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Revolution Ventures Invests in Oula, the Maternity Care Startup Combining the Best of Obstetrics…

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Oula provides comprehensive maternal care through a midwifery-first, team-based model — including preconception planning, early pregnancy, prenatal, postpartum, and gynecological care — with a unique consumer-centric, tech-enabled approach that caters to modern preferences and builds efficiencies for care delivery. employer of midwives.

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Opaque Systems secures cash to keep data private while enabling collaboration

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million, which co-founder and CEO Rishabh Poddar says is being put toward product development and doubling the size of the team to close to 100 employees by the end of the year. The new cash brings Opaque’s total raised to $31.9 At least one firm anticipates that the confidential computing market will be worth $54 billion by 2026.

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

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Other backers include Global Founders Capital and a number of high-profile angel investors, such as GGV Managing Partner Hans Tung, ALLVP Partner Antonia Rojas and LaHaus founders Jeronimo Uribe and Tomas Uribe, among others. They were brought back together by the pandemic to start the e-commerce enablement company.

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Japan’s Zeals raises $38.8M to scale its chat commerce platform

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Conversational commerce, a term coined by former Uber employee Chris Messina in 2015 , enables online businesses to sell their products and services through messaging and chat apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Mizuho Bank and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group also joined in its debt financing.

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Kenyan startup Wowzi secures $3.2 million from 4DX Ventures, Andela co-founder to expand across Africa

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Andela co-founder Christina Sass, and former Andela executives Jessica Chervin, Justin Ziegler, as well as Johnny Falla, who currently serves as chief development and growth officer at Wowzi, took part in the round too. Wowzi co-founders (l-r) Mike Otieno, Hassan Bashir and Brian Mogeni. This was preceded by a $1.2

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Walmart invests $200 million in Indian mobile payments giant PhonePe

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.” A concern for PhonePe’s growth was the Indian regulator enforcing a check on the market cap on each participating player, but its recent extension to the deadline until 2025 has paved the way for the startup for another two years of fast growth. Google’s GPay and PhonePe currently process more than 80% of all UPI transactions.)

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The Proptech Startups Using VR & AR to Reshape Real Estate

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According to Goldman Sachs , virtual and augmented reality (AR) will become an $80 billion market by 2025, and $2.6 According to the founders, properties using the VirtualAPT content have seen over 300 percent increase for new building lease-ups. billion will be specifically for real estate. The medium is extremely powerful.