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Unique, a video calls platform that uses AI to teach sales teams how to improve their pitches, has closed a $6 million Seed round from a bunch of Angel investors. These include Phillip Stauffer, U.S based founder and general partner of Fyrfly Venture Partners, and Daniel Gutenberg.Unique uses...

StudyFree — which connects students with international educational opportunities via a community-driven B2B SaaS model — has raised a $3 million seed investment round led by I2BF Global Ventures, TMT Investments, and TechStars. Also participating was PandaDoc CEO Mikita Mikado and Google’s...

The “last mile” in the supply chain has gotten lots of attention during the pandemic. Even ecommerce giants like Amazon have struggled to surmount the challenges of distributing product fast enough to keep up with demand.But Factor, a startup created in 2018 by manufacturing industry veterans...

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The Kenyan fintech Kwara was launched in 2019 to help credit unions (savings and credit cooperatives societies, SACCOs) in the East African country shift to digital platforms by providing them with its proprietary Back-end-as-a-service (BaaS) software.The startup’s trajectory has been steep...

In a field that ranges from text therapy and AI chat bots, to guided meditation, some mental health startups are pursuing a different niche: therapy for kids. And kids only.HelloHero, a company focused on teletherapy for kids up to 21 years old (the average user is 10 years old), announced a...

A new company is entering the crowded e-commerce aggregator space to acquire and scale high-performing Latin American brands selling on MercadoLibre, Shopify or Amazon.Quinio, a Mexico-based company, announced today it secured $20 million in a debt-and-equity round that will be used to add...

Finding the right therapist is never an easy task, but it gets even harder when, as a person of color or someone with disabilities, there are few or no people sharing your experience available. Therify hopes to change that with a network of providers from and catering to marginalized...

Anita Ramaswamy / TechCrunch: Majority, a mobile banking service serving migrants to the US, raises a $27M Series A led by Valar Ventures, six months after its $16M seed round — MAJORITY, a mobile banking service for migrants to the United States, said on Tuesday it had raised $27 million in...

MAJORITY, a mobile banking service for migrants to the United States, said on Tuesday it had raised $27 million in its Series A funding round led by Valar Ventures. Other existing investors, including Avid Ventures, Heartcore Capital, and a group of Nordic fintech founders, also participated in...

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Autonomous sidewalk delivery company Serve Robotics, which was spun out from Uber-owned Postmates in March, raises a $13M seed from Uber and others — Serve Robotics, the autonomous sidewalk delivery company that spun out from Uber-owned Postmates in March, has...

Serve Robotics, the autonomous sidewalk delivery company that spun out from Uber-owned Postmates in March, has closed an expanded seed round at $13 million. The company will use the funds to accelerate its expansion plans into new customer segments and geographic areas, which will require them...

Australia is emerging onto the online used car dealership scene with Carma, a startup that just raised a $20 million (AUD $28 million) seed round from Tiger Global, an American investment firm. Carma has been operating in stealth for the past nine months, and says the funding has enabled the...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Meta's NPE team recently set up an office in Lagos and plans another in Asia as it changes strategy to include making seed investments in small teams — Meta's (formerly, Facebook's) experimental app division, the NPE team, is shifting gears. The group, which first...

Annie Njanja / TechCrunch: Anchor, which offers cloud-based autonomous billing tools for companies, raises a $15M seed led by Rapyd Ventures and others — Companies often spend an incommensurate amount of time chasing overdue payments, which distracts them from their core businesses, and brings...

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...

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...

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In March, Okta completed a $6.5 billion acquisition of Auth0, an identity and access management platform. The deal surely brought a smile to the faces of Auth0’s investors.On December 1 at 12p PT / 3p ET, we’ll sit down with Auth0 co-founder Eugenio Pace and investor Sunil Nagaraj of Ubiquity...

Japan has been the birthplace of traditional arts and crafts since ancient times. Craftmanship, meticulous attention to detail and balance of design and functionality have contributed to creating unique Japanese products like pottery, traditional fabrics, washi (paper), woodwork, glasses...