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Cardless, a leading #fintech innovator known for transformative co-branded credit card solutions, announced a $30 million growth #investment round led by Activant Capital, with participation from new and existing investors including Mischief (the fund co-founded by Plaid's Zachary Perret), Industry Ventures, Thayer Ventures, Assurant Ventures and Amex Ventures. This brings Cardless' total equity funding to date to over $90 million. Despite industry challenges like rising interest rates and inflation, Cardless has seen more than 10x revenue growth since the start of 2023. The new funding will support the company's continued development of industry-leading co-branded credit card and loyalty products, ongoing talent hiring in engineering and operations, and expansion into major retail, e-commerce, and SMBs. Cardless is the only fintech to power co-brand cards on all three of the largest global payment networks: #Visa, #Mastercard, and #AmericanExpress, and one of only a handful of fintechs in the US to offer through its platform a Visa Infinite product, Visa's most #premium card variant. Michael Spelfogel Andrew Steele To share your startup story write us on - [email protected] #Cardless #funding

Range, the all-in-one AI #WealthTech platform, raised $28 million in Series B funding, led by Cathay Innovation and joined by Gradient Ventures and other investors. This round brings the company’s total #funding to $40 million. Traditional financial advisors have offered the same types of #wealthmanagement services to consumers for decades. Range is overhauling the sector with a new AI engine they created named: Rai. As a result, they can provide superior advice 10-20x faster and save their members 75-90 per cent more in fees than traditional #wealth advisors. Fahad Hassan David Cusatis Kiah Buchner Taresh Batra To share your startup story write us on - [email protected] #Range #SeriesB

Halcyon is excited to announce it has closed $100M in Series C funding led by Evolution Equity Partners with participation from Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), SYN Ventures, Harmony Group, Corner Capital Management, Dropbox Ventures, ServiceNow Ventures and existing investors.?? Halcyon is the only organization devoted specifically to defeating ransomware through a unique combination of prevention and resilience by way of a proprietary technology that captures encryption keys and enables organizations to recover from attacks in minutes without ever paying ransoms. To share your startup story write us on - [email protected] #Halcyon #funding #seriesc

American Startup Funding Roundup | November 18 – November 22 We compile a Weekly Startups Funding News Report summarizing all the startups that secured funding during the week. #weeklyroundup #fundraising #vcfunding #weeklyfunding #weeklynews #startupfunding #fundingalert #investment #latestupdate To share your startup story write us on - [email protected]

#fundingalert ??Company: Lightning AI ??Funding: $50 Mn ?Round : New ??Investors: Cisco Investments, J.P. Morgan, K5 Global, NVIDIA Lightning AI is the company behind PyTorch Lightning, a widely adopted deep learning framework with over 160 million downloads. William Falcon To share your startup story write us on - [email protected] #LightningAI #news #funding #startup #fundraising https://lnkd.in/gEVeaYCJ

#fundingalert ??Company: VISO TRUST ??Funding: $7 Mn ?Round : New ??Investors: Bain Capital Ventures, Work-Bench, SIERRA Ventures, Lytical Ventures, Allstate Strategic Ventures, Cisco Investments, EnvisionX Capital, and SAV (Scale Asia Ventures). VISO TRUST is an AI-driven third-party risk management platform transforming traditional vendor risk assessments through automation and acceleration. Janey Hoe, Paul Valente To share your startup story write us on - [email protected] #VISOTRUST #AI #news #funding #startup #fundraising https://lnkd.in/gmWuEdAC

#fundingalert ??Company: Teleo ??Funding: $16.2 Mn ?Round : Series A Extension ??Investors: UP.Partners Teleo?is revolutionizing construction and material moving industries by turning traditional heavy equipment—such as articulated dump trucks, wheel loaders, terminal tractors, excavators, and more—into supervised autonomous machines. Vinay Shet, Sanjay Aggarwal, Adam Grosser To share your startup story write us on - [email protected] #Teleo #news #funding #startup #fundraising https://lnkd.in/gkza3a7T

#fundingalert ??Company: Grey Market Labs ??Funding: $8 Mn ?Round : Series A? ??Investors: Capri Ventures, Blu Ventures, AFG Inc Founded as Grey Market Labs, a Certified B-Corp with the mission to protect life online. Our work protecting the United States from foreign intelligence evolved to the creation of Replica?, the world’s first Secure Environments-as-a-Service platform. Kristopher Schroeder To share your startup story write us on - [email protected] #GreyMarketLabs #news #funding #startup #fundraising https://lnkd.in/gN-R6n5R

#fundingalert ??Company: Iontra Inc ??Funding: $45 Mn ?Round : Series C ??Investors: Volta Energy Technologies Iontra’s unique advanced battery sensing and charging method is predictive and responsive, proactively protecting the battery while charging. David Schroeder, Daniel Konopka, Ph.D., Jeff Granato To share your startup story write us on - [email protected] #Iontra #news #funding #startup #fundraising https://lnkd.in/gG9fsBbu

#fundingalert ??Company: Conduktor ??Funding: $30Million ?Round : Series B ??Investors: RTP Global, M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund (Microsoft’s venture fund), Ansa, Accel As an Enterprise Data Management platform, Conduktor simplifies data streaming for teams using Apache Kafka, boosting collaboration, driving innovation, and providing real-time insights for smarter decisions. Nicolas Orban, Mark Yates, Stéphane Derosiaux To share your startup story write us on - [email protected] #Conduktor #news #funding #startup #fundraising https://lnkd.in/grWCW4hV