HoneyBee raises millions to make financial wellness a workplace benefit
HoneyBee, a startup that aims to help companies provide access to financial support to their employees, announced today it has raised $5.7 million in equity in a round led by FFVC.
Resolute Ventures, Afore Capital, Rebalance Capital, K50 and Financial Venture Studio also participated in the financi
Check out who's coming to TC Sessions: SaaS 2021
On October 27, less than two fast-moving months away, we're hosting TC Sessions: SaaS 2021, our first event focused exclusively on the software-as-a-service ecosystem. SaaS — the de facto business model for B2B and B2C startups and enterprises alike — shows no sign of slowing down.
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Jetty raises $23M to help give renters more payment flexibility
Jetty, a fintech company which aims to give renters flexibility when paying rent, has raised $23 million in a funding round co-led by Citi and Flourish Ventures.
The financing brings Jetty's total raised since its 2016 inception to $78 million. Other investors participating in the latest growth
Emulate Inc. closes $82M Series E to fund expansion of ‘organ-on-a-chip’ products
Emulate Inc., a biotech company focused on developing “organ-on-a-chip” technology, closed an $82 million Series E round on Tuesday. This latest round is intended to formulate a massive investment in a “roadmap” for developing model organ systems created to fit drug makers’ needs and
How engaged are your employees?
Managers are occasionally evaluated by their team’s occupational wellness — the sometimes-hazy calculation that rates employees' professional and personal contentment. What may not be as commonly tested is the connected concept of employee engagement, which measures how committed employ
Texas Right to Life website exposed job applicants’ resumes
Anti-abortion group Texas Right to Life exposed the personal information of hundreds of job applicants after a website bug allowed anyone to access their resumes, which were stored in an unprotected directory on its website.
A security researcher told technewss that the group’s main website,
Social network Peanut expands to include more women with launch of Peanut Menopause
Peanut, a social networking app for women, initially found traction connecting women in the earlier stages of their motherhood journey. But over the years, the network expanded to support women through other life stages. Now, that will include menopause, as well — a life stage that will impac
DigitalOcean enhances serverless capabilities with Nimbella acquisition
As developers look for ways to simplify how they create software, serverless solutions, which enable them to write code without worrying about the underlying infrastructure required to run their applications, is becoming increasingly popular. DigitalOcean announced today that it is enhancing its ex
Glovo to double down African investment in the next 12 months — but will it stay put?
"speakable-summary" style="font-weight: 400;">Spanish on-demand delivery platform Glovo today announced plans to double its investment in Africa and expand its operations on the continent.
The Barcelona-based company has invested up to €25 million ($30 million) by bringing its food delivery servic
TikTok and Snap alums launch mayk.it, a social music creation app, with $4M in seed funding
After living through the global upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic, many workers are re-evaluating their career path. Stefan Heinrich Henriquez, a former head of Global Marketing at TikTok and chief marketing officer at Cameo, is one of them.
“I have been thinking about music since my time at
Seqera Labs grabs $5.5M to help sequence COVID-19 variants and other complex data problems
Bringing order and understanding to unstructured information located across disparate silos has been one of the more significant breakthroughs of the big data era, and today a European startup that has built a platform to help with this challenge specifically in the area of life sciences — an
Women’s health tech brand, Elvie, tops up Series C to $97M
Elvie, the women’s health tech pioneer behind a connected breast pump and smart pelvic floor exerciser, has topped up a Series C which it announced earlier this summer (July) — adding a further £12.7 million to bring the total raised to £70 million ($97 million).
The 2013-founded, U.K
Hyundai Motor Group unveils its hydrogen strategy, plans to offer fuel cell versions of commercial cars by 2028
Hyundai Motor Group is backing hydrogen as a top energy solution for sustainability. With its new fuel cell system that it plans to launch in the next few years, the South Korean automaker said it will provide hydrogen fuel cell versions for all its commercial vehicles by 2028.
Hyundai announced it
Sequoia Heritage, Stripe and others invest $200M in African fintech Wave at $1.7B valuation
Francophone Africa has its first unicorn, and if you’ve been following tech on the continent, you will be very unsurprised to hear that it’s coming from the world of fintech.
Wave, a U.S. and Senegal-based mobile money provider, has raised $200 million in a Series A round of funding. Th