IT総合 Sana’s plan to level up SMB health care brings in $60M
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have for decades struggled with being able to offer their employees health insu...
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IT総合 IT総合 Redfin and Compass lay off a combined 900+ employees as mortgage interest rates continue to climb
The housing market has taken a huge hit this year as mortgage interest rates have surged and homeowners scale back on pu...
IT総合 Sesame closes on $27M in funding to grow its pay-per-visit medical care marketplace
Access to quality and affordable healthcare has long been an issue in the United States.
Not everyone can afford health ...
IT総合 Investors show LatAm fintechs the money
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IT総合 Why Felix Williams, who started a VC firm at 19, believes his youth gives him an advantage as an investor
Felix WIlliams is the founder and managing director of Lagomaj Capital. Since starting the St. Louis, Missouri-based ven...
IT総合 Klar, believed to be Mexico’s largest digital bank, lands $70M in General Atlantic-led round
Mexico City-based digital bank Klar has raised $70 million in equity funding at a valuation of $500 million, the startup...
IT総合 Branch snags $147M at a $1.05B valuation, showing that thorny insurtech market not impervious to growth
Branch, a startup offering bundled home and auto insurance, has raised $147 million in Series C funding at a postmoney v...
IT総合 Former Better.com exec alleges company misled investors ahead of SPAC
One of Better.com’s former executives has filed a lawsuit against the online mortgage lender, alleging that the company ...
IT総合 PayPal is finally allowing users to move their cryptocurrency to other wallets
In response to customer demand, PayPal announced today that its users will now be able to transfer cryptocurrency from t...
IT総合 Ecuadorian payments infrastructure startup Kushki lands $100M at a $1.5B valuation
Ecuadorian payments infrastructure company Kushki has raised $100 million in an extension to its Series B round, more th...
IT総合 Affirm and Klarna ramp up competing efforts to attract US consumers
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IT総合 Insurtech Policygenius cuts 25% of staff, less than 3 months after raising $125M
Policygenius, an insurtech that raised $125 million in a Series E round less than three months ago, has reportedly laid ...
IT総合 Finix goes head-to-head with Stripe
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IT総合 Roofstock founder closes on $90M fund to back early-stage proptech startups
Early-stage proptech startups have a potential new source of capital in 1Sharpe Ventures, which recently closed its $90 ...
IT総合 Zip lines up $43M at a $1.2B valuation for its growing ‘concierge for procurement’
The process to make any purchase within a business can be long and cumbersome, involving multiple departments and lots o...
IT総合 Nowports streamlines LatAm’s shipping to deliver a $1.1B valuation
Nowports, an automated digital freight forwarder in Latin America, has raised $150 million in a Series C funding round w...
IT総合 The Interchange: Venture’s mixed signals
Welcome back to The Interchange, the weekly TechCrunch series that looks at the latest — and what’s ahead — in the globa...
IT総合 Belong secures $80M in equity & debt to take the pain out of rental property management
Historically, the relationship between landlords and tenants can be a contentious one.
At the same time, the experience...
IT総合 Neon triples revenue in quest to become the biggest bank for Brazil’s working class
When Pedro Conrade started Brazilian digital bank Neon in 2016, he was a 23-year-old business school student who was fru...
IT総合 Block rival SpotOn lands $300M at $3.6B valuation after doubling ARR last year
Payments and software startup SpotOn has closed on $300 million in a Series F financing that values the company at $3.6 ...
IT総合 Amex Ventures bets $5M on Trellis, which wants to make switching insurance providers easier
How many people have stuck with the same auto insurance provider because the process of finding a new one feels overwhel...
IT総合 Plaid officially expands into identity and income verification, fraud prevention and account funding
Fintech decacorn Plaid is expanding beyond its core product of account linking — its first major expansion since i...
IT総合 Forerunner, Bezos back Arrived, a startup that lets you buy into single-family rentals for ‘as little as $100’
Arrived has raised $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Forerunner Ventures to give people the ability to buy ...
IT総合 With a fresh $46M, Instabug aims to do more than fix your app’s bugs
Instabug, a startup that aims to help mobile developers monitor, identify and fix bugs within apps, has raised $46 milli...
IT総合 Banking-as-a-service startup Unit closes on $100M at a $1.2B valuation
Unit, a banking-as-a-service startup, has closed on a $100 million Series C round of funding led by Insight Partners.
Ex...
IT総合 Three PayPal Ventures alums strike out with their own $158M fund
A trio of PayPal Ventures alumni has raised $158 million for Infinity Ventures, a new early-stage venture firm dedicated...
IT総合 The Interchange: Things go from bad to worse at Better.com
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IT総合 Altro has raised $18M to help you build credit just by paying for your Netflix subscription
Michael Broughton was the first in his family to go to college. But he almost didn’t, when he had trouble securing the n...
IT総合 Brazilian fintech infrastructure company Dock closes on $110M in funding, now valued at over $1.5B
If there’s one area that has thus far felt insulated from the global venture downturn, it’s infrastructure. Companies th...
IT総合 Fueled by the remote work revolution, Deel more than doubles valuation to $12B with new raise
Remote hiring company Deel has raised $50 million at a $12 billion valuation, according to an Axios report.
Axios’ Dan P...