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Blink looks to simplify cloud operations management with $26M investment
Blink’s co-founders have been working in security and automation for a number of years, and they observed that there was a strong overlap between developer operations (DevOps) and security op...
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Guide wants to make being a job candidate less terrible
Guide, a startup building HR software for job candidates, announced this morning that it has raised an $8 million seed round. First Round and Spero Ventures led the event, which also saw participat...
Uber Eats now lets you split the bill
Now that people are socializing again as the pandemic (hopefully) winds down, Uber is tackling one of the most common problems of restaurant delivery apps: how to split the bill between friends.
Zaya Care partners with payers to bring the European model of maternal care to the States
Despite the fact that we spend more on healthcare per capita, the U.S. leads the wealthy world in maternal mortality. And health inequity plays a big part. Zaya Care, founded by Leoni Runge, operat...
Italy fines Clearview AI €20M and orders data deleted
Another European privacy watchdog has sanctioned the controversial facial recognition firm, Clearview AI, which scrapes selfies off the Internet to amass a databased of some 10 billion of faces to ...
S3 Ventures, Tacora close on new funds to boost Austin startups
Austin’s venture capital scene has been hot for years now, but a pair of investment firms just closed on new funds that will ultimately inject another half a billion dollars into local and Texas st...
Jeffrey Katzenberg, WndrCo flex funding muscles with string of new deals
His firm has been injecting capital into an eclectic group of companies lately, and we wanted to find out what he’s been up to.
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Tinder rolls out in-app access to background checks, powered by nonprofit Garbo
Following last year’s investment in the background check nonprofit, Garbo, Match Group today is rolling out Garbo-powered background checks to its flagship dating app Tinder. The offering wil...
Public buys Otis, bringing fractional ownership of alternative assets to its platform
Public came to the market’s attention during the 2020-2021 savings and investing boom, a period of time that elevated Robinhood and Coinbase to the public markets. Public, initially built alo...
Branch raises $75M to help workers get paid faster
Branch, which aims to power faster payments to contract workers with its technology, has raised $75 million in a Series C funding round that has closed just six months after it announced its last f...
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India’s antitrust watchdog approves Amazon acquiring Cloudtail-parent firm Prione
The Indian antitrust watchdog on Wednesday approved Amazon’s proposed acquisition of estranged partner Catamaran Ventures’ stake in Prione, which operates one of the largest sellers on ...
Money for Nothing and chips from a Series B
For Nothing, Mobile World Congress was prelude. The young hardware startup spent the show in meeting rooms, behind the scenes, discussing what came next. As we noted during the show, the immediate ...
Kodiak Robotics is moving autonomous freight for Ceva Logistics
Autonomous trucking startup Kodiak Robotics has partnered with Ceva Logistics to deliver freight autonomously between Dallas-Forth Worth and Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth and Oklahoma City, the comp...
CircleCI acquires Ponicode
Continuous integration and delivery platform CircleCI today announced that it has acquired Ponicode, a Paris, France-based startup that helps developers automate their unit tests and track their ov...
Acorns squirrels away $300M Series F after scrapping SPAC, now worth nearly $2B
Savings and investing app Acorns has raised $300 million in a Series F funding round that values the company at nearly $2 billion. The announcement of the raise comes about six weeks after the cons...
UK expands Online Safety Bill to cover scam ads and eyes wider reforms
The UK government has again announced an extension to the scope of the draft Online Safety Bill — this time bringing scam ads into scope following pressure from campaigners. In parallel, it h...
Silq spins its technology into visibility for apparel manufacturing
The company’s approach is to bring visibility and real-time data from the manufacturing floor to brands so that brands can source, make and ship apparel.
Nigerian digital bank Yep! raises $1.5M pre-seed for its ‘financial super app’ play
Agency banking is big business in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa. It involves agents or merchants, who act as human ATMs, offering financial services such as transfers, savings and payouts to the u...
Sneaker e-commerce platform Kicks Crew raises $6M Series A
The global thirst for an up-charged pair of Yeezy’s or limited edition Jordan’s combined with a growth in a digital ecosystem is creating new opportunities, particularly in the sneaker ...