Behavioral marketing platform Wunderkind nabs $76M

March 14, 2025

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March 2, 2023

Wunderkind, a platform that enables brands to target web visitors through emails, texts and other digital advertising formats, today announced that it raised $76 million in a Series C round led by Neuberger Berman, the financial services company. Wunderkind’s newly appointed CEO, Bill Ingram, says that the tranche — which brings Wunderkind’s total raised to […]

Behavioral marketing platform Wunderkind nabs $76M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Legaltech startup SpotDraft raises $26M to streamline contracts

March 2, 2023

SpotDraft, an Indian legaltech startup that has built an AI-powered Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) solution, has raised $26 million in a funding round led by Premji Invest. As a company grows, so does the need for business contracts. Whether it’s with employees, clients, investors, or regulatory authorities, contracts become an essential tool for expansion. However, […]

Legaltech startup SpotDraft raises $26M to streamline contracts by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch

HR Signal helps companies figure out who is most likely to quit and why

March 2, 2023

High employee turnover is often a hint that a company’s human resources strategy isn’t working, but it’s also difficult for managers to identify who is thinking of leaving. HR Signal wants to make retention easier by using algorithms to predict which employees are most likely to seek another job. The worker analysis startup, which has […]

HR Signal helps companies figure out who is most likely to quit and why by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch

SpotDraft shows that contract lifecycle management remains profitable, raises $26M

March 2, 2023

VCs see a rich opportunity in tools to manage the contract lifecycle. Two years ago, startups developing software that helps draft, manage and review contracts raised over $70 million in venture equity. While a relatively small space compared to, say, the market for customer relationship management ($44.9 billion in 2023), contract lifecycle management, or CLM, […]

SpotDraft shows that contract lifecycle management remains profitable, raises $26M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Figure emerges from stealth with the first images of its humanoid robot

March 2, 2023

Humanoid robots are one of those ideas that never truly goes out of style — it does, however, tend to ebb and flow across the decades. Whatever you happen to think about the project or the company that built it, Tesla’s Optimus prototype has revived the conversation around the form factor and efficacy and viability […]

Figure emerges from stealth with the first images of its humanoid robot by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: three-parent baby issues, and a solar balloon test

March 2, 2023

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Three-parent baby technique could create babies at risk of severe disease When the first baby born using a controversial procedure that meant he had three genetic parents was born back in 2016, it…

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