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May 18, 2023 • 6min
Wefox secures new funding at $4.5 billion valuation as it aims for profitability
Wefox, the German insurtech startup, has closed a new funding round from existing investors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 17, 2023 • 5min
Insurtech bolttech gets $196M at $1.6B valuation from investors like MetLife
Embedded insurtech is still hot, as the $196 million in funding landed by bolttech proves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 17, 2023 • 5min
This UK startup plans to radically shake-up the antiquated word of COPD measurement
In 1846, London surgeon John Hutchinson invented the spirometer, a thing you blow hard into, to measure the volume of air inspired and expired by the lungs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 16, 2023 • 5min
Jenfi raises more funding for its “growth capital as a service” platform
Jenfi, a “growth-capital-as-a-service” platform, can provide online businesses with revenue-based financing in a little as a day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 16, 2023 • 8min
Everseen raises over $70M for AI tech to spot potential retail theft
In 2007, Alan O’Herlihy, who previously worked with large SAP installations as well as retail, set out to find a way to help retailers minimize “shrinkage,” or where a store has fewer items in stock than in its recorded inventory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 15, 2023 • 4min
Pale Blue Dot continues investing in its climate vision, with a second, $100M fund
Sweden-based VC fund Pale Blue Dot bounced onto the scene in 2020 with a €53 million fund to help climate-focused startups. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 15, 2023 • 5min
AMP Robotics attracts investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund
AMP Robotics, a Denver, Colorado-based startup creating robotic systems that can automatically sort recyclable material, today announced that it extended its Series C round to $99 million, thanks to an investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 12, 2023 • 5min
SLAIT pivots from translating sign language to AI-powered interactive lessons
Millions of people use sign language, but methods of teaching this complex and subtle skill haven’t evolved as quickly those for written and spoken languages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 12, 2023 • 4min
AudiencePlus wants to help every company run its own media platform
It used to be that having a corporate blog and some paid content was the gist of your marketing department’s content efforts, and that was enough. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 11, 2023 • 5min
Cable wants to help banks cut financial crime through automated assurance
Cable enables banks and fintechs to monitor all of their accounts — not just a fraction as before — to know, in real time, if failure controls are working as expected to combat breaches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
