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Back to news homeDocyt raises $11.5M Series A for its AI-powered accounting automation service
Docyt, a startup that offers an AI-powered accounting automation platform for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced that it has raised an $11.5 million Series A funding round led […]
Fintech Roundup: Goldman Sachs buys another startup, Fast hits a speed bump and BaaS gets hotter
Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column. I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm, Natasha Mascarenhas […]
Women’s leadership network Chief surges to unicorn status
As Ariana Grande would say, god is a woman. So it should come as no surprise that Chief, the network designed to develop the leadership skills of women, has hit […]
BoxedUp brings the sharing economy to high-end video production
The cameras, lenses and lighting equipment to shoot even a relatively modest production can cost in the millions of dollars. Rental is often the name of the game, but the […]
Minut tells your Airbnb guests to keep it down, already, sheesh
You rent out your apartment on Airbnb and the guests are throwing an all-night rager. You only find out three days later when the neighbors are furiously and passive-aggressively putting […]
Singapore-based esports startup Ampverse lands $12M
Singapore-headquartered esports startup Ampverse has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by Falcon Capital. The company says this is the largest Series A raised by an esports organization […]
a16z, NFX back Latitud’s effort to become ‘the operating system for every venture-backed company in LatAm’
Serial entrepreneur Brian Requarth learned his lesson the hard way. When he sold Brazilian online real estate marketplace VivaReal for $550 million several years ago, he had to pay more […]
Lantum, a platform to manage healthcare staffing, gets a $15M injection
Of the many labor issues that arose during the Covid-19 pandemic, one major focus was on healthcare workers, and specifically the challenge of staffing medical environments at a critical moment, […]
Fintech Roundup: Will financial technology startups dodge the venture slowdown?
Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column. I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm, Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff […]