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Data quality — the practice of testing and ensuring that the data and data sets you are using are what you expect them to be — has become a key component in the world of data science. Data may be the “new oil”; but if it’s too crude, you may not be able to use […]... →

Startups have sought to use technology to digitize processes in Africa’s B2B e-commerce and retail space over the past couple of years. While many focus on moving products and providing credit, issues around cash overdependency haven’t been tackled at scale.  Here’s why this is a critical problem. When traditional distributors move goods from manufacturers and […]... →

The COVID-19 pandemic has created all sorts of real estate issues for companies as it forced so many employees to work from home, leaving empty space all over the globe. And while there is no shortage of technology out there for landlords, there are fewer options for commercial real estate tenants and brokers. Enter Occupier. […]... →

Vicarius, a New York-based startup that has developed an autonomous vulnerability remediation platform, has raised $24 million in Series A funding to protect organizations from the next major supply-chain attack. The current vulnerability remediation situation isn’t working, Vicarius tells TechCrunch. It’s a process split between two departments — security teams, which identify and prioritize vulnerabilities, […]... →

Germany-based construction tech startup Cosuno has raised a $30 million Series B led by U.S. growth equity firm Avenir Growth. Spark Capital and Cherry Ventures, which led the Series A six months ago, also participated. Cosuno now says its valuation is put at $150 million. Construction is one of the largest industries in the world […]... →

Chicken is the most consumed meat in the United States and the world. And yet, the system in place to breed and feed and raise all this chicken is incredibly detrimental to our overall wellbeing. It props up a conventional agricultural apparatus that focuses on corn and soy production, not to mention fosters a system […]... →

You might not think much about the train or the airplane that gets you from one place to another, but behind any transportation link is a vast sprawling network of electronics, devices, and data that keep trains on the tracks and planes in the sky. Companies like Shift5, which today announced $50 million in Series […]... →

The e-commerce boom that started with the Covid-19 pandemic shows little sign of slowing down, and today a company called Shopware, which provides a set of open source tools to power online shopping experiences for some 100,000 mid-sized and larger brands, is announcing $100 million in funding to capture the opportunity. The money is notable […]... →

Литовский фонд Cats.vc с российскими корнями инвестировал в итальянскую сеть онлайн-магазинов Macai с доставкой за 30 минут. Общая сумма раунда составила €4 млн, из которых инвестиции фонда — €600 тыс., рассказал RB.RU управляющий партнер Cats.vc Максим Чеботарев.  ... →

Одним из основных трендов 2021 года, по мнению некоторых аналитиков, стал приток колоссального количества частных инвесторов. Доступ к биржевым рынкам за год получили 16,2 млн человек. Только за ноябрь количество брокерских счетов на Московской бирже выросло на 1,6 млн.... →

For many of us, our home is by far our biggest asset, and in the world of fintech, that’s led to a logical extension: when you need money, borrow against that biggest asset. Today, a London fintech called Selina, which provides flexible capital to consumers on five-year terms against up to 85% of the value […]... →

Based out of the US, Sonder is a tech-driven hospitality company. It’s raised $529.6M and in the post-pandemic world where the population has become far more movable due to remote working, similar businesses are raising funds to attend to the needs of this global, nomadic workforce. We first covered the NUMA Group (then called Cosi) […]... →

Vivid Money, a challenger bank out of Berlin with 500,000 customers, has made a name for itself with a financial one-stop-shop  “super app” that, in addition to basic checking and money management services, also includes stock and cryptocurrency investing. Now, as it gears up to add more services to its platform and expand across all […]... →

Ethereum scaling firm Polygon has raised $450 million in a new venture financing round as the firm, with a market cap of about $13 billion, aggressively expands its portfolio of Ethereum scaling solutions and works to attract the larger developer ecosystem. Sequoia Capital India led Polygon’s first major financing round. Tiger Global and SoftBank as […]... →

There’s no denying the growth of healthtech globally over the past three years thanks to the pandemic. The event has accelerated the use of telemedicine, virtual care, and drug delivery, thus fuelling investor interest in the sector. Investment has also trickled down to Africa, with large checks going into growth-stage startups. Lagos- and Texas-based digital […]... →

«Финам» запустила венчурный проект «Финам Акселератор» для российских и зарубежных стартапов, сообщила пресс-служба группы. Участие в акселераторе позволит перспективным финтех-компаниям привлечь инвестиции и вывести на рынок собственные решения.... →

Объемы мирового рынка M&A в 2021 году достиг $4,9 млрд., подсчитали специалисты PitchBook. Большая часть сделок пришлись на Северную Америку и Европу, где объемы M&A составили $2,8 трлн. и $1,8 трлн соответственно. Крупнейшими сделками были инвестиции в медицинские стартапы Athenahealth ($17 млрд) и Medline ($34 млрд).  Также эксперты PitchBook отмечают тенденцию к «мегасделкам», в которых участвуют консорциумы из нескольких крупных инвесторов. Авторы отчета отмечают, что важнейшим фактором, оказавшим влия... →

A huge amount of energy use on our planet goes toward creating heat, and not only that, but a large amount of that energy is wasted and byproducts like CO2 blasted into the atmosphere. Modern Electron could change that with a new system that captures the emissions and produces clean hydrogen, right inside a home […]... →

A seven-month-old fintech app that is helping millions of Indians to begin their investment and saving journeys for the first time in their lives has attracted the attention of Tiger Global. The Bengaluru-based Jar said on Thursday it has raised $32 million in its Series A financing round, just months after securing its seed funding. […]... →

Cynomi, an Israeli cybersecurity startup that has built a virtual CISO platform for SMBs and service providers, has raised $3.5 million in seed funding led by Flint Capital. Typically, virtual CISO — or vCISO — services take the form of an outsourced or on-demand security practitioner that works as a remote, part-time contractor to offer […]... →