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Music licensing marketplace Songtradr raises $50M

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The oversubscribed round — which features Regal, Aware Super, Perennial, Argo and Greencape — follows a $30 million raise last August , bringing the Los Angeles company’s total funding to north of $100 million. Music licensing marketplace Songtradr this morning announced a $50 million Series D.

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A new kind of PE fund plans to roll-up German startups into potential unicorns and bigger exits

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European startups have always suffered from the perennial startup problem: how to exit? However, in Europe the problem has always been particularly acute. How many large European industrial or corporate giants acquire or acqu-hire? Not that many and not nearly enough. It’s part of the reason so many European startups end up heading to the US.

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SOS raises 3.4M to add some pizazz to your local tampon vending machine

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They met as colleagues at financial services company State Street, and combined forces to solve the perennial problem of broken, out-of-stock tampon machines. .” The two-woman founding team and the company’s co-CEOs are Susanna Twarog and Robina Verbeek. SOS vending machine. Image Credits: SOS.

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New York City’s enterprise tech startups could be heading for a superheated exit wave

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Gone are the days when the New York startup ecosystem, perennially in Silicon Valley’s shadow, was more hype than substance. (In The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. In recent news, Work-Bench recently raised a new $100 million fund.).

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Backed by Tiger Global and Sequoia India, Toplyne helps product-led growth teams tackle user conversion

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For product-led growth companies (PLG), the perennial question is: how do we get non-paying customers to subscribe? Toplyne founders Ruchin Kulkarni, Rohit Khanna and Rishen Kapoor. Then the second question is: how do we get paying customers to move to higher tiers?

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Lightbits Labs lands $42M to speed up server data transfers

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” Kirzner founded Lightbits in 2016 to solve the perennial storage/compute utilization problem. And traditional software-defined storage systems. struggle to deliver even a fraction of the performance and cost-effectiveness that’s possible now with flash storage.”

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Deci snaps up $21M for tech to build better AI models based on available data and compute power

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” With adequate training data being another perennial problem in AI, Deci is also working to give a boost on the data side of the equation. There is a gap, between the algorithm and the supply of the hardware. So, we need to have some convergence based on what hardware we have. Deci is bridging or even closing that gap.”