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Near, a data intelligence company that claims to have 1.6B anonymized user profiles, raises $100M as it goes public via a SPAC merger at a ~$1B valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Near, a data intelligence company that claims to have 1.6B anonymized user profiles, raises $100M as it…
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GridX, which offers rate analytics and billing software to utilities and energy tech companies, raises a $40M Series C led by Energy Impact Partners (FinSMEs)
FinSMEs: GridX, which offers rate analytics and billing software to utilities and energy tech companies, raises a $40M Series C…
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A hacking group called NB65 claims it is using modified versions of Conti’s leaked ransomware to attack Russian entities, including the space agency Roscosmos (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: A hacking group called NB65 claims it is using modified versions of Conti’s leaked ransomware to attack…
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Chile-based Xepelin, which provides B2B payments and financial services for SMBs in Latin America, raises a $111M Series B in equity led by Avenir and Kaszek (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)
Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Chile-based Xepelin, which provides B2B payments and financial services for SMBs in Latin America, raises a $111M…
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Internal documents: Intel plans to sell a software, codenamed Sonoma Creek, that will simplify and speed up computer vision model training, launching this fall (Dylan Martin/The Register)
Dylan Martin / The Register: Internal documents: Intel plans to sell a software, codenamed Sonoma Creek, that will simplify and speed…
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Brightseed, which develops an AI-based system called Forager to identify and categorize plant compounds for human health, raises a $68M Series B led by Temasek (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)
Brightseed aibased forager 68m series Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Brightseed, which develops an AI-based system called Forager to identify and categorize…
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Profile of inDriver, a ride-hailing app developed in Siberia in 2012, which lets riders and drivers haggle over prices and is now available in 42 countries (Leonid Ragozin/Rest of World)
Profile siberiaragozin Leonid Ragozin / Rest of World: Profile of inDriver, a ride-hailing app developed in Siberia in 2012, which lets…
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Manta, which offers a date lineage service for companies to understand and visualize the flow of information, raises a $35M Series B led by Forestay Capital (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)
Manta 35m forestay capitalsawersventurebeat Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Manta, which offers a date lineage service for companies to understand and visualize…
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India-based UrbanPiper, which helps restaurants manage multiple food delivery services, raises a $24M Series B from Swiggy, Zomato, and others (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Indiabased urbanpiper 24m series Manish Singh / TechCrunch: India-based UrbanPiper, which helps restaurants manage multiple food delivery services, raises a $24M…
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Evisort, which offers an AI-powered contract management software, raises a $100M Series C led by TCV, bringing its total funding to $155.6M (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)
Evisort aipowered series tcv kernerventurebeat Evisort, which offers an AI-powered contract management software, raises a $100M Series C led by…
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