Startups

BeerOrCoffee, a São Paulo-based flexible office marketplace, has raised $10 million in a Series A round led by Kaszek. Valor Capital Group also participated in the round, which brings BeerOrCoffee's total raised to about $13 million since its 2017 inception. Kees Koolen, the founder of Booking

Fundbox, a company that offers loans and financial products to small businesses, announced today it has raised $100 million in a Series D round at a valuation of $1.1 billion. Or more simply, the company aims to solve SMBs' working capital needs through its credit and payments offerings. It is

ThreeFlow, which provides software for insurance brokers selling employee benefits, announced today that it raised $45 million in Series B funding. New investor Accel led the round alongside existing investors Emergence Capital, Equal Ventures and First Trust Capital Partners. The Chicago-based com

Q-CTRL, a Sydney-based startup that provides quantum control engineering solutions, announced today it has raised a $25 million Series B led by Airbus Ventures with participation from Ridgeline Partners, Main Sequence Ventures, Horizons Ventures, Square Peg Capital, Sierra Ventures, DCVC, Sequoia C

A fantasy sports exchange founded by Irish betting veteran Paddy Power is bringing NFT-enabled live trading to rugby fans in a bid to expand globally. American Sports Exchange (ASX Sports), just signed a deal with New Zealand digital media company RugbyPass to use its data to allow fans to partici

In a significant push against Big Tech’s abity to maintain market dominance through sheer buying power, the U.K.’s competition watchdog has ordered Facebook (now Meta) to reverse its acquisition of animated GIF platform Giphy — confirming the Financial Times‘ earlier reporti

Soveren, a London-based startup that automates the detection of privacy risks to help organizations comply with GDPR and CCPA, has launched out of stealth with $6.5 million in seed funding. The company analyzes real-time data flows inside an organizations' infrastructure to discover personal da

Paris-based VC firm Partech has announced the closing of the fundraising of its new growth fund, Partech Growth II, managing to raise $750 million. Partech Growth I was a smaller fund with €400 million under management, or $460 million at today's exchange rate. Partech closed Partech Growth I

French startup Jump wants to disrupt the industry of umbrella companies, which provide an alternative to traditional freelancing jobs. They can hire workers on permanent contracts so that they get the stability and benefits that come with a full-time contract. But workers remain independent — the

Developer-focused productivity tool Raycast has raised $15 million in Series A funding, led by Accel and Coatue. Also participating in the round were angel investors Johnny Boufarhat, CEO and founder of Hopin; Jeff Weinstein, product at Stripe; Jason Warner, former CTO of GitHub; and Ott Kaukver, C

"attachment_2240578" aria-describedby="" style="width: 1024px">GajiGesa’s earned wage access feature user flow GajiGesa, a fintech company focused on services for Indonesian workers, announced today that it has raised $6.6 million USD in pre-Series A funding. The round was led by MassMutual Ve

Meet Upway, a French startup that is building a marketplace for second-hand electric bikes. The startup just raised a $5.7 million (€5 million) seed round from Sequoia Capital and Global Founders Capital. If you're familiar with the world of online marketplaces for cars, Upway will sound fami

Endowus is the latest investment app in Southeast Asia to raise follow-on funding, adding $35 million SGD (about $25.6 million US) to its war chest. The round was led by Prosus Ventures, the venture firm majority-owned by Naspers, and EDBI. Participants included SoftBank Corp.-owned Japanese tech c

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