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South Korea's largest travel booking app Yanolja buys a 70% stake in Interpark, a publicly listed South Korean e-commerce company, for about $250M
Clarifai, which uses AI to help companies manage unstructured data, raises a $60M Series C led by New Enterprise Associates, bringing its total raised to $100M
Spot AI, which makes software that can "read" video footage and make it searchable, raises $22M, including a $20M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures
Reliable Robotics, which aims to replace pilots with robots on commercial cargo planes, raises a $100M Series C led by Coatue Management
Short-form video app Clash, which bought Byte in January, relaunches as a place for creators to monetize their top fans from bigger platforms like TikTok
Google rolls out continuous scrolling for English-language mobile search results in the US
Twitter will begin offering paid Ticketed Spaces to Android users in the US, after iOS got the feature in August
Roblox outlines plans to add more realism to player avatars, introduce new in-game monetization streams, add NFT-like limited edition items, and more
WhatsApp starts rolling out e2e encryption for chat history backups in iCloud and Google Drive
Outschool, a marketplace for online after-school classes, raises a $110M Series D at a $3B valuation, up from $1.3B in April
Tala, which provides mobile-first financial services in emerging markets, raises a $145M Series E led by Upstart, source says at a $800M+ valuation
Berlin-based Mayd, which aims to deliver medication from small pharmacies in under 30 minutes, raises a €15M seed from 468 Capital and others
London-based point of sale provider SumUp acquires Fivestars, which provides loyalty, marketing, payments, and other services to small merchants, for $317M
Weights & Biases, which builds tools for machine learning researchers, raises a $100M Series C at a ~$1B valuation from Felicis and others
London-based Hibob, which offers cloud-based HR tools, raises a $150M Series C, reportedly at a $1.65B valuation, led by General Atlantic
Reddit now lets subreddit moderators create Predictions Tournaments, where participating users get 1K tokens to bet on different questions
Mindbody acquires ClassPass, a subscription-based fitness marketplace recently valued at $1B, in an all-stock deal and raises $500M led by Sixth Street
In open letters, NHTSA calls Tesla's use of NDAs with its FSD customers "unacceptable" and questions its use of an OTA safety update instead of issuing a recall
Matik, which offers businesses data-driven and automated tools for making personalized PowerPoint presentations for customers, raises $20M Series A led by a16z
Ohio-based Aware, which analyzes internal company chat tools for legal compliance, sentiment, and more, raises a $60M Series C led by Goldman Sachs
Dexterity, which is developing a full-stack service for collaborative warehouse robots, raises a $140M Series B at a $1.4B valuation
Carl Pei's Nothing, which launched Ear earlier this year, raises a $50M "Series A Extension", bringing total funding to $74M
Stockholm-based Funnel, which makes a no-code tool to organize and create reports from marketing data, raises $66M, says it is planning for an IPO in Sweden
FourFront, a startup creating fictional storylines with actors on TikTok, says it aims to build an interconnected TikTok "universe" and has raised a $1.5M seed
CarDekho, an online marketplace for new and used cars in India, raises a $250M Series E led by LeapFrog Investments at a $1.2B valuation
Mexico City-based buy now, pay later startup Nelo raises a $20M Series A led by Two Sigma Ventures and says it's used by over 100 merchants
Atomic, which offers payroll APIs for consumers to connect their income to services such as neobanks, raises a $22M Series A led by Innovation Capital
Plume, which develops an AI-powered adaptive home Wi-Fi mesh network system, raises $300M led by Vision Fund 2 at a $2.6B valuation
Canva announces Canva Video, a suite of video editing tools now part of its free tier
Patreon's Memberful, which helps manage subscriptions, debuts a newsletter feature that takes a 4.9% cut plus $25/month or $100/month depending on pricing plan
Alviere, an embedded finance startup helping brands deliver financial products and services to customers and employees, raises $70M from Series A and B rounds
Hubilo, which helps businesses host virtual and hybrid events with real-time analytics, raises $125M Series B, following a $23.5M Series A in February
Bangalore-based neobank Open, which offers tools to SMBs, raises $100M Series C led by Temasek, source says at a $500M valuation, with Google and others joining
Munich-based Personio, maker of cloud-based HR and recruiting software for SMBs, raises $270M Series E led by Greenoaks Capital Partners at a $6.3B valuation
Reddit hires Pali Bhat, former Google Cloud VP of product and design, as its first chief product officer
French startup Swile, which offers an app to manage employee benefits, raises $200M Series D led by SoftBank at a $1B+ valuation
Facebook adds an Audio hub to its app in the US, featuring podcasts, Live Audio Rooms, and short-form audio, and rolls out Live Audio Rooms globally
French startup Homa Games, which provides an SDK for indie developers and studios to make and publish casual games, raises $50M Series A led by Northzone
Brazil-based Favo, a social commerce startup focused on groceries, raises $26.5M Series A led by Tiger Global, bringing its total raised to $37M
London-based Cord, which offers a single API to add Slack-like collaboration to apps, raises $17.5M Series A led by European VC Index
Gretel.ai, which offers tools to create synthetic, anonymized datasets, raises $50M Series B led by Anthos Capital, bringing its total funding to $65.5M
Visionrare, an NFT marketplace for "fantasy startup investing" where users spend money to buy fake shares in startups, shuts down the service after one day
Chronosphere, which offers cloud-based tools to monitor infrastructure, raises $200M Series C at a $1B+ valuation led by General Atlantic
Spotify says it will let Anchor podcast creators in the US apply to join its programmatic ad marketplace Spotify Audience Network
Pinterest rolls out new promotion tools for brands, including slideshow ads for catalogues, and adds seven more countries to its Verified Merchant Program
Wizard, a B2B startup offering "conversational commerce" tools that let brands text with customers, raises $50M Series A led by NEA
Tekion, which provides software to help connect car manufacturers, dealers, and buyers, raises $250M Series D, tripling its valuation to $3.5B within a year
Mark Cuban-backed Fireside, which lets creators broadcast live audio or video, exits beta; the app takes a 3% cut until creators make $30K in revenue, 15% after
Report: for at least a couple of years, Amazon has worked on a fridge that can monitor usage and suggest products and recipes, investing $50M/year on the effort
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