Patron, a new fund from former Riot Games colleagues, locks down $90 million
If you follow tech press, you’ve probably noticed more outlets covering the blockchain-based, play-to-earn trend, wherein individuals playing crypto-powered games can ostensibly earn a living by earning assets or tokens within the game that they can then sell for “real” money.
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Caffeinated, Coatue, Gradient back RevOps to build modern sales stack for startups
Building internal sales agreement software, often known as quote-to-cash, is an expensive and time-consuming process that RevOps wants to take off the plate of fast-growing startups.
Today, RevOps announced an oversubscribed $5 million follow-on seed round led by Caffeinated Capital, Coatue Managem
Cockroach Labs announces serverless version of SQL database
Cockroach Labs, the makers of CockroachDB, announced a public beta of a new serverless version of its SQL database today, giving developers an easier way to access database resources that scale up and down without having to explicitly define them.
Company co-founder and CEO Spencer Kimball says tha
Skyflow’s data privacy API business raises $45M Series B
The market for corporate data privacy products is heating up, with Skyflow announcing a $45 million Series B this morning, just a day after TripleBlind announced a $24 million round.
Skyflow, which technewss has covered since its early-2020 seed financing, offers an API-delivered service that stor
Overwatch Research closes $3.5 million seed round to tackle a foundational preclinical research problem
Overwatch Research, a company creating workflow software for medical research, announced a $3.5 million seed round on Tuesday. This round of funding will help Overwatch expand its presence into the U.S., and get its clinical trial management software into more labs and drugmakers' hands.
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Variant debuts a new $110M fund for crypto startups, announces Li Jin has joined as a general partner
While investors continue to question whether crypto will swallow up more traditional VC opportunities down the road, it certainly appears that today the blockchain space is eating up the attention of Silicon Valley’s buzziest early investors.
Jesse Walden tells technewss his crypto-centric V
Locale puts $2M to work helping people discover local cuisine
When you move around a city, you often end up farther away from some of your favorite restaurants and bakeries. Locale wants to keep you connected to the food you love, even if you live hours away now.
Locale, based in San Francisco, enables customers to order from dozens of businesses, including b
Zoba wants to help micromobility companies get more rides, increase profitability
Micromobility companies that aim to turn a profit have to juggle running a tight ship, adhering to constantly shifting local regulations and getting as many riders on vehicles as possible. Boston-based Zoba, a micromobility fleet optimization startup, has developed a platform to help with that.
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Collaboration platform CoLab raises $17M in Series A funding led by Insight Partners
Newfoundland-based CoLab Software, which provides a web-based collaboration tool and issue-tracking platform for engineering teams, announced today that it has raised $17 million in Series A funding. New York-based investment firm Insight Partners led the funding round, with participation from new
SoftBank, Amazon, Accel and others put $108M in Brazilian banking and payments infra provider Pismo
There is no question that fintech has exploded in recent years. But along with that, we have also seen a related surge in funding into companies that provide the infrastructure that financial institutions — incumbents and fintechs alike — need in order to operate faster and more competi
UK’s antitrust regulator to probe music streaming market
The UK’s antitrust watchdog will take a close look at the music streaming market.
Today the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that it will be conducting a market study of music streaming as soon as possible, as its latest piece of work aimed at expanding competition in digital
Egypt’s ILLA raises $2M to diversify its offerings to FMCG value chain
Most FMCG brands rely on a combination of owned and outsourced assets to carry out delivery operations. The variety of both models brings about a fragmented logistics cycle and FMCGs can lose significant value in the process.
ILLA is an Egyptian startup that provides full-stack delivery solutions t
Gorillas grabs ‘close to’ $1BN, Series C values the on-demand grocery delivery biz at $2.1BN
Berlin-based on-demand grocery delivery and dark store operator Gorillas has grabbed “close to” $1 billion in Series C funds, in the latest sign of the searing investor interest driving activity in urban food shopping apps across the continent and beyond.
The round is being led by anoth
Xpeng-backed urban air mobility company, HT Aero, raises $500M
HT Aero, an urban air mobility (UAM) company that’s an affiliate of Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer Xpeng, has announced a $500 million Series A raise. The company will use the funds to acquire top-tier talent, advance R&D and “continue to gain airworthiness provision and cert