Equity Monday: Jeff’s going to space, and everyone wants a piece of Flipkart Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff…
Google’s Gradient Ventures leads $8.2M Series A for Vault Platform’s misconduct reporting SaaS Fixing workplace misconduct reporting is a mission that’s snagged London-based Vault Platform backing from Google’s AI focused fund, Gradient Ventures, which is the lead…
As buy-now-pay-later startups keep raising capital, a dive into Klarna, Afterpay and Affirm’s earnings Venture capitalists continue to fund buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) startups, evidence of ongoing optimism regarding not only e-commerce, but the specific model for financing consumer purchases…
Indonesian healthcare startup Prixa raises $3M led by MDI and TPTF Indonesian healthcare startup Prixa has raised $3 million led by MDI Ventures and the Trans-Pacific Technology Fund (TPTF), with participation from returning investors including…
One Concern raises $45M from SOMPO to scale its disaster resilience platform across Japan Climate change is intensifying across the globe, and one of the most challenging cases is Japan. In addition to lying on a major fault,…
Lightyear is a new stock trading app from early Wise employees Meet Lightyear, a new London-based startup coming out of stealth today. The company is building a stock trading app with a focus on creating…
Molecule.one grows its drug synthesis AI platform with a $4.6M seed round Polish computational chemistry outfit Molecule.one has raised $4.6M to expand its quest to bring theoretical drug molecules to reality. Its machine learning systems predict…
Goldman Sachs leads $202M investment in project44, doubling its valuation to $1.2B in a matter of months The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted a lot in the world, and supply chains are no exception. A number of applications that aim to solve workflow…
Belvo, LatAm’s answer to Plaid, raises $43M to scale its API for financial services Belvo, a Latin American startup which has built an open finance API platform, announced today it has raised $43 million in a Series A…
Truebill raises $45 million for its personal finance app Personal finance startup Truebill has raised a $45 million Series D funding round led by Accel. This comes just a few months after the…
Brazil’s idwall raises $38M for identity validation platform Online fraud and identity theft is a global problem that has only been exacerbated with increased online transactions amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular,…
European insurtech startup Wefox grabs $650 million at $3 billion valuation German startup Wefox has raised a $650 million Series C funding round led by Target Global. Following this funding round, the company has reached…
Singapore-based D2C dental brand Zenyum raises $40M Series B from L Catterton, Sequoia India and other investors Zenyum, a startup that wants to make cosmetic dentistry more affordable, announced today it has raised a $40 million Series B. This includes $25…
June makes product analytics more accessible Meet June, a new startup that wants to make it easier to create analytics dashboards and generate reports even if you’re not a product…
6 investors and founders forecast hockey-stick growth for Edinburgh’s startup scene Scotland is slowly but surely drawing attention in the UK’s startup space. In 2020, Scottish startups collectively raised £345 million, according to Tech Nation,…
Meet Justos, the new Brazilian insurtech that just got backing from the CEOs of 7 unicorns Here in the U.S. the concept of using driver’s data to decide the cost of auto insurance premiums is not a new one. But…
Anthropic is the new AI research outfit from OpenAI’s Dario Amodei, and it has $124M to burn As AI has grown from a menagerie of research projects to include a handful of titanic, industry-powering models like GPT-3, there is a need…
The SPAC trash ticker is counting down Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week had the whole crew aboard…
Doximity’s S-1 may explain why healthcare exits are heating up There was a time when this column was more than a never-ending run of IPO coverage. Then the unicorn liquidity cycle kicked off and…
Café helps hybrid organizations schedule in-office time Meet Café, a new French startup founded by two brothers that wants to help companies switch to a hybrid remote-and-office workplace model. Café isn’t…