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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Crusoe Energy, Insider And Biotech Raise Big

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startups raised half a billion dollars apiece, and another eight raised $100 million or more, with industries from cybersecurity to biotech to AI represented. tied) Insider , $500M, digital marketing: Marketing tech platform Insider raised a $500 million Series E led by General Atlantic to fund its expansion in the U.S.

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The 10 Biggest Rounds Of November: xAI And Anthropic Raise Billions Again

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The IT infrastructure company said it will use the fresh cash for M&A activities and entering new markets globally. Insider , $500M, digital marketing: Marketing tech platform Insider raised a $500 million Series E led by General Atlantic to fund its expansion in the U.S. and AI product development.

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The mainframe’s future in the age of AI

CIO

It makes sense for mainframe users to turn to AI to help modernize the platform, adds Chris Dukich, CEO of digital marketing technology company Display Now, who has worked with companies turning to AI to navigate the complexities of mainframe modernization.

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7 signs you may not be a transformational CIO

CIO

Focused on digitization and innovation and closely aligned with lines of business, some 40% of IT leaders surveyed in CIO.com’s State of the CIO Study 2024 characterize themselves as transformational, while a quarter (23%) consider themselves functional: still optimizing, modernizing, and securing existing technology infrastructure.

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AI Marketing Platform Hightouch Reaches Unicorn Status After $80M Series C

Crunchbase News

Instead of building rigid calendars and static journeys that are inherently impersonal, marketers can simply enter goals like ‘drive repeat purchases and subscriptions’ and let AI agents decide what to do next at a 1:1 level. It’s a reimagining of the job of being a marketer.”

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Argentina’s Digital House raises over $50M to help solve LatAm’s tech talent shortage

TechCrunch

Emphasizing practice, Digital House offers courses — that range from six months to two years — teaching skills such as web and mobile development, data analytics, user experience design, digital marketing and product development. It also is planning some “strategic M&A,” according to Duboscq.

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Homeward secures $371M to help people make all-cash offers on houses

TechCrunch

The company has also secured $235 million in debt. Divvy Homes secures $110M Series C to help renters become homeowners. Austin-based Homeward , which aims to help people buy homes faster, announced t oday it has raised $136 million in a Series B funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners at a valuation “just north of $800 million.”