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More than 80% of the world’s workforce, some 2.7 billion people, do not spend their days in front of computers, and that has led to a strong disparity when it comes to technology, with some 1% of IT investment targeting them as users. That’s been changing very rapidly with the rise of smartphones and apps, […]... →

More than 80% of the world’s workforce, some 2.7 billion people, do not spend their days in front of computers, and that has led to a strong disparity when it comes to technology, with some 1% of IT investment targeting them as users. That’s been changing very rapidly with the rise of smartphones and apps, […]... →

As the automotive industry inches slowly ahead on the road to self-driving vehicles, we’re seeing the emergence of startups aiming to fill in some of the technical gaps in autonomous systems as they exist today. In the latest development, Annotell, a startup out of Sweden that makes software to assess the performance of autonomous systems’ […]... →

Waldo has raised $15 million for its ‘no code’ automated testing tool. Mobile development teams using Waldo can set up tests without writing a line of scripting code. It then seamlessly integrates in your continuous integration (CI) pipeline. Joshua Zelman from Insight Partners is leading today’s Series A round with participation from Matrix Partners and […]... →

RudderStack, a platform that focuses on helping businesses build their customer data platforms to improve their analytics and marketing efforts, today announced that it has raised a $56 million Series B round led by Insight Partners, with previous investors Kleiner Perkins and S28 Capital also participating. In total, RudderStack, which was founded in 2019, has […]... →

Melonn, a Colombian startup that provides fulfillment and software services to small and medium-sized e-commerce companies in Latin America, has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by QED Investors. The round comes less than a year after Melonn raised a pre-seed round from NFX. Interestingly, according to NFX General Partner Pete Flint, […]... →

Seven Seven Six, better known as 776, announced today that it has closed on $500 million across two vehicles for its second fund. The raise was “oversubscribed,” with $300 million going toward funding startups at their “earliest possible” stage and $200 million allocated for backing companies at their growth stages – or once they start […]... →

Whose Your Landlord,1 or WYL, announced a $2.1 million seed round today led by Black Operator Ventures, better known as BlackOps Ventures. TechCrunch readers will already be aware of BlackOps’ fund, which we covered at launch last December. The goal behind the $13 million capital pool was to invest in Black founders. The WYL round […]... →

As more software companies shift to more flexible pricing models based on consumption, many are choosing to charge customers on a per-use, or usage, basis. While this is easier for customers, it has created headaches for many software, or SaaS, businesses that are not equipped with billing systems that can easily charge customers on a […]... →

VendorPM, a Toronto-based marketplace that connects property managers with reputable vendors, has raised $6 million in seed funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. The software-enabled marketplace aims to modernize the way property managers manage, source and procure service vendors. The startup currently manages a two-sided marketplace across Canada in support of both property managers and […]... →

E-commerce has continued to boom in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, but running an e-commerce business has also become significantly more chaotic, with unpredictable supply chains, logistics hiccups, and overall higher costs upending even the best-laid plans. To underscore the need for solutions to address this, today a startup called Wayflyer — which has […]... →

Africans and people in emerging markets missed out on the first set of opportunities that technological advancements brought to the world. Computers, the internet, fintech, artificial intelligence, any tech you can name (except mobile tech) people in these regions have always had to play catch up. But new technologies such as crypto and web3 provide […]... →

The shipping business in Africa has for years been inefficient and costly due to the traditional ways of managing operations – traditional in the sense that a shipper has to physically look for a transporter, sometimes through a middle-man, and often, once goods are delivered, the trucks almost always make the return trip empty. For […]... →

Онлайн-гипермаркет товаров для строительства и ремонта «ВсеИнструменты.ру» привлек первые инвестиции с 2013 года. В компанию инвестировали Российский фонд прямых инвестиций, фонд «Эльбрус Капитал III» и «ряд суверенных фондов Ближнего Востока», говорится в сообщении компании. Уточняется, что сделка была закрыта в конце 2021 года. Сумма инвестиций и доли не раскрываются. Привлеченные средства «ВсеИнструменты.ру» направит на развитие логистики и увеличение ассортимента. Также средства будут вложены в дальнейш... →

The demand for software engineers is expected to grow by 22% between 2020 and 2030, according to a report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This figure is larger than the 4% average for other careers. One would be out of touch with reality to say they haven’t noticed this phenomenon in Lagos, Africa’s startup […]... →

GWI, a UK-based tech company — formerly GlobalWebIndex — that’s built up a SaaS business which disrupts traditional offline market research methods with a global network of data contributors, mobile surveys and a self-serve platform for surfacing rich consumer insights to customers that include tech giants like Google, has closed a $180 million Series B […]... →

Онлайн-гипермаркет товаров для строительства и ремонта «ВсеИнструменты.ру» привлек первые инвестиции с 2013 года, сообщила пресс-служба ритейлера. В компанию инвестировали Российский фонд прямых инвестиций (РФПИ), фонд «Эльбрус Капитал III» и ряд ведущих суверенных фондов Ближнего Востока.... →

Deepnote, a startup that is building a data science platform on top of Jupyter-compatible notebooks, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series A round co-led by Index Ventures and Accel, both of which also participated in its 2020 seed round. Existing investors Y Combinator and Credo Ventures also participated in this round. […]... →

The field scientists once jokingly called “blobography” has come a long way. Cryogenic electron microscopy was formerly known for delivering amorphous images of biomolecules. Now it has become one of the highest fidelity methods available for viewing the body’s smallest building blocks. It’s also a key pillar of Gandeeva, a new biotech company that emerged […]... →

As is commonly the case, datasets used inside companies almost always come from diverse sources and in different, unstructured formats. Connecting them up can lead to a be a very large headache. But if it can be done, there are all sorts of benefits, especially in finance, such as fraud detection, KYC/AML checks etc. This […]... →