Weekly startups: different paths on the road to liquidity

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This week was busy for startups: although there were no general observation subscriptions, there are other exits and even unusual liquidity events, in addition to a large number of financing rounds of various sizes and stages.

The most interesting startup stories of the week

This week, M & AS brought us a serial buyer, an exit option that may be reassuring for the founders who are still struggling to keep customers and contemporary financing.

She washed away: San Jose, Startup Mainstreet.com has become its latest FineTec For acquisition By the Manpower Management Management Company, which is now valued in the north with a little $ 700 million.

Short criticism: Although recently struck a major development teacher, General Fusion It applies at least 25 % of its employeesWith CEO Greg Twin clarifying that the Canadian Energy Integration Company has run out of money.

By data: DATADOG Buy EPPOPlastic and experimenting platform that will now work under the “EPPO by Datadog” brand. This comes shortly after Metaplane has been obtained starting intelligence.

Control issues: 11x co -founder Hassan Sukar Revised as an executive president And replaced by CTO Prabhav Jain. AI Startup was scrutinized earlier this year to display the slogans of companies that were not active customers, amid allegations that they were struggling while keeping customers.

Building or investing: Carta Simpleclosure acquired,, A brand to start operating itself as “turbotax from closing”. The startup of the stock administration has already been stopped from a similar view, called Carta’s conclusions.

Small world: Two months after the purchase of Moveworks, Servicenow Related dataWhich raised more than $ 130 million from the project financing for the original data and the data governance platform.

With circumstances: A group of investors think about the injection Last 30 million dollars At the start of the sick Blusmart Patient-the co-founder, Anamol Singh Gagy, as long as the resignation.

Liquidity: Clay has taken the start of the unusual sales automation of allowing employees at least one year of possession Selling stocks to the current supporter sequoia. The process is estimated at $ 1.5 billion.

The most interesting VC news and funding news this week

This week’s tours confirmed that artificial intelligence is not the only thing that can attract VCS: the promise of a longer and healthier life – for both people and batteries – can also.

No limits: NewLimit, the longevity of Coinbase Brian Armstrong, the length of life, starting the CEO of Coinbase Branbase Armstrong, A 130 million dollar chain b Under the leadership of Kleiner Perkins to develop back -to -age treatments.

Qonto competitor: Finom, Nobank serving small and medium companies in many European countries, Up to $ 105 million From the general catalyst to enhance its growth.

Defense enhanced: ORCA AI, which contains an independent shipping platform for defense requests, The A series A 72.5 million dollar collectedBy raising his total financing to more than $ 111 million.

to survey: Ox Security, who wipes the weaknesses in the code, guaranteed A 60 million chain B series Under DTCP it will be used for growth and expansion.

Macha: Recraft, whose photo model won the ghost over the Dall-E and Midjournyy, won a famous standard last year, The B series of $ 30 million was collected led by ACCEL.

Goodbye, business cards: Blinq Australian Astralian Blinq has raised Series worth $ 25 million a To make work cards outdated and replace them with digital alternatives with CRM integration.

The truth is wisdom: Wisdomai, an artificial intelligence company in the hope of helping to avoid hallucinations when providing commercial visions, is raised 23 million dollars in an extraordinary seed tour.

More power: Breathe battery techniques, whose program helps improve and predict the battery performance, I collected a chain of 21 million dollars Leaded by Kinnevik online AB.

Context of coding: Not prohibited, a company behind an artificial intelligence assistant who answers contextual questions about the code lines, The A series of chain was collected at a value of 20 million dollars From B Capital and Radical Ventures.

Positive energy: Bosch Ventures, the BOSCH project, will continue to invest in deep technology through A new fund 270 million dollarsBut with an increase in the focus on startups in North America.

Last but not least

Since Marathon Venture Capital, which is based in Athens, has closed its latest funds with about $ 84 million in capital obligations, Techcrunch I caught with Panos Papadopoulos partner To discuss how Greek startups serve global markets, and more.