Angle Health, the first startup that provides digital-first, fully-licensed health insurance, raised $58M. The capital was part of a Series A funding round. More: - The funding round was led by Portage, while PruVen Capital and Wing Venture Capital participated.
- Angle Health has an AI-enabled technology platform that offers a digital-first care navigation experience with fully tailored comprehensive healthcare benefit plans for employers.
- The startup also offers telemedicine and behavioral health.
- Angle Health was founded in 2021 and already has tens of thousands of customers.
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AtomicJar, a startup developing an integration testing platform for developers, announced the public beta version of its Testcontainers Cloud platform and raised $25M. The funding, which came through a Series A round led by Insight Partners, will be used to grow the development team size and boost go-to-market efforts. More: - Testcontainers Cloud is the cloud-based version of its Testcontainers project that helps developer teams execute and scale integration testing for containers and microservices-based applications.
- General availability of the Testcontainers Cloud platform is expected later this year.
- Uber, Netflix, Spotify, and Capital One are a few of its prominent clients.
- Participants in the current round include Boldstart Ventures, Tribe Capital, and Chalfen Ventures, amongst others.
- Prior to Series A, the firm raised a $4M seed round in 2021.
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Gemba, a virtual reality (VR) training startup hosting real-time "masterclasses," recently announced it had raised $18M Series A. The enterprise-facing company offers a variety of exported-led courses, including "lean manufacturing" and "supply chain management." More: - The VR classes take several days to complete.
- Because the classes take place in real-time, they have a life-like quality, giving students opportunities to engage with classmates and teachers.
- Nathan Robinson, Gemba's CEO, explained to reporters at TechCrunch: "In Gemba, you can freely walk around, grab objects, participate in simulations -– you can do everything you can do in real life, plus a load more that you can't do in real life."
- Gemba classes are currently limited to Meta Quest headsets, but the startup plans to support more VR/AR headsets by the end of 2023.
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Corlytics, a company that provides risk intelligence, will acquire SparQ, which helps organizations implement external regulations more efficiently. SparQ is a spinout of ING Group's internal research and development department. More: - The purchase was agreed at €5M (~$5.45).
- ING already uses SparQ's product across its internal financial services network.
- The acquisition will maintain ING as a customer of SparQ.
- SparQ has provided Corlytics with regulatory information and compliance risk data since 2018.
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Kearny Jackson, a venture firm founded by former Spotify executive Sriram Krishnan, has received $14M in capital commitments from Sequoia Capital, Bain Ventures, and Marc Andreessen towards its second fund. The fund is looking to invest in SaaS, fintech, and infrastructure security startups at pre-seed or seed stages. More: - Individual check sizes from the fund, dubbed KJ2, will range from $150,000 to $300,000, in return for 0.5% to 2% equity in the startup.
- Menlo Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and Foundation Capital are the other limited partners in the fund.
- The fund has also received backing from Chris Dixon, Doug Pepper, Alexis Ohanian, Mark Woolley, and others.
- Krishnan is joined by former Menlo Ventures executive Sunil Chhaya as a co-GP in the fund.
- The duo has deployed 20% of the dry powder from their debut $3.6M fund from 2018.
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The virtual e-commerce startup Emperia recently raised $10M Series A to help brands enter the metaverse. The SaaS company affords brands the digital infrastructure needed to build immersive online retail stores that are accessible on the web as metaverses or in virtual reality (VR). More: - Base10 Partners led the funding round with participation from Daphni, Sony Innovation Fund, Background Capital, Stanford Capital Partners, and Concept Ventures, as well as several angel investors.
- The company plans to use the funds to grow its team, expand partnerships, and build new customization tools.
- Emperia plans to use customer information to help brands personalize each user's visit to the virtual storefront.
- Since launching in 2019, the startup has partnered with several well-known fashion brands, including Dior, Bloomingdale's, Burberry, Sunglass Hut, and Lacoste.
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- Autonomous excavating heavy machine builder Built Robotics has acquired Y Combinator-backed robotics startup Roin Technologies for an undisclosed sum.
- Zenloop, a German customer journey software startup, went into insolvency after its €500,000 (~$543,900) bridge loan fell through. Based on Crunchbase data, the firm has raised €10.9M ($11.8M) from seed and Series A rounds.
- Application security company F5 is poised to acquire computer networking startup Lilac Cloud. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
- Web3 and blockchain development platform QuickNode secured $60M in Series B funding led by 1oT Fund at a valuation of $800M.
- Reimbursement and spend management platform PayEm secured $20M in Series A equity funding and $200M in debt funding from Voila Credit, Mitsubishi Financial Group, Collaborative Fund, and NFX.
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