Author Archives: Ingrid Lunden

Yoobic raises $50M for its chat and communications app app aimed at frontline and service workers

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Slack set the standard in many ways for what knowledge workers want and expect out of a workplace collaboration app these days, but a lot has been left on the table when it comes to frontline workers. Today, one of the software companies that has built a popular app for that frontline crowd to become […] Continue reading Yoobic raises $50M for its chat and communications app app aimed at frontline and service workers→

Ethos picks up $100M at a $2.7B+ valuation for a big data platform to improve life insurance accessibility

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More than half of the U.S. population has stayed away from considering life insurance because they believe it’s probably too expensive, and the most common way to buy it today is in person. A startup that’s built a platform that aims to break down those conventions and democratize the process by making life insurance (and […] Continue reading Ethos picks up $100M at a $2.7B+ valuation for a big data platform to improve life insurance accessibility→

SmartRecruiters raises $110M at a $1.5B valuation to expand its end-to-end recruitment platform

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The global Covid-19 pandemic had a chilling effect on a number of industries and their workforces, resulting in mass furloughs and layoffs. But now, with countries now taking steps back to “normal”, that has been leading, in many cases, back to a hiring surge. Today, SmartRecruiters, one of the companies that has built software to […] Continue reading SmartRecruiters raises $110M at a $1.5B valuation to expand its end-to-end recruitment platform→

Dover raises $20M to bring the concept of ‘orchestration’ to recruitment

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Despite being one of the earliest adopters of using the world wide web to disrupt how its business is done and connect with more potential customers, the recruitment industry ironically remains one of the more fragmented and behind the times when it comes to using new, cloud based services to work more efficiently. A new […] Continue reading Dover raises $20M to bring the concept of ‘orchestration’ to recruitment→

YuLife nabs $70M at a $346M valuation for its gamified, wellness-oriented approach to life insurance

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Life insurance — financial protection you buy against your death — may not read like the liveliest of industries on paper. But a life insurance startup that believes it can turn that stigma around, by infusing the concept with gamification and a push towards wellness and health — and change the life insurance industry in […] Continue reading YuLife nabs $70M at a $346M valuation for its gamified, wellness-oriented approach to life insurance→

Railsbank raises $70M to build out its fintech-as-a-service platform

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Financial services-as-a-service — where entities like neobanks, retailers and others can create and sell their own financial products by way of a few lines of code and APIs — has been one of the bigger trends in the world of fintech in recent years, with embedded finance on its way to being a $7.2 trillion […] Continue reading Railsbank raises $70M to build out its fintech-as-a-service platform→

Remote raises $150M on a $1B+ valuation to manage payroll and more for organizations’ global workforces

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For many of us, going to work these days no longer means going into a specific office like it used to; and today one of the startups that’s built a platform to help cater for that new, bigger world of employment — wherever talent might be — is announcing a major round of funding on […] Continue reading Remote raises $150M on a $1B+ valuation to manage payroll and more for organizations’ global workforces→

Quantexa raises $153M to build out AI-based big data tools to track risk and run investigations

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As financial crime has become significantly more sophisticated, so too have the tools that are used to combat it. Now, Quantexa — one of the more interesting startups that has been building AI-based solutions to help detect and stop money laundering, fraud, and other illicit activity — has raised a growth round of $153 million, […] Continue reading Quantexa raises $153M to build out AI-based big data tools to track risk and run investigations→

AnyVision, the controversial facial recognition startup, has raised $235M led by SoftBank and Eldridge

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Facial recognition has been one of the more conflicted applications of artificial intelligence in the wider world: using computer vision to detect faces and subsequent identities of people has raised numerous questions about privacy, data protection, and the ethics underpinning the purposes of the work, and even the systems themselves. But on the other hand, […] Continue reading AnyVision, the controversial facial recognition startup, has raised $235M led by SoftBank and Eldridge→

Pleo raises $150M at a $1.7B valuation for its new approach to managing expenses for SMBs

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Whether you are part of the accounting department, or just any employee at an organization, managing expenses can be a time-consuming and error-filled, yet also quite mundane, part of your job. Today, a startup called Pleo — which has built a platform that can help some of that work more smoothly, by way of a […] Continue reading Pleo raises $150M at a $1.7B valuation for its new approach to managing expenses for SMBs→