Cacheflow doubles valuation while raising $10M, proving that the venture market is far from dead
Cacheflow, a startup building tools for the software sales closing process, announced this morning that it closed $10 million in new capital.
Cacheflow CEO and co-founder Sarika Garg told technewss that the new capital doubled her company’s valuation, added prior lead investor Glenn Solomon
Oda, the Norwegian grocery delivery startup, raises a fresh $151M, but at a lowered valuation of $353M
Online grocery delivery, a booming business at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, has definitely come down to earth with the shifts in the economy, public health and technology investing. Oda, one of the bigger players in online grocery delivery in Europe with operations in its home market of Nor
Flow Engineering wants to modernize the hardware engineering design process
Software engineers have a host of tooling to organize their projects, chief being Git software like GitLab or GitHub, but hardware engineers today lack that same organizing principle. They are stuck with a bunch of tech that doesn't communicate well with each other, leaving them to build Excel
African fintech unicorn Chipper Cash lays off about 12.5% of staff
Chipper Cash, an African cross-border payments company valued at $2.2 billion last year, has laid off a portion of its workforce.
Yesterday, a few affected and non-affected employees took to LinkedIn to reveal the news. technewss has learned from sources that more than 50 employees were affected a
From the creator of Homebrew, Tea raises $8.9M to build a protocol that helps open source developers get paid
Tea, an open source unified package manager for software developers, today announced it has added another $8.9 million in seed funding to its coffer as it builds on recent momentum that has seen some 16,000 developers authenticate their software packages with Tea.
Tea is the brainchild of Max Howel
Singapore-based financial admin platform Osome raises $25M Series B
Osome is a financial admin platform that helps business owners with administrative tasks like payroll, accounting and tax reporting. The company announced today it has raised a $25 million Series B from Illuminate Financial, AFG Partners and Winter Capital. This brings Osome's total raised sinc
Cubzh wants to build the next-generation Minecraft
Meet Cubzh, a new free-to-play video game that is all about user-generated content through a cube system. The company has designed a new platform from scratch and wants to empower creators with the ability to create new objects, build worlds and define game rules thanks to a scripting environment.
Accacia tackles the real estate industry's massive carbon emissions problem
The real estate and infrastructure sectors contribute about 40% of global carbon emissions, and part of solving the climate crisis is fixing how those industries work. Accacia gives large property owners a way to track their carbon impact in real time by integrating with ERPs and property managemen
3 views: Predicting 2023’s key startup themes
A good way to be wrong is to predict the future. A good way to be incredibly and embarrassingly wrong is to predict the future in a medium that is public and everlasting. With that in mind, welcome back to another episode of “technewss Predicts.”
As we did last year, technewss's N
Operative Intelligence helps contact centers figure out what customers really need
A company may have a good contact center, but ideally they are able to help customers before they need to make a call. Operative Intelligence helps contact centers figure out what customers want more quickly, improving automated inquiries and cutting down on wait times. The Melbourne and Los Angele
If Rowy has its way, if you can use Excel, you can build software
Low- and no-code application building continues apace. Gently hum “Row row row your code, gently down the streams,” as we talk with the founder behind Rowy, the company that’s like Airtable on a lot of steroids or Excel on a lot of steroids and a couple of lines of illegal substan
Twelve Labs lands $12M for AI that understands the context of videos
To Jae Lee, a data scientist by training, it never made sense that video — which has become an enormous part of our lives, what with the rise of platforms like TikTok, Vimeo and YouTube — was difficult to search across due to the technical barriers posed by context understanding. Search
Loft Dynamics raises $20M to tackle pilot shortage with VR training
Loft Dynamics, a Swiss startup creating virtual reality (VR) simulation technology for helicopter pilots, has raised $20 million in funding from U.S. venture capital (VC) firms, including David Sacks’ Craft Ventures, Sky Dayton and Up Ventures.
Alongside the funding, the company is also forma
If you’re a bootstrapped startup, turn to user-centered design to thrive during adversity
When it comes to user-centered design (UCD), the goal of each design process is the same: create a great product for your end-users.
In normal economic times, the use (or lack) of UCD can greatly influence the success or failure of a project. In this more fiscally constrained environment, the stake