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Colombian e-commerce enablement startup Melonn raises $20M to help SMBs scale in LatAm

TechCrunch

They were brought back together by the pandemic to start the e-commerce enablement company. CEO Gómez pointed out that Latin America has gone from being a laggard when it comes to e-commerce to being home to the world’s fastest-growing e-commerce market, which is estimated at over $100 billion and expected to double by 2025.

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AI chip startup Sima.ai bags another $30M ahead of growth

TechCrunch

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.” After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai

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Insurtech giant Equisoft lands $125M investment, eyes acquisitions

TechCrunch

” “The funding will strengthen our balance sheet and accelerate further development of our integrated life insurance software platform and wealth products to better serve our global customer base,” Romero told TechCrunch via email. We then evolved to focus on a core set of solutions where we knew we could be the best.”

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Virtual Incision Extends Series C Round with Additional $30M Funding

American Entrepreneurship

Investment will accelerate advancements of the MIRA Surgical System LINCOLN, Neb. The $30 million funding extension will support the company’s operations well into 2025 as it seeks to disrupt the industry with miniaturized RAS (miniRAS).

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India’s central bank cracks down on fintech startups

TechCrunch

We believe this regulation could significantly impact the fintechs involved in this business and would be advantageous to banks, as they can further accelerate card acquisition with less competition,” analysts at brokerage house Macquarie wrote earlier this week. But until some change or clarity arrives, large disruptions are expected.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

The main thing is getting construction companies and contractors to accelerate their adoption of the tech and the labor shortage issue is putting substantial pressure on them to act. Finishing is the ripest for disruption. Something in both the masonry and bricklayer arena as well as framing would be interesting.

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Jeffrey Katzenberg backs the $10M seed round for HUBUC’s embedded finance API

TechCrunch

Our vision is to become the platform that enables any company to embed financial services within their products. Some analysts predict that by 2025 the payments segment revenue of embedded fintech could reach $141 billion. That means it manages the contracts, regulatory requirements, AML, other integrations and risk etc.