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Stacked raises $35M to bring passive investing tools to retail crypto traders

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Stacked has automated over $10 billion worth of transactions for tens of thousands of new investors in 2021, per the company. It also secured status as a registered investment advisor (RIA) with the US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) this summer in preparation to widen its product offerings, the company told TechCrunch.

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Traceable AI nabs $60M to secure app APIs using machine learning

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The new capital values the company at more than $450 million post-money, and CEO Jyoti Bansal — who’s also the cofounder of BIG Labs and Unusual Ventures — says that it’ll be put toward product development, recruitment, and customer acquisition. billion) and Harness (which recently raised a $230 million Series D).

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A new venture studio, SuperLayer, aims to become a preeminent Web3 launch pad

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In fact, before spinning up SuperLayer, Chou cofounded the blockchain gaming startup called Forte ; he is also the cofounder of Rally , a launchpad for creators to build and distribute their own digital currencies that are essentially white-labeled versions of the RLY coin, as it’s called.

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Beam Impact raises $13.3M to turn everyday purchases into a way to support social causes

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The company was founded in 2017 by Beam CEO Viveka Hulyalkar, a former McKinsey consultant, and CTO Alex Sadhu, a former Tinder iOS engineer. Hulyalkar says Beam saw 150% compound month over month growth in 2021 and that the company funded more for nonprofits in Q1 2022 than it did in all over 2021.

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WizeHire lands fresh cash to expand its SMB-focused hiring platform

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The tranche values the company at $250 million post-money, and cofounder and CEO Sid Upadhyay says that it’ll be put toward growing WizeHire’s over-100-person headcount, expanding the company’s hiring resources and “further establish[ing]” relationships with technical partners.

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Strava acquires Fatmap, a 3D mapping platform for the great outdoors

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While Strava and Fatmap will remain separate products for now, Strava said that it will decide in the future whether Fatmap will live on as a standalone product once the technical integration has taken place. “This concept fuels much of our strategic thinking and product roadmap.

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Pinwheel raises $50M Series B at $500M valuation for its income verification APIs

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Historically, systems for providing such data are inefficient and clunky, a problem Pinwheel’s cofounders recognized when they were working on a startup that helped companies provide pre-tax benefits to their employees. . Its platform executes over 4.6