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These undergraduates left university to build Flux, a payments startup now in YC

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. “ The gig economy and the service economy for small businesses economy is very massive, and we care about it enough to dedicate all our time into building payments for Africa.” It’s currently not available but that’s what we’re building and is the next phase of our application,” he said.

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Adaptive Shield lands $30M Series A to build out its SaaS security platform

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Adaptive Shield, a Tel Aviv-based startup that automates the security of software-as-a-service ( SaaS ) applications, has secured $30 million in Series A funding led by Insight Partners. The funding round, which also saw participation from Okta Ventures and existing investor Vertex Ventures Israel, follows a $4 million seed round in 2019.

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LA-based Metropolis raises $41 million to upgrade parking infrastructure

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Upgrading ParkMobile’s license plate-based service with a computer vision based system that recognizes cars as they enter and leave garages has been Metropolis’ mission since founder and chief executive Alex Israel first formed the business back in 2017. Israel, a serial entrepreneur, has spent decades thinking about parking.

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Creating Public Transparency: Bringing GuideStar to Israel

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In early August, NPTech launched Guidestar Israel. It took almost five years to make GuideStar Israel a reality, and it is an incredible resource for Israeli nonprofit organizations. NPTech (established by JDC-Israel and Yad Hanadiv ) is the operating organization behind GuideStar Israel. What is GuideStar Israel? .

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Brex buys Weav, a universal API for commerce platforms, for $50M

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We were so impressed with [CEO] Nadav [Lidor] and his team, how fast they were building and how good the technology is, that we wanted to expand to a more strategic partnership,” he told TechCrunch. We want to build this all-in-one finance platform,” Dubugras told TechCrunch. Then, we started talking about an acquisition.”.

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DataRails books $25M more to build better financial reporting tools for SMBs

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In the latest development of that trend, an Israeli startup called DataRails has raised $25 million to continue building out a platform that lets SMBs use Excel to run financial planning and analytics like their larger counterparts. The funding closes out the company’s Series A at $43.5 million, after the company initially raised $18.5

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Buildots raises $30M to put eyes on construction sites

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While construction processes would seem similar to manufacturing processes, building to the design or specs didn’t happen often due to different rules and reliance on numerous entities to get their jobs done first, he said. The platform is being utilized on major building projects in countries like the U.S.,

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