Senior care startup Honor secures $370M in debt and equity, reaches unicorn status

Senior care can be a sensitive topic as many older people find themselves in situations where they need care, but are not to the point where they need the kind of around-the-clock care provided by nursing homes. Many older people still want some independence and to retain their dignity as they age

Robinhood finally brings on-demand phone support to all of its users

Robinhood announced Tuesday that it will be bringing “24/7” phone support to its 31 million users. It’s a long-overdue move for the stock and crypto trading company founded in 2013, but one that signals its maturation following a challenging year that brought the company its bigge

Adaptive Shield lands $30M Series A to build out its SaaS security platform

Adaptive Shield, a Tel Aviv-based startup that automates the security of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, has secured $30 million in Series A funding led by Insight Partners. The funding round, which also saw participation from Okta Ventures and existing investor Vertex Ventures Israel,

Rendered.ai raises $6M on the promise of ending data scarcity 

The availability of data can paralyze a company and its effort to bring software-centric products and services to market. To solve this issue, two-year-old data startup Rendered.ai is generating synthetic data for the satellite, medical, robotics and automotive industries. At its most broad, synthe

B2B marketplace ZAX targets Latin America's wholesale sector with $6M in fresh capital

Keeping a small sales business afloat in Latin America can involve long bus trips to find new products, lack of working capital and payment difficulties. These inefficiencies then trickle up to wholesalers who then have to raise costs and deadlines for deliveries. This caught the attention of secon

Temasek leads $550M Series C extension into Orca Security, which aims for further international foothold

Orca Security, an Israeli security company offering an agent-less platform for protecting cloud-based assets, secured a $550 million extension to the Series C funding round it raised seven months ago. The initial $210 million round brought the company's valuation to over $1 billion, and the lat

Duality nabs $30M for its privacy-focused data collaboration tools, built using homomorphic encryption

Duality, a startup founded by groundbreaking cryptographers and data scientists that is building tools to make it easier for companies to share data and collaborate with each other without compromising sensitive information, has raised some funding on the back of some significant early deals, inclu

YC-backed Amenli raises $2.3M to provide insurance to Egyptian consumers

The average penetration rate for insurance in Africa is between 3% to 5%. South Africa makes up a large bulk of it; without it, the continent is on a 1% to 2% rate even with other developed technology and financial markets like Kenya, Nigeria and Egypt. The insurance market is still one of the indu

The 2022 Ford Maverick is a compact truck light on capability and chock full of potential

The Ford F-series pickup is America’s truck. At least, that’s what the numbers tell us. It’s been America’s top-selling vehicle for close to half a century. While the Chevrolet Silverado and Ram’s series of pickups are worthy competitors, Ford still sells tens of thous

Habitual is using digital support plus food replacement to help reverse type 2 diabetes

"attachment_2212448" aria-describedby="" style="width: 1024px">Image Credits: Habitual London-based Habitual, a health tech startup which offers a weight loss program aimed at people with type 2 diabetes (or prediabetes) that combines “evidence-based” food replacement with digital suppor

Chalo raises $40 million to digitize bus commutes in India

More than a decade ago, Mohit Dubey founded CarWale, a startup that allows people to sell and buy used and new cars. But spending more than 10 years with the startup made Dubey realize that he was solving problems for just 3% of India. He wanted to try something bigger. Literally. His current ventu

Inkitt books $59M investment, wants to turn its data-driven, self-publishing platform into a multimedia powerhouse

Book sales during the pandemic went up, and it seems the amount we are reading did, too. Now Inkitt, the startup that operates a free, popular platform of the same name for anyone to write and publish stories — stories that Inkitt then analyses using data science to determine which of them to

India’s Licious becomes unicorn with $52 million fresh fundraise

Licious, a Bangalore-based startup that sells fresh meat and seafood online, said on Tuesday it has raised $52 million in a new financing round and become the first direct-to-consumer startup to attain the unicorn status in the world's second-largest internet market. The new round — a Ser

8-Bit Capital, co-led by Jonathan Abrams, has closed its first fund with $40 million

Jonathan Abrams and Kent Lindstrom have partnered on a lot of things over the years. Lindstrom was an adviser and investor at the early social networking service Friendster, founded by Abrams. He was also the COO of social news aggregator Nuzzel, which was founded by Abrams and that sold to a subsc