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HR platform Hibob raises $150M at a $1.65B valuation

TechCrunch

Hibob last raised money about 10 months ago, a $70 million round in December 2020 (a round led by SEEK and Israel Growth Partners). Our mission is to modernize HR technology,” Ronni Zehavi, Hibob’s CEO, who co-founded the company with Israel David, told me last December. “We We believe it should be different.

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

TechCrunch

The Series D is being led by Qumra Capital, a late-stage VC firm based out of Israel ( Augury was founded in Haifa and now has a second HQ in New York), with participation also from Insight Venture Partners, Eclipse Ventures, Munich Re Venture Capital, Qualcomm Ventures and Lerer Hippeau Ventures — all past backers of the startup.

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Hourly.io banks $27M for its new approach to providing workers comp and payroll for hourly wage workers

TechCrunch

In one of the latest developments, Hourly.io — which has built an app that tracks working hours, generates payroll, and then calculates and assigns workers compensation insurance to individuals based on that — has closed in on $27 million in funding. is based out of the U.S.

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Nana nabs $6M for an online academy and marketplace dedicated to appliance repair

TechCrunch

A lot of the focus in online education — and, let’s face it, education overall — has been about professional development for knowledge workers, education for K-12 and how best to deliver cost-effective, engaging higher learning to those in college and beyond.

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Workiz locks in $13M for productivity tools aimed at home services professionals

TechCrunch

Knowledge workers — those whose professions tend to be anchored to desks or computers — have long been the most obvious and primary focus for a lot of B2B apps and services. Workiz is based out of San Diego and Israel, with the latter home to its R&D efforts and a number of its investors.

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Gloat raises $57M to reinvent the internal job board

TechCrunch

This was his first job after spending time in Israel’s IDF, and so after six years of working first for the startup and then IBM in effectively a similar role, he had itchy feet and wanted to do more.

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How Anjali Sud stopped worrying about YouTube and reinvented Vimeo

The Verge

We acquired a company in Israel last year that was basically the business version of AI video editing. Literally, there’s a billion knowledge workers in the world, and every single one of them has now become a creator and the talent, in a way that we never thought would happen. And so, we do think about that a lot.

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