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India’s Blume Ventures raises $105 million in the first close of its fourth fund
Blume Ventures said on Wednesday it has raised $105 million in the first close of its fourth fund, less than…
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Dent Reality raises $3.4M to bring augmented reality into the grocery store
Despite Apple and Facebook investing billions into a “metaverse” future, in recent years there’s been a distinct drop-off in venture…
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Volvo Cars Tech Fund invests $2M in optics and imaging startup Spectralics
The venture arm of Volvo Cars, an automaker long synonymous with safety, has invested in an optics and imaging startup…
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UK-based mental health provider ieso raises $53M armed with an “unprecedented” dataset
UK-based digital therapy company IESO announced a $53 million Series B round on Tuesday. The round is the funding the…
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Verbit lands $250M Series E at a $2B valuation to expand its AI-powered transcription platform
Less than six months after raising a $157 million Series D round, AI-powered transcription and captioning platform Verbit announced today…
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Suborbital raises $1.6M for its WebAssembly platform
Suborbital, the company behind the open source Atmo WebAssembly-centric project for building scalable server applications, today announced that it has…
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Peek raises $80M as its travel experiences software and marketplace business passes $2B in bookings
Travel and tourism are slowly starting to move again in the wake of Covid-19 crashing over the world and sending…
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Ericsson to acquire cloud communications company Vonage for $6.2B
Ericsson, an international networking company, decided it needed a dose of modernization and this morning announced its intent to acquire…
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Ireland’s Fonoa raises $20.5M to help digital-first businesses stay tax compliant as they scale globally
There are myriad tax pain points that come from selling goods, content or services globally. As the world has seen…
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Kaszek leads Z1’s latest round as it develops its bank app aimed at LatAm teens
Z1, a Brazilian neobank focused on offering digital accounts and a linked prepaid card to teenagers and young adults, secured…
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