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Apr 24, 2023 • 4min
Home energy assessment startup Enter raises €19.4M Series A to expand in Germany and beyond
Largely because of their age, houses in Europe can be notoriously hard to heat. Most were built for an era when the knowledge about energy consumption just wasn’t available in the way it is today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 21, 2023 • 4min
Betterdata uses synthetic data to keep real data safe
Betterdata, a Singapore-based startup that uses programmable synthetic data to keep real data secure, announced today it has raised $1.55 million. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 21, 2023 • 3min
Kate raises $7.6 million for its electric micro-cars
French startup Kate has raised a $7.6 million (€7 million) funding round from a bunch of business angels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 20, 2023 • 5min
Primo is the IT tool for companies that are too small for an IT manager
Primo, a French startup that recently raised a $3.4 million funding round to build a software-as-a-service product that handles the IT needs of small and medium companies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 20, 2023 • 5min
Cortical Labs raises $10M for its Pong-playing stem cells which eventually could power AI
While Generative AI is buzzy right now, what OpenAI, Microsoft and Google are doing may be only part of the story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 19, 2023 • 4min
Rally bags $12M to build the future of e-commerce checkout
Rally provides one-click checkout and post-purchase offers that allow the merchant to inject offers after the checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 19, 2023 • 3min
Remote working means this startup can use brains in emerging markets to disrupt management consultants
The global management consulting industry is worth billions of dollars but to this day it’s been tough to disrupt with technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 18, 2023 • 4min
B Capital leads Odeko’s $53M Series D to help small coffee shops scale
Odeko has operations software for coffee shops to manage inventory, get data insights and order equipment and supplies from over 400 vendors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 18, 2023 • 6min
LLMs come to workplace morale monitoring, as Loopin raises $1.9M for its platform
There have been several startup attempts to measure staff morale, some more halting that others. We reported on Plasticity Labs back in 2014, though their web site seems no longer functioning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 17, 2023 • 4min
Device-as-a-service startup Fleet expands beyond laptop leasing
French startup Fleet has been growing nicely over the past four years as the company has deployed nearly 10,000 devices with long-term leasing contracts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
