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MoEngage, a San Francisco and Bangalore-based startup that helps firms understand their customers and improve app engagement, has raised $30 million just four months after closing its previous funding round. Steadview Capital led the seven-year-old SaaS startup’s Series D round, they said on...

Kyle Alspach / VentureBeat: GitGuardian, a real-time monitoring platform that helps enterprises manage data leaks, raises a $44M Series B led by Eurazeo, bringing its total funding to $56M — GitGuardian, which today announced raising a $44 million series B funding round, plans to build upon...

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...

Reuters: British asset manager Abrdn to buy Interactive Investor, an online investment platform, for $1.98B in cash — Abrdn (ABDN.L)is to buy investment platform interactive investor for 1.49 billion pounds ($1.98 billion) in cash, as traditional asset managers seek to build up customers using...

Karamba Security, an Israel-based security startup that focuses on the IoT and automotive industry, today announced a $10 million extension to its $12 million Series B round from 2017. This extension was led by automotive startup VinFast, a member of Vietnam’s Vingroup conglomerate, which itself...

Radhika Anilkumar / Reuters: Canadian video platform Rumble, popular with right-wing users, will go public via SPAC at a $2.1B valuation and expects to raise around $400M — Canadian video platform Rumble Inc said on Wednesday it would go public by merging with blank-check firm CF Acquisition...

Haje Jan Kamps / TechCrunch: Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon G3x Gen 1 Gaming Platform for Android gaming devices, launches with Razer a handheld dev kit with G3x chip, 6.65" 120Hz OLED display — Snapdragon's G3x is Qualcomm's fantastically exciting bid to embrace the gaming market — a brand new...

Jay Peters / The Verge: Qualcomm's new G3x platform could usher in a new wave of Nintendo Switch-alikes — It's an Android-based platform — Qualcomm is upping its investment in gaming with a new Snapdragon G3x Gen 1 Gaming Platform, which manufacturers can use to make Nintendo Switch or Steam...

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: UK crowdfunding service Seedrs will be acquired by US investing platform Republic for $100M, after UK's CMA blocked a planned Seedrs-Crowdcube merger — Investing platform Republic plans a push into Europe following changes to EU crowdfunding rules — UK...

Frontegg, a Tel Aviv-based startup that provides SaaS companies with the core user management tools they need to build their own services, today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series A funding round led by Insight Partners. Existing investors Pitango, which led the company’s $5...

Klue, an AI-powered competitive enablement platform, has raised $62 million in Series B funding led by Tiger Global, with participation from Salesforce Ventures. The Vancouver-based company combines intel collection capabilities with a modern approach to content distribution aimed at providing...

Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: South Korean company Naver, which runs the popular Zepeto metaverse platform for 3D avatars, raises a $150M Series B at a $1B valuation from Vision Fund 2 — Naver's Zepeto, boasting a base of young female users, attracts $150 million SoftBank investment...

QR code ordering at restaurants has been around for years, but the pandemic increased its adoption as social distancing and hygiene measures went into place. Mr Yum, a Melbourne-based mobile ordering and payments platform that was founded in 2018, announced today it has raised a $65 million USD...

It was only in June that Motorway – a U.K. platform on which professional car dealers can bid in an auction for privately owned cars for sale – raised $67.7 million in a Series B round. It’s now raised a $190m Series C funding round led by Index Ventures and ICONIQ Growth, a leading Silicon...

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Nigeria’s informal trade sector, worth over $244 billion, has more than 40 million micro, small and medium businesses. Most of these businesses operated offline until a few years ago when startups brought about digitization by providing infrastructure and a gamut of e-commerce and financial...

It’s always been a slight puzzle why AngelList never really properly took off in Europe, especially when, a few years ago, there was such a dearth of funding options for poorly served European startups. But the reasons are fairly simple when you look at them. For starters, the US tech industry...

Nicole Carpenter / Polygon: Roblox sues Ruben Sim, a YouTuber it banned over harassment and sexual content, for leading a “cybermob” that it says terrorizes its platform and developers — The banned Roblox user is also a popular and controversial YouTube creator, Ruben Sim