IT総合 Factorial adds $120M and doubles valuation to $1B to build enterprise-quality HR for SMBs
Small and medium businesses, long overlooked in the building of innovative technology, have lately become a key focus in...
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IT総合 IT総合 Airwallex raises $100M to power cross-border business banking, valuation stays flat at $5.5B
The economy may be showing many signs of contraction right now, but many companies still need to do business internation...
IT総合 UK’s Ofcom says one-third of under-18s lie about their age on social media
Companies like Instagram are getting been heavily fined (and dragged through the publicity coals) over how they have mis...
IT総合 Railsr, formerly Railsbank, raises $46M for embedded finance, says it now has 300 customers
Embedded banking — used by companies that do not build financial products like credit, payments or deposits from t...
IT総合 John Curtius is leaving Tiger Global to start his own venture fund
John Curtius, the prolific Tiger Global senior partner who has been at the center of some of the firm’s biggest de...
IT総合 Vodafone confirms merger talks with Three UK in a “no cash” deal to scale up in 5G
Another major piece of mobile M&A appears to be in the works in the UK. Today, Vodafone confirmed that it was in mer...
IT総合 Everstores, an Open Store-style D2C Shopify aggregator out of Europe, emerges from stealth with €18 million
A wave of Amazon-merchant aggregator startups, floating close to $15 billion in funding, have rushed in, rolled up, and ...
IT総合 Ocelot, an engagement platform aimed at college students, raises $117M in its first outside funding
Higher education, at its best, aims to be less elitist and more accessible to people from all walks of life. Today, a st...
IT総合 Italy’s Satispay raises €320M at a €1B+ valuation with backing from Block, Tencent and more for its indy payment network
More signs that the economy is slowing down in Europe, and that costs are going up, are driving merchants and consumers ...
IT総合 IFC and other impact investors return to backing Ukraine startups, with new $250M fund aimed at founders under the gun
Funding sources for tech startups in Ukraine have gone off a cliff this year, with investors (and their LPs) wary of tak...
IT総合 DataGuard locks down $61M for data protection as a service
Companies are facing hundreds of millions of dollars in fines these days for failing to comply with data protection and ...
IT総合 Ledgy, a Carta for European startups to manage equity and cap tables, raises $22M from NEA, Sequoia and more
Managing cap tables and equity at high-growth companies can be a complicated (and sometimes messy) business, a fact that...
IT総合 DTCP taps SoftBank as an anchor LP for its next $500-600M fund
Last week, we got a glimpse of how SoftBank is pulling away from some of its more exuberant investing of the past years,...
IT総合 Sequence orders up $19M led by a16z for a new approach to B2B fintech
When it comes to fintech, consumers have commanded the most attention in the last decade, with banking, credit, investin...
IT総合 General Atlantic buys out SoftBank’s 15% stake in edtech Kahoot, now valued at about $152M vs the $215M SoftBank ponied up 2 years ago
SoftBank’s retreat from its past investing exuberance continues apace. This morning, Kahoot, the Norwegian startup...
IT総合 Dig scoops up $34M to tackle the fragmented world of cloud data security
In 2022, the amount of corporate data stored in the cloud (versus on-premise servers) reached 60%, a signal of how the w...
IT総合 Cyrebro, a specialist in cloud-based security ops, locks down $40M
The cloud, and the growing number of assets that are held and used within cloud services, have become a major focus in c...
IT総合 Xeneta makes a splash with $80M on a $265M valuation to scale its crowdsourced sea and air freight analytics
The wheels of global commerce continue to turn, through wars, pandemics and economic downturns; and today a startup taki...
IT総合 Stockholm’s EQT Growth closes $2.2B to fund scaling European startups like Vinted, Mambu and Epidemic Sound
The days of European startups relocating to the U.S. if they want to grow (and raise money to do so) have been receding ...
IT総合 Amazon is buying Cloostermans, a mechatronics specialist in Belgium, to ramp up its robotics operations
Amazon has made a string of startup acquisitions over the years to build out its robotics business; now, the e-commerce ...
IT総合 UK’s FocalPoint raises $17M for its software-based approach to repairing the flaws of GPS
GPS in its many regional flavors has become a ubiquitous feature in phones, smart watches, cars and other connected devi...
IT総合 Carbyne snaps up $56M to speed up emergency services
Emergency services, long run on legacy platforms, are now getting a big boost of technology, and today one of the bigger...
IT総合 Muck Rack, the journalist database, raises $180M in its first outside funding
For any journalist who has ever googled their name, or for anyone else who have ever googled a journalist’s name, ...
IT総合 Varjo, an early mover in building XR headsets and software for enterprises, taps $40M
Applications in the metaverse often feel like more of a marketing gimmick than something that a critical mass of consume...
IT総合 Cymulate snaps up $70M to help cybersecurity teams stress test their networks with attack simulations
The cost of cybercrime has been growing at an alarming rate of 15% per year, projected to reach $10.5 trillion by 2025. ...
IT総合 UK mobile and broadband carriers face fines of $117K/day, or 10% of sales, if they fail to follow new cybersecurity rules
More than three years in the making, the UK government today announced a new, sweeping set of rules it will be imposing ...
IT総合 Thirdweb raises $24M at a $160M valuation from Haun Ventures, Shopify and Coinbase for its Web3 development kit
There’s been a lot of hype about “Web3”, but the reality is that it’s still a largely nascent an...
IT総合 Zilliz, the startup behind the Milvus open-source vector database for AI applications, raises $60M and relocates to SF
In 2020, Chinese startup Zilliz — which builds cloud-native software to process data for AI applications and unstr...
IT総合 Ravel emerges from stealth with privacy-first data tools based on scalable homomorphic encryption
The world has gotten a lot more serious about privacy and data protection, but in many cases business models that rely o...
IT総合 Ready Player Me, a platform to build dynamic cross-game avatars for virtual worlds, raises $56M led by a16z
Last week, Mark Zuckerberg was roundly mocked for the bad graphics in his preview of a new expansion of Horizon Worlds, ...