IT総合 Félix Pago raises $15.5 million to help Latino workers send money home via WhatsApp
Remittances from workers in the U.S. to their families and friends in Latin America amounted to $155 billion in 2023. Wi...
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IT総合 IT総合 Spanish startups reached €100 billion in aggregated value in 2023, consolidating the country’s position as a midsize European tech ecosystem
Venture investment into Spanish startups also held up quite well, with €2.2 billion raised across some 850 funding round...
IT総合 The biggest French startups in 2024 according to the French government
The French Secretary of State for the Digital Economy as of this year, Marina Ferrari, revealed this year’s laureates du...
IT総合 Aplazo is using buy-now-pay-later as a stepping stone to financial ubiquity in Mexico
Four-year-old Mexican BNPL startup Aplazo facilitates fractionated payments to offline and online merchants even when th...
IT総合 Israeli startup Panax raises a $10M Series A for its AI-driven cash flow management platform
While visualizing cash flow is helpful, Panax wants to go further than providing a dashboard and help finance teams mana...
IT総合 How European disability tech startups are leveraging AI
Making life better for people with disabilities is a laudable goal, but accessibility tech hasn’t traditionally be...
IT総合 Solo GP fund Andrena Ventures hopes to carry startup talent onto its next challenges
Gideon Valkin's solo VC firm Andrena Ventures raised $12 million from backers including several VCs and entrepreneurs, a...
IT総合 Chilean instant payments API startup Fintoc raises $7 million to turn Mexico into its main market
Fintoc's API lets online businesses accept instant payments coming directly from the customer's bank account. This metho...
IT総合 Y Combinator alum Matterport is being bought by real estate juggernaut Costar at a 212% premium
The transaction represents a premium of a whopping 212% over Matterport’s last closing share price before the deal was a...
IT総合 Seraphim Space launches second VC fund with nine investments already under its belt
Following its first close with limited partners including Airbus, the early stage fund will build a global portfolio of ...
IT総合 Finmid raises $24.7M to help SMBs access loans through platforms like Wolt
finmid is building an embedded finance product that targets that relationship between marketplaces and sellers, and rais...
IT総合 Y Combinator’s latest cohort had only one LatAm startup in large part because of AI
Brazilian startup Salvy, a mobile carrier for businesses, was the only company based in Latin America in Y Combinator's ...
IT総合 Rubrik’s IPO filing reveals an AI governance committee. Get used to it.
Rubrik, the data management company that filed for IPO this week, has an AI governance committee, per its IPO filing. Th...
IT総合 Belgian computer vision startup Robovision eyes U.S. expansion to address labor shortages
Robovision has raised $42M to industrialize deep learning tools and make them more accessible to businesses that are not...
IT総合 Autism Impact Fund closes $60 million first fund and broadens its scope
AIF still has resources in its first fund to do a "handful" more deals as well as follow-on investments.
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IT総合 Boutique startup studio super{set} gets another $90 million to co-found data and AI companies
While super{set} is backed by external investors, some of its capital comes from founding managing partners Tom Chavez a...
IT総合 French deep tech spinout Diamfab crystallizes hopes for diamond semiconductors to support green transition
Its long-term goal is to make more efficient semiconductors with a lower carbon footprint, while supporting what its CEO...
IT総合 Tutoring platform GoStudent reaches profitability amid tradeoffs
In a market that no longer favors growth at all costs, GoStudent's €3 billion valuation and global expansion may belong ...
IT総合 Frontline Ventures raises $200M to help B2B companies in Europe and US straddle the Atlantic
The sum will be split roughly evenly between two funds, Frontline Growth and Frontline Seed. The seed fund will favor Eu...
IT総合 With backing from NATO Innovation Fund, OTB Ventures will invest $185M into European deep tech
OTB Ventures' new $185 million fund for deep tech in Europe will mostly be deployed at the Series A stage; but up to 10%...
IT総合 As European dynamism gathers momentum, Elaia and partners double down with new deep tech fund
Elaia's third deep tech seed fund, DTS3, is double the size of the two previous funds, and signals the momentum that is ...
IT総合 French startup Nijta hopes to protect voice privacy in AI use cases
France-based startup Nijta, whose flagship product Voice Harbor anonimizes voices for AI, raised €2 million in funding f...
IT総合 Backed by Leonardo DiCaprio, YC alum SolarMente wants to help democratize solar power in Spain
Barcelona-based cleantech startup SolarMente recently added Leonardo DiCaprio to its cap table, hence becoming the actor...
IT総合 Showee, a smart shower startup, shines a light on accessibility
Showee's shower is designed for people with disabilities, both physical and intellectual. But Showee has another selling...
IT総合 MWC: Ethiopian fintech eQub digitizes peer-to-peer credit
Ethiopian startup eQub won the fintech pitching battle at 4YFN 2024, the startup event of Mobile World Congress.
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IT総合 With liquidity rare, VCs may get creative to return investor cash
Welcome to the very last issue of The Exchange! With TechCrunch+ sunsetting this month, The Exchange column and its news...
IT総合 Y Combinator wants 100 times more MRI scans
Leveraging resources such as virtual data rooms and shared labs makes it easier for biotech startups to grow. This is go...
IT総合 Earlybird Health closes twice-larger second fund, will write bigger checks
Germany-based Earlybird Health announced the final closing of its second fund of €173 million (around $185 million). Thi...
IT総合 Safety by design
Tech's ability to reinvent the wheel can mean ignoring truths that others have learned. But new founders are sometimes f...
IT総合 Why Latin American SaaS startups are different from their U.S. peers
Many Latin America's SaaS businesses outperform others at efficiency metrics; but capital scarcity also puts a limit to ...