BlackSky continues rapid-fire launch campaign with Rocket Lab mission
An Electron rocket fires off its launch pad in New Zealand at 7:02 p.m. EST (0002 GMT) with two BlackSky…
Petra emerges from stealth with $30M raised for tunnel-boring robot, Swifty
Petra emerged from stealth this week, announcing a $30 million Series A. The round, led by DCVC, brings the robotics…
African edtech startup uLesson raises $15M, backed by Nielsen Ventures and Tencent
As many edtech companies benefited from the disruption of the pandemic, attracting wads of cash from investors globally, it did…
Mambu nabs $266M at a $5.5B valuation to double down on embedded financial service and banking APIs
Embedded finance — where companies tap into APIs to integrate banking and other financial tools without having to build everything…
Egyptian fintech Sympl raises $6M for its ‘save now, pay later’ service
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) offerings have existed for a long time, but increased in popularity as the pandemic made…
Collective helps freelancers work together as a team
Meet Collective, a French startup that wants to redefine what it means to work as a freelancer in development, product…
India’s Razorpay launches faster checkout feature, tops $60 billion TPV
Razorpay is making it more convenient for users to pay businesses with a faster checkout option as the leading Indian…
Klarna launches browser extension with payments and coupons
Fintech startup Klarna is launching a desktop browser extension that provides many of the features that you can find in…
Pleo picks up $200M at a $4.7B valuation to build the next generation of business expense management
Danish startup Pleo, a developer of expense management tools aimed at SMBs to let them issue company cards and better…
Robotic Research raises $228M Series A to build out commercial autonomous offerings
Robotic Research, a self-driving technology company that has spent the last two decades developing on and off-road autonomous vehicles for…
