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Four Growers, a Pittsburgh-based startup that developed robots to autonomously harvest produce in greenhouses, has raised a $9 million Series A round to scale up production of their technology that helps address the agricultural industry's critical labor shortage.
Finally, a Miami-based fintech startup that provides AI-powered bookkeeping and financial services for small and medium-sized businesses, has secured $50 million in Series B funding and a $150 million credit line to expand its all-in-one platform that combines expense management, payroll processing, and business banking functions.
Lucid Bots, which started by developing drones for cleaning tall buildings in 2018, has raised $9.1 million in Series A funding to expand its line of autonomous robots that tackle dangerous and unwanted cleaning jobs, including its new Lavo Bot for pressure-washing flat surfaces.
Oova, a women's health startup that provides at-home hormone testing for fertility tracking, has raised $10.3 million in Series A funding to expand its technology beyond fertility and launched a new $99 monthly membership program that includes testing kits, expert support, and community access.
Shef, a marketplace that helps home cooks start food businesses by providing business tools and food safety training, has announced its nationwide expansion and a previously undisclosed $73.5 million Series B funding round as it aims to serve both urban and rural communities across the United States.
Axiom Space partnered with Prada to create a spacesuit that will be worn for NASA’s Artemis III moon mission. It’s a smart way to combine engineering, science and art.
Around 164 million Americans have trouble sleeping at least once a week, and being comfortable is one of the leading reasons. Pluto Pillows is out to solve that challenge with custom pillows based on how you sleep and your body stats, which it then uses a proprietary algorithm to create a pillow for your unique sleep profile.
NeuroBo Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company, announced that it acquired ANA Therapeutics. ANA Therapeutics is a privately held biotechnology company developing ANA-001, a proprietary capsule formulation of niclosamide for coronavirus indications, currently in Phase 2/3 clinical trials as a treatment for COVID-19.
Back Office, the automated bookkeeping platform for small businesses, has raised a new $1.8 million round in seed funding, led by Active Capital. As a result of the new round, they will improve their technology, expand operations, and build additional products like credit, bill pay, and other financial tools to help businesses succeed.
When Covid-19 hit, the CEO of Madison Reed threw out her old way of doing things and made a change to how she sold her product to take advantage of the opportunity to do better than she was doing before. And she sold a lot more boxes of hair coloring.
HoneyBook, a customer-relationship management platform aimed at small businesses in creative fields, announced it has raised a $28 million Series C led by Citi Ventures. All of its existing investors, including Norwest Venture Partners, Aleph, Vintage Investment Partners and Hillsven Capital, also returned for the round.
IT Central Station, which provides unbiased reviews from the tech community, reviews compostable infrastructure. Composable infrastructure is a new way of setting up servers and storing data in a network. It uses software instead of electricity to run the data center.
With SpaceX's continuous technological advancements, commercial space travel is a little closer to reality. More and more people are going to spend time in space. But one tricky issue remains: sending food into space is extremely expensive. Finless Foods presents its fish made with cultured fish cells as the solution.