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Sense, an HR tech startup that helps some of the world’s largest staffing and recruitment agencies timely find and hire talent, has grown its valuation to $500 million in a new financing round, a person familiar with the matter told TechCrunch.The San Francisco-headquartered startup has raised...

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Life House, which offers hotel management software, raises a $60M Series C co-led by Kayak and Inovia Capital, bringing its total funding to over $100M — Inovia Capital, Tiger Global also backed the startup, which has developed software aimed at hotel operators

Berber Jin / The Information: Sources: Airtable, a developer of cloud-based collaboration software, is finalizing $700M+ in new funding at an $11.7B valuation — Airtable, a developer of cloud-based collaboration software, is finalizing a new round of funding that would value the San Francisco...

Religion-based apps, tools and communities aren’t brand new, including to investors. Pray.com, for example, an LA-based app for daily prayer and bedtime Bible stories that was founded in 2016, has raised at least $34 million from investors, including Kleiner Perkins. Ministry Brands, a...

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Mexico City-based buy now, pay later service and online consumer lender Kueski raises $102M in equity and $100M in debt, bringing its total funding to $300M+ — Kueski, a Mexico City-based “buy now, pay later” and online consumer lender, announced today it has...

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Smartling, which offers automated cloud-based translation tools, raises $160M led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to over $220M — As the pandemic drives businesses online, translation is becoming a key part of the digital transformation equation.

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Shiftsmart, a labor marketplace that matches workers with shifts, raises a $95M Series B led by D1 Capital, bringing its total funding to $117M — The holiday shopping season kicked off last week with some lackluster results, but employers are still in dire need of...

Kakao Mobility, the South Korea-based mobility as a service (MaaS) startup behind Kakao T, a ride-hailing app, said it has raised an additional $55 million (65 billion won) from strategic investor GS Retail. This brings its total raised to about $941.4 million (1.11 trillion won) and values it...

Yogita Khatri / The Block: 1inch Network, which offers the popular DEX aggregator 1inch app, raises a $175M Series B led by Amber Group, bringing its total funding to $190M — Quick Take — 1inch Network has raised $175 million in a Series B funding round. — The project is looking to serve...

Companies often spend an incommensurate amount of time chasing overdue payments, which distracts them from their core businesses, and brings forth cash flow issues.The time wastage and other challenges suffered during payment collection mainly stem from a reliance on manual billing cycles and...

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Simpl, a Bangalore-based buy now, pay later service, raises a $40M Series B led by Valar Ventures and IA Ventures, bringing its total funding to $83M — Bangalore-based fintech startup Simpl has raised $40 million as it looks to expand its online buy now, pay later...

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: CloudTrucks, which helps truck operators manage cash flows, insurance, and more, raises a $115M Series B led by Tiger Global, bringing its funding to $142M — CloudTrucks wants to use technology to help trucking entrepreneurs operate their business: The...

Finextra: London-based Plum, a money management app, raises a $24M Series A from dmg ventures and others, bringing its total funding to $43M — Plum, Europe's ultimate money management app, has successfully raised a total of $24 million from a Series A funding round that will help propel …

Soveren, a London-based startup that automates the detection of privacy risks to help organizations comply with GDPR and CCPA, has launched out of stealth with $6.5 million in seed funding.The company analyzes real-time data flows inside an organizations’ infrastructure to discover personal...

Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: Mainframe Industries, which develops cloud-native MMOs, raises a $23M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz, bringing its total funding to $33.7M — Mainframe Industries, the startup behind the first cloud-native massively multiplayer online game, today announced it has...

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: Endowus, a Singapore-based robo-advisor app, raises $25.6M to bring its total funding to $49M, as it looks to speed up its hiring for geographic expansion — Endowus is the latest investment app in Southeast Asia to raise follow-on funding, adding $35 million SGD...

Endowus is the latest investment app in Southeast Asia to raise follow-on funding, adding $35 million SGD (about $25.6 million US) to its war chest. The round was led by Prosus Ventures, the venture firm majority-owned by Naspers, and EDBI. Participants included SoftBank Corp.-owned Japanese...

Rajan Bajaj, founder of fintech Slice, chimed in on a Twitter thread earlier this year and wondered aloud what he needs to do to turn his startup into a unicorn before he turns 30.At just 28, Bajaj has figured it out.Slice, which was valued at under $200 million in a financing round in...

Camlist, a video marketplace for pets, has raised $1.3 million in a pre-seed round, funding that the startup plans to use to develop its platform and grow its workforce — as it looks to expand its reach in the UK, its second market (after the U.A.E.), which it entered earlier this year.Unlike...