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Tatum lets you interact with blockchains using API calls Sep 22, 2021

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Meet Tatum, a blockchain infrastructure startup that wants to make it much easier to develop your own blockchain-based product. The company operates a platform-as-a-service product so that you don’t have to manage your own nodes and learn how to interact with each client. Tatum is participating in TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt. While blockchain […]

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Alan acquires Jour and launches mental health service Alan Mind Sep 22, 2021

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French startup Alan is better known for its health insurance products — they now insure 200,000 people. But it has been slowly building a superapp for your health and expanding with new services. Today, the company announced its first acquisition ever with the acquisition of Jour for $20 million. This is going to be the […]

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Near Space Labs closes $13M Series A to send more Earth imaging robots to the stratosphere Sep 21, 2021

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The decreasing cost of launch and a slew of other tech innovations have brought about a renaissance in geospatial intelligence, with multiple startups aiming to capture higher-quality and more frequent images of Earth than have ever before been available. Most of these startups, however, are focused on using satellites to collect data. Not so for […]

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Fivetran hauls in $565M on $5.6B valuation, acquires competitor HVR for $700M Sep 21, 2021

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Fivetran, the data connectivity startup, had a big day today. For starters it announced a $565 million investment on $5.6 billion valuation, but it didn’t stop there. It also announced its second acquisition this year, snagging HVR, a data integration competitor that had raised over $50M, for $700 million in cash and stock.

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Flippa raises $11M to match online asset and business buyers, sellers Sep 20, 2021

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Flippa uses a proprietary business valuation tool and algorithm to match online business owners to qualified buyers.

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Ketch raises another $20M as demand grows for its privacy data control platform Sep 20, 2021

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Ketch's OTC enables developers to embed security and governance into a piece of data as they build software.

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Defy Partners leads $3M round into sales intelligence platform Aircover Sep 17, 2021

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Aircover’s conversational AI software integrates with Zoom and automates parts of the sales process to lead to more effective conversations.

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Fiberplane nabs € 7.5M seed to bring Google Docs-like collaboration to incident response Sep 17, 2021

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Fiberplane, an Amsterdam-based early stage startup that is building collaborative notebooks for SREs (site reliability engineers)Â to collaborate around an incident in a similar manner to group editing in a Google Doc, announced a â€‹â€‹€ 7.5M (approximately $8.8 million USD) seed round today. The round was co-led by Crane Venture Partners and Notion Capital with […]

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AI startup Sorcero secures $10M for language intelligence platform Sep 16, 2021

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Its natural language processing platform aids subject-matter experts in finding answers to their questions.

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Relyance AI scores $25M Series A to ensure privacy compliance at the code level Sep 16, 2021

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Relyance AI, an early stage startup that is helping companies stay in compliance with privacy laws at the code level, announced a $25 million Series A today. At the same time, they revealed a previously unannounced $5 million seed round.

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