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Forme Financial launches out of beta as Earned to help physicians manage wealth
Earned’s “proprietary wealth engine” combines a physician’s career journey with predictive technology to create data-driven financial recommendations.
There’s a growing appetite for alternative search engines. At least, that’s the crux of the argument Richard Socher, the former chief scientist at Salesforce, likes to make. In 2020, Socher…
Sequoia Capital India and Founders Fund back UAE-based proptech startup Huspy in its $37M round
Founders Fund has made its first investment in the Middle East by backing UAE-based proptech startup Huspy. The $37 million Series A round, one of the largest at this stage…
Shield AI raises $165M at a $2.3B valuation to fuel development of its military autonomous flying systems
Technology built with defense in mind is getting some significant and serious traction at the moment, spurred by world events, advances in technology and a growing appetite from end users…
CarePoint, a technology-driven healthcare startup, has raised a $10 million bridge round to accelerate its growth across Africa as it seeks to make healthcare accessible to the masses. The startup…
RaliCap gets backing from global VCs and launches $30M fintech fund for emerging markets
RaliCap, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on emerging markets fintech, has launched a $30 million fund. Last month, the firm, formerly known as Rally Cap Ventures, reached its first close…
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Billionaire investor Jim Breyer left Silicon Valley for Austin in early 2020; here’s why he loves it
It’s hard to get Jim Breyer to say a critical word, publicly, about anything, so it’s no surprise that, when asked why he moved to Austin from his longtime headquarters in Silicon Valley two years ago, he spends some time talking first about the Bay Area and its many advantages, including Stanford University and the…
Alphabet just spun out out its quantum tech group, launching it as an independent company
Quantum tech may be having its moment at long last. Consider that earlier this month, one of the few “pure play” quantum tech companies in the world, Rigetti Computing, went…
Taptap Send raises $65M to build cross-border remittances focused on the most underserved markets
Cross-border remittances — when people living and working abroad send money back home to friends and family — continues to be a huge part of how those living in developing…
Collectible card trading platform Alt raises $75M as it eyes other asset categories and preps its mobile launch
When we last checked in with Alt back in March, it had just raised $31 million for its alternative asset platform — a platform, thus far, used primarily by those…
Nigerian investment platform Chaka secures $1.5M pre-seed after bagging country’s first SEC license
When Robinhood raised its $3 million seed round in 2013, it was a couple of months old, with huge ambitions of democratizing securities access to the underserved and unserved. Robinhood…
Homeward secures $371M to help people make all-cash offers on houses
Trying to buy a house in a competitive market is perhaps one of the most stressful things an adult can go through. Competing with a bunch of people all putting…
Avatar startup Genies scores $65 million in funding round led by Mary Meeker’s Bond
Over the past several years I’ve covered my fair share of upstart avatar companies that were all chasing the same dream — building out a customizable platform for a digital…
Greece’s Viva Wallet raises $80M for its neobank targeting small business merchants
Challenger banks continue to make significant waves in the world of finance, with smaller outfits luring customers away from incumbents by providing an easier way for them to not only…
BlockFi lands a $350M Series D at a $3B valuation for its fast-growing crypto-lending platform
If there were any doubt about a cryptocurrency boom, we need look no further than at the explosion of growth of certain companies in the space. One such company is…
From Unity to Disrupt, tech has an especially optimistic week
Snowflake, Jfrog, Sumo Logic and Unity each raised price ranges days before IPO, to meet what had seemed like growing enthusiasm from public markets. Each one still popped.
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Facebook investor Jim Breyer picks Austin as Breyer Capital’s second home
For Jim Breyer, the mantra, “Silicon Valley is a state of mind” has always been behind Breyer Capital, his personal investment fund. While many of his investments and board seats (which have included Facebook, Blackstone, 21st Century Fox, Dell, Etsy, Marvel Entertainment and Walmart) backed that thesis, Breyer had never established an office for his…
Paige, the computational pathology startup targeting cancer, closes a Series B at $70M
Paige, the startup that spun out of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and launched in 2018 to help advance cancer research and care by applying AI to better understand…
Sokowatch raises $14M to digitize Africa’s informal B2B supply-chain
Kenya based B2B e-commerce startup Sokowatch has raised $14 million in Series A funding toward its mission of revamping supply-chain markets for Africa’s informal retailers. From Nairobi, the company has…
Paige raises $45M more to map the pathology of cancer using AI
One of the more notable startups using artificial intelligence to understand and fight cancer has raised $45 million more in funding to continue building out its operations and inch closer…
With at least $1.3 billion invested globally in 2018, VC funding for blockchain blows past 2017 totals
Although bitcoin and blockchain technology may not take up quite as much mental bandwidth for the general public as it did just a few months ago, companies in the space…
Zumper raises a $17.6M Series B to expand beyond apartment searches
Zumper, the online apartment search platform, has raised $17.6M in Series B funding. This brings total funding to date to $39.2M. While the company declined to discuss valuation, TechCrunch has…
