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Podium rolls out payments for its customer-focused local-business SaaS service


Podium, a Utah-based SaaS company focused on small business customer interactions, added payments technology to its product suite today. The move accretes a new income stream to the company’s quickly growing annual recurring revenue (ARR). While I tend to stay away from product news, Podium’s decision to add payment technology to its service hit a […]

Unpacking Procore’s S-1 filing


Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Today we’re in for a treat, as we get to dig into Procore’s S-1 filing. In case you aren’t familiar, Procore sells software that helps manage construction projects, but it offers more than a single […]

Equity Monday: Surprise IPOs, Briza’s $3M round, and are we worried about unicorn liquidity?


Good morning friends, and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a short-form audio hit to kickstart your week. Regular Equity episodes still drop Friday morning, so if you’ve listened to the show over the years don’t worry — we’re not changing the main show. (Here’s last week’s episode with Danny Crichton, going over the huge Roblox round and what […]

mParticle raises $45M to help marketers unify customer data


mParticle, which helps companies like Spotify, Paypal and Starbucks umanage their customer data, is announcing that it has raised $45 million in Series D funding. Co-founder and CEO Michael Katz told me that the company has benefited from broader shifts — like new privacy regulation and the shift away from cookie-based browser tracking — that […]

What every (wo)man needs to know now: Stop striving for perfection


Ever since I’ve been very young (which admittedly has been a long time ago), I’ve always striven for that perpetual pot-of -gold-at-the-end-of-the rainbow. Meaning, I always wanted to do the best that I could do to whatever it was I put my mind to. Most times, this tendency to overachieve has worked in my favour. […]

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Afternoon News Roundup: Malaysian e-commerce aggregator iPrice raises US$10M Series B financing


Malaysian e-commerce aggregator iPrice raises US$10 million in Series B financing iPrice Group, an e-commerce aggregator platform in Malaysia, has raised US$10 million in a Series B funding round, led by ACA Investments, according to DealStreet Asia. Other participants include Daiwa PI Partners, LINE Ventures and Mirae Asset-Naver Asia Growth Fund. The company targets expansion […]

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