Topi raises $45M to power hardware subscriptions for B2B merchants

Topi raises $45M to power hardware subscriptions for B2B merchants

A new company is looking to do for B2B hardware sales what a growing number of companies have been doing in the consumer sphere, by making it easier for businesses to pay for equipment in instalments through rentals and subscriptions. While companies such as Klarna and Affirm have been pushing payment services that help consumers […]

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Cloud security startup Wiz reaches $100M ARR in just 18 months

Cloud security startup Wiz reaches $100M ARR in just 18 months

Cloud security startup Wiz launched just two years ago. It released its first product about 18 months ago. In December the company announced a $550 million Series A on a $6 billion valuation. That’s a lot of money for an early-stage startup, and it put a lot of pressure on the founders to live up […]

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Footprint wants to change how companies collect, store and share personal data

Footprint wants to change how companies collect, store and share personal data

Anyone who has ever applied for an apartment or a mortgage knows that these companies tend to collect much more information than they need to determine if you can afford the monthly payment. The application process often involves pages of data about you and your life, but what if companies could grab in a secure […]

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Vetted lands $14M for AI that helps shoppers find top products and deals

Vetted lands $14M for AI that helps shoppers find top products and deals

Vetted, the startup formerly known as Lustre, today announced that it secured $14 million to fund development of its AI-powered platform for product reviews. The cash infusion comes as part of a Series A led by Insight Partners, with participation from Index Ventures, Bling Capital, Golden Ventures and angels including former Meta VP of commerce […]

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Incident.io looks to beef up its Slack-based incident response platform with $28.7M in fresh cash

Incident.io looks to beef up its Slack-based incident response platform with $28.7M in fresh cash

It’s Incident.io co-founder and CEO Stephen Whitworth’s assertion that there’s fragmentation in the market for software incident management solutions. Customer success tools don’t communicate with engineering tools, he argues, while engineering tools don’t play well with governance, risk and compliance platforms — resulting in few decision-makers seeing the impact of failure in one place.  There […]

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Strapi lands $31M for its ‘headless’ CMS platform

Strapi lands $31M for its ‘headless’ CMS platform

Strapi, an open source content management system (CMS), today announced that it raised $31 million in Series B funding led by CRV with participation from Flex Capital, Index Ventures and angel investors including former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. With the capital, CEO Pierre Burgy tells TechCrunch that the plan is to launch a new product, […]

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