Author Archives: Ingrid Lunden

Seqera Labs grabs $5.5M to help sequence Covid-19 variants and other complex data problems

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Bringing order and understanding to unstructured information located across disparate silos has been one of more significant breakthroughs of the big data era, and today a European startup that has built a platform to help with this challenge specifically in the area of life sciences — and has, notably, been used by labs to sequence […] Continue reading Seqera Labs grabs $5.5M to help sequence Covid-19 variants and other complex data problems→

Fractory raises $9M to rethink the manufacturing supply chain for metalworks

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The manufacturing industry took a hard hit from the Covid-19 pandemic, but there are signs of how it is slowly starting to come back into shape — helped in part by new efforts to make factories more responsive to the fluctuations in demand that come with the ups and downs of grappling with the shifting […] Continue reading Fractory raises $9M to rethink the manufacturing supply chain for metalworks→

Spain’s Factorial raises $80M at a $530M valuation on the back of strong traction for its ‘Workday for SMBs’

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Factorial, a startup out of Barcelona that has built a platform that lets SMBs run human resources functions with the same kind of tools that typically are used by much bigger companies, is today announcing some funding to bulk up its own position: the company has raised $80 million, funding that it will be using […] Continue reading Spain’s Factorial raises $80M at a $530M valuation on the back of strong traction for its ‘Workday for SMBs’→

Peak raises $75M for a platform that helps non-tech companies build AI applications

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As artificial intelligence continues to weave its way into more enterprise applications, a startup that has built a platform to help businesses, especially non-tech organizations, build more customized AI decision making tools for themselves has picked up some significant growth funding. Peak AI, a startup out of Manchester, England, that has built a “decision intelligence” […] Continue reading Peak raises $75M for a platform that helps non-tech companies build AI applications→

FullStory raises $103M at a $1.8B valuation to combat rage clicks on websites and apps

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Even with all the years of work that have been put into improving how screen-based interfaces work, our experiences with websites, mobile apps, and any other interactive service you might use still often come up short: we can’t find what we want, we’re bombarded with exactly what we don’t need, or the flow is just […] Continue reading FullStory raises $103M at a $1.8B valuation to combat rage clicks on websites and apps→

Homebase raises $70M for a team management platform aimed at SMBs and their hourly workers

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Small and medium enterprises have become a big opportunity in the world of B2B technology in the last several years, and today a startup that’s building tools aimed at helping them manage their teams of workers is announcing some funding that underscores the state of that market. Homebase, which provides a platform that helps SMBs […] Continue reading Homebase raises $70M for a team management platform aimed at SMBs and their hourly workers→

Coralogix logs $55M for its new take on production analytics, now valued at $300-$400M

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Data may be the new oil, but it’s only valuable if you make good use of it. Today, a startup that has built a new kind of production analytics platform for developers, security engineers and data scientists to track and better understand how data is moving around their networks is announcing a round of funding […] Continue reading Coralogix logs $55M for its new take on production analytics, now valued at $300-$400M→

Atera raises $77M at a $500M valuation to help SMBs manage their remote networks like enterprises do

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When it comes to software to help IT manage workers’ devices wherever they happen to be, enterprises have long been spoiled for choice — a situation that has come in especially handy in the last 18 months, when many offices globally have gone remote and people have logged into their systems from home. But the […] Continue reading Atera raises $77M at a $500M valuation to help SMBs manage their remote networks like enterprises do→

Sedna banks $34M for a platform that parses large volumes of email and chat to automatically action items within them

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Many have tried to do away with it, but email refuses to die… although in the process it might be (figuratively speaking) killing some of us with the workload it brings on to triage and use it. A startup called Sedna has built a system to help with that — specifically for enterprise and other […] Continue reading Sedna banks $34M for a platform that parses large volumes of email and chat to automatically action items within them→

ActiveFence comes out of the shadows with $100M in funding and tech that detects online harm, now valued at $500M+

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Online abuse, disinformation, fraud and other malicious content is growing and getting more complex to track. Today, a startup called ActiveFence, which has quietly built a tech platform to suss out threats as they are being formed and planned, to make it easier for trust and safety teams to combat them on platforms, is coming […] Continue reading ActiveFence comes out of the shadows with $100M in funding and tech that detects online harm, now valued at $500M+→