ‘synthetic meat’; Meatable has raised $47 million to make it
6:02 am PDT • March 23, 2021
In a recent interview discussing Bill Gates’ recent book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster“, the Microsoft and Breakthrough Energy founder (and the world’s third wealthiest man) advocated for citizens…
Enterprise
Customer data platform ActionIQ extends its latest funding round to $100M
6:00 am PDT • March 23, 2021
ActionIQ, which helps companies use their customer data to deliver personalized experiences, is announcing that it has extended its Series C funding, bringing the round to a total size of…
Startups
Hopin buys two more companies as it triples down on video focus
5:53 am PDT • March 23, 2021
Hopin, a unicorn best known for its online events-hosting service, announced this morning that it has acquired two more companies. The smaller concerns, Jamm and Streamable, were acquired in deals…
Media & Entertainment
Update: Telegram raises $1BN+, including $150M from Mubadala and Abu Dhabi CP via pre-IPO convertible bonds
5:42 am PDT • March 23, 2021
Update: Telegram has now announced it’s pulled in over $1BN in debt financing by selling bonds. Founder Pavel Durov put out an update via his official Telegram channel after a…
AI
Dataminr raises $475M on a $4.1B valuation for real-time insights based on 100k sources of public data
5:05 am PDT • March 23, 2021
Significant funding news today for one of the startups making a business out of tapping huge, noisy troves of publicly available data across social media, news sites, undisclosed filings and…
Biotech & Health
Ghana’s Redbird raises $1.5M seed to expand access to rapid medical testing in sub-Saharan Africa
5:00 am PDT • March 23, 2021
For patients and healthcare professionals to properly track and manage illnesses, especially chronic ones, healthcare needs to be decentralized. It also needs to be more convenient, with a patient’s health…
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Enterprise
ServiceNow takes RPA plunge by acquiring India-based startup Intellibot
5:00 am PDT • March 23, 2021
ServiceNow became the latest company to take the robotic process automation (RPA) plunge when it announced it was acquiring Intellibot, an RPA startup based in Hyderabad, India. The companies did…
Orca Security, an Israeli cybersecurity startup that offers an agent-less security platform for protecting cloud-based assets, today announced that it has raised a $210 million Series C round at a…
Startups
D2C furniture startup Tylko closes $26M Series C growth round led by Pitango and Evli
4:49 am PDT • March 23, 2021
Polish startup Tylko, a modular furniture company that employs augmented reality as part of its sales cycle, has closed a €22 million ($26 million) investment Series C funding round, led…
Startups
Real estate platform Loft raises $425M at a $2.2B valuation in one of Brazil’s largest venture rounds
4:30 am PDT • March 23, 2021
Buying and selling residential real estate is a complex business, no matter where you live. A slew of startups in the United States are focused on streamlining that process for…
Startups
Insuretech startup Counterpart raises $10M in funding round led by Valor Equity Partners
2:47 am PDT • March 23, 2021
Insuretech startup Counterpart, has raised $10 million in funding led by Valor Equity Partners. Also participating was Susa Ventures and Felicis Ventures. Counterpart works in the “management liability” insurance market.…
Security
Jumio raises $150M as its all-in-one ID authentication platform crosses 300M verified identities
1:05 am PDT • March 23, 2021
Digital identity services — used as a key link between organizations to verify that you are who you say you are online and individuals logging into those services — have…
Startups
Jeff raises $1M to build alternative credit scoring and other fintech products for Southeast Asia
12:00 am PDT • March 23, 2021
According to the World Bank, more than one billion people in South and East Asia lack access to a bank account. For many, this makes it difficult to secure loans…
Startups
Afriex raises $1.2M seed to scale its payments and remittances platform across Africa
11:12 pm PDT • March 22, 2021
Sending money from the U.S. to Nigeria can be a painstaking process. For remittance platforms like Western Union, it will cost a transfer fee and take between one to five…
Crypto
Crypto social network BitClout arrives with a bevy of high-profile investors — and skeptics
10:35 pm PDT • March 22, 2021
While much of the recent wave of relentless hype around NFTs — or non-fungible tokens — has been most visibly manifested in high-dollar art auctions or digital trading cards sales,…
Media & Entertainment
China to ban apps from collecting excessive user data starting May 1
9:10 pm PDT • March 22, 2021
Starting May 1, apps in China can no longer force users into providing excessive personal data, according to a document jointly released by a group of the country’s top regulators…
