July 25, 2022 / by Aditi Pathak / Funding, investment, News, Startup, StartupLanes / 0 comments
World Fund, a newcomer in climate-VC land, is taking the lead in a $128 million round for IQM, with hopes the Finnish quantum computing company will one day deliver carbon cuts by the megatonne. Quantum computing trades the bits of conventional computers for quantum bits, and in theory, quantum machines may be better suited for […]
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Privya helps companies protect data at code level before it goes into production
August 10, 2022 / by Aditi Pathak / Funding, investment, News, Startup, StartupLanes / 0 comments
As data privacy laws proliferate, it’s becoming increasingly important for companies to protect sensitive data in their applications. Privya was born with the idea that privacy protection should happen at the code level in development before the code goes into production. One of the founders, CEO Uzy Hadad, was working at a company called VisualDNA, […]
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Spin Technology raises $16M to protect SaaS apps against attacks
August 10, 2022 / by Aditi Pathak / Funding, investment, News, Startup, StartupLanes / 0 comments
Spin Technology, a data protection software vendor catering to enterprise clientele, today announced that it raised $16 million in a Series A round led by Blueprint Equity with participation from Santa Barbara Venture Partners and Blu Venture Investors. CEO Dmitry Dontov said that fresh capital — which values Spin at $55 million post-money — will […]
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Digital marketplace Clutch closes $1.2M pre-seed round led by Precursor Ventures
August 6, 2022 / by Aditi Pathak / Funding, News, Startup, StartupLanes / 0 comments
Digital marketplace Clutch announced today the closing of a $1.2 million seed round led by Precursor Ventures. The company, founded in 2020 by Madison Long and Simone May, hails itself as one of the earliest people-first creator economy platforms to connect individuals to businesses looking for marketing and content creation. “We’re very passionate about being […]
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Argentinian fintech infrastructure startup Geopagos leaves the boot straps behind with $35M funding round
August 6, 2022 / by Aditi Pathak / Funding, investment, News, Startup, StartupLanes / 0 comments
Geopagos, a payments infrastructure startup based in Buenos Aires, has raised $35 million in a round led by Riverwood Capital. The financing marks the company’s first ever institutional funding. Founded in 2013, the Argentinian startup serves as a white label infrastructure software provider, with the aim of giving businesses the ability to launch financial services. […]
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This startup just raised $320M to make long-term care inside hospitals obsolete
August 6, 2022 / by Aditi Pathak / Funding, News, Startup, StartupLanes / 0 comments
Cera, a U.K. provider of healthcare inside people’s homes augmented by a platform that allows carers to monitor a patient’s health and potentially flag problems, has raised $320 million (£260 million) in an equity and debt financing round, split roughly 50/50. The equity side of the funding round was led by Cera’s existing investor Kairos […]
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Mudafy raises $10M in Founders Fund-led Series A to fix LatAm’s ‘broken’ real estate process
August 4, 2022 / by Aditi Pathak / Funding, investment, News, Startup, StartupLanes / 0 comments
Mudafy, a tech-enabled real estate broker operating in Latin America, has raised $10 million in a Series A round of funding led by San Francisco-based Founders Fund. Founded in mid-2019, Mudafy operates with a typical digital brokerage model — aiming to make it easier for people to buy and sell their homes and serve as […]
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Egyptian B2B e-commerce platform Cartona raises $12M to scale and explore new verticals
July 26, 2022 / by Aditi Pathak / Funding, investment, News, Startup, StartupLanes / 0 comments
Startups that solve the supply-chain and operational challenges of players in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry — by helping buyers access products from sellers on a single platform — keep attracting venture capital from investors. Cartona, one of the major players digitizing the traditional trade market, including mom-and-pop stores, FMCG producers, wholesalers and distributors […]
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World Fund joins $128M bet that quantum can deliver climate breakthroughs
July 25, 2022 / by Aditi Pathak / Funding, investment, News, Startup, StartupLanes / 0 comments
World Fund, a newcomer in climate-VC land, is taking the lead in a $128 million round for IQM, with hopes the Finnish quantum computing company will one day deliver carbon cuts by the megatonne. Quantum computing trades the bits of conventional computers for quantum bits, and in theory, quantum machines may be better suited for […]
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How Parfait is using AI to upend the $13B custom wig industry
July 25, 2022 / by Aditi Pathak / Funding, investment, News, Startup, StartupLanes / 0 comments
The wig industry aimed at women of color has an estimated market in the neighborhood of $13 billion. Black women face unique issues when it comes to building these wigs, and the process traditionally has involved sitting with a stylist for eight hours or more. A group of four Black women, two with MBAs from […]
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Whatnot’s valuation doubles to $3.7B as livestream shopping gains popularity in US
July 23, 2022 / by Aditi Pathak / Funding, investment, News, Startup, StartupLanes / 0 comments
Whatnot’s valuation doubles to $3.7B as Livestream shopping gains popularity in the US Livestream shopping in the United States has a ways to go to catch up with China’s booming $600 billion industry, but Whatnot’s new $260 million Series D round shows that shoppers stateside are increasingly embracing this way of buying and selling items. […]
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