Wagely founders (from left to right): Tobias Fischer, Sasanadi Ruka and Kevin Hausburg Earning Income (EWA) platforms, which allow workers to withdraw their earnings on demand, rather than waiting for payday, are on the rise around the world. Today, Indonesian EWA startup Lohnly announced that it has raised $ 5.6 million in strategic funding, led … Read more
Home Services Market Urban Company announced Wednesday that it has raised $ 255 million in a new round of funding and confirmed a valuation of $ 2.1 billion. The new round of funding – a Series F – was led by Prosus Ventures, Dragoneer and Wellington Management, while Vy Capital, Tiger Global and Steadview participated. … Read more
Interactio, a remote interpretation platform whose clients include massive institutions like the United Nations, the European Commission, and Parliament, as well as companies like BMW, JP Morgan, and Microsoft, has closed a $ 30 million Series A after deploying its Tools increased 12-fold between 2019 and 2020 During the coronavirus pandemic, the demand for online … Read more
The final year of the pandemic was real and sometimes harrowing evidence of the importance of having efficient and well-equipped emergency services in place. They can help people remotely if they need to, and when they can’t they make sure that personal help in medical and other situations can be dispatched quickly. Today, a company … Read more
(Panopto picture) Seattle-based corporate video platform Panopto has acquired Syracuse, NY-based Ensemble Video, which also operates a platform that enables customers to manage and publish video content. The ensemble was founded in 2005 after a group of Syracuse University staff developed a new way to manage video content for the institution. It works primarily with … Read more
New financing: 2Morrow, a Seattle-area startup developing digital coaching software to help people achieve health goals, has raised $ 1.5 million. Total funding so far is $ 2.9 million. Company background: Founded in 2011, 2Morrow works with employers, states, health plans, retailers, providers and public health organizations that use the smartphone-based apps to help patients … Read more
ConductorOne announced a $ 5 million seed round led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Accel. Fuel Capital, Fathom Capital and Active Capital also participated. Founded late last year by veterans of the enterprise ID startup Okta, ConductorOne will use the funds to build a platform that enables IT pros to automate and manage employee … Read more
Glints, the Singapore-based career platform, announced today that it has raised $ 22.5 million in Series C funding led by Japanese human resources firm PERSOL Holdings. The new capital will be used to expand Glints in Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam and Taiwan, as well as to recruit its product and development teams. Oswald Yeo, co-founder and … Read more
Sanath Kumar Ramesh with his son Raghav. (Courtesy photo of the Ramesh family) On a fine August day in a Bellevue park, Sanath Kumar Ramesh received a call from his son’s doctor as he was preparing to cut the cake for his little boy’s first birthday. He finally knew what was making his child sick, … Read more
(Photo without bottom) New financing: Bottomless, the small Seattle startup with big e-commerce dreams, has raised $ 4.5 million in a new Series A funding round to support the continued growth of its business. How it works: Developed four years ago by married couple Michael Mayer and Liana Herrera, Bottomless combines their WiFi-enabled rechargeable coffee … Read more