Marco has raised a $208M funding round in debt and equity to provide financing for SMEs within 24 hours. The platform provides up to $30M. More: - The company provides an AI-powered platform for small and medium-sized businesses through which they receive funding that helps them operate efficiently.
- To access the funding, companies apply for approval online and receive their approval confirmation within minutes.
- The company had a 1,500% CAGR growth rate in financing in 2022.
- MidCap Financial and Castlelake provided the debt portion of the financing round, while Arcadia Funds led the equity portion of the round.
- The company is based in Miami, Florida.
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Singapore-based VC firm Blockchain Founders has raised $75M to invest in early-stage Web3 startups. The firm has invested in over 100 startups so far. More: - The funding was led by investors such as Polygon, Ripple, Octava, NEO Global Capital, Appworks, GSR, LD Capital, and Metavest Capital.
- Blockchain Founders has invested in 100 companies since its inception. Half of these investments were made in 2022.
- Some of its portfolio companies are:
- Altered State Machine,
- Splinterlands,
- GRID,
- Krayo,
- and Magna.
- The firm invests in Pre-Seed and Seed stage startups.
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Typeface has raised a $65M funding round to help companies create content using AI. Google and Microsoft backed the company. More: - Typeface provides a generative AI application that empowers businesses to securely create brand-personalized content.
- The platform offers features such as:
- Graph (multimodal content hub where users can upload visual assets, style guides, and messages),
- Blend (enables users to create customized posts for different audiences),
- Flow (templates for blog posts, creative briefs, social media ads, landing pages, and job posts),
- Safe (offers enterprise-grade security and compliance to implement governance policies, asset control, and brand ownership).
- In addition to Google Ventures and M12 (formerly Microsoft Ventures), Lightspeed Venture Partners and Menlo Ventures also participated in the round.
- The company aims to use the funding round to develop its product and add new features, such as AI-powered video and animation creation.
- Typeface is based in San Francisco.
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Fulfill Solutions has raised a $60M Series B funding round to help companies manage their inventory using AI-powered robots. The company is based in Mountain View, California. More: - Fulfill Solutions provides mobile robots that organize items in a way that prevents them from being damaged and minimizes the time needed to pack them.
- Within minutes of receiving an order, Fulfil’s robots accurately pick all categories of groceries.
- The robots then bring packed grocery bags to a waiting area where drivers collect them.
- The company opened its first automated micro-fulfillment warehouse earlier in 2022, located in San Francisco.
- Eclipse led the funding round, with participation from Khosla Ventures and DCVC.
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💵 Today's funding: Healthcare tech - CodaMetrix (Massachusetts), an AI platform focused on innovating healthcare revenue cycle management: $55M A led by SignalFire with participation from Frist Cressey Ventures, Martin Ventures, Yale Medicine, University of Colorado Healthcare Innovation Fund, and Mass General Brigham physician organizations.
Biotech - Eluminex Biosciences (China), aims to create therapies for ophthalmic diseases: $40M B led by Cenova Capital with participation from Guangzhou Yuexiu Industrial Investment Fund Management, 3E Bioventures Capital, and Oriza Holdings.
- SepPure Technologies (Singapore), creates sustainable nanofiltration solutions to separate chemical mixtures at a molecular level: $12M Growth led by SOSV with participation from Anji Microelectronics, RealTech Fund, Seeds Capital, and EPS Ventures.
Venture Capital - Emkan Capital (Saudi Arabia), invests in early-stage technology startups in the MENA region: $31M Growth led by Emkan Capital Fund I.
Hardware - Andrena (New York), provides high-speed residential and commercial Internet: $15M A led by Dragonfly Capital with participation from Afore Capital, FJ Labs, Castle Island Ventures, Chaos Ventures, KohFounders, J Ventures, Blockchange Ventures, Moonshot Research, and EV3.
Consumer - Champions Round (California), a fantasy league that targets Gen Z: $7M A co-led by Point72 Ventures and Goodwater Capital with additional investments from Pipeline Capital, Quest Venture Partners, Mana Ventures, Band of Angels, and Gaingels.
SaaS - Devyce (U.K.), provides digital phone numbers to multinational businesses and individuals: $2.7M Seed led by Y Combinator with participation from Garage Capital and FoundersX Ventures.
E-commerce - Cashfree Payments (India), enables businesses to collect payments, send payouts, and manage international payments: undisclosed acquisition of one-click checkout platform Zecpe.
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 |  | Arbër is an Inside writer who also has experience in entrepreneurship. He has experience covering Consumer Tech, Venture Capital, NFTs, Crypto, etc. Arbër holds a Bachelor's degree in Business from XAMK University in Finland. When he is not reading(and writing) business news, he chooses to watch sports or anime...and then read news about sports or anime. |   | | Editor | Aaron Crutchfield is based in the high desert of California. Over the last two decades, he has spent time writing and editing at various local newspapers and defense contractors in California. When he's not working, he can often be found looking at the latest memes with his kids or working on his 1962 and 1972 Fords. | |
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