Candex lands $45M infusion to grow its procurement management business

November 28, 2023

Candex, a startup that aims to simplify procurement — specifically vendor management and payment processes — for businesses, today announced that it raised $45 million in a Series B investment led by Goldman Sachs with participation from WiL (World Innovation Lab), Altos, NFX, Craft, JP Morgan, American Express and Edenred. The tranche brings Candex’s total […]

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Solve Intelligence helps attorneys draft patents for IP analysis and generation

November 28, 2023

Many legal tech startups streamline manual workflow for lawyers, and some legal tech companies provide tech solutions centered around intellectual property (IP). Among them is a startup called Solve Intelligence, which builds AI software specialized for patent attorneys to write drafts for IP analysis and generation.  Solve Intelligence, a Delaware-based legal tech startup, has raised […]

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Why the UN climate talks are a moment of reckoning for oil and gas companies

November 28, 2023
The United Arab Emirates is one of the world’s largest oil producers—it’s also the site of this year’s UN COP28 climate summit, which kicks off later this week in Dubai.  It’s certainly a controversial location choice, but the truth is that there’s massive potential for oil and gas companies to help address climate change, both…

Vimcal raises $4.5 million to expand its team offerings

November 28, 2023

Vimcal, a YC-backed calendar app, has raised a $4.5 million seed round from Altos Ventures to expand its team and enterprise offerings. The company, founded by CEO John Li, launched its iOS app and Outlook integration last year. Li told TechCrunch that Vimcal has improved its Outlook integration with fewer bugs. Since last year, Vimcal […]

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AWS brings Amazon One palm-scanning authentication to the enterprise

November 28, 2023

Amazon’s cloud computing subsidiary AWS (Amazon Web Services) has lifted the lid on a new palm-scanning identity service that allows companies to authenticate people when entering physical premises. Amazon One Enterprise, as the service is called, builds on the company’s existing Amazon One offering which it debuted back in 2020 to enable biometric payments in […]

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Meta’s EU ad-free subscription faces early privacy challenge

November 28, 2023

Meta’s shiny new bid to circumvent European Union privacy rules — by offering users a false choice between paying it a hefty monthly subscription for ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram or agreeing to give up their privacy rights in exchange for free access to its social networks, meaning they will be tracked and profiled […]

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As pet owners turn to mobile insurance apps, Lassie raises $25M Series B led by Balderton

November 28, 2023

We last wrote about Lassie, a pet health app and insurance provider, when it closed an €11 million Series A round in 2022. It’s growth had been spurred by the boom in pet ownership during the pandemic (nearly half of all European households now own a pet, and and owners spend €23.5 billion on them […]

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Augment provides an MBA-like program, but exclusively online

November 28, 2023

French startup Augment has seen the incredible rise of online courses and edtech companies, as well as its potential when it comes to reinventing education at scale. That’s why the startup has been working on highly polished online courses sold as a package. Augment thinks its main program could potentially become an alternative to traditional […]

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Wind.app makes DeFi accessible to the average consumer

November 28, 2023

Hussain Elius is best known as the co-founder of Pathao, one of Bangladesh’s top ride-sharing apps. For his latest startup, however, Elius is exploring the world of DeFi with Wind.app, a self-custodial, smart contract wallet with three main features. The first is enabling businesses to send payments to remote employees around the world. The second […]

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Amazon announces three new serverless offerings to kick off re:Invent

November 28, 2023

Amazon kicked off AWS re:Invent, its annual customer conference, in Las Vegas tonight with a few new serverless offerings designed to make it easier to manage Aurora, Elastic Cache and Redshift serverless services. Matt Wood, AWS VP, says that Aurora Serverless is great for getting up and running very quickly with a cloud database, but […]

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