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Kate Park / TechCrunch: Indonesia-based Fuse, which connects insurance companies with multiple distribution channels, raises a $25M Series B, bringing its total funding to $70M+ — Indonesia-based insurtech startup Fuse announced today it has secured $25 million of Series B extension round as...

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Don’t worry, Y Combinator fans, you’ll be able to write off this entire opinion piece as the disgruntled musings of “a failed startup founder who was never able to get into Y Combinator,” because seen through one lens, that’s exactly what I am. But, damn it, for a while there, being a Y...

Fresh from its time in Y Combinator, SaaS startup Anakin raised $2 million to continue developing its software enabling e-commerce companies to see live pricing data on their competitors.Mohit Prateek and Rashmi Bala started the company last September and officially launched in March to help...

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Celigo, whose integration platform allows companies to automate business processes, raises a $48M Series C led by OMERS Growth, bringing total raised to $80M+ — Companies continue to add apps to their technology stacks as the pandemic drives digital transformations.

Eli Tan / CoinDesk: Palm, which helps companies and brands create NFT projects, raises a $27M Series B led by Microsoft's M12 — Microsoft's venture arm is leading a $27 million bet on NFT studio Palm. — The funding will be used primarily to scale the company's operations with a slew of new...

Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: Reports suggest large Chinese tech companies, including ByteDance and Kuaishou, are laying off more staff than usual, amid regulatory pressure and competition — Companies are reportedly laying off more employees than usual for this time of year, setting...

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: CloudBees, which lets companies automate software deployment and quality monitoring, raises a $150M Series F at a $1B valuation — Enterprise-focused software delivery platform CloudBees has raised $150 million in a series F round of funding at a valuation of $1 billion.

Bloomberg: Adam Mosseri proposes updating Section 230 so that tech companies are only protected if they follow kids' safety rules set by a new government oversight body — - Mosseri proposes new oversight body to create standards — Senators say they're unconvinced by Instagram's new features

By late last year, the alarm bells were just starting to ring. Researchers discovered that Russian spies had months earlier burrowed deep into the networks of several U.S. federal networks. The spies, working for Russia’s foreign intelligence service had first targeted SolarWinds, an IT company...

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: NewtonX, which connects companies with subject matter experts, raises a $32M Series B led by Marbruck Ventures, bringing its total funding to $47M — Everyday business decisions require data and are often questions someone has already asked and had answered.

Bloomberg: A look at the proliferation of “dark stores”, mini-warehouses in urban retail spaces used by fast grocery delivery companies, and their impact on community life — Mini-warehouses dubbed “dark stores” are quietly taking over urban retail space.

Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: As US companies fight to attract workers in a tight labor market, Amazon has emerged as the de facto wage-and-benefit setter, causing ripples across the economy — In local markets throughout America, the e-commerce giant's facilities have an impact on...

Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: Delivery companies and hundreds of Amazon workers say the company's Flex and Dolphin apps for logistics and time tracking are down, halting some deliveries — There's a mix of frustration and joy from workers as AWS outages cause chaos with Amazon's delivery...

Chris Watson Contributor Chris Watson is the director of the International Development Division at Premise and an evangelist for using data to improve the impact of development programs.In 2019, the U.S. Agency for International Development developed the “New Partnerships Initiative” (NPI)...

Sometimes I wonder if the analysts on Wall Street, who I’m sure are smart people, understand how the technology industry works.There is this persistent notion among investors that stocks that did well during the pandemic like Zoom, DocuSign and Okta will suddenly fade from our minds as soon as...

Salespeople are always looking for an edge when it comes to contacting potential customers. Knowing someone who knows someone at your target customer and can make an introduction means that it’s much more likely the contact will pay attention.A former Salesforce executive wants to make it...

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Tel Aviv-based Grip Security, which helps companies protect data in SaaS apps, raises a $25M Series A led by Intel Capital — Grip Security, a Tel Aviv-based startup that helps enterprises protect their data in SaaS applications, today announced that it has...

Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times: US investigators traced ransomware payments back to companies in Moscow skyscraper Federation Tower East, suggesting Russia tolerates ransomware operators — Cybersecurity experts tracing money paid by American businesses to Russian ransomware gangs found it...

Bloomberg: Investigation: Swiss company Mitto, which offers automated text messages to companies in 100+ countries, helped governments secretly surveil mobile phone users — Mitto AG's network used to track people via mobile phones, former employees say. — The co-founder of a company that has...