2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (537+ words) Wonderful has raised $550 mn in a Series C funding round at a $5 bn valuation. Insight Partners led the financing, with participation from Salesforce and existing investors Index Ventures, IVP, Vine Ventures, 9Yards and Bessemer Venture Partners. The round follows Wonderful’s Series…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (114+ words) Creoir, an Oulu, Finland-based provider of voice AI for defence and mission-critical systems, received a seed investment from Gungnir Capital. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate the commercialisation of the EdgeVUI and Operator Assistant products and meet…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1143+ words) Curtis Kurkova lives in a $28 million mansion. The estate is nestled within a gated and guarded neighborhood in Hidden Hills, California. Its modern exterior, massive windows, and backyard pool are fit for a magazine feature. Kurkova, a licensed respiratory practitioner,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (162+ words) Atorie, a Los Angeles, CA-based AI-powered luxury fashion and consumer marketplace startup, raised 9.5m in seed funding. Backers included a16z speedrun, Night Capital, and Jeremy Liew, a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. The company will use the capital to scale its international…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (358+ words) africaprivateequitynews.com Ventures Platform reaches $84m final close for second fund New investors include EBRD, Norfund, Alphatron and Ashesi University Foundation. Ventures Platform, an Africa-focused early-stage investor, has reached final close of its second institutional fund, VP Pan-African Fund II, at…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (384+ words) Pan-African venture capital firm Ventures Platform has closed its second fund at $84 million, exceeding its earlier target of $75 million, as the Lagos-based early-stage investor widens its scope beyond Nigeria into Kenya, South Africa and Egypt. Ventures Platform, which backs early-stage…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (371+ words) AI-native health insurance platform Staywell.Health has announced the completion of an investment round led by Equanimity Investments, along with a select group of investors, as the company looks to expand its technology and distribution capabilities in India’s retail health…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (122+ words) Terminal ships with the full grammar of a professional market instrument: New vertical synthesizes state rate filings, carrier appetite and economic signals for the specialty lines that generic market tools leave buried in “other liability” classifications Ninth industry vertical arrives…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (402+ words) Former Lunar executives secure a record-breaking €8.2M pre-seed round to launch Repodo, an AI-native audit firm targeting Europe's €80 billion accounting market. Three former executives from Danish digital challenger bank Lunar have secured a historic 8.2 million Euro pre-seed funding round to launch…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (214+ words) Three former executives from the Danish digital bank are betting that artificial intelligence can reshape the €80 billion global audit market, starting with small businesses in Denmark. The funding round was led by Hedosophia and Seed Capital, both of which backed…...