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AKUA aims to replace the unsustainable part of food — factory farming — with regenerative ocean farming.

AKUA lands $3.2M to turn kelp into burgers

There’s nothing like an increasing level of regulations to create spaces for new startups to appear, especially in SaaS. Asset managers, banks and other financial institutions need to calculate their…

Climate accounting platform Persefoni raises $101M Series B led by Prelude and TPG

The company intends to build out several SaaS applications and is poised to roll out its first two modules for revenue and accounts receivables by the end of the year.

Audit Sight takes on new capital to eliminate all of the back and forth between auditors, companies

Every popular social media platform has opened up a new type of storytelling to a new generation of users, but TikTok’s impact has perhaps been the swiftest as the short-form…

FourFront nabs funding to build an interconnected network of fictional TikTok stars

Divibank, a financing platform offering LatAm businesses access to growth capital, has closed on a $3.6 million round of seed funding led by San Francisco-based Better Tomorrow Ventures (BTV). São…

Brazil’s Divibank raises millions to become the Clearbanc of LatAm

Lang.ai, which has developed a no-code platform for businesses, closed on a $2 million seed funding round. The company’s SaaS platform aims to allow business users to structure any free-text…

Lang.ai snags $2M to remove technical burden of implementing AI for businesses

Eating less meat is the easiest way for anyone to lower their carbon footprint, and the prepared food delivery startup Thistle has just raised $10.3 million to make that choice even…

Plant-centered prepared food delivery startup Thistle raises $10.3 million

Rigetti Computing, the quantum computing startup that is challenging industry heavyweights like IBM, Microsoft and D-Wave, today announced that it has closed a $79 million Series C funding round. The…

Rigetti raises $79M Series C for its quantum computing platform

Rylo had raised roughly $38 million in VC funding at a $120.25 million valuation.

VSCO acquires video editing startup Rylo

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