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200.000.000 mobile users, for starters – Q&A with Viber CEO Talmon Marco

The Next Web

TM: I was born in Israel, spent most of my adult life in the US. The company is based in Cyprus with development centers in Belarus, Israel and China. Viber is quite global. Obviously, we index better in some countries (and worse in others), but it’s pretty much a global phenomenon. Maybe someday. Eventually.

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Cymulate nabs $45M to test and improve cybersecurity defenses via attack simulations

TechCrunch

London-based One Peak Partners is leading this Series C, with previous investors Susquehanna Growth Equity (SGE), Vertex Ventures Israel, Vertex Growth and Dell Technologies Capital also participating. Israel’s cybersecurity startup scene spawned new entrants in 2019. “They won’t help defend you from the next attack.

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Mesh Payments racks up $50M to help corporate users manage spend and payments

TechCrunch

The round, a Series B, is being led by the very prolific Tiger Global, with participation also from Entrée Capital and Falcon Edge Capital, as well as past backers TLV Partners and Meron Capital. It’s been on a growth boom in the last nine months, growing tenfold in that period, it said.

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Mesh Payments closes on $60M as demand for its corporate spend offering surges

TechCrunch

Founded in Israel and now with headquarters in New York, Mesh Payments is one of a growing group of startups focused on helping companies manage their spend through automation. Earlier this year, Mesh partnered with global payroll provider Papaya Global in an effort “to remove friction from employee expense management.”

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Fairmatic raises $46M to bring AI to commercial auto insurance

TechCrunch

. “Having spent about a decade of my career at Google and Facebook, I quickly noticed the negative externalities of the technology I actively helped become widespread,” Matus told TechCrunch in an email interview. Bias risk aside, money talks — even at a time when global insurtech VC funding continues to cool.

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Verbit acquires UK’s market research transcription company Take Note

TechCrunch

Tom Livne, founder and chief executive officer of Verbit, said in an email interview with TechCrunch that Take Note’s current CEO David Abbott will remain in his position to lead the company and support continued growth and integration efforts. The rest chose to relocate to safer countries in Europe and Israel.

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Augury taps $55M for tech that predicts machine faults from vibration, sound and temperature

TechCrunch

Co-founder and CEO Saar Yoskovitz said in an interview that the funding will be used to expand the services that it provides to customers, as well as to build out its global customer base, and the ecosystem of companies that it works with so that it can expand the kinds of customers it targets to include smaller businesses and scale-ups.

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