WorldCover raises $6M round for emerging markets’ climate insurance
WorldCover, a New York and Africa-based climate insurance provider to smallholder farmers, has raised a $6 million Series A round led by MS&AD Ventures.
Checkout, a quiet London-based payments startup just raised among the biggest Series A rounds ever in Europe
Checkout raised $230 million in Series A funding at a valuation just shy of $2 billion co-led by Insight Partners and DST Global.
Awair raises $10M to help customers like WeWork monitor their office environments
Awair has raised a $10 million Series B led by The Westly Group with participation from iRobot, Altos Ventures, Emerson Electric and Nuovo Capital. The company has raised more than $21 million to date
We have MongoDB to acquire open-source mobile database Realm for $39 million
MongoDB announced today that it is acquiring Realm, an open-source database geared for mobile applications, for $39 million.
Microsoft delves deeper into IoT with Express Logic acquisition
Microsoft has never been shy about being acquisitive, and announced it’s interest in buying Express Logic, a San Diego company that has developed a real-time operating system (RTOS) aimed at controlling the growing number of IoT devices in the world.
Facebook is rolling out what could be called an “aspirational redesign” known as FB5
Functionally, FB5 means placing Groups near the center of a freshly tabbed interface for both Facebook’s website and app, and putting suggestions for new ones to join across the service. “Everywhere there are friends, there should be Groups,” says the head of the Facebook app, Fidji Simo. Groups already has 1 billion monthly users, so Facebook is following the behavior pattern and doubling down.
Sneaker market and fleet management startups joined the three comma club. Sneakers, in particular, are attracting investor interest as companies like StockX ramp up hiring.
