Collective, a financial management platform for freelancers, raises $50M
Collective, a platform and advisory team that provides bookkeeping, payroll and tax advice to freelancers, today announced it raised $50 million in a funding round led by Gradient Ventures, Innovius Capital, The General Partnership, General Catalyst, QED, Expa and Better Tomorrow Ventures. The tranche brings Collective’s total raised to $82
Read moreBacked by Gradient, Fileread use LLMs to make legal discovery more efficient
Legal discovery is one of the most time-consuming parts of litigation and typically involves team of specialists combing through towers of documents. Fileread, a startup that uses large language learning models (LLMs) to create tools for faster and more efficient discovery, announced today it has raised $6 million in seed
Read moreSavvy, a platform to secure SaaS apps, launches out of stealth with $30M
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps are an essential part of how many companies do business. But when the number of apps grows beyond a certain threshold, it can be difficult to secure them. According to Statista, in 2022, organizations worldwide were using an average of about 130 SaaS apps, up from just
Read moreVerity brings in another $11M for its inventory drones
Seems were in the middle of drone delivery summer. A few weeks back, Gather AI snapped up competitor, Ware, following an executive shake and soon after, San Jose-based B Garage brought in a $20 million Series A. Today, Swiss startup Verity announced that it’s adding $11 million in funding. The
Read moreThe massive fanfic archive AO3 goes down in a wave of DDoS attacks
The group taking credit for the attack is threatening to keep the site down for weeks. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The popular fanfiction platform Archive of Our Own (AO3) is currently experiencing a wave of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that have forced the website offline since Monday.
Read moreRaft, which services freight forwarders, closes $30M Series B led by Eight Roads VC
During the pandemic, the digitisation of the freight industry took off like a rocket, and stayed that way. To date, Forto has raised almost $600 million, Nuvocargo $75 million, Zencargo $66 million, and Freightify $14.5 million. All are associated with streamlining/digitising freight logistics in some way. This meant, of course
Read moreFeels like you missed the generative AI train? 5 steps for speeding ahead in 90 days
Will Poole Contributor Share on Twitter Will Poole is a six-time serial entrepreneur and global investor focused on creating massively scalable tech-forward solutions meeting the needs of the rising middle class in the Global South (Latin America, Africa, India, and Southeast Asia). More posts by this contributor Business continuity planning
Read moreOutverse wants to build a full-stack community platform for software companies
Building and harnessing online communities has been a major driving force behind some of the world’s largest platforms, from Stripe and Slack to Figma and Notion. At the heart of the community-building ethos lies a strategy known as product-led growth (PLG), where companies rely on the product itself for selling and
Read moreApple launches an online store on China’s WeChat app
Apple has launched an online store on China’s WeChat app, the Tencent-owned platform said on Tuesday. The Cupertino-based company has launched the store to the app via WeChat’s mini-programs — small-sized apps hosted on WeChat that feature e-commerce, financial service, and transportation offerings. Apple will sell its products including iPhones,
Read moreBuilding a Perl Module for Posting to Bluesky Social
The new social media network is growing by leaps and bounds. Learning to post to it with Perl offers lessons useful to coders of all…Continue reading on Better Programming »
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