TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Cybercrime is on the rise, and today an insurance startup that’s built an artificial intelligence-based platform to help manage the risks from that is announcing a big round of funding to meet the opportunity. Cowbell Cyber, a full-stack insurance company that provides cyber insurance to SMEs, has closed a Series B of $100 million, which it will be using to continue investing in its data science and “risk engineering”, as well as underwriting tech, claims management, its reinsu

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HPA

MARCH 15, 2022

We’re excited to share that metaMe Health , a prescription digital therapeutics (PDT) company, today announced raising $2.2M in funding. HPA led the round , which will help metaMe continue its preparations for Regulora’s market launch and the build out of metaMe’s commercial infrastructure. metaMe Health is the developer of Regulora®, the first FDA-authorized PDT specifically for abdominal pain associated with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) in adults.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Tel Aviv-based Run:ai , a startup that makes it easier for developers and operations teams to manage and optimize their AI infrastructure, today announced that it has raised a $75 million Series C funding round led by Tiger Global Management and Insight Partners, which also led the company’s $30 million Series B round in 2021. Previous investors TLV Partners and S Capital VC also participated in this round, which brings Run:ai’s total funding to $118 million.

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HPA

MARCH 15, 2022

We’re excited to share that metaMe Health , a prescription digital therapeutics (PDT) company, today announced raising $2.2M in funding. HPA led the round , which will help metaMe continue its preparations for Regulora’s market launch and the build out of metaMe’s commercial infrastructure. metaMe Health is the developer of Regulora®, the first FDA-authorized PDT specifically for abdominal pain associated with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) in adults.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Tuesday, March 15, 2022! Well, we’ve done it. We made it through earnings season and nearly all of Q1. Now it’s just the final two weeks until we rock into the second real period of 2022.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Wagely , an earned wage access (EWA) platform based in Jakarta and Dhaka, has raised $8.3 million in pre-Series A funding, just seven months after announcing its seed round. The new funds will be used to fuel wagely’s expansion in Bangladesh, where it recently launched, and build other features to become a “holistic financial wellness platform,” including savings, insurance, long-term installment loans and financial education.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 15, 2022

Tip #3: Don’t waste a lot of time on the least important part of a business Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Not-for-profit search engine Ecosia has started funnelling a portion of the profits it generates from serving ads against users’ searches into startups in the renewable energy space. This is in addition to the €350M WorldFund which Ecosia recently incubated and launched last year to back climate-focused startups. To be clear, Ecosia is also continuing to fund tree-planting with search ads profits (an activity it’s best known for) — but the Berlin-based search engine told us it&

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 15, 2022

The ecommerce market is on fire, and the growth of online commerce and ecommerce merchants is staggering. In 2022, 21% of sales are expected to be online, up 17.9% in just 2 years. And it’s still early days. . The ecommerce … The post Investing in Rutter appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Kristen Corpion. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Kristen Corpion is the founder of CORPlaw , a Miami-based law firm serving fast-growing technology companies and entrepreneurs as fractional general counsel. Most fast-growing startups get by for long periods of time before hiring their first in-house lawyer. It’s not that startups don’t have important legal work that needs to get done.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 15, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register WEBUY , a social ecommerce startup based in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia, has acquired Chilibeli, Indonesia’s largest community group buying platform, for an undisclosed amount. Chilibeli, like WEBUY, uses a social group buy model that optimizes the supply chain for cost savings to buyers and generates income for group leaders.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Shares of Chinese technology companies are selling off at home and abroad this week as the nation’s ties to Russia add to investor uncertainty at the expense of China’s tech industry. China is also enduring a COVID-19 outbreak, leading to mass lockdowns in technology hubs , and some of its leading technology concerns are looking to bring their listings back to domestic shores due to regulatory pressure.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 15, 2022

Here’s why influencers are beating entrepreneurs at our own game and the 3 mistakes holding you back from similar success. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Marketplaces are the order of the day when it comes to selling online, providing a one-stop shop for shoppers, and for retailers looking to target as many would-be buyers as possible, while also creating more economies of scale in areas fulfillment and delivery. Amazon has become the name synonymous with marketplace selling, but it’s far from the only player in town.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 15, 2022

IREX 2022 YLAI Self-Care Workbook – YLAI Network (PDF). The post YLAI Self-Care Workbook appeared first on Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Organic infant formula company Bobbie is taking a hint from its staggering revenue results in 2021 to get out in front of its product pipeline. Laura Modi, co-founder and CEO of Bobbie, told me she had expected $4 million in revenue for 2021, but closed the year with $18 million. “It was pretty extraordinary,” she told TechCrunch. “We had been heads down on growth and innovation, and what is clear is we have hit product-market fit.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 15, 2022

HUB Security announced a partnership with Enlitic to secure health data in AI-driven applications across healthcare so clinicians can make faster and more accurate diagnoses. Read more here. The post [Hub Security in HelpNet Security] HUB Security collaborates with Enlitic to secure data for healthcare providers appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Online recruitment was one of the early and big hits of the first dot-com boom. But with more and more business processes moving online, online job search is the gift that keeps on giving, and so today comes news of another portal in the space raising a big round to take on the incumbents in the space with more innovative and accurate technology. Talent.com — a portal that aggregates both job ads posted directly by recruiters as well as ads from third-party recruitment sites — has pi

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OurCrowd

MARCH 15, 2022

LOUISVILLE, Colo. and LINDON, Utah, March 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — JumpCloud, the cloud directory platform that helps IT teams Make (Remote) Work Happen®, and BambooHR, the industry’s leading cloud-hosted software provider dedicated to powering the strategic evolution of human resources (HR), today announced they are partnering to deliver an integration for a premium employee experience across the entire employee lifecycle.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic, with its by-product of social distancing to help reduce the spread of infection, led to many organizations working in a far more distributed way than they had in the past, and that put a big spotlight on how well companies collaborated and communicated — not just under the circumstances, but as part of their deeper culture.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 15, 2022

Both Driscoll’s and Plenty benefit by partnering on a vertical farm dedicated to strawberries. For the berry giant, which already has made an unspecified “major investment” in Plenty, it provides an opportunity to tap into the food tech firm’s data analytics and machine learning expertise to boost yields potentially 150 to 350 times higher per acre than it could achieve in a conventional field setting, according to the companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Seven months after publicly launching its company, Rutter is back with a new capital injection, this time $27 million in a Series A financing round led by Andreessen Horowitz. We first met founders Eric Yu and Peter Zhou last year when the company raised $1.5 million. They started off building a universal e-commerce API for reading and writing data so that tech customers can integrate with commerce platforms and access financial data points to offer loans, launch in new marketplaces and streamli

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 15, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Superapp GoTo has filed to raise at least IDR15.2 trillion, or about $1.1 billion, in an initial public offering (IPO) on the Indonesia Stock Exchange, according to a press release Tuesday. GoTo was created by merging two of Indonesia’s tech giants – ride-hailing firm GoJek and e-commerce player Tokopedia, creating a superapp combining e-commerce, transportation and financial services.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Multiplier , a startup that enables companies to hire and pay remote workers while complying with local laws, announced today that it has raised a $60 million Series B at a valuation of $400 million. The round was co-led by Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital India, and brings Multiplier total investment since it was founded in 2020 to $77.2 million. Multiplier raised a Series A of $13.2 million from Sequoia Capital India just three months ago. .

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OurCrowd

MARCH 15, 2022

NEW YORK , March 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Inc. magazine today announced that Apploi has been named the 10th fastest-growing software company in the Northeast. Apploi placed No. 53 on the annual Inc. 5000 Regionals: Northeast list, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing private companies based in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

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