Scratchpad, a Salesforce-based productivity workspace, raises a $33M Series B, following a $13M Series A in February 2021 (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)
Scratchpad, a Salesforce-based productivity workspace, raises a $33M Series B, following a $13M Series A in February 2021 — Scratchpad, a company that has built a modern productivity workspace on top of Salesforce, has raised $33 million in…
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— January 19, 2023
Pie Insurance, which helps SMBs get cheaper insurance for their workers, raises $118M Series C, following a $127M Series B in May 2020 (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)
Pie Insurance, which helps SMBs get cheaper insurance for their workers, raises $118M Series C, following a $127M Series B in May 2020 — Pie Insurance, a startup offering workers’ compensation insurance to small businesses, announced this morning…
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— January 19, 2023
Austria-based Mostly AI, which simulates synthetic data for AI training, data analytics, and software testing, raises a $25M Series B from Molten Ventures (Shubham Sharma/VentureBeat)
Austria-based Mostly AI, which simulates synthetic data for AI training, data analytics, and software testing, raises a $25M Series B from Molten Ventures — Austria-based Mostly AI, a startup that simulates synthetic data for AI model training and…
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— January 19, 2023
Source says China’s Tuya, which provides an Internet of Things platform for developers and consumers, is on track to raise $915M in a US IPO (Julia Fioretti/Bloomberg)
Source says China’s Tuya, which provides an Internet of Things platform for developers and consumers, is on track to raise $915M in a US IPO — – Tencent-backed firm’s shares set to price above marketed range — Company’s…
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— January 19, 2023
As Brexit progresses, 81K .eu domains registered by 50,000 UK citizens are suspended, with three months given to transfer domains or demonstrate EU citizenship (Daphne Leprince-Ringuet/ZDNet)
As Brexit progresses, 81K .eu domains registered by 50,000 UK citizens are suspended, with three months given to transfer domains or demonstrate EU citizenship — The UK lost its right to a .eu website when it left the…
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— January 19, 2023
Tokyo- and Bangkok-based Opn, formerly Synqa, a digital payments and blockchain tech provider, raises a $120M Series C+ at a $1B+ valuation (Sam Nussey/Reuters)
Tokyo- and Bangkok-based Opn, formerly Synqa, a digital payments and blockchain tech provider, raises a $120M Series C+ at a $1B+ valuation — Digital payments processor Opn, formerly known as Synqa, said it had raised $120 million in…
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— January 19, 2023
Luminous Computing, which is making a light-based AI accelerator chip, raises a $105M Series A from Bill Gates and others at a $200M-$300M post-money valuation (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Luminous Computing, which is making a light-based AI accelerator chip, raises a $105M Series A from Bill Gates and others at a $200M-$300M post-money valuation — According to some experts, the growth in the compute power necessary to…
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— January 19, 2023
Canalys: worldwide PC shipments grew 15% YoY in 2021 to 341M, the highest annual shipments since 2012; Apple’s market share grew by 28.3%, Acer’s by 21.8% (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
Canalys: worldwide PC shipments grew 15% YoY in 2021 to 341M, the highest annual shipments since 2012; Apple’s market share grew by 28.3%, Acer’s by 21.8% — It would be easy to think PC sales dropped worldwide last…
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— January 19, 2023
Sources: Chicago-based Relativity, which law firms use to sift through data during discovery, gets an investment from Silver Lake valuing the company at $3.6B (Miriam Gottfried/Wall Street Journal)
Sources: Chicago-based Relativity, which law firms use to sift through data during discovery, gets an investment from Silver Lake valuing the company at $3.6B — The deal values Relativity at about $3.6 billion and will make Silver Lake…
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— January 19, 2023
A profile of Kuaishou, a Chinese TikTok rival, which is likely to hit a valuation of over $60B during its IPO this week, roughly one-third of ByteDance (Ryan McMorrow/Financial Times)
A profile of Kuaishou, a Chinese TikTok rival, which is likely to hit a valuation of over $60B during its IPO this week, roughly one-third of ByteDance — Video sharing app is pivoting business model to advertising and…
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— January 19, 2023