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India’s Money View is in talks to raise a new round of funding at a unicorn valuation, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, in a boost to the local fintech community that has been rattled by the central bank’s stringent guidelines and funding crunch in recent months. Apis Partners is deliberating leading a […] Apis in talks to back fintech Money View at $1 billion valuation despite market slump by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →

OTI Lumionics, an eye-catching startup out of Canada that has been working on display materials for device makers to create uninterrupted, full-view displays on their devices without the need for “notches” or cut-outs to account for camera technology — and whose name has been connected with Apple as a key supplier for a future notch-free […] Say goodbye to the notch? OTI raises $55M for technology to remove screen obstructions by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

Unito, a startup offering a service to bring together disparate software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms — for example, Jira and Trello — today announced it raised $20 million in a Series B funding round led by CDPQ’s Equity 253 fund with participation from Rainfall Ventures, Investissement Québec, Bessemer Venture Partners, Tom Williams and Mistral Venture Partners. The […] Unito, a platform for managing SaaS apps, raises $30M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

The widespread adoption of flexible work has increased the challenge of managing access to physical, commercial buildings, given the dynamic nature of hybrid workspaces. With today’s staffers coming and going to the office on unpredictable timetables, it can be tough to keep track of which have access to rooms and office resources. In a recent […] SwiftConnect, which lets employees use their phones to access the office, raises $17M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Valence Security, a company securing business app infrastructure, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series A round led by M12, Microsoft’s corporate venture arm, with participation from YL Ventures, Porsche Ventures, Akamai Technologies, Alumni Ventures and former Symantec CEO Michael Fey. The new capital brings the company’s total raised to $32 million, […] Valence Security raises fresh capital to secure the SaaS app supply chain by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

The cloud-native market has seen the introduction of a range of open source DevOps tools — tools that combine software development and IT operations — built to address very specific use cases. As a result, DevOps teams today have too many narrow choices that don’t work together seamlessly or that can’t be integrated into a […] Devtron raises fresh capital for its cloud DevOps platform by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Amazon has become the pacemaker in commerce, and today a startup that’s been building technology to help retailers keep up with it in the world of physical stores is announcing some funding to expand its business. Trigo, an Israeli startup that builds technology for stores to operate cashier-free, “just walk out” experiences similar to those […] Trigo raises $100M to expand its Amazon-style cashier-free store technology by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

LatticeFlow, a startup that was spun out of Zurich’s ETH in 2020, helps machine learning teams improve their AI vision models by automatically diagnosing issues and improving both the data and the models themselves. The company today announced that it has raised a $12 million Series A funding round led by Atlantic Bridge and OpenOcean, […] LatticeFlow raises $12M to eliminate computer vision blind spots by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch... →

WhatsApp is used by more than two billion around the world, and is an important tool for many small businesses. But as they scale up, even WhatsApp for Business might not be able to keep up with their needs. That’s where WATI (WhatsApp Team Inbox) steps in. Built on WhatsApp for Business’ API, WATI has […] WATI, a CRM tool built for WhatsApp, raises $23M led by Tiger Global by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch... →

Emergency response services have had a big boost of data thanks to advances in connected technology, with watches that can detect when their wearers are falling down and are experiencing trauma, cars that can pinpoint where their drivers are located, and home systems that can transmit important data about fires when you cannot just a […] RapidSOS, a big data platform for emergency first responders, raises $75M by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

Data shows that for upstart tech companies in the country, Q3 2022 was the worst time to raise venture capital since Q1 2020. The seas are getting even rougher for Chinese startups by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch... →

The funding environment may have changed in recent months, but startups with strong fundamentals are still able to raise. Merge, a startup that offers an API integration service with a focus on HR, payroll and accounting systems (among others), today announced that it has raised a $55 million Series B round led by Accel, with […] Merge raises $55M Series B for its unified API by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch... →

Matt Butcher and Radu Matei worked on container technologies for years, “containers” in this context referring to software packages containing all the necessary elements to run in any environment, from desktop PCs to servers. As engineers at Deis, and then DeisLabs once Microsoft acquired it in 2017, their team explored the container landscape and built […] Fermyon raises $20M to build tools for cloud app dev by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Kudos' digital wallet calculates the rewards and benefits for each purchase and recommends the right card, which could be a store card and then helps you apply for it. Kudos raises $7M to recommend the right credit card for shopping rewards by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch... →

Sensat, a platform that helps physical infrastructure companies map and visualize all their data, has raised $20.5 million in a Series B round of funding. Founded in 2015, London-based Sensat is one of a number of so-called “digital twin” software companies that serve construction, mining, energy, and similar industries with tools to replicate their physical […] Sensat raises $20.5M to build digital twins for infrastructure companies by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Banyan, a platform for product purchase data that allows customers such as banks, fintechs, hotels and merchants to automate expense management and more, today announced that it raised $43 million in a Series A funding round — $28 million in equity and $15 million in debt — led by Fin Capital with participation from M13, […] Banyan raises $43M to grow its network of item-level purchase data by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Millions of small and medium businesses still operate inefficiently due to dependency on manual processes, which limits their capacity to grow and scale; this is despite contributing to about 48% of Nigeria’s GDP in the last five years, But the tide is turning. Over the last couple of months, we’ve seen a wave of upstarts […] Nigerian retail automation platform Bumpa raises $4M, led by Base10 Partners by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch... →

As the enthusiasm around AI image and text generators grows, Jasper, a startup developing what it describes as an “AI content” platform, has raised $125 million at a $1.7 billion valuation. The tranche is the company’s first, remarkably, and comes as Jasper acquires AI startup Outwrite, a grammar and style checker with over a million […] AI content platform Jasper raises $125M at a $1.7B valuation by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

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Stability AI, the company funding the development of open source music- and image-generating systems like Dance Diffusion and Stable Diffusion, today announced that it raised $101 million in a funding round led by Coatue and Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from O’Shaughnessy Ventures LLC. The tranche values the company at $1 billion post-money, according to […] Stability AI, the startup behind Stable Diffusion, raises $101M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →