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Sep 10, 2020 • 4min
Iron Ox raises $20 million for its robotic farms
Bay Area-based Iron Ox today announced a $20 million Series B. The funding, led by Pathbreaker Venture and family office firms, brings the robotics company’s total funding up to $45 million to date. A number of other investors also took part in the round, including Crosslink Capital, Amplify Partners, ENIAC Ventures, R7 Partners, Tuesday Ventures, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 9, 2020 • 5min
Snyk bags another $200M at $2.6B valuation 9 months after last raise
When we last reported on Snyk in January, eons ago in COVID time, the company announced $150 million investment on a valuation of over $1 billion. Today, barely nine months later, it announced another $200 million and its valuation has expanded to $2.6 billion. The company is obviously drawing some serious investor attention and even […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 9, 2020 • 4min
Snowflake’s IPO could value it as high as $24B, Salesforce and Berkshire to invest
On the heels of new filings from both Sumo Logic and JFrog, Snowflake, a venture-backed unicorn looking to go public on the strength of its data-focused cloud service, set an initial price range for its IPO. The $75 to $85 per-share IPO price target values the firm at between $20.9 billion and $23.7 billion, huge […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 8, 2020 • 3min
Revolut launches its financial app in Japan
Fintech startup Revolut is expanding to Japan. After testing the service with 10,000 users, anybody can now sign up and open an account. The company originally obtained its authorization to operate from Japan’s Finance Service Agency in 2018. When you open an account, you get an electronic wallet and a Visa debit card. You can […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 8, 2020 • 8min
Why a startup with $10M in annual revenue took 18 months to get VC funding
Back in 2006, Joseph Heller went to China where he spent the next decade learning about the manufacturing business. Based on that experience he eventually built a startup called The Studio. The idea was to help connect people with a small business idea to manufacturers in China in a fully digital way. By 2016 he […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 7, 2020 • 4min
Lokalise raises $6 million to make it easier to localize your product
Meet Lokalise, a Latvian startup that focuses on translation and localization of apps, websites, games and more. The company provides a software-as-a-service product that helps you improve your workflow and processes when you need to update text in different languages in your product. The company just raised a $6 million funding round led by Mike […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 7, 2020 • 5min
Exhibitors at Disrupt 2020: Register now to meet accelerators next week
Disrupt 2020 is all about helping startups find and create ways to drive their business forward in these most challenging times. We partnered with cela to give exhibitors in Digital Startup Alley one sweet opportunity — networking with 13 accelerators. If you’re exhibiting — or plan to — don’t miss out on your chance to […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 4, 2020 • 5min
Optimizely acquired by content management company Episerver
Episerver is announcing that it has reached an agreement to acquire Optimizely for an undisclosed sum. Optimizely was founded in 2009 by Dan Siroker and Pete Koomen. It became synonymous with A/B testing, subsequently building a broader suite of tools for marketers to experiment with and personalize their websites and apps, with more than 1,000 […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 4, 2020 • 5min
48 hours left on early-bird prices to TC Sessions: Mobility 2020
We’re just about a month away from launching TC Sessions: Mobility 2020, but you have only 48 hours left to save yourself $100 on the price of admission. Join the global mobility community on October 6-8 at the lowest possible price. Snag your pass before the early bird expires on September 4 at 11:59 p.m. […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 3, 2020 • 5min
Workplace management startup Legion raises $22 million
Legion, an artificial intelligence driven platform for workplace management, has raised a $22 million series B round led by Stripes with participation from Workday Ventures and others. Legion is designed to help employers better manage their hourly workforces by automating certain decisions, like how much labor to deploy to meet the needs of the company […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
