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Sentry triples its valuation to over $3 billion after raising $90M in Series E funding to grow its application monitoring platform
Nickie Louise Posted On May 4, 2022


What a difference a year makes. It was just like yesterday when we covered Sentry after the San Francisco-based application monitoring tech startup raised $60 million in Series D funding led by Accel, the first investor in the company that also […]


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Drops DAO launches Mainnet to bring much-needed utility and liquidity to NFT and DeFi assets
Daniel Levi Posted On May 4, 2022


Decentralized finance (DeFi) has been gaining a lot of momentum since the idea was first born in August 2018. As an ecosystem of financial applications being built with blockchain technology, DeFi aims to democratize finance by replacing legacy and centralized banking and financial […]


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LottieFiles raises $37M Series B to bring lightweight and scalable animations to apps and websites
Nickie Louise Posted On May 3, 2022


LottieFiles, a platform for JSON-based Lottie animations, has raised $37 million in a Series B funding round to expand its user base and design new products to make motion design accessible to anyone. The round was led by Square Peg Capital, with […]


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Gains Network becomes the world’s first DeFi ecosystem to provide leveraged on-chain stock price trading
Daniel Levi Posted On May 3, 2022


The growth of Web3 since 2021 has led to the rapid adoption of decentralized finance (DeFi), which facilitates transactions between individuals without bank or government involvement. The popularity of DeFi has also accelerated the need for investors and venture capital firms […]


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EMURGO Ventures partners with Partisia Blockchain to enhance Cardano’s decentralized privacy features on-chain
Nickie Louise Posted On May 3, 2022


Web3, or the decentralized web, is the third era of the Internet that promises to decentralize the control of the Internet and give it back to the people that create the value. But the success of the Web3 ecosystem depends on […]


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Yuga Labs, the creator of Bored Ape NFTs, raises nearly $285 million worth of crypto in a virtual land sale
Daniel Levi Posted On May 2, 2022


Last month, we wrote about Yuga Labs after the creator of the “Bored Ape” series of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) raised $450 million in funding to build an NFT metaverse. The round, which was led by a16z crypto, with participation from top-tier game studios, brings […]


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PropTech startup Ownwell raises $5.75M Seed funding to help commercial and residential property owners save money on property taxes
Nickie Louise Posted On May 2, 2022


A large majority of American homeowners overpaid on their property taxes but didn’t know it. According to a report from The National Taxpayers Union Foundation, between 30 and 60 percent of taxable property in the United States is over-assessed, and this […]


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Elon Musk to crack down on Twitter’s executive and board pay, monetize tweets in a push to slash costs
Nickie Louise Posted On May 2, 2022


Last week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk sold roughly $8.4 billion worth of Tesla shares as he raises funds to complete the $44 billion Twitter buyout deal. But the $8.4 billion is just a fraction of the amount Musk needed to complete his Twitter […]


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Spanish prime minister’s mobile phone breached by Israeli NSO Group’s military-grade Pegasus spyware
Daniel Levi Posted On May 2, 2022


NSO Group is a cybersecurity tech startup you’ve probably never heard of. We first covered NSO Group back in 2018 when the Herzliya, Israel-based startup made headlines after its military-grade Pegasus spyware was used in a botched attempt to break into the iPhone of […]


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Meet Saad Bhamla, the creator of a $1 hearing aid that helps billions of people suffering from hearing loss
Nickie Louise Posted On May 1, 2022


According to the World Health Organization (WHO), nearly 2.5 billion people worldwide are projected to have some degree of hearing loss by 2050. It is also estimated that by 2050 one in every ten people (over 700 million people)  will have disabling […]


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Elon Musk sold over $8.4 billion worth of Tesla shares as he closes Twitter buyout deal; stock pops after he says he’s done selling
Nickie Louise Posted On April 29, 2022


Tesla CEO Elon Musk has sold roughly $8.4 billion worth of Tesla shares this week as he raises funds to complete the $44 billion Twitter buyout deal. The announcement of the sale comes as Musk raises funds to complete his Twitter […]


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Amazon takes $7.6 billion loss on Rivian stake after the once high-flying EV startup lost over 80% of its value; from its peak of $146.7 billion to $29.41 billion
Daniel Levi Posted On April 29, 2022


We first covered Rivian in 2019 after the once secretive and high-flying electric truck startup raised $700 million in funding led by e-commerce giant Amazon. A year earlier, Rivian emerged from stealth mode with half a billion dollars in funding. With millions […]


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Nomad Media Club launches the world’s first NFT powered audio streaming platform
Daniel Levi Posted On April 29, 2022


Last year, a single piece of the non-fungible token (NFT) art was sold at Christie’s Auction for a record-setting $69.3 million, making it the most expensive digital art ever sold. Since then, the NFT craze has taken the gaming and digital art […]


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Data security startup Veza emerges from stealth with $110M in funding to help enterprises share data safely in the cloud
Daniel Levi Posted On April 28, 2022


Data is the lifeblood of every business. And, with most organizations now operating in the cloud, the need to securely and safely use and share data on-premise and in the cloud is greater than ever. However, organizations around the world are […]


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MonkeyLeague NFTs selected to be part of OpenSea’s BETA on Solana
Nickie Louise Posted On April 28, 2022


The popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has grown over the past year. In just two years, NFTs have grown from under $100 million in 2020 to surpass $40 billion in 2021. The NFT market cap is now forecast to reach over $80 billion by […]


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Doppler raises $20M led by CRV to help developers seamlessly manage and secure application secrets at scale
Daniel Levi Posted On April 27, 2022


In the early days of computing, one of the ways system administrators managed system variables was to keep all the individual user environment variables in a file called the “. env file.” Fast forward decades later, things have not changed […]


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Fintech startup Outfund raises $144M Series A to become the largest revenue-based finance provider in the UK, Spain, and Australia
Daniel Levi Posted On April 27, 2022


Every day, thousands of new startups are created around the world. However, starting, operating, and scaling a new startup is not always easy. One of the many challenges facing new startups and small businesses is raising funds to support growth without giving […]


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Tesla lost over $100 Billion of its market value after Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase
Nickie Louise Posted On April 26, 2022


As you may recall, a little over a year ago Tesla lost 20% of its market value two weeks after spending $1.5 billion to purchase bitcoin. Tesla stocks recovered about a month later. Now, history is about to repeat itself. […]


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Chinese AR startup Nreal is launching its smart glasses in the UK this spring as it looks to expand into the metaverse
Nickie Louise Posted On April 26, 2022


In 2016, Google caused quite a stir with its smart glasses before they eventually fizzled out. But now, one Chinese augmented reality (AR) glasses startup is trying to breathe new life into augmented reality (AR) glasses as metaverse gains mainstream adoption. Today, Chinese augmented reality […]


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SonarSource raises $412 million in funding for its coding platform for developers; hits a $4.7 billion valuation
Nickie Louise Posted On April 26, 2022


Maintaining a clean software codebase has been one of the biggest challenges facing software developers for decades. Over the years, complex codebases have been slowing developers down for many years because as codebases grow, there’s a lack of shared understanding of […]


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