August 18, 2021
B2B sales platform Accord adds $1M to seed round
Accord opened up its previously announced $6 million seed round to accept over $1 million from a group of CEOs and sales leads at companies they are working…
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August 18, 2021
Enable bags $45M for B2B rebate management platform
Enable, a startup developing a cloud-based software tool for business-to-business rebate management, announced Wednesday a $45 million Series B funding round. The round is led by Norwest Venture…
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Apeel bites into another $250M funding round, at a $2B valuation, to accelerate fresh food supply chains
Apeel Sciences, a food system innovation company, is out to prevent food produced globally from ending up in the landfill, especially as pressures from the global pandemic affect…
Read articleAugust 17, 2021
South Korean online secondhand marketplace Danggeun Market raises $162M at a $2.7B valuation
Danggeun Market, the publisher of South Korea’s hyperlocal community app Karrot, announced it has raised $162 million in a Series D round of funding with a valuation of…
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Extra Crunch roundup: The Nuro EC-1, early-stage growth tactics, understanding Salesforce+
In 2010, Google’s autonomous vehicle project placed self-driving cars on Bay Area streets and freeways, but practical applications were thought to be at least a decade away. The…
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Fortnite adds a new mode that’s basically Among Us
Fortnite now boasts its own version of one of the pandemic’s hottest games. Fortnite-maker Epic just introduced into the game a new limited-time mode called Impostors; it follows…
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For British agency Ascendant, growth marketing is much more than a set of tactics
Growth marketing is often misconceived as a set of tactics when it’s much more: It is a process that startups need to put in place in their early…
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Google’s Pixel 5a with 5G adds water resistance, a bigger battery and a headphone jack
It’s no secret that Google is in the midst of a pretty massive overhaul of its Pixel division. The Pixel 6 offers the next major Hail Mary for…
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Why fintechs are buying up legacy financial services companies
Oh, how the tables have turned. It used to be that if you were a fintech startup or, for lack of a better term, a digitally native financial…
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Roblox acquires Discord competitor Guilded
Roblox is using M&A to bulk up its social infrastructure, announcing Monday morning that they had acquired the team at Guilded that has been building a chat platform…
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