Author Archives: Ingrid Lunden

VTEX raises $225M at a $1.7B valuation for e-commerce solutions aimed at retailers and brands

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Retailers and consumer brands are focused more than ever in their histories on using e-commerce channels to connect with customers: the global health pandemic has disrupted much of their traditional business in places like physical stores, event venues and restaurants, and vending machines, and accelerated the hunt for newer ways to sell goods and services. […] Continue reading VTEX raises $225M at a $1.7B valuation for e-commerce solutions aimed at retailers and brands→

Papaya Global raises $40M for a payroll and HR platform aimed at global workforces

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Workforces are getting more global, and people who work day in, day out for organizations don’t always sit day in, day out in a single office, in a single country, to get a job done. Today, one of the startups building HR to help companies provision services for and manage those global workers better is […] Continue reading Papaya Global raises $40M for a payroll and HR platform aimed at global workforces→

PayCargo raises $35M from Insight for its cloud-based platform targeting the freight industry

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Shipping has long been one of the more antiquated, and least technological, segments in the world of commerce, with its physical aspects — rooted in massive cargo tankers, giant fleets of aircraft and trucks, and trains of linked-up containers — underscoring some of the more obvious analogue attributes of the business. That has also made […] Continue reading PayCargo raises $35M from Insight for its cloud-based platform targeting the freight industry→

Ripjar, founded by GCHQ alums, raises $36.8M for AI that detects financial crime

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Financial crime as a wider category of cybercrime continues to be one of the most potent of online threats, covering nefarious actives as diverse as fraud, money laundering and funding terrorism. Today, one of the startups that has been building data intelligence solutions to help combat that is announcing a fundraise to continue fueling its […] Continue reading Ripjar, founded by GCHQ alums, raises $36.8M for AI that detects financial crime→

EasySend raises $16M from Intel, more for its no-code approach to automating B2C interfaces

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No-code and low-code software have become increasingly popular ways for companies — especially those that don’t count technology as part of their DNA — to bring in more updated IT processes without the heavy lifting needed to build and integrate services from the ground up. As a mark of that trend, today, a company that […] Continue reading EasySend raises $16M from Intel, more for its no-code approach to automating B2C interfaces→

Narrator raises $6.2M for a new approach to data modelling that replaces star schema

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Snowflake went public this week, and in a mark of the wider ecosystem that is evolving around data warehousing, a startup that has built a completely new concept for modelling warehoused data is announcing funding. Narrator — which uses an 11-column ordering model rather than standard star schema to organise data for modelling and analysis — […] Continue reading Narrator raises $6.2M for a new approach to data modelling that replaces star schema→

User-generated e-learning site Kahoot acquires Actimo for up to $33M to double down on corporate sector

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Norwegian company Kahoot originally made its name with a platform the lets educators and students create and share game-based online learning lessons, in the process building up a huge public catalogue of gamified lessons created by its community. Today the startup — now valued at over $2 billion — is announcing an acquisition to give a […] Continue reading User-generated e-learning site Kahoot acquires Actimo for up to $33M to double down on corporate sector→

StackRox nabs $26.5M for a platform that secures containers in Kubernetes

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Containers have become a ubiquitous cornerstone in how companies manage their data, a trend that has only accelerated in the last eight months with the larger shift to cloud services and more frequent remote working due to the coronavirus pandemic. Alongside that, startups building services to enable containers to be used better are also getting […] Continue reading StackRox nabs $26.5M for a platform that secures containers in Kubernetes→

InCountry raises $18M more to help SaaS companies store data locally

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We’re seeing a gradual expansion of national regulations that require data from SaaS applications to be stored locally, in the country where it’s sourced and used. Today a startup that’s built a service around that need — specifically, data residency-as-a-service — is announcing some funding to continue building out its company amid strong demand. InCountry, […] Continue reading InCountry raises $18M more to help SaaS companies store data locally→

InfoSum raises $15.1M for its privacy-first, federated approach to big data analytics

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Data protection and data privacy have gone from niche concerns to mainstream issues in the last several years, thanks to new regulations and a cascade of costly breaches that have laid bare the problems that arise when information and data security are treated haphazardly. Yet that swing has also thrown up a whole series of […] Continue reading InfoSum raises $15.1M for its privacy-first, federated approach to big data analytics→