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May 8, 2020 • 4min
Sleuth raises $3M Seed to bring order to continuous deployment
Sleuth, an early stage startup from three former Atlassian employees, wants to bring some much-needed order to the continuous delivery process. Today, the company announced it has raised a $3 million seed round. ​CRV led the round with participation from angel investors from New Relic, Atlassian and LaunchDarkly. “Sleuth is a deployment tracker built to […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 8, 2020 • 6min
As investing apps boom, Public doubles down on its social focus
Savings and investing apps are having a moment. While many startups are struggling in the wake of COVID-19 and its economic impacts, services that help regular folks save a bit more or invest their funds are seeing a demand boom. Coming into 2020 on the back of a huge fundraising year for the fintech cohort, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 7, 2020 • 7min
Invisible AI uses computer vision to help (but hopefully not nag) assembly line workers
“Assembly” may sound like one of the simpler tests in the manufacturing process, but as anyone who’s ever put together a piece of flat-pack furniture knows, it can be surprisingly (and frustratingly) complex. Invisible AI is a startup that aims to monitor people doing assembly tasks using computer vision, helping maintain safety and efficiency — […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 7, 2020 • 2min
As Wunderlist shuts down, its founder announces a new productivity app called Superlist
Wunderlist is going away, but fans of the productivity app may find some consolation in founder Christian Reber’s announcement that he is launching a new startup called Superlist. “Superlist will be more than just a todo app, but never as bloated as the project management software you loathe to use,” he tweeted. “Slick, fast, and […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 6, 2020 • 5min
Goldman Sachs backs electric toothbrush startup Burst Oral Care
Burst Oral Care, a startup that sells an electric toothbrush boasting charcoal bristles and 33,000 sonic vibrations per minute, has raised a Series C of undisclosed size. Although we don’t know the amount of the round, the Series C was led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, and Burst says it more than doubled the valuation […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 6, 2020 • 7min
Treasury Prime raises $9M to bring its banking APIs to market
Treasury Prime, a startup that built software tooling to help banks automate and accelerate routine tasks, announced today that it has closed a $9 million Series A. The new capital was sourced from Amias Gerety of QED, Jason Lemkin of SaaStr, and Hans Morris of NYCA Partners. The capital event is yet another funding round […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 5, 2020 • 4min
Cockroach Labs scores $86.6M Series D as scalable database resonates
Cockroach Labs, the NYC enterprise database company, announced an $86.6 million Series D funding round today. The company was in no mood to talk valuations, but was happy to have a big chunk of money to help build on its recent success and ride out the current economic malaise. Altimeter Capital and Bond co-led the […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 5, 2020 • 7min
Robinhood raises $280M, pushing its valuation to $8.3B
As expected, Robinhood has closed a new round of capital. The late-stage, consumer investing app announced today that it has closed a $280 million Series F funding at an $8.3 billion valuation. This closely tracks prior coverage that the firm was hunting for a nine-figure round at a valuation of around $8 billion. Robinhood raised […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 4, 2020 • 5min
Tech stocks open lower ahead of another busy earnings week
The optimism that confounded many in April may be slipping in May, as stocks fell during Friday’s trading session and are down again this morning. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite is off 0.55% this morning, putting it 13% off its record highs set this year, but also up 29% from its 52-week lows it set directly […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 4, 2020 • 8min
Index and Credo lead a $2.75M seed in anti-fraud tech, Resistant AI
Prague based Resistant AI has nabbed a $2.75M seed round. The security startup’s machine learning technology is designed to be deployed on top of AI systems used for financial decision making to protect customers in markets such as financial services and ecommerce from attacks such as targeted manipulation, adversarial machine learning and advanced fraud. The […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
