Percent raises $5M, aiming to become the ‘Stripe for donations’ to good causes
What with the planet collapsing and democracy under constant attack from all quarters — you know, just the usual — one or two members of the global population have, idly or not, wondered if the private sector might want to step up? I mean, as well as shooting billionaires into space. At
Yapily raises $51 million for its open banking API by focusing on infrastructure
Fintech startup Yapily has raised a $51 million Series B funding round led by Sapphire Ventures. The company has been working on a single, unified open banking API for several European markets. Developers can leverage that programming interface to interact with third-party bank accounts directly fr
Soldo raises $180M for its business expense management platform
Expense management has long been a pain point for employees and accounting departments: for many, tracking and parsing how money is spent on behalf of a company is just too bogged down in legacy software ill-equipped to handle more modern demands. Today, a U.K. startup building solutions to bring t
Pivot Bio rakes in $430M round D as modified microbes prove their worth in agriculture
Pivot Bio makes fertilizer — but not directly. Its modified microorganisms are added to soil and they produce nitrogen that would otherwise have to be trucked in and dumped there. This biotech-powered approach can save farmers money and time and ultimately may be easier on the environment — a h
Brokrete wants to be the ‘Shopify of construction’, raises $3M seed led by Xploration Capital
With the pandemic affecting every aspect of life and industry, it’s no surprise that digitization is coming to construction fast. Construction suppliers are increasingly under the same pressure as other sectors to perform at a higher level. We've seen the rise of companies like Dozer, Ren
Biosafety startup R-Zero acquires CoWorkr to create an ‘OS for the workplace’
On Tuesday, R-Zero, a pandemic-era biosafety company, announced the acquisition of CoWorkr — a company that develops room occupancy sensors. The acquisition marks a shift in focus for R-Zero as people return to work, vaccines are rolled out and companies that sprung up in response to the COVI
Extra Crunch roundup: Seed-stage basics, SaaS marketing live chat, Zoom’s Five9 buy
A famous poem advises us not to compare ourselves with others, “for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.”
The same holds true for startup fundraising; the size of your seed round will be determined solely by your company’s immediate needs and the investor
NewCampus wants to train the first-time managers within Southeast Asia's tech giants
The tech boom in Southeast Asia isn't just seeding a wave of new entrepreneurs building the next generation of unicorns, it's also ushering young talent into the roles of first-time managers. And NewCampus, a Singapore-based startup co-founded by Will Fan and Fei Yao, announced today that i
Litnerd streams live actors into the classroom to help kids better connect with reading
Our kids can’t read. As of 2019, roughly a third of U.S. fourth graders were unable to read at the level expected of them. The scores have barely changed in decades. Something isn’t working here.
Litnerd, a company out of New York City, wants to try something new. They’re writing
Marketing Cube founder Maya Moufarek’s lessons for customer-focused startups
Maya Moufarek, founder of Marketing Cube, spent more than 15 years working for companies like Google and American Express before launching her own growth consultancy. Today, her London-based firm works with startups around the world — and her startup clients have raved about the results, based on
3 critical lessons I learned while scaling RingCentral’s customer support team
There are many things I wish I knew when starting out with my small customer support team at RingCentral, but in the end, we figured it out. I'm going to share some critical lessons I learned along the way that I wish I had known at the outset, so that when it comes to scaling your own support
RxAll grabs $3.15M to scale its drug checking and counterfeiting tech across Africa
Research says that counterfeit medication is the cause of 1 million deaths per year. One-tenth of this number comes from Africa. Counterfeiting is hard to detect, investigate, quantify or stop. It is a global problem, with annual earnings from substandard drugs standing at over $100 billion.
Some t
ChargePoint to buy European charging software startup for $295M
ChargePoint struck a deal to buy European charging software company has·to·be for €250 million ($295 million) in cash and stock, the electric vehicle charging network’s first acquisition since it became a publicly traded company.
Through the deal, ChargePoint gains more than just 125 empl
Titan, a platform aimed at the ‘everyday investor,’ valued at $450M as a16z leads $58M Series B
Titan, a startup that is building a retail investment management platform aimed at the new generation of “everyday investors,” has closed on $58 million in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
The financing comes just over five months after Titan raised $12.5 million in a