1 month ago | By Business Insider
Summary List Placement Digital first dental insurance startup Beam has raised an $80 million Series E funding round.
Founded in 2012, Beam Dental offers a digital platform to manage users' insurance alongside a "smart" toothbrush with members who use the product often receiving better rates on their insurance.
The round was led by Mercato Partners' growth equity fund, Traverse, with participation from new and existing investors, including Drive Capital, Georgian, Nationwide, and Breakout Capital. The round brings Colombus, Ohio-based Beam's total funding to over $160 million.
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1 month ago | By Venture Beat
Beam, a startup using AI to ostensibly lower dental plan rates, has raised $80 million in venture capital.
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1 month ago | By Tech Crunch
Humaans , a London-based HR startup, has raised $5 million in seed funding to accelerate the development of its employee on-boarding and management platform. Backing the round is Y Combinator, Mattias Ljungman's Moonfire, Frontline Ventures and former head of Stripe Issuing, Lachy Groom.
A number of other investors, made up of seasoned entrepreneurs and startup operators, also participated. They include LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner , Stripe COO Claire Johnson, Figma CEO Dylan Field, Intercom co-founder Des Traynor, former Workday CTO David Clarke, former Benchmark GP Scott Belsky, Notion COO...
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1 month ago | By Tech Crunch
Crisp , an Amsterdam-based, online-only supermarket focused on fresh produce, has raised €30 million in a Series B financing led by leading Target Global and joined by Keen Venture Partners and the co-founders of Adyen and Takeaway.com. Crisp has now raised a total of €42.5 million to date. It plans to use the money to expand in the Netherlands, and eventually across Europe.
Crisp says its USP is seasonal products sourced directly from 600+ small and high-quality producers at an affordable price in the Netherlands. Customers order through a smartphone app and deliveries are the next day...
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1 month ago | By Tech Crunch
Food delivery - whether it's ready-made orders from restaurants, meal kits or groceries - has been one of the most-used services in this last year of living under the cloud of a global health pandemic, and today one of the companies with ambitions to build a pan-European empire in the third of these categories is announcing a major round of funding to help it.
Rohlik , a Czech startup that has built an online grocery ordering and delivery business combining your usual grocery fare - which it sources itself directly and also offers in concert with established businesses like Marks & Spencer...
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1 month ago | By Business Insider
Summary List Placement Investors continue to pour cash into the grocery delivery sector.
Amsterdam-based online supermarket Crisp has raised $36 million in a Series B funding round led by Berlin-based fund Target Global. The European grocery retail market is overall expected to be worth approximately €2.3 trillion in 2022, according to IGD, but online shopping still has limited penetration.
Investors have been piling into startups which offer rapid and last-mile delivery services in recent months.
Crisp is hoping to "unbundle" the supermarket, CEO and cofounder Tom Peeters told Insider in...
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Summary List Placement Morgan Stanley said cryptocurrencies will still exist even if central banks issue their own digital currencies. The bank said the uses and appeals of... Read more ...
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Summary List Placement US stock futures hovered near record highs as investors waited for key inflation data. Bitcoin soared to a new all-time high above $62,000 ahead of... Read more ...
Summary List Placement India has authorized Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine. The news was confirmed by the Russian Direct Investment Fund , which is responsible for... Read more ...