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Kenyan automotive marketplace Peach Cars is announcing its $5 million seed round led by Japan-based The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners (UTEC) and other angel investors, including Shintaro Yamada (founder and CEO of Mercari), Peter Kenevan (VP, Head of Japan at PayPal), and Hiroaki Ohta (general partner at Japan’s Waseda University Ventures). The startup, […] Peach Cars, a Kenyan used-car marketplace, raises $5M in seed investment by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch... →

As companies increasingly rely on machine learning models, it’s imperative that they continuously check the models to make sure they are working as intended and that the data is valid, unbiased and not corrupted in any way. Deepchecks, an Israeli startup has come up with a solution to continuously test models from development through production. […] Deepchecks snags $14M seed to continuously validate ML models by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch... →

Bejul Somaia, the founding partner of Lightspeed India, staunchly defended the allure of South Asia’s investment landscape, even in the wake of unsettling movements such as Sequoia’s decision to segregate its Indian venture. “The startup and venture model is predicated on learning and adapting fast, navigating to high upside and understanding that the few companies […] Lightspeed says India not for the faint-hearted amid Sequoia split by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →

ChrysCapital has invested $100 million in Lenskart, the two said Thursday, pushing the Asian eyewear startup’s raise to $850 million in the past year. The Indian venture firm is buying shares worth $100 million into the Bengaluru-headquartered startup through both primary and secondary transactions, the two said. The new investment follows Abu Dhabi Investment Authority […] ChrysCapital invests $100 million in India’s Lenskart by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →

Most trucks today are headed in the wrong direction, metaphorically speaking. They’re far too big and heavy, with shrinking beds and expanding cabins that reflect their turn from a classic workhorse into a status symbol-meets-family car. This is my take, but I’m not just here to blab about aesthetics and my weird love of teeny-tiny […] EV startup Telo bets America is ready for a dreamy little pickup by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch... →

Startups are hardly out of the woods, but the market is no longer moving away from their valuation marks. Rejoice, for startup valuations are slowly recovering by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch... →

Started as a side project, JDoodle, which lets developers practice more than six dozen programming languages on one website, hit 800,000 users while being bootstrapped. Now the Sydney, Australia-based startup has set a goal of 8 million users within the next 24 months after getting $3.2 million AUD (about $2.2 million USD) in new funding. […] Backstrapped to 800,000 users, online programming community JDoodle lands funding by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch... →

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and Dom are joined by Amy Brown, the co-founder and CEO of Authenticx, a Midwestern startup that helps insurance companies and medical organizations extract data from their call centers using AI. Amy told Becca and Dom about how her background […] Mitigating AI biases in healthcare with Amy Brown from Authenticx by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch... →

In 2015, Michael Burdick and Dan Wywrot, who’d spent years working at large accounting firms, founded a startup — Paro — to deliver finance and accounting solutions to businesses through a network of freelance talent. They say they were inspired by the lack of flexibility in traditional accounting firms to choose which projects to work […] Paro raises $25M to match freelance financial experts with firms by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

One of the recurring themes in the area of enterprise IT these days is consolidation, and today we’re getting another dose of it in the area of enterprise data management. Informatica — which provides a set of tools to enterprises to analyze, manage and share data across their organizations — is acquiring Privitar, a startup […] Informatica acquires Privitar, once valued at $400M, to expand its data management stack by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

The Philippines’ startup ecosystem is poised for strong growth, thanks to the country’s rising GDP, fast adoption of online services and a new generation of founders. Launched by tech and investment veterans, Kaya Founders wants to back the most promising startups from the very beginning. The venture firm announced today that it has closed $12 […] Kaya Founders backs Philippines startups from “Day 0” by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch... →

Finfra, an Indonesian startup that provides the tech infrastructure for online businesses that want to offer embedded finance products, has raised $1 million in new funding. The round included participation from DSX Ventures, Seedstars International Ventures, Cento Ventures, Fintech Nation, FirstPick, BADideas Fund and Hustle Fund. The startup’s new funding will be used on product […] Finfra lets Indonesian businesses add embedded finance to their platforms by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunc... →

Bingrui Yang knows a thing or two about hardware, software and how people interact with them — skills picked up during stints at Apple, Zoox and Cruise. Now he’s applying those tricks of the trade to RVs with Pebble Mobility, a California-based EV startup he founded that aims to change the way people live and […] Pebble Mobility wants to build the iPhone of electric RVs by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch... →

AI is well and truly off to the races: a startup that is only four weeks old has picked up a $113 million round of seed funding to compete against OpenAI in the building, training and application of large language models and generative AI. Mistral AI, based out of Paris, is co-founded by alums from […] France’s Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round at a $260M valuation to take on OpenAI by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

A new startup is entering the fray in the market of application security: Kodem, a company out of Israel founded by a team of security veterans from none other than the NSO Group, focuses on determining and mitigating risks by tapping into the runtime intelligence of individual applications. Today, it is emerging from stealth, armed […] Kodem comes out of stealth with $25M to tackle application security by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

The startup is betting that direct air capture can be profitable by starting with niche markets. To boost greenhouse productivity, Skytree is using space station CO2 scrubbers by Tim De Chant originally published on TechCrunch... →

STAT Health calls the human ear a “biometric gold mine.” The startup, which emerged out of stealth this morning, is talking specifically about cerebral blood flow (CBF). That’s pretty much what it sounds like: the blood supply to the brain measured over a specific length of time. A lack of blood flow to the brain […] This little wearable is designed to detect blood flow to the brain by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch... →

Indifi Technologies, an Indian startup offering digital lending to small and medium businesses, has raised $35 million in a new funding round led by ICICI Venture, the investment arm of ICICI Bank. Existing investors, including British International Investment, OP Finnfund Global Impact Fund I, Omidyar Network India, Flourish Ventures and CX Partners also participated in […] Indifi raises $35M to expand digital lending to more small businesses by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →

CloudZero, a cloud cost management startup, today announced that it raised $32 million in a Series B funding round led by Innovius Capital and Threshold Ventures. Bringing the company’s total raised to over $52 million, the tranche will be put toward expanding CloudZero’s platform and scaling its go-to-market efforts, CEO Erik Peterson says — with […] Cloud cost management startup CloudZero lands $32M investment by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Percepto, a drone startup that is building a sizable business with its software and hardware for industrial drone applications, is today announcing a big round of funding to take its operations to the next level — both literally and figuratively. The startup — headquartered in Austin, Texas, but founded and with roots in Israel — […] Percepto flies high with $67M for its industrial drones by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →