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16:00 24.07.2023

Voltpost raises $3.6M seed round to bring EV charging to the curbside

Cities can retrofit streetlight lampposts to accommodate EV chargers. Voltpost is hoping it has an edge in a crowded market.... →

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15:55 24.07.2023

Supply Change Capital is latest women-led VC to raise substantial debut fund

Supply Change Capital invests at the earliest stages in the areas of deep tech food, agriculture and ingredient, supply chain technology and enterprise software.... →

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07:08 21.07.2023

Kasha raises $21M Series B led by Knife Capital to expand health access platform across Africa

As Africa’s youthful population continues to grow exponentially, it’s of the utmost importance that entrepreneurs create various healthcare solutions that will cater to the medical needs of the continent’s future. While the pandemic made investors pay attention to Africa’s private healthcare space, women’s health — a subcategory dominated by women founders that broadly addresses women’s […]... →

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02:06 21.07.2023

Autonomous vehicle company Aurora sells $820M worth of stock

Aurora Innovation, the self-driving technology company that aims to launch an autonomous trucking business in 2024, has completed a capital raise of $820 million from a public and concurrent private offering of its stock. The company expects the deal to close Friday. The stock sale will help fund Aurora through commercial launch at the end […]... →

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19:00 20.07.2023

Whop, an online marketplace for digital goods, raises $17M

Amazon might have the monopoly on physical goods sold online. But what about digital ones? There’s Steam for games and software. Shopify supports some forms of digital goods, like artwork and gig services. But three co-founders, Steven Schwartz, Cameron Zoub and Jack Sharkey, believe that there’s room for competition. Schwartz, Zoub and Sharkey are the […]... →

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12:00 20.07.2023

Gushwork.ai raises $2M, led by Lightspeed, to outsource business tasks to workforces trained in AI

Gushwork.ai, a global platform that aims to advance business process outsourcing (BPO) using AI and human expertise, has raised $2.1 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Lightspeed. B Capital, Sparrow Capital, Seaborne Capital and Beenext also participated in backing the startup that launched in April this year. In recent years, companies have invested […]... →

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06:21 20.07.2023

Farizon, Geely’s truck unit, raised $600M to expand outside China

Farizon, a maker of hybrid and electric trucks owned by China’s Geely, has closed a $600 million Series A raise, the company said in a statement. The Hangzhou-based company plans to use the funds to expand its operations outside of China. A key focus for Farizon’s expansion will be Europe, where the automaker plans to […]... →

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04:00 20.07.2023

Kitchen robot Botinkit raises $13M from DJI angel and others

Having worked in the food industry for several years, Shirley Chen saw firsthand the challenges of managing staffing and training for restaurant expansion. So when she met her future co-founders, she saw an opportunity to leverage their expertise in chemistry and electrical and electronic engineering, along with her own food and beverage background, to start […]... →

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19:00 19.07.2023

Karat, a startup building financial tools for content creators, raises $70M

Despite earning six-to-seven-figure-a-year incomes, many content creators are denied the capital they need to expand their businesses. The reasons vary, but most are relatively young and have limited business and credit histories, and deal with inconsistent income across platforms. It’s a lucrative problem to crack. According to one source, hundreds of millions of people now […]... →

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19:00 19.07.2023

Snowstorm raises seed and launches open beta to keep the internet free

Created to ensure open and free access to the internet, Snowflake saw a huge uptick in users during the start of the Ukraine War and has grown even more since then. Started as an open source project by Serene (who goes by her first name only for privacy reasons), Snowflake, which began as a pluggable […]... →

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18:00 19.07.2023

Unstructured, which offers tools to prep enterprise data for LLMs, raises $25M

Large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s GPT-4 are the building blocks for an increasing number of AI applications. But some enterprises have been reluctant to adopt them, owing to their inability to access first-party and proprietary data. It’s not an easy problem to solve, necessarily — considering that sort of data tends to sit […]... →

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14:30 19.07.2023

FedML raises $11.5 to combine MLOps tools with a decentralized AI compute network

Interest in AI among the enterprise continues to rise, with one recent survey finding that nearly two-thirds of companies plan to increase or maintain their spending on AI and machine learning into this year. But often, these companies are encountering blockers in deploying various forms of AI into production. A 2020 poll from Rexer Analytics […]... →

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19:21 18.07.2023

Cognaize raises $18M to build a better LLM for the finance sector, one that keeps humans in the loop

Artificial intelligence has had a major impact over the years in the finance sector, helping neobanks personalize services for customers, lenders evaluate loan applications, digital providers detect fraud and security issues, analysts run predictive modelling for investments and more. Yet much of the work done today is in the area of structured data. With a […]... →

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18:40 18.07.2023

Telegram raises $210 million through bond sales

Telegram raised about $210 million through bond sales this week from a number of investors, including its founder and chief executive Pavel Durov. The messaging app, used by over 800 million users each month, raised the capital by issuing bonds worth $270 million. “Because interest rates have gone up significantly since 2021, the bonds have […]... →

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16:00 18.07.2023

Developer-focused email platform Resend raises $3M

Sending transactional emails may seem like a solved problem. Sendgrid, Postmark, Mailgun and others offer dependable email APIs for developers, after all. However, many of those companies have also been acquired in the last few years and haven’t necessarily kept up with the latest development trends — or at least that’s what startups like Resend […]... →

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15:55 18.07.2023

Polar Analytics raises $9M to scale Shopify brands

Polar Analytics gives each brand a so-called “knowledge worker,” that aggregates all of the different data sources so that users can then pose questions about the data.... →

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03:00 18.07.2023

Peacock is set to raise its subscription prices on August 17

Peacock is delivering bad news to its subscribers tonight. Beginning at 12 a.m. ET, the streamer is notifying customers that it’s raising its subscription prices on August 17. This will be the first time Peacock has experienced a price hike since its launch. New and existing users will have to pay $5.99 per month for […]... →

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15:30 17.07.2023

Herself Health, providing primary care to women 65 and over, raises $26M

Six months after raising a $7 million seed round, Herself Health is back with some additional venture capital to expand its clinic footprint. Herself Health, providing primary care to women 65 and over, raises $26M by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch... →

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14:00 17.07.2023

TLV Partners raises new $250M fund

Israel-based early-stage VC firm TLV Partners today announced its fifth fund, unsurprisingly called Fund V. TLV Partners raised its last fund, the $220M Fund IV, in October 2021. Including this new fund, the group now has $1.07 billion in assets under management. The plan is to make about 25 seed and Series A investments from […] TLV Partners raises new $250M fund by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch... →

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23:39 13.07.2023

Suffolk Technologies looks to be more than a CVC by not really being one at all

Suffolk Technologies decided to raise outside capital instead of being a CVC to increase its scale and what resources it could offer founders. Suffolk Technologies looks to be more than a CVC by not really being one at all by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch... →

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