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CoinDesk: Institutional bitcoin broker and custody services provider NYDIG raises $1B in a funding round led by WestCap, valuing it at $7B+ — NYDIG said Tuesday it raised a stunning $1 billion in a funding round that will value the firm at over $7 billion - and potentially expand bitcoin's...

Some say that antivirus software that you install on your PC may have run its course when it comes to the next generation of computing in the cloud. Today a startup that has built what it believes comes next is making some news with a large funding round, its first outside money. Guardio —...

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Medal.tv raises $60M to expand its platform for short gaming clips, bringing its total funding to $70M, and says it has nearly 1M DAUs — Medal.tv has raised $60 million in funding for its platform for short-form videos for games. And the company is also launching...

Riley de León / CNBC: Airtable raises a $735M Series F led by XN, valuing the company at $11B and bringing its total funding to date to $1.4B — - Enterprise software company Airtable has raised a $735 million Series F funding round that boosts its valuation to $11 billion. — The San...

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...

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: TrueNorth, a logistics service for independent truckers, raises a $50M Series B co-led by the Altman brothers and Lachy Groom, bringing total funding to $61.8M — Jin Stedge studied aerospace engineering at MIT, but after she found herself at Scotty Labs, an SRI...

Ivan Levingston / Bloomberg: SellerX, which buys and grows businesses on Amazon's marketplace, raises $500M in debt and equity at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $750M — - Debt, equity financing of $500 million co-led by Victory Park — Company will use funds to buy up...

George Anadiotis / ZDNet: Edge Impulse, which lets developers create custom ML projects, raises a $34M Series B led by Coatue at a $234M valuation, bringing its total funding to $54M — 55.000 projects, 30.000 developers, $54M funding, and customers including the likes of NASA, in a bit over 2...

Anna Heim / TechCrunch: Corporate spend and cash management service Rho raises a $75M Series B led by Dragoneer, bringing its total funding to $205M in equity and debt — Corporate spend and cash management company Rho today announced that it has raised a $75 million Series B funding round led...

Pod Foods is keeping grocery shelves full of the emerging food brands that consumers are asking for and announced today $10 million in Series A funding to continue developing its digital wholesale business-to-business marketplace. We profiled the Austin-based company’s founders Larissa Russell...

Indian ride-hailing giant Ola has raised $139 million at a valuation of about $7.3 billion, it said in a filing, ahead of its plans to file for an initial public offering early next year. Mumbai-headquartered financial giant Edelweiss led the new investment tranche. IIFL, Siddhant Partners...

In 2014, more than 40% of U.S. seed- and early-stage venture dollars went to Bay Area startups. But that was a long time ago. In recent years, Bay Area startups have accounted for a smaller percentage of U.S. VC investment, according to “Beyond Silicon Valley,” a new report co-produced by...

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Gaming hardware company NZXT raises $100M led by Francisco Partners, its first outside funding since launching in 2004 — NZXT has raised funding for the first time since it debuted as a PC gaming hardware company in 2004. It's a whopper of a round at $100 million.

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Synthesia, which uses AI to create virtual avatars, raises a $50M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins, bringing its total funding to $66.5M — Synthesia, a company leveraging AI to generate videos of avatars, today announced that it raised $50 million in a series B...

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.

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: Security-focused IoT service Afero, raises a $50M Series C led by Crosspoint Capital Partners, bringing its total funding to an estimated ~$100M — With the Samsara IPO heading toward pricing, it's a good moment to spend a little more time digging into the IoT market.

Kate Park / TechCrunch: Indonesian startup Flip, which aims to streamline interbank money transfers, raises a $48M Series B, bringing its total funding to $65 million — Flip, an Indonesia-based fintech startup, announced today it has raised $48 million in a Series B to accelerate its growth.

Anita Ramaswamy / TechCrunch: Hummingbird, which sells anti-money laundering tools to banks and fintechs, raises a $30M Series B led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $41.8M — Hummingbird, which sells anti-money laundering software to banks and fintechs, announced today that...

Banking is undergoing a huge transformation and how debt collections operations engage customers is becoming a big issue, especially with things like BNPL schemes. Hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested in the last few years digitalizing financial and other services, but debt...

Kyle Alspach / VentureBeat: LogDNA, a centralized log management service for developers, raises a $50M Series D led by NightDragon, bringing its total funding to $110M — Observability data software developer LogDNA, which today announced a $50 million series D funding round, said it's...