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MobileCoin snags $66M for privacy-focused payments
MobileCoin Inc., a privacy-oriented cryptocurrency payments company focused on mobile devices, said today it has raised $66 million in funding to develop its payment system. Numerous investors joined the Series B round including Coinbase Ventures, Alameda Research, Berggruen Holdings, BlockTower Capital, General Catalyst and others. This round brings the company’s total funding to $107 million. ...
Blogging startup Hashnode raises $6.7M to give developers a community
Hashnode, a blogging platform built for the global software developer community, announced today it has raised $6.7 million in early funding led by Salesforce Ventures. The Series A funding round was also joined by Sierra Ventures, Sequoia Capital India’s Surge and Accel Partners, as well as a number of angel investors. The fundraise follows a ...
Rainforest adds no-code test automation solution with a free-forever plan
Rainforest QA Inc. announced today the launch of a no-code test automation solution with its free-forever plan designed to make testing accessible to any employee regardless of technical skill. Rainforest is best known for creating a platform that crowdsources a community of human testers from around the world to test software at scale. Testers follow English ...
Monday.com launches workdocs, raising collaborative documents to a new level
Monday.com Ltd., a project management software startup, today announced the launch of monday workdocs, a new capability for its software suite that enables organizations to collaborate within documents. Monday.com provides what it calls a work operating system, or Work OS, which organizations can use to build their own setup to manage every aspect of their ...
Crypto staking services provider Figment raises $50M
Crypto “staking” services provider Figment today announced it raised $50 million in new funding led by Senator Investment Group and Liberty City Ventures to grow its team and diversify the number of blockchains the company supports. Galaxy Digital, Anchorage, Declaration Partner, Bonfire Ventures and GSR also participated in the Series B round. Figment has raised ...
Reddit, ‘front page of the internet,’ to raise up to $700M at $10B valuation
Reddit Inc. announced today that it plans to raise up to $700 million in a new late-stage funding led by Fidelity Management and Research LLC. The social news and aggregation company told Reuters that it had already raised $410 million from Fidelity so far, giving Reddit a $10 billion valuation. The Series F round follows $250 ...
Google releases Android 12 Beta 4 with an eye to platform stability
The Android team at Google LLC today announced the fourth beta of Android 12, which brings platform stability and will lock in all the app-facing behaviors of the operating system. The company said this is a major milestone leading up to the official release of Android 12 later this year. It means that developers now ...
ByondXR raises $7M in funding to create 3D virtual shopping environments
Digital showroom and virtual shopping startup ByondXR said today it has raised $7 million in seed financing led by Firstime and OurCrowd. Using web-based extended reality, ByondXR provides retailers the ability to create their own immersive virtual showrooms that customers can walk around and explore without leaving their own living rooms. These virtual stores simulate ...
DevOps feature management service LaunchDarkly raises $200M at $3B valuation
LaunchDarkly, a feature management platform for DevOps teams, said today it has raised $200 million in late-stage financing led by Lead Edge Capital LLC to scale up its core feature platform. Also participating in today’s Series D round were new investors Top Tier Capital Partners and Insight Venture Partners as well as existing investors Bessemer ...
At SIGGRAPH, Nvidia expands Omniverse, announces RTX A2000 graphics card
Nvidia Corp. today announced the launch of an expansion to its Omniverse hyper-realistic graphics collaboration platform through an integration with Blender, an open-source 3D animation tool. It also announced its upcoming RTX A2000 graphics card at the annual ACM SIGGRAPH computer graphics technology conference. Blender now has Universal Scene Description support. That will allow artists to ...