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Sorbet Raises $6M Seed Ied by Viola Ventures to Tackle the Thorny Financials of Paid Time Off

Sorbet Raises $6M Seed Ied by Viola Ventures to Tackle the Thorny Financials of Paid Time Off

Subject: Business

US / Israeli startup, Sorbet – a company deals with financial risk when employees earn paid time off (PTO) – has raised million $6 million in a seed fund round led by Viola Ventures in…

Heirlume Rises $1.38M to Remove the Barriers of Trademark Registration for Small Businesses

Heirlume Rises $1.38M to Remove the Barriers of Trademark Registration for Small Businesses

Subject: Business

Platforms like Shopify, Stripe, and WordPress have done much to build the necessary business-building tools, such as running storefront, accepting payments, and even creating accessible websites for businesses with huge budgets. But some of the most…

Travel Perk Rises $160M in Equity and Debt After a Year of Derailed Business Trips

Travel Perk Rises $160M in Equity and Debt After a Year of Derailed Business Trips

Subject: Business

The epidemic has hit the travel sector for the past 12 months, so you’ll be forgiven for feeling somewhat pre-Kavid-19 in this news: Business travel booking platform TravelPerk is announcing a $160M Series D. The…

Taster Grabs $37 Million for its Native Online Restaurants

Taster Grabs $37 Million for its Native Online Restaurants

Subject: Business

French startup tester has raised $37 million in Series B funding from Octopus Ventures, Battery Ventures, LocalGlobe, HeartCore, Rakuten, GFC and Founder Futures. The company operates dozens of restaurants that only exist on food delivery…

Fund Managers can Leverage ESG-related Data to Generate Insights

Fund Managers can Leverage ESG-related Data to Generate Insights

Subject: Business

Nearly two centuries ago, gold rejecters in California amassed the greatest wealth in history. Proponents of fund managers seeking socially conscious investments will similarly discover that environmental, social and administrative (ESG) insights can generate wealth…

Founders Circle Capital has raised a new $355 million fund to buy primary and secondary shares

Founders Circle Capital has raised a new $355 million fund to buy primary and secondary shares

Subject: Business

Founder Circle Capital, a nine-year-old San Francisco-based investment firm that contracts with private, enterprise-backed firms to buy some proprietary stock options for their founders and employees – so they can buy a home or just…

Endeit Capital plans to boost European B-stage startups with its new €250M growth fund

Endeit Capital plans to boost European B-stage startups with its new €250M growth fund

Subject: Business

Dutch-German growth capital firm Endeit Capital has raised 250 million euro to invest in European startups at the B + level. It is its third and largest investment fund, Endeit Capital III. The agency said it plans to…

Alchemy rises $80M at a $505M valuation to be the ‘AWS for blockchain’

Alchemy rises $80M at a $505M valuation to be the ‘AWS for blockchain’

Subject: Business

Blockchain developer platform Alchemy announced that Quotes and Additions, led by Lee Fixel’s new fundraiser, has raised $80 million in Series B round funding. The company had previously raised a total of $15.5 million, so the…

3D-printing marketplace Shapeways set for SPAC

3D-printing marketplace Shapeways set for SPAC

Subject: Business

Shapeways confirmed the veracity of an earlier report this morning that it had struck a deal to go public through SPAC. The model, which has become popular among tech companies over the past year, has already…

Tyltgo’s same-day delivery platform lets small businesses compete with Amazon

Tyltgo’s same-day delivery platform lets small businesses compete with Amazon

Subject: Business

Tyltgo wants to make it easier for restaurants and small businesses to compete with the day-to-day delivery services offered, such as Amazon and HelloFresh. The Canadian company, which recently raised CAD $2.3 million (US $1.8 million)…

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